books by Mark Johnson

books by Mark Johnson

books:

Mark Johnson

Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson

Llewellyn Publications, 2006

The Best Tantra Book You'll Ever Read
Whether you are simply curious about Tantra, already know something about it, or are already knowledgeable, this is the book for you. The authors studied with the individual most responsible for bringing Tantric practices to the West, and they artfully, seriously and ...

Tantra for Erotic Empowerment: The Key to Enriching Your Sexual Life

Mark A. Michaels, Patricia Johnson

Llewellyn Publications, 2008

Good follow up to first book
This book continues the work from the first volume with more snippets of info from classical tantric texts made accessable for the western reader. The reader is then free to do more detailed reading/study of the classical texts if they wish on their own. The authors ...

Composing with Finale
Mark A Johnson

Course Technology PTR, 2008

Finale offers all the notation tools required to craft virtually any composition. Unfortunately, the imaginative ways these tools are used sometimes becomes an elaborate composition in itself! Composing with Finale shows you the essentials you?ll need in order to make the most of this program?s incredible power. Studying Finale from a ...

Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 (Asian America)

Stanford General Books, 2008

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 reproductions of artwork, ephemera, and images of ...

Colonial Latin America

Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. Johnson

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

A good survey of colonial Latin America
If you are a novice in the study of colonial Latin America, this book is a good place to start. Burkholder and Johnson have covered just about every aspect of society and politics in colonial Latin America from pre-Columbian cultures to the struggles for independence ...

Metaphors We Live By

George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

University Of Chicago Press, 1980

Applicable to many disciplines
I read this book back in the 90s while I was studying psycho-linguistics as an undergrad and then grad student. My linguistic interest aptly augmented my interest for roles in information technology - implementation and management (ie communication principles, ...

Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought

George Lakoff, Mark Johnson

Basic Books, 1999

Linguistic and Philosophy together.
This is a scholarly work with all the bases covered. What Western Philosophy is from Descartes to Kant to modern philosophy and how this changes things. The linguistics and philosophy are both presented in very accessible language so that no background in either ...

Tangle

Ginn Hale, Lawrence Schimel, ...

Blind Eye Books, 2008

An amazing anthology
I bought this anthology for Ginn Hale's novella, Feral Machines-- and it was a great sci-fi read-- but it wasn't the only outstanding story. Erin MacKay's novella ,Crossing the Distance, was smart, and heart-wrenching in a very good way. She took the whole ...

The Ultimate Desert Handbook : A Manual for Desert Hikers, Campers and Travelers

Mark Johnson

International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 2003

It's the best desert hiking and survival book..
The Ultimate Desert Handbook is the best book on desert hiking and survival I have found, and I have read them all. That's not just my opinion, but also that of all my friends who like to backpack and hike in the desert. Unlike other books that claim to cover the ...

Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work (Harvard Business School Press) (Harvard ...

Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, ...

Harvard Business School Press, 2008

Making innovation a regular part of your organization...
I've read a number of books on innovation, both on a personal and business level. Always looking to find that "edge"... In the book The Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson, Joseph V. Sinfield, and ...

The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason

Mark Johnson

University Of Chicago Press, 1990

Profound and thorough exposition of embodied philosophy and Cognitive Linguistics
Of the work in embodied philosophy and cognitive linguistics, this by far the most careful, cogent, and through exposition. It is not light reading--it assumes a high level of education and a high degree of familiarity with Western philosophy, but it is profoundly ...

The Meaning of the Body: Aesthetics of Human Understanding (Women in Culture and Society Series)
Mark Johnson

University Of Chicago Press, 2008

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 self-consciousness has fully developed. From ...

Evidence-Based Eye Care

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006

This book should be on your office shelf
Hat's off to Dr Peter Kertes and Dr T Mark Johnson for bringing together a great group of authors and then editing this amazing and unique resource that should be a part of every resident and staff ophthalmologist's library. I freely state my bias having recently ...

Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970

University of California Press, 2008

This beautifully illustrated volume, companion book to the exhibition of the same name, presents the first comprehensive survey of work produced by artists of Asian descent in America during the first seven decades of the twentieth century. Featuring examples across many media and extending beyond ethnicity, Asian/American/Modern Art brings into ...

Finale 2008: A Trailblazer Guide
Mark Johnson

Penelope Press, 2008

Learn to take advantage of Finale's incredible power by focusing on the tools you need and ignoring the one's you don't. This guide cuts through the confusion and offers clear, step-by-step methods for creating beautiful scores with ease. Readers will find a concise overview of Finale's framework followed by a guide to the everyday tricks and ...