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Philosophy In The Flesh by George Lakoff
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.74What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing... -
Thinking Points by George Lakoff 9780374530907
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £9.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374530907Author Lakoff GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Farrar, Straus and... -
Metaphors We Live by by George Lakoff
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.60People 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... -
The Neural Mind: How Brains Think Professor George Lakoff 9780226835884
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £21.43Offers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics. What is an idea, and where does it come from? We... -
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition by George Lakoff
Booksplease Price: £24.17When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic... -
More Than Cool Reason: Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff
Booksplease Price: £23.87"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn;... -
Your Brain's Politics: How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide by George Lakoff
Booksplease Price: £10.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409210Author George LakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint SocietasPublisher Imprint... -
The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic by George Lakoff 9781476700014
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476700014Author George LakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Free PressPublisher Free... -
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics by George Lakoff
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £19.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115687Author George LakoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind by George Lakoff
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.79"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines,... -
Where Mathematics Come From: How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being by George Lakoff
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.00This 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... -
The ALL NEW Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate George Lakoff 9781603585941
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.49Lakoff researches how framing influences reasoning, or how the way we say something often matters much more than what we say. the Guardian Over a quarter of a million copies sold worldwide! Ten... -
Thinking in Āsana: Movement and Philosophy in Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga by Matylda Ciolkosz
Booksplease Price: £75.81Thinking in Asana is an exploration of three popular lineages of modern postural yoga - Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga. The book describes in detail the different styles of yoga practice... -
Thinking in Āsana: Movement and Philosophy in Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga by Matylda Ciolkosz 9781800502123
Booksplease Price: £35.68Thinking in Asana is an exploration of three popular lineages of modern postural yoga - Viniyoga, Iyengar Yoga, and Ashtanga Yoga. The book describes in detail the different styles of yoga practice... -
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding by Mark Johnson
Booksplease Price: £24.80Mark Johnson is one of the great thinkers of our time on how the body shapes the mind. This book brings together a selection of essays from the past two decades that build a powerful argument that... -
Extraterrestrial Languages by Daniel Oberhaus 9780262548649
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.72If we send a message into space, will extraterrestrial beings receive it? Will they understand?The endlessly fascinating question of whether we are alone in the universe has always been accompanied... -
Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World by Karin Lofthus Carrington 9780520251021
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £43.03This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations,... -
Transforming Terror: Remembering the Soul of the World by Karin Lofthus Carrington 9780520269286
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54This inspired collection offers a new paradigm for moving the world beyond violence as the first, and often only, response to violence. Through essays and poetry, prayers and meditations,... -
Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation by Mark Shuttleworth
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Studying Scientific Metaphor in Translation presents a multilingual examination of the translation of metaphors. Mark Shuttleworth explores this facet of translation and develops a theoretically... -
Situated Meaning: Inside and Outside in Japanese Self, Society, and Language by Jane M. Bachnik 9780691608549
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Situated Meaning adds a new dimension, both literal and metaphoric, to our understanding of Japan. The essays in this volume leave the vertical axis of hierarchy and subordination-an organizing trope... -
Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science by Mark Turner
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £39.30The great adventure of modern cognitive science, the discovery of the human mind, will fundamentally revise our concept of what it means to be human. Drawing together the classical conception of the... -
Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers by Joseph Mazur 9780691173375
Booksplease Price: £21.69While all of us regularly use basic math symbols such as those for plus, minus, and equals, few of us know that many of these symbols weren't available before the sixteenth century. What did... -
Shakespeare's Brain: Reading with Cognitive Theory by Professor Mary Thomas Crane
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.96Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the... -
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters by Richard Rumelt 9781781256176
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.81When Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy/Bad Strategy was published in 2011, it immediately struck a chord, calling out as bad strategy the mish-mash of pop culture, motivational slogans and business buzz... -
The Mind: Leading Scientists Explore the Brain, Memory, Personality, and Happiness by John Brockman 9780062025845
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £11.78"Theway Brockman interlaces essays about research on the frontiers of science withones on artistic vision, education, psychology and economics is sure to buzzany brain." -Chicago Sun-Times on This... -
The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding by Mark Johnson
Booksplease Price: £25.74In "The Meaning of the Body", Mark Johnson continues his pioneering work on the exciting connections between cognitive science, language, and meaning first begun in the classic "Metaphors We Live By"... -
Understanding Intuition: A Journey In and Out of Science by 9780128141083
RRP: £62.99Booksplease Price: £57.58Understanding Intuition: A Journey In and Out of Science explores the biological and cognitive mechanisms that account for intuition, and examines the first-person experience. The book integrates... -
The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics Keith Allan 9780367868079
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £45.23The Routledge Handbook of Linguistics offers a comprehensive introduction and reference point to the discipline of linguistics. This wide-ranging survey of the field brings together a range of... -
Podium, the Pulpit, and the Republicans, The: How Presidential Candidates Use Religious Language in American Political Debate by Frederick Stecker 9781440835834
Booksplease Price: £36.82In this book, the presidential debates of 2000, 2004, and 2008 are analyzed in terms of linguistics, rhetoric, and religious context to offer a unique perspective on the styles, beliefs, and... -
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammar Gilles Fauconnier 9780226239248
RRP: £37.00Booksplease Price: £36.99In the mental-spaces framework developed by Gilles Fauconnier in the mid-1980s, the mind creates multiple cognitive "spaces" to mediate its understanding of relations and activities in the world, and... -
Analysing Structure in Academic Writing by Tomoko Sawaki 9781137542380
Booksplease Price: £90.56This 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... -
Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology by Danny D. Steinberg 9780521204996
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £55.45This 1978 book is a collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other. Papers on philosophy from Charles Caton, David Wiggins,... -
Conceiving Desire: Metaphor, Cognition and Eros in Lyly and Shakespeare by Gillian Knoll
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.01Explores the role of the mind in creating erotic experience on the early modern stageAdvances a new critical methodology that credits the role of cognition in the experience of erotic desire, and... -
Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling by Leslie J. Waguespack 9781447162148
Booksplease Price: £96.97How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexander's fifty-year quest to... -
The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding by Anthony J. Sanford 9780567089472
Booksplease Price: £112.13This book is an exploration of human understanding, from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, biology and theology. The six contributors, among the most internationally eminent in their... -
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... -
The Enigma of Metaphor: Philosophy, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science by Stefana Garello 9783031568657
Booksplease Price: £90.56This 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... -
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 Language of Humour and Its Transmutation in Indian Political Cartoons by Vinod Balakrishnan 9783031328350
Booksplease Price: £102.30This 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... -
Thriving Systems Theory and Metaphor-Driven Modeling by Leslie J. Waguespack 9781849963015
Booksplease Price: £91.68How is it that one system is more effective, appealing, satisfying and/or more beautiful than another to its stakeholder community? This question drove Christopher Alexander's fifty-year quest to...