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Death Is the Mother of Beauty
Cybereditions 2000; US$ 12.95In this book, Mark Turner shows that the languages of literature and everyday life are different expressions of the same universal mechanisms of the mind. Drawing on the languages and metaphors of kinship and causation, and on myriad examples in English literature from Chaucer to Wallace Stevens, he argues convincingly that all our thinking with... more...
Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 64.99In this work, Mark Turner offers a picture of how humanistic and cognitive scientific study of meaning could combine with social scientific study of meaning to create a new field, "cognitive social science". In his conclusion, he charts the agenda for cognitive social science. more...
The Artful Mind
Oxford University Press, USA 2006; US$ 29.99All normal human beings alive in the last fifty thousand years appear to have possessed, in Mark Turner's phrase, "irrepressibly artful minds." Cognitively modern minds produced a staggering list of behavioral singularities--science, religion, mathematics, language, advanced tool use, decorative dress, dance, culture, art--that seems... more...
Backward Glances
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 31.00An exploration of the history of male street cruising. more...
The Literary Mind
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 16.95We 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, as exotic tales set in strange lands, with spectacular... more...
Trollope and the Magazines
Palgrave Macmillan 1999; US$ 145.00Trollope and the Magazines examines the serial publication of several of Trollope's novels in the context of the gendered discourses in a range of Victorian magazines - including Cornhill, Good Words, Saint Pauls , and the Fortnightly Review . It highlights the importance of the periodical press in the literary culture of Victorian Britain, and... more...
The Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95The Sociology of Wilhelm Baldamus explores Baldamuss concern that research should be underpinned by meticulous theoretical and conceptual work. It will be of interest to sociologists, social theorists, intellectual historians, and those working in the field of social science research methods. more...
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 23.95For 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 style, the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation,... more...
George Washington
Osprey Publishing 2011; US$ 9.95George Washington may be one of history's most underrated commanders. Overlooked in favour of his contemporaries such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Frederick the Great, Washington's achievements are arguably more impressive. Frederick and Napoleon inherited formidable militaries, and both had extensive military training and experience prior to assuming... more...
The Way We Think
Basic Books 2008; US$ 21.00The Way We Think is a dazzling tour of the complexities of human imagination.--George Lakoff, co-author of Philosophy in the Flesh and Where Mathematics Comes From. more...









