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Metaphors We Live By
Av George Lakoff, Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2003
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
213 kr
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People 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 we live by", metaphors we use without even realizing we're using them. In this book, George Lakoff …
Wasted
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2008
156 kr
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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. …
Photodetection and Measurement
Av Mark Johnson
Inbunden, 2003
1252 kr
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Photodetection techniques are becoming increasingly necessary for electronics design work This reference provides a practical "rules of thumb" approach to making accurate optical measurements with equipment commonly found in labs and companies. Considers the full chain of equipment: photodetectors, …
Photodetection and Measurement
Making Effective Optical Measurements for an Acceptable Cost
Av Mark Johnson
E-bok, 2003
1497 kr
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MAKE OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS WITH MAXIMUM ACCURACY AND MINIMUM COST The "opto-electronics revolution" has made the art and science of making sensitive, accurate, and inexpensive optical measurements must-know information for legions of electronic engineers and research students. And there’s no faster …
High-Definition DVD Handbook
Producing for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc
Av Chris Armbrust, Charles Crawford m. fl.
E-bok, 2007
699 kr
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Everything you need to design and produce high definition DVDs-from three of the most well-known specialists in the industry High Definition DVD Handbook is your one-stop resource for mastering the new HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc formats and successfully applying them to the entire DVD process-from …
Magnetoelectronics
Av Mark Johnson
E-bok, 2004
2251 kr
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The arrival of the ''information age'' took most people by surprise – including scientists and technologists. Today, research on better, smaller, and faster ways to store and transfer information continues to grow, and growing fast within this scope is the field of magnetoelectronics. With its …
Oxford Handbook of Face Perception
Av Jim Haxby, Mark Johnson m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1727 kr
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The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A person''s identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans …
Oxford Handbook of Face Perception
Av Jim Haxby, Mark Johnson m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1727 kr
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The human face is unique among social stimuli in conveying such a variety of different characteristics. A person''s identity, sex, race, age, emotional state, focus of attention, facial speech patterns, and attractiveness are all detected and interpreted with relative ease from the face. Humans …
Morality for Humans
Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
Av Mark Johnson
Inbunden, 2014
854 kr
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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 …
Moral Imagination
Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
Av Mark Johnson
E-bok, 2014
701 kr
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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 …
Morality for Humans
Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2015
239 kr
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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 …
Moral Imagination
Implications of Cognitive Science for Ethics
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 1994
324 kr
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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 …
Meaning of the Body
Aesthetics of Human Understanding
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2008
307 kr
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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 …
Body in the Mind
The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 1990
342 kr
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"There are books—few and far between—which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning, rationality, and …
Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason
How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2017
299 kr
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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 …
Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought
The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
Av Mark Johnson
Inbunden, 2018
854 kr
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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 …
Aesthetics of Meaning and Thought
The Bodily Roots of Philosophy, Science, Morality, and Art
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2018
282 kr
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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 …
Cyber Crime, Security and Digital Intelligence
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 2020
706 kr
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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 …
Mathematical Foundations of Speech and Language Processing
Av Mark Johnson, Sanjeev P. Khudanpur m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
2250 kr
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Speech and language technologies continue to grow in importance as they are used to create natural and efficient interfaces between people and machines, and to automatically transcribe, extract, analyze, and route information from high-volume streams of spoken and written information. The workshops …
Diasporic Journeys, Ritual, and Normativity among Asian Migrant Women
Av Pnina Werbner, Mark Johnson
Inbunden, 2011
2510 kr
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The 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 particularly relevant to understanding the way transnational women migrants from South and South East Asia, …
Wasted
Av Mark Johnson
E-bok, 2009
91 kr
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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 …
Asian American Art
A History, 1850-1970
Av Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
929 kr
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Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 …
Asian American Art
A History, 1850-1970
Av Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johnson m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
455 kr
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Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 is the first comprehensive study of the lives and artistic production of artists of Asian ancestry active in the United States before 1970. The publication features original essays by ten leading scholars, biographies of more than 150 artists, and over 400 …
Metaphor and Philosophy
A Special Issue of metaphor and Symbolic Activity
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 1995
647 kr
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During the last 15 years, cognitive scientists have discovered things about the nature and importance of metaphor that are startling because of their radical implications for metaphor research and because they require us to rethink some of our most fundamental received notions of meaning, concepts, …
Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor
Av Mark Johnson
Häftad, 1981
659 kr
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Philosophical Perspectives on Metaphor was first published in 1981. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions."We are," says Mark Johnson, "in the …
Beauty and Power
Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines
Av Mark Johnson
E-bok, 2020
762 kr
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This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers …
Beauty and Power
Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines
Av Mark Johnson
E-bok, 2020
762 kr
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This compelling study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities and processes of cultural transformation in a world of contract labourers …
Cambridge International AS & A Level Business Exam Preparation and Practice with Digital Access (2 Years)
2024
510 kr
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Designed to increase confidence, help you recognise different question types, understand connections between concepts, reflect on progress and manage test anxiety. Questions and activities improve your ability to recall knowledge and answer effectively. Includes digital access and over 400 …
