Lakoff, George

• [2014]  Don't Think of an Elephant!.: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate. Chelsea Green Publishing, 2014
• [2008]  The Political Mind: why you can't understand 21st Century politics with an 18th Century brain. Viking, 2008 [review]
• [2005]  The Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics: the role of conceptual metaphor. In: Campbell, J. I. D. (Ed.) Handbook of Mathematical Cognition, 2005, pp. 109-124 (Núñez, R. E. / Lakoff, George)
• [2004]  Don't Think of an Elephant!.: know your values and frame the debate. Chelsea Green, 2004 [summary]
• [2003]  Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 2003 (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)
• [2001]  Where Mathematics Comes From: how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being. Basic Books, 2001 (Lakoff, George / Nuñez, Rafael)
• [2001]  Metaphors of Terror. 2001 [text]
• [2000]  Where Mathematics Comes From: how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being. Basic Books, 2000 [summary] (Lakoff, George / Núñez, Rafael)
• [1999]  Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books, 1999 (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)
• [1997]  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, 1997
• [1996]  The Metaphorical Structure of Mathematics. In: L. English (Ed.), Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors and Images. Lawrence Erlbaum (Lakoff, George / Núñez, R. E.)
• [1993]  The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor. In: Andrew Ortony (Edi.), Metaphor and Thought, Cambridge University Press, 1993 [text]
• [1992]  Where Mathematics Comes From: How the embodied mind brings mathematics into being. Basic Books, 1992 (Lakoff, George / Nunez, Rafael E.)
• [1991]  Metaphor and War: the metaphor system used to justify war in the Gulf. 1991 [text]
• [1990]  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, 1990
• [1990]  Metaphor and War; reflections on the imminence of war in the Gulf. University of California Press, 1990
• [1989]  More than Cool Reason: a field guide to poetic metaphor. University of Chicago Press, 1989 (Lakoff, George / Turner, Mark)
• [1989]  Foreign policy by metaphor. CRL Newsletter, June 1989, 3, 5 [text] (Chilton, Paul / Lakoff, George)
• [1987]  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, 1987
• [1987]  The Tree of Knowledge: the biological roots of human understanding. Shambhala, 1987 (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)
• [1986]  Women, Fire and Dangerous Things: what categories reveal about the mind. University of Chicago Press, 1986
• [1980]  The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System. Cognitive Science, 4, 1980, pp. 195-208 [text] (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)
• [1980]  Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press, 1980 (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)
• [1980]  George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1980 (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)
• [1980]  Autopoiesis and Cognition. Reidel, 1980 (Lakoff, George / Johnson, Mark)

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