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Rethinking Aesthetics: The Role of Body in Design Ritu Bhatt (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) 9780415534758
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.14Rethinking Aesthetics is the first book to bring together prominent voices in the fields of architecture, philosophy, aesthetics, and cognitive sciences to radically rethink the relationship between... -
Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women by Pnina Werbner 9781138376960
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89The power of embodied ritual performance to constitute agency and transform subjectivity are increasingly the focus of major debates in the anthropology of Christianity and Islam. They are... -
Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture Jonathan Lethem 9798988670001
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £17.68Many know Jonathan Lethem as one of our most celebrated and eclectic writers, whose iconic novels-Motherless Brooklyn, The Fortress of Solitude, Chronic City, among many others-play with genres and... -
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £4.63'Immensely powerful and is an extraordinary testament to the human desire for survival' Daily MailA harrowing and inspiring true story of a young boy's abusive childhood, from internationally... -
Becoming a Landscape Architect: A Guide to Careers in Design by Kelleann Foster 9780470338452
Booksplease Price: £34.48Explore exciting options for a career in landscape architecture Blending aesthetics and environmental consciousness, landscape architecture is one of the fastest growing fields, according to the US... -
Embodied Cognition and Cinema by Maarten Coegnarts 9789462700284
Booksplease Price: £90.90The embodied cognition thesis claims that cognitive functions cannot be understood without making reference to the interactions among the brain, the body, and the environment. The meaning of abstract... -
Seizing the White Space: Business Model Innovation for Growth and Renewal Mark W. Johnson 9781422124819
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Business model innovation is the key to unlocking transformational growth--but few executives know how to apply it to their businesses. In Seizing the White Space, Mark Johnson gives them the... -
Language Beyond Postmodernism: Saying and Thinking in Gendlin's Philosophy by David Michael Levin 9780810113596
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Eugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays. This compilation of critical studies - each followed by a comment from Gendlin himself -... -
The Roman Imperial Mausoleum in Late Antiquity by Mark J. Johnson 9781107644410
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.39This book is the first comprehensive study of the mausolea of the later Roman emperors. Constructed between c.AD 244 and 450 and bridging the transition from paganism to Christianity within the... -
Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.09People use metaphors every time they speak. Some of those metaphors are literary - devices for making thoughts more vivid or entertaining. But most are much more basic than that - they're "metaphors... -
Action, Perception and the Brain: Adaptation and Cephalic Expression by Jay Schulkin 9780230282582
Booksplease Price: £46.28Theories of brain evolution stress communication and sociality are essential to our capacity to represent objects as intersubjectively accessible. How did we grow as a species to be able to recognize... -
A Dirty Window by Stevan Jovanovich 9780557197644
Booksplease Price: £13.65At fifty years of age, Mark Johnson finds that his life is collapsing around him. Every aspect of his life--physical, sexual, emotional, professional, financial--is going downhill. After an... -
Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by George Lakoff
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.48This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in... -
Behind the Scenes with Hollywood Producers: Interviews with 14 Top Film Creators Duane Byrge 9780786472116
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.59We know what actors do. We know what writers do. But what does a movie producer do, other than arrange financing for films and accept Academy Awards? Featuring in-depth interviews with 14 top... -
Analysing Structure in Academic Writing by Tomoko Sawaki 9781137542380
Booksplease Price: £92.11This book breaks through formalistic traditions to propose a new generic structure analytical framework for academic writing. The integrated approach, taking lessons from cognitive linguistics and... -
The Pauline Metaphors of the Holy Spirit: The Intangible Spirit's Tangible Presence in the Life of the Christian by Erik Konsmo 9781433106910
RRP: £75.05Booksplease Price: £66.64In the Pauline literature of the New Testament, the characteristics of the Spirit and Christian life are described through the use of metaphor. An interpreter of Paul must understand his metaphors in... -
Theorising Cultures of Equality by 9781032336183
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This book sets out a theoretical framework for thinking about equality as a cultural artefact and process, drawing on work from the GRACE (Gender and Cultures of Equality in Europe) project.In... -
The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 10 by Gayle Reaves 9781574419139
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.83This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2022 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Jason Fagone, “The Jessica... -
The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 8 by Gayle Reaves 9781574418286
Booksplease Price: £15.66This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Christopher Goffard,... -
Ecological Design and Planning George F. Thompson 9780471156147
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £68.86". . . as we anticipate the world of the twenty-first century,landscape architecture is at a crossroads. If the disciplineembraces ecological design and planning, then it has a leadershiprole in... -
Metaphor, Metonymy, and Experientialist Philosophy: Challenging Cognitive Semantics by Verena Haser 9783110182835
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £85.74The present book provides a detailed criticism of experientialist semantics, focusing both on philosophical issues connected with experientialism and on cognitive approaches to metaphor and metonymy... -
The Enigma of Metaphor: Philosophy, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science by Stefana Garello 9783031568657
Booksplease Price: £92.24This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition. There has been much discussion of metaphor in the past, but it was characterized by a... -
Homeric Imagery and the Natural Environment by William Brockliss
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95Responding to George Lakoff's and Mark Johnson's analysis of metaphor, William Brockliss explores the Homeric poets' use of concrete concepts drawn from the Greek natural environment to aid their... -
The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems by Georgia Douglas Johnson 9781513290683
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.56The Heart of a Woman and Other Poems (1918) is a collection of poetry by Georgia Douglas Johnson. Marking Johnson’s debut as one of the leading poets of the Harlem Renaissance, The Heart of a Woman... -
Autumn: The City by David Moody
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.86AUTUMN is a self-publishing phenomenon which has been downloaded more than half a million times since publication in 2001 and has spawned a series of sequels and a movie starring Dexter Fletcher and... -
The Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons by Vinod Balakrishnan 9783031328350
Booksplease Price: £100.00This book develops a model to examine the language of humour, which is multimodal and accounts for the possibility of transmutation of humour as it is performed through editorial cartoons. By... -
Learning Theory and Kernel Machines: 16th Annual Conference on Computational Learning Theory and 7th Kernel Workshop, COLT/Kernel 2003, Washington, DC, USA, August 24-27, 2003, Proceedings by Bernhard Scholkopf 9783540407201
Booksplease Price: £91.36This volume contains papers presented at the joint 16th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT) and the 7th Annual Workshop on Kernel Machines, heldinWashington,DC,USA,duringAugust24-27,2003... -
Chemistry of Structure-Function Relationships in Cheese by Edyth L. Malin 9781461357827
Booksplease Price: £46.58Although the art of making cheese can be traced to prehistoric times, it has continued to evolve as modern civilization progressed. The advent of new technologies and instrumentation has brought... -
Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self by Ajit K. Maan 9780761849674
Booksplease Price: £37.81A tour de force of scholarship and major contribution to the history of thought concerning the nature of personal identity, Internarrative Identity: Placing the Self asks how identity is created and... -
Aquinas the Augustinian by Michael Dauphinais 9780813214924
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The influence Of St Augustine's thought upon that of St Thomas Aquinas is well known. With the exception of particular philosophical controversies, however, relatively little research has been done... -
Chokehold by David Moody 9781250229519
Booksplease Price: £17.50Set in the world of David Moody's Hater trilogy, Chokehold is the third book in David Moody's new 'top drawer horror' (Booklist, starred review) Final War series. A series of nuclear strikes has... -
Hater by David Moody
Booksplease Price: £18.90REMAIN CALMDO NOT PANICTAKE SHELTERWAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONSTHE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROLSociety is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. Christened... -
Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws... -
The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work Scott D. Anthony 9781591398462
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.99More than a decade ago, Clayton Christensen's breakthrough book The Innovator's Dilemma illustrated how disruptive innovations drive industry transformation and market creation. Christensen's... -
Music and Embodied Cognition: Listening, Moving, Feeling, and Thinking by Arnie Cox 9780253021601
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.65Taking a cognitive approach to musical meaning, Arnie Cox explores embodied experiences of hearing music as those that move us both consciously and unconsciously. In this pioneering study that draws... -
Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold by Teemu Paavolainen 9781349447459
Booksplease Price: £92.20How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology,... -
Baseball Skills & Drills: American Baseball Coaches Association by American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) 9780736037389
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.10With the ABCA's new Baseball Skills & Drills Series DVD, you can learn how to organize better practices, gain a better understanding of what drills you need to develop fundamental baseball skills,... -
Informal Learning and Field Trips: Engaging Students in Standards-Based Experiences Across the K-5 Curriculum by Leah M. Melber 9781412949798
Booksplease Price: £68.02"A highly accessible work of immense value on all facets of informal learning opportunities. The focus on specific content areas is an excellent tool for teachers, and the inclusion of a section... -
Theatre/Ecology/Cognition: Theorizing Performer-Object Interaction in Grotowski, Kantor, and Meyerhold by Teemu Paavolainen 9781137277916
Booksplease Price: £92.21How is performer-object interaction enacted and perceived in the theatre? How thereby are varieties of 'meaning' also enacted and perceived? Using cognitive theory and ecological ontology,... -
The Philosophical Actor: A Practical Meditation for Practicing Theatre Artists by Donna Soto-Morettini 9781841503264
Booksplease Price: £30.21There have been many books published on acting, actor training, and practical theories for preparing for a role, but none of these books have ever looked philosophically at the language and the...