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Tag info: metaphor

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Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff (43)
More than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff (19)
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff (14)
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen (11)
Life of Pi by Yann Martel (9)
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag (8)
Philosophy in the Flesh : The Embodied Mind and Its… by George Lakoff (8)
Animal Farm by George Orwell (8)
Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language by Sallie McFague (7)
Where Mathematics Comes From by George Lakoff (6)
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as… by Joseph Campbell (6)
Metaphor and Thought by Andrew Ortony (6)
The Rule of Metaphor: The Creation of Meaning in Language… by Paul Ricœur (6)
Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the… by George Lakoff (5)
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors: Symbolic Action in Human… by Victor Turner (5)
On Metaphor by Sheldon Sacks (5)
Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag (5)
Metaphor: A Practical Introduction by Zoltán Kövecses (5)
The Divide by Michael and McCully, Emily Arnorld by Bedard (5)
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Objects of Metaphor by Samuel Guttenplan	mkjones	philosophy, metaphor, @MHSL, @unowned, @unread, *4.127, Notre Dame Philosophical Review
Fairy & Folk Tales of Ireland by William Butler Yeats	linedog1848	folk lore, folktales, folklore, folk tales, mythology, legend, myth, metaphor, fiction, anthology, short stories
The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard	zuzana.husarova	topology, space, place, metaphor, poetics
Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing by Nancy Forbes	ipublishcentral	MITpress, Nancy Forbes, biology, medicine, computer system, intelligent system, complex, researchers, nature, metaphor, inspiration, organization, biologically, computing, fertile synergy, computer science, digital computer, human brain, design, visionaries, Ultrascale Computing, revolutionary, technologies, algorithms, organisms, compute, neural networks, evolutionary, generation of solutions; cellular automata, artificial life, alive, internal ecosystem, DNA computing, device, nanotechnology, amorphous, bio-hardware, bioeletronics
Mrs. Spitzer's Garden: [Gift Edition] by Edith Pattou	DawnmarieSimmons	Caring, Nurture, Metaphor, Figurative Language, Multicultural
See the Ocean by Estelle Condra	rlilly	blindness, family, metaphor, ocean, personal feelings and growth, picture book, visualizing, fiction, descriptive writing, disability, brothers
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff	kleos_aphthiton	language, linguistics, metaphor, nonfiction, cognitive science
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen	MontessoriMoments	animals, birds, owl, family, dad, moon, imagery, metaphor, nature, night, poetry, snow, winter, sounds, quiet silence, feelings
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan	greenapple	san francisco, second generation americans, chinese, family, metaphor
Shipping News: A Novel (Scribner Classics) by Annie Proulx	greenapple	family, outsider, home, canada, metaphor

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