Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture, Paperback - Simon Unwin

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They...

"Sherlock Holmes could glance at a bowler hat and tell that its owner's wife had ceased to love him. In this brilliant book about metaphor James Ge...

DescriptionPaul Ricoeur is widely regarded as one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time. In The Rule of Metaphor he seeks 'to show how...

The use of metaphor in the political and economic fields - Iuliana Lungu

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Reducere. DescriptionWe are not your metaphor. "Sometimes ableism is so embedded in our culture that it's hard to recognize that it's there. Getting people t...

There is new content in this revised edition of Exercises in Architecture: Learning to Think as an Architect. All the original exercises have been ...

This is the first book-length study in English of Kant's legal metaphors, whose philosophical importance has so far been overlooked. It will appeal...

In this book, distinguished philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark shows that they form a vital set of spiritual exercises by which individuals can achiev...

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DescriptionThe crits was Jacques Lacan's single most important text, a landmark in psychoanalysis which epitomized his aim of returning to Freud vi...

Reducere. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to "smash the four olds" old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet w...

Following a long trajectory from late antiquity to the high Middle Ages, Dyan Elliott offers a provocative analysis of the changing religious, emot...

This volume presents a collection of powerful stories designed to engage, inspire and transform you and your audience. The stories focus on values,...

Reducere. Shipwreck with Spectator traces the evolution of the complex of metaphors related to the sea, to shipwreck, and to the role of the spectator in hum...

Reducere. When one encounters a metaphor in the Humanities, the interpretation of that metaphor is dominated by either cognitive linguistics or post-Kantian ...

The relationship between women and houses has always been complex. Many influential writers have used the space of the house to portray women's con...

This analysis of the rhetoric of nine successfully persuasive politicians explains how their use of language created credible and consistent storie...

Reducere. DescriptionAdinkra symbols visually integrate striking aesthetic power, evocative language and mathematical structures and philosophical concepts. ...

Reducere. Unique in Hungarian literature, at the time of its first appearance in 1935, Towards the One & Only Metaphor was greeted with plaudits by such lead...

In business, if your team were to share the same vision, direction, and values that you do, how much easier would it be to drive your business forw...

The use of metaphor is central to the implementation of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and is a po...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Anne MooreNumber of pages: 332Collection: Studies in Biblical LiteraturePublication date: 2009Dimens...

Reducere. "Superb. Substantial. Entertaining. Informative." An essential read for anyone who finds themself counseling or working with others. Aimed mainly a...

"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 weathe...

Reducere. In these pages, beloved mythologist Joseph Campbell explores the Space Age. He posits that the newly discovered laws of outer space are actually wi...

Reducere. Rarely has a scholar attained such popular acclaim merely by doing what he does best and enjoys most. But such is Stephen Jay Gould's command of pa...

A profoundly moving exploration of the intelligence and personality of one of the world's most mysterious, beguiling creatures

The contributors present a coherent collection of work on the functioning of metaphor in public discourse and related discourse areas from a broadl...

This book demonstrates how metaphors can be used to help outsiders quickly understand what members of different cultural mindsets consider importan...