How To Get What You Want: A Convict's Choice is a raw, honest, and empowering self-help guide born from the depths of incarceration and forged through the fire of personal accountability. Part memoir, part manual, this book explores the choices we make when we hit rock bottom—and the power we have to rise above it.Drawing from hard-learned lessons behind bars, the author reveals how mindset, discipline, and clarity of purpose can transform even the darkest...

Unveiling a Hidden Truth: How the CIA Fueled Addiction and Division in Black Communities with Crack CocaineThis powerful book delves into the covert operations of the CIA and their shocking role in promoting crack cocaine within Black communities. It exposes a dark chapter in American history, where a potent drug became a weapon to dismantle social movements and exacerbate racial inequalities.Witness the rise of addiction, the fracturing of families, and the resilience of a...

Since its invention, the “Caterpillar” tractor has played a key role in the industrial development of the United States. From the turn of the century to Neil Armstrong’s first step on the lunar surface, “Tracks Across America” traces the evolution of both a machine and the company that built it. Written by a retired Caterpillar Inc. engineer and a Peoria-area journalist, the book celebrates the 100th anniversary of the company and the unique heritage of an iconic American product through t...

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 account of Johnson's own intellectual journey, through which we track some of the mos...

A Minister's Son is a personal account of one young man's coming to terms with his strict religious upbringing. Deciding in childhood to conceal misgivings about his inherited faith, the author relates how his adolescent doubts lead to a life of dishonesty and hypocrisy. There is inevitable tension in his relationship with his evangelical father, a minister, and deep internal conflict as the young man takes to the podium himself as a speaker in both religious and secular settings. Fear and...

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 has joined together.” God’s instructions are logical con...

From two renowned scholars, an "enjoyable and intellectually stimulating" look at how metaphors shape our perceptions and actions ( Language).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 subje...

Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to throw a game that stirred outrage.Doping is as old as organized sports. From baseball to horse racing, cycling to track and field, drugs have been used to enhance performance for 150 years. For much of that time, doping to do better was expected. It was doping to ...

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 grounded in and shaped by that embodiment.This book gathers the best of philosopher Ma...

An exploration of the central role the human imagination plays in all meaning, understanding, and reasoning."There are books . . . 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 objectivity." — San Francisco Chronicle...

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 applying universal laws to concrete situations. But Johnson shows how research in cognitive science undermines this view and reveals that imagination has an essential role in ethical deliberation.

"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 uses recent research into infant psychology...