Mark Turner: 39 books

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable...

For more than a decade, Clear and Simple as the Truth has guided readers to consider style not as an elegant accessory of effective prose but as its very heart. Francis-Noël Thomas and Mark Turner present writing as an intellectual activity, not a passive application of verbal skills. In classic...

We usually consider literary thinking to be peripheral and dispensable, an activity for specialists: poets, prophets, lunatics, and babysitters. Certainly we do not think it is the basis of the mind. We think of stories and parables from Aesop's Fables or The Thousand and One Nights, for example,...

In its first two decades, much of cognitive science focused on such mental functions as memory, learning, symbolic thought, and language acquisition --the functions in which the human mind most closely resembles a computer. But humans are more than computers, and the cutting-edge research in cognitive...

In Trees and Shrubs of the Pacific Northwest, Mark Turner and Ellen Kuhlman cover 568 species of woody plants that can be found in Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and northern California. The comprehensive field guides features introductory chapters on the native landscape and plant entries...

"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; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme...

The 86th issue of IndyFest Magazine! is here.This July 2015 issue is one you need to read. Inside you will find in-depth interviews with:Charlton Comic's Paul KupperbergCreate of Tether, Chuck AmadoriAuthor and writer Rick PhillipsLead artist of Dog Eater,s Guillermo A. AngelIllustrator...

Two voices. Two killers. Two stories. Once they both fought for freedom but now the quest for revenge has set them on a collision course. Who can be trusted? Betrayal begets betrayal and when their dance of death begins no one is safe. Paid assassin Alice Lombardi (aka Halo) confronts her past and goes head to head with a man prepared to go to extremes in the name of vengeance.

A ruthless revolutionary group using cyber attacks and real world violence to create a New Order. The cold-blooded slaying of a friend. A meddling journalist. An accomplice with his own agenda. The past colliding with the present. Paid assassin Alice Lombardi (aka Halo) finds herself drawn into a web of manipulation, deception and betrayal.

Evangelicals and Roman Catholics have been responsible for the establishment of many colleges and universities in America. Until recently, however, they have taken very different approaches to the subject of education and have viewed one another's traditions with suspicion. In this volume,...

A strange tale about off beat people living on the edge in the middle of normal society. It is not clear when or where the story takes place, except that it seems rural. Poetry seems to be a normal mode of conversation for these people. Yet, their circumstances are very concrete in the life-and-death,...

Here is a funny fable about Alice Wondrel, a lady who has taken on so much responsibility in her church that she has forgotten why she is doing it all. She is taken away in a whirlwind for an attitude adjustment through encounters with characters of biblical oddity. Grease is the mechanic in the local...

Images in a variety of art forms, including photography, collage, digital painting and hand work, expand the poems with which they are paired. Mark R. Turner's 16 poems are drawn from a decade full of struggle, losses and hard-won victories. In his poetry and imagery he contemplates life's journey...

This is an inspirational read about the creative process which can be supplemented by the printed, art journal style coloring book of the same title. Many people create and produce without giving time and place to all the aspects of their projects, such as thorough pre-production, or final release....