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  • Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason

    How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding

    by Mark Johnson ...
    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 how bodily perception and action give rise to cognition, meaning, language, action, and values.A brief ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Fall River (Massachusetts, U.S.)

    by Mark Johnson ...
    This book provides a comprehensive and erudite exploration of Fall River, Massachusetts, tracing its rich history from its early settlement to its transformation into an industrial powerhouse and its ongoing efforts to revitalize itself in the post-industrial era. Spanning twenty detailed chapters, the work covers a wide range of topics, including the city's geography, founding, demographic ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Covenant of Marriage Study Guide

    How to Build the Best Marriage, the Best Life, and the Best You: A Guidebook For Couples and Singles

    by Mark Johnson ...
    This twelve week study shows how the historic understanding of Covenant helps us build a love-for-a-lifetime Marriage. Marriage is not what our culture—or we— say it is. What is the one flesh relationship that was designed by God? When two enter a Covenant, the identity of each party enters the other. This produces a bond of shared identity between the two and alters the nature of each—“what God ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Worcester (Massachusetts, U.S.)

    by Mark Johnson ...
    The History of Worcester offers a comprehensive exploration of the city's rich and multifaceted history, from its early settlement to its current role as a dynamic urban center. Spanning twenty chapters, the book delves into key aspects of Worcester's development, including its geography, founding, demographic evolution, political history, economic transformation, and the growth of its ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morality for Humans

    Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "A welcome renewal and defense of John Dewey's ethical naturalism, which Johnson claims is the only morality 'fit for actual human beings.'" — Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsWhat 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 absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal authority. ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • History of Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)

    by Mark Johnson ...
    This book is a comprehensive exploration of Boston's rich and complex history, spanning from its founding in the early 17th century to its role in shaping the modern world in the 21st century. This book delves into the city's evolution across key phases: from its revolutionary beginnings as a cradle of American independence, to its growth as an industrial powerhouse, and its eventual reinvention ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Meaning of the Body

    Aesthetics of Human Understanding

    by Mark Johnson ...
    "Demonstrates that the aesthetic and emotional aspects of meaning are fundamental . . . and that the arts show meaning-making in its fullest realization." —George Lakoff, author of Moral PoliticsIn 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 ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought

    The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art

    by Mark Johnson ...
    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 view of the mind must take into account the ways that cognition, meaning, language, action, and values are ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Borrowing the Master's Bicycle: and other essays on Brazilian jiu-jitsu

    by Mark Johnson ...
    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 passion "transforms" you. Whatever your passion is, whatever you invest time in learning or doing, the more you ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Training Design Simplified

    Breaking Tradition

    by Mark L. Johnson ...
    An assumption nearly everyone makes is that the best a teacher can hope for is to get most of their students to learn the concept they are teaching. In fact, in the segment of education that prepares people specifically for work (CTE, apprenticeships, and corporate training), many instructors believe that a 70-80 percent success rate is satisfactory. But based on his nearly forty years of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Wasted

    by Mark Johnson ...
    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. For years.Constantly in trouble at school, Mark began stealing at the age of seven, was drinking by ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • American Bacon

    The History of a Food Phenomenon

    by Mark A. Johnson ...
    In American Bacon, Mark A. Johnson asks (and answers) a seemingly simple question: How has bacon overcome centuries of religious prohibition, cultural contempt, and dietary advice to become a twenty-first-century culinary and cultural powerhouse? Starting in early modern Britain and tracing the story of bacon through the colonial era, the Civil War, the Progressive Era, modern fad diets, and the ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD