Product Description: It is estimated that at any one time, in the United States alone, there are hundreds of Serial Killers walking free amongst us. Except, there aren't. A secret Organisation deals with those outside the laws limited reach. The freelance operatives find and eliminate the very worst criminals who have somehow avoided judgement...read more

What makes human beings so innovative, so adept at rapid, creative thinking? Where do new ideas come from, and once we have them, how can we carry them mentally into new situations? What allows our thinking to range easily over time, space, causation, and agency-so easily that we take this truly remarkable ability for granted? In The Origin of Ideas, Mark Turner offers a provocative new theory to answer these and many other questions. While other species do what we cannot-fly, run amazingly fast, see in the dark-only human beings can innovate so rapidly and widely. Turner argues that this distinctively human spark was an evolutionary advance that developed from a particular kind of mental operation, which he calls "blending": our ability to take two or more ideas and create a new idea in the "blend." Turner begins by looking at the "lionman," a 32,000-year-old ivory figurine, one of the earliest examples of blending. Here, the concepts "lion" and "man" are merged into a new figure, the "lionman." Turner argues that at some stage during the Paleolithic Age, humans reached a tipping point. Before that, we were a bunch of large, unimaginative mammals. After that, we were poised to take over the world. Once biological evolution hit upon making brains that could do advanced blending, we possessed the capacity to invent and maintain culture. Cultural innovation could then progress by leaps and bounds over biological evolution itself, leading to the highest forms of human cognition and creativity. For anyone interested in how and why our minds work the way they do, The Origin of Ideas offers a wealth of original insights-and is itself a brilliant example of the innovative thinking it describes.

Product Description: Trevor has been coasting through life, taking no risks, disappointing his father, failing at life. But that all changes with a job opportunity. Now, he finds himself amongst adventure, where he’ll need to become more than himself just to survive...read more

Product Description: Tom Baker might be insane, or he might be the most powerful man in the world, embodying the childhood saying of I am rubber... Whatever the truth, follow Tom as he takes down the bad guys, falls in love, and experiments with the most ridiculous of super powers.

Product Description: The new and better way to discipline children. This book can literally change the world as we know it!

Product Description: Set in the fictional town of Goodwill Peak, this Wild West adventure delivers the harsh realism of the time. This action packed, fast paced romp follows the story of two outsiders who impact the town of Goodwill Peak and its inhabitants, changing the towns fortunes...read more

Product Description: You can build a life without them, but, likebuilding a housewithout a strongfoundation, it'll be put atriskwith the first heavy wind or rainstorm. Believe me, you willhave a fewof those in yourlife for sure! ...read more

Product Description: You ever felt uneasy or inarticulate when Ytalking to a prospect? You recognize the moment of truth is upon you . . . it's time to recruit this fresh prospect – but how? With practice, this process will be easy. For now, abide by these steps to making headway in conversations with prospects...read more

Product Description: The book is a compilation of poems and songs written over many years. Mark has traveled over much of the world while writing verse. He writes almost every day and considers his writing a gift from God. Although, much of the verse is evangelistic in theme intended to lead souls to heaven many different subjects are covered inluding issues like gun control, The Good of the Gun, war, Blood for Oil, greed, Monetary Man, homelessness, Cosmos Calamity and death, Before Their Time, as well as many other subjects...read more

Product Description: This richly illustrated A-Z of Gloucestershire's towns and villages contains manifold mysteries of every kind. There are many places in the region that might be termed mysterious, from crumbling manor houses, castles, and ruins, to ancient woods and trackways where standing stones and tombstones lie forgotten...read more

Product Description: 3-D Close Up: The Human Body gives children a unique opportunity to go beneath the skin, where they can explore the amazing hidden workings of their bodies. Kids will explore the honeycomb-like structure of bones, and will follow a bite of apple through the digestive system...read more

Product Description: This portrait of Bellingham includes: lush flower gardens and orchards; peaceful Whatcom Falls Park; the impressive sculpture collection of Western Washington University; snow-capped Mount Baker; Coleman Glacier; anglers along the Nooksack River; fishing boats in Squalicum Harbor; old-growth northwest forests of western hemlock and western red cedar; the Allied Arts Chalk Art Festival; Peace Arch State and Provincial Parks; the Bellingham Highland Games; the Sea to Ski race; the Lummi Stommish Powwow; the Mount Baker Legendary Banked Slalom; and, of course, Dirty Dan Days...read more

Product Description: All 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 to indicate a mysterious and unexplained discontinuity between us and all other living things...read more

A comprehensive field guide to the wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest describes and illustrates more than 1,200 common species, both native and non-native, in a handbook that is organized according to flower color and shape and that includes a range map for each entry.

Product Description: From the villages of the Cotswolds to the old city taverns of London’s East End, the pubs and inns that stand near the River Thames are living temples to the brewer’s art. The Thames, from its source in sleepy Gloucestershire, runs nearly 180 miles, and it is the only British river that can be walked from source to estuary...read more

A revolutionary approach to cognitive science focuses on the origins of problem solving, grammar, and pattern recognition, as well as creativity and the search for meaning. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here? What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? In Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science, Mark Turner offers an answer to these pressing questions: social science is headed toward convergence with cognitive science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What will be the future of social science? Where exactly do we stand, and where do we go from here? What kinds of problems should we be addressing, with what kinds of approaches and arguments? In Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science, Mark Turner offers an answer to these pressing questions: social science is headed toward convergence with cognitive science...read more

Product Description: In 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 language depends on a restricted range of deep metaphors and inference patterns...read more

Product Description: From the golden-stoned villages of the Cotswolds to the old city taverns of London's East End, the pubs and inns that stand near the Thames River are a treasure trove of eccentric architecture, ancient folklore, and living temples to the brewer's art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An essential guide to scaling and maintaining large networks.Large-Scale IP Network Solutions provides practical advice for network engineers as IP networks grow and become more complex. With in-depth discussions of the major IP protocols--including RIP, Enhanced IGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP--this book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each protocol, allowing you to decide which ones are right for your working environment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)