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Death Is the Mother of Beauty: Mind, Metaphor, CriticismISBN 0226817210 (0-226-81721-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Irregularity in Syntaxby George LakoffISBN 0030841453 (0-03-084145-3)
Hardcover, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston
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Metaphors We Live byby George Lakoff , Mark JohnsonISBN 0226468011 (0-226-46801-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Metaphors We Live by'Book summary:The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.[via]
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language. 
Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Thinkby George LakoffISBN 0226467716 (0-226-46771-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don'tby George LakoffISBN 0226468054 (0-226-46805-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't'Book summary:Moral Politics takes a fresh look at how we think and talk about political and moral ideas. George Lakoff analyzed recent political discussion to find that the familyespecially the ideal familyis the most powerful metaphor in politics today. Revealing how family-based moral values determine views on diverse issues as crime, gun control, taxation, social programs, and the environment, George Lakoff looks at how conservatives and liberals link morality to politics through the concept of family and how these ideals diverge. Arguing that conservatives have exploited the connection between morality, the family, and politics, while liberals have failed to recognized it, Lakoff explains why conservative moral position has not been effectively challenged. A wake up call to political pundits on both the left and the right, this work redefines how Americans think and talk about politics.[via]More editions of Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't:
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More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphorby Mark Turner, George LakoffISBN 0226468127 (0-226-46812-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor'Book summary:"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 this book illumines for anyone attentive." Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University[via]
"In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." Norman Holland, University of FloridaMore editions of More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor:
Spaces, Worlds, and Grammarby Mark Turner, George LakoffISBN 0226239233 (0-226-23923-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision a Progressive's Handbookby George LakoffISBN 0374530904 (0-374-53090-4)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision a Progressive's Handbook'Book summary:[via]Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Dont Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more:
* What is the progressive vision of America;* Why progressive values are Americas values;* How frames are necessary to serve the truth;* Why sloganeering alone doesnt work;* How progressives trap themselves and how they can escape those traps; and* How political arguments and narratives can be put together to counter the Right.Thinking Points satisfies that call with a bold, concise, and systematic explanation of how conservatives think and use languageand how progressives can fight back . Lakoff and the Rockridge Institute offer a new understanding of the so-called political center and explain why the most effective way to appeal to those who identify themselves as moderates or conservatives is to remain true to progressive values.
This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to participate in shaping an America that serves the common good.More editions of Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision a Progressive's Handbook:
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Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Beingby George Lakoff , Rafael E. NunezISBN 0465037712 (0-465-03771-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being'Book summary:If Barbie thinks math class is tough, what could she possibly think about math as a class of metaphorical thought? Cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez explore that theme in great depth in Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. This book is not for the faint of heart or those with an aversion to heavy abstraction--Lakoff and Nuñez pull no punches in their analysis of mathematical thinking. Their basic premise, that all of mathematics is derived from the metaphors we use to maneuver in the world around us, is easy enough to grasp, but following the reasoning requires a willingness to approach complex mathematical and linguistic concepts--a combination that is sure to alienate a fair number of readers.
Those willing to brave its rigors will find Where Mathematics Comes From rewarding and profoundly thought-provoking. The heart of the book wrestles with the important concept of infinity and tries to explain how our limited experience in a seemingly finite world can lead to such a crazy idea. The authors know their math and their cognitive theory. While those who want their abstractions to reflect the real world rather than merely the insides of their skulls will have trouble reading while rolling their eyes, most readers will take to the new conception of mathematical thinking as a satisfying, if challenging, solution. --Rob Lightner [via]
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- Where Mathematics Come from How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being: ISBN 0465032745 (0-465-03274-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being: ISBN 0465037704 (0-465-03770-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being: ISBN 0465037712 (0-465-03771-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
- Where Mathematics Come from How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being: ISBN 0465032745 (0-465-03274-5)
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Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Ideaby George LakoffISBN 031242647X (0-312-42647-X)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea'Book summary:[via]Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word freedom. The United States can strike preemptively because freedom is on the march. Social security should be privatized in order to protect individual freedoms. In the 2005 presidential inaugural speech, the words freedom, free, and liberty were used forty-nine times.Freedom is one of the most contested words in American political discourse, the keystone to the domestic and foreign policy battles that are racking this polarized nation. For many Democrats, it seems that President Bushs use of the word is meaningless and contradictorydeployed opportunistically to justify American military action abroad and the curtailing of civil liberties at home. But in Whose Freedom?, George Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party, shows that in fact the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom. The conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion.In a deep and alarming analysis, Lakoff explains the mechanisms behind this hijacking of our most cherished political ideaand shows how progressives have not only failed to counter the right-wing attack on freedom but have failed to recognize its nature. Whose Freedom? argues forcefully what progressives must do to take back ground in this high-stakes war over the most central idea in American life.More editions of Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea:
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mindby George LakoffISBN 0226468046 (0-226-46804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind'Book summary:"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."David E. Leary, American Scientist[via]More editions of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind:
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