Mark Johnson: 82 books
The Meaning of the Body
Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
In 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. Johnson uses recent research into infant psychology to show how the body generates meaning even before...
Apprehensions & Convictions
Adventures of a 50-Year-Old Rookie Cop
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
What makes a fifty-year-old man quit a highly successful career in charity work to take on the low-paid, dangerous job of being a police officer? When Mark Johnson left the United Way to become the oldest rookie in the Mobile, Alabama, police department, he didn’t just have to adjust to a new career—he...
by Mark Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2009
Mark Johnson's father had 'LOVE' tattooed across his left hand, but that didn't stop the beatings. The Johnson children would turn up to school with broken fingers and chipped teeth, but no one ever thought of investigating their home life. Mark just slipped through the cracks, and kept on falling....
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason
How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Mark 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 any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory view of mind and thought must ultimately explain...
Morality for Humans
Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. Combining cognitive science with a pragmatist...
Moral Imagination
Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Using path-breaking discoveries of cognitive science, Mark Johnson argues that humans are fundamentally imaginative moral animals, challenging the view that morality is simply a system of universal laws dictated by reason. According to the Western moral tradition, we make ethical decisions by applying...
I Love Today
A Story of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Growing up, Mark Johnson was smaller thandifferent fromhis peers, which made him self-conscious. But after a diving accident left him paralyzed, he was different in a new way.
Living with a disability, Mark struggled with the social attitudes that labeled people with disabilities as inferior....
Spitting in the Soup
Inside the Dirty Game of Doping in Sports
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage.
Today, though, athletes are...
The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought
The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
All too often, we think of our minds and bodies separately. The reality couldn’t be more different: the fundamental fact about our mind is that it is embodied. We have a deep visceral, emotional, and qualitative relationship to the world—and any scientifically and philosophically satisfactory...
One in a Billion
The Story of Nic Volker and the Dawn of Genomic Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
“A riveting scientific detective story” (The Washington Post) by two Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists who chronicle a young Wisconsin boy with a never-before-seen disease and the doctors who save his life by taking a new step into the future of medicine.
In this landmark medical narrative,...
by Mark Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2012
Introduction: The unifying Idea of the Borrowing the Master's BicycleI’ve written a book about one thought and that thought keeps coming back to me, and that is the more you study something, the more you give and sacrifice for your passions, the more you learn about life--the more your...
by Mark Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Today's digital economy is uniquely dependent on the Internet, yet few users or decision makers have more than a rudimentary understanding of the myriad of online risks that threaten us. Cyber crime is one of the main threats to the integrity and availability of data and systems. From insiders to...
by Mark Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2015
Walter met Margaret at a church outing at summer’s end when she was visiting her sister in Greeley, Colorado. Shortly afterwards, Margaret returned to Washburn, North Dakota to direct choral groups and teach high school English. They married thirteen months later. Aside from two brief visits, their...
Caribbean Volunteers at War
The Forgotten Story of the RAF's 'Tuskegee Airmen'
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
All of a sudden there was the rush of an immense shadow coming towards him at terrific speed. It was the ground reaching up to gather him. The date was 26 June, 1943 and Cy Grant was the rarest of things - a black West Indian RAF crew member, blown out of his exploding Lancaster bomber.
The...