I Is an Other The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World

Name: I Is an Other The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World
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ISBN: 9780061710292

ISBN-10: 0061710296

ISBN-13: 9780061710292

Edition: 2012

Authors: James Geary

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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 1/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.31" wide x 7.95" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.550

James Geary is the author of Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists and the New York Times bestseller The World in a Phrase .



Foreword


Why I is an Other


Metaphor and Thought


All Shook Up


Metaphor and Etymology


Language is Fossil Poetry


Metaphor and Money


How High Can a Dead Cat Bounce?


Metaphor and the Mind


Imagining an Apple in Someone's Eye


Metaphor and Advertising


Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads in Them


Metaphor and the Brain


Bright Sneezes and Loud Sunlight


Metaphor and the Body


Anger is a Heated Fluid in a Container


Metaphor and Politics


Freedom Fries and Liberty Cabbage


Metaphor and Pleasure


Experience is a Comb that Nature Gives to Bald Men


Metaphor and Children


How Should One Refer to the Sky?


Metaphor and Science


The Earth is Like a Rice Pudding


Metaphor and Parables and Proverbs


Mighty Darn Good Lies


Metaphor and Innovation


Make it Strange


Metaphor and Psychology


A Little Splash of Color From my Mother


Backword


The Logic of Metaphor


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index