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Z_I_Peevey

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

Fri Dec 30, 2011, 07:10 PM

Dec 2011

by James Geary.

Despite the clunky title, it was a real treat: packed with information, engaging, well-written and clever.

Here's a bit from the product description: "In I Is an Other, James Geary takes readers from Aristotle's investigation of metaphor right up to the latest neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. Along the way, he demonstrates how metaphor affects financial decision making, how metaphor lurks behind effective advertisements, how metaphor inspires learning and discovery, and how metaphor can be used as a tool to achieve emotional insight and psychological change. Geary also explores how a life without metaphor, as experienced by some people with autism spectrum disorders, significantly changes the way a person interacts with the world. As Geary demonstrates, metaphor has leaped off the page and landed with a mighty splash right in the middle of our stream of consciousness."

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Favorite non-fiction you've read this year? [View all] clyrc Dec 2011 OP

clyrc, thanks for the rec of this book: Went & bought it for my kindle. Also, Happy Holidays. EV_Ares Dec 2011 #1

Happy holidays to you, too clyrc Dec 2011 #5

Lost in Shangri-La by Mitchell Zuckoff pokerfan Dec 2011 #2

Looks like something I would love to read clyrc Dec 2011 #6

I'm currently in the middle of the Steve Jobs bio av8rdave Dec 2011 #3

I keep telling myself to stop pushing this book, clyrc Dec 2011 #7

Am in the final third of the Jobs bio and have the opposite opinion! Merlot Dec 2011 #9

Twain's autobiography lazarus Dec 2011 #4

I just started reading Twain's autobiography clyrc Dec 2011 #8

The book I'm reading now, "American Nations". Odin2005 Dec 2011 #10

Probably Mark Twains autobiography JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 #11

I keep track of the books I read online clyrc Dec 2011 #13

that is a good idea JitterbugPerfume Dec 2011 #16

Good place to do that at: Neoma Dec 2011 #20

Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test and Nicholas Carr's The Shallows salvorhardin Dec 2011 #12

The occult one sounds particularly interesting clyrc Dec 2011 #14

I really enjoyed Occult America salvorhardin Dec 2011 #15

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"Life" by Keith Richards Seedersandleechers Dec 2011 #18

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The Atlantic, by Simon Winchester Loge23 Dec 2011 #19

Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. Manifestor_of_Light Dec 2011 #21

I Is an Other: The Secret Life of Metaphor and How It Shapes the Way We See the World Z_I_Peevey Dec 2011 #22

I just finished Hitchen's last book of essays. bemildred Dec 2011 #23

"The Second Sex" -- Simone De Beauvoir. nt bemildred Jan 2012 #25