The Magic of Metaphor

Stephen King once said that books are portable magic. Ran Walker decided to take this phrase a bit more literally in his third short story collecti...

Reducere. The Magic Glasses are a metaphor for being able to see how you made people feel. The horse teaches the little girl how to understand non verbal com...

Written for all ages, this short simple story contains a powerful therapeutic metaphor designed to cause change within your personality. Though the...

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

Back due to popular demand! For centuries, philosophers, alchemists and psychologists have been intrigued and fascinated by the intricacies of the ...

'Maps of the Imagination' takes us on a magic carpet ride over terrain both familiar and exotic. Using the map as a metaphor, fiction writer Peter ...

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...

Reducere. Susan Perrow passionately believes that "stories know the way." Working with imaginative journeys and the mystery and magic of metaphor, she has de...

Reducere. Revelations is an exploration of the unique storytelling style of the critically acclaimed anime Puella Magi Madoka Magica. It deciphers the visual...

Reducere. Mouth Quill's twenty-one poems narrate an intimate journey of universal themes-of ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and connection. Draw...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 'The Magic Loom' the author, Heather McClelland, invites adults who survived trauma in their childhood to become more aware of their ...

Reducere. An illustrated foray into the hidden truth about the use of psychoactive mushrooms to connect with the divine. - Draws parallels between Vedic beli...

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror...

Reducere. King Arthur would get advice from his magician, Merlyn, in the mythic stories. The real Arthur (who lived over 500 years before the period of the m...

Reducere. The crimson thread noted in the title of this book aptly describes the nature of Teriyama's stories and the interstitial webbing joining them toget...

Reducere. Access heightened states of consciousness to enliven and expand your creative process. "Trance Poetics poses neurological frameworks for entering s...

"When I walked through the large iron gate of the hospital, I must have still been alive..." So begins Ahmed Bouanani's arresting, hallucinatory 19...

A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the cri...

Reducere. "Chabon has always been a magical prose stylist, adept at combining the sort of social and emotional detail found in Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbu...

Contributor(s): Author: Sami SchalkIn Bodyminds Reimagined Sami Schalk traces how black women's speculative fiction complicates the understanding o...

From the award-winning poet and bestselling author of Keep Moving and Good Bones, a stunning poetry collection that celebrates the beauty and messi...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For over two thousand years magnets have...

Reducere. African futurism, gothic romance, ghost story, parable, psychological thriller, inner-space fiction--Dumas's stories form a vivid, expansive portra...

An eloquently narrated story with metaphorical religious myths and a virtuoso composition on magic realism and psychoanalytic forms, Fire Born is a...

Reducere. ``Morse and Yi (the team behind What Is Punk?) highlight hip-hop's cultural hegemony via an impressively encyclopedic parade of rhyming biographies...

Reducere. A timely and relevant picture book about the power of community "This moving story, with wondrous art, feels like childhood itself. The journey of ...

Reducere. "We all have imaginary lives, and if we are lucky we have a dish to go with them..."So begins the title story of Genevieve Jenner's debut short sto...

Reducere. 10th anniversary revised edition with new Introduction How Fiction Works is a scintillating study of the magic of fiction--an analysis of its main ...

Reducere. DescriptionTanella Boni is a major African poet, and this book, The Future Has an Appointment with the Dawn, is her first full collection to be tra...

Reducere. Lavish, romantic and magical, The Sky Weaver is a new standalone story set in the world of The Last Namsara - one that fans of Leigh Bardugo, Holly...

Reducere. "diving in" by rachel awes (psychologist, author, art playgroundist at rachelawes.com) is a 96-page, visual poetic invitation, using water as metap...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tracy PawelskiDiscover the magic and metaphor of CaminoLeaving a highly-visible job took some courage, but Tracy Pawelski k...

Reducere. SHOULD YOUR CARCASS REANIMATE, I'LL SLIT ITS THROAT AGAIN.Lost Letters to a Lover's Carcass is an infected wound where puss seeps out between sutur...

Reducere. Faced with the most challenging moment of his life, Mark Lichterman had to ensure his mind was in a state of positivity and gratitude. He would fin...