| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
books tagged “metaphor”
books tagged “metaphor”
›› Find signed collectible books by ''
English
-
Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 1595404295 (1-59540-429-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
More editions of Animal Farm:
- Animal Farm: ISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
Softcover, Signet - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451526341 (0-451-52634-1)
Softcover, Signet Classic - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452277507 (0-452-27750-7)
Softcover, Plume - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452284244 (0-452-28424-4)
Softcover, Plume - Animal Farm: ISBN 0151002177 (0-15-100217-7)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Animal Farm: ISBN 0151072558 (0-15-107255-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Animal Farm: ISBN 0395796776 (0-395-79677-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div - Animal Farm: ISBN 0679420398 (0-679-42039-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Animal Farm: ISBN 0881030074 (0-88103-007-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451521560 (0-451-52156-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Animal Farm: ISBN 0451524667 (0-451-52466-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452262771 (0-452-26277-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Animal Farm: ISBN 0452264901 (0-452-26490-1)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Animal Farm: ISBN 0151072523 (0-15-107252-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich - Animal Farm: ISBN 0436350009 (0-436-35000-9)
Hardcover, Secker and Warburg - Animal Farm: ISBN 1595404295 (1-59540-429-5)
Softcover, 1st World Library
- Animal Farm: ISBN 0451525361 (0-451-52536-1)
-
Animal Farmby Ian Woodldridge, George OrwellISBN 1854597892 (1-85459-789-2)
Softcover, Hern Books, Limited, Nick
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
More editions of Animal Farm:
-
Animal Farmby Naura HaydenISBN 0582530083 (0-582-53008-3)
Softcover, Longman Group United Kingdom
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
More editions of Animal Farm:
-
Animal Farm With Connectionsby George OrwellISBN 0030554349 (0-03-055434-9)
Hardcover, Harcourt School
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Farm With Connections'Book summary:Since its publication in 1946, George Orwell's fable of a workers' revolution gone wrong has rivaled Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea as the Shortest Serious Novel It's OK to Write a Book Report About. (The latter is three pages longer and less fun to read.) Fueled by Orwell's intense disillusionment with Soviet Communism, Animal Farm is a nearly perfect piece of writing, both an engaging story and an allegory that actually works. When the downtrodden beasts of Manor Farm oust their drunken human master and take over management of the land, all are awash in collectivist zeal. Everyone willingly works overtime, productivity soars, and for one brief, glorious season, every belly is full. The animals' Seven Commandment credo is painted in big white letters on the barn. All animals are equal. No animal shall drink alcohol, wear clothes, sleep in a bed, or kill a fellow four-footed creature. Those that go upon four legs or wings are friends and the two-legged are, by definition, the enemy. Too soon, however, the pigs, who have styled themselves leaders by virtue of their intelligence, succumb to the temptations of privilege and power. "We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of the farm depend on us. Day and night, we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples." While this swinish brotherhood sells out the revolution, cynically editing the Seven Commandments to excuse their violence and greed, the common animals are once again left hungry and exhausted, no better off than in the days when humans ran the farm. Satire Animal Farm may be, but it's a stony reader who remains unmoved when the stalwart workhorse, Boxer, having given his all to his comrades, is sold to the glue factory to buy booze for the pigs. Orwell's view of Communism is bleak indeed, but given the history of the Russian people since 1917, his pessimism has an air of prophecy. --Joyce Thompson [via]
More editions of Animal Farm With Connections:
-
Artificiosby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 8420646067 (84-206-4606-7)
Softcover, Aims Intl Books Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificios'More editions of Artificios:
Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Help, How to Surviveby Anna PolitkovskaiaISBN 9780805079 (978-080-507-9)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Help, How to Survive'More editions of Caring for Yourself While Caring for Your Aging Parents: How to Help, How to Survive:
-
Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressivesby George Lakoff, Don Hazen, Howard DeanISBN 1931498717 (1-931498-71-7)
Softcover, Chelsea Green Pub Co
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressives'Book summary:In the first of his three debates with George W. Bush, 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry argued against the war in Iraq not by directly condemning it but by citing the various ways in which airport and commercial shipping security had been jeopardized due to the war's sizable price tag. In so doing, he re-framed the war issue to his advantage while avoiding discussing it in the global terrorism terms favored by President Bush. One possible reason for this tactic could have been that Kerry familiarized himself with the influential linguist George Lakoff, who argues in Don't Think of an Elephant that much of the success the Republican Party can be attributed to a persistent ability to control the language of key issues and thus position themselves in favorable terms to voters. While Democrats may have valid arguments, Lakoff points out they are destined to lose when they and the news media accept such nomenclature as "pro-life," "tax relief," and "family values," since to argue against such inherently positive terminology necessarily casts the arguer in a negative light. Lakoff offers recommendations for how the progressive movement can regain semantic equity by repositioning their arguments, such as countering the conservative call for "Strong Defense" with a call for "A Stronger America" (curiously, one of the key slogans of the Kerry camp). Since the book was published during the height of the presidential campaign, Lakoff was unable to provide an analytical perspective on that race. He does, however, apply the notion of rhetorical framing devices to the 2003 California recall election in an insightful analysis of the Schwarzenegger victory. Don't Think of an Elephant is a bit rambling, overexplaining some concepts while leaving others underexplored, but it provides a compelling linguistic analysis of political campaigning. --John Moe [via]
More editions of Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate The Essential Guide For Progressives:
-
The Dreamgiverby Bruce WilkinsonISBN 1932131264 (1-932131-26-4)
Softcover, Global Vision Resources
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dreamgiver'Book summary:This 8 part study series with Bruce Wilkinson takes you through the stages of the Dream Journey to help you discover your Big Dream. [via]
More editions of The Dreamgiver:
-
El Corazon De Las Tinieblasby Joseph ConradISBN 8420634298 (84-206-3429-8)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Corazon De Las Tinieblas'Book summary:Esta es la novela en la que Francis Ford Coppola se basó para escribir Apocalypse Now. Marlow, agente comercial británico, se ve obligado a remontar el rÃo Congo en busca de su compañero Kurtz. A medida que el barco avance por territorios cada vez más inhóspitos, Marlow se irá construyendo una imagen mitificada de Kurtz. En realidad, encontrará un mundo apocalÃptico y tenebroso, gobernado por un cÃnico que simboliza la degradación moral y las contradicciones de un hombre ante la fuerza indómita de la naturaleza. / Woven around a minimal plot Marlows trip on the Congo river to replace Kurtz, a commercial agent who is gravelly ill Heart of Darkness is a tense moral reflection about solitude and mans struggle against the uncontainable forces of nature. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) introduces the reader to a hallucinating world where the darkness of the African jungle and the eeriness of forgotten instincts merge, creating a trap of annihilating power to which the characters will ultimately submit. [via]
More editions of El Corazon De Las Tinieblas:
-
El Leon, La Bruja Y El Ropera / Lion, the Witch, And the Wardrobeby C. S. Lewis, Margarita Valdes E., Alicia Silva, Andres JulianISBN 9561316692 (956-13-1669-2)
Softcover, Andres Bello Editional
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Leon, La Bruja Y El Ropera / Lion, the Witch, And the Wardrobe'Book summary:This is a high-quality Spanish language edition of the beloved C. S. Lewis classic.
Now considered a classic, The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is C.S. Lewis's second book of The Chronicles of Narnia, which has captured the imaginations of children for several generations.
[via]More editions of El Leon, La Bruja Y El Ropera / Lion, the Witch, And the Wardrobe:
-
Ensayo Sobre LA Cegueraby Jose SaramagoISBN 8495501074 (84-95501-07-4)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensayo Sobre LA Ceguera'Book summary:A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an "epidemic" of blindness. A terrifying allegory of the dark times that we are living as we aproach at the new millennium.
Blurb in Spanish:
Una ceguera blanca se expande de manera fulminante. Internados en cuarentena o perdidos por la ciudad, los ciegos deben enfrentarse a lo más primitivo de la especie humana: la voluntad de sobrevivir a cualquier precio. [via]More editions of Ensayo Sobre LA Ceguera:
-
Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera/blindnessby Jose SaramagoISBN 9681908716 (968-19-0871-6)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera/blindness'Book summary:A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an "epidemic" of blindness. A terrifying allegory of the dark times that we are living as we approach the new millennium. [via]
More editions of Ensayo Sobre La Ceguera/blindness:
-
Ericksonian Approaches : A Comprehensive Manualby Rubin Battino, Thomas L. South, James Auld, Leon S. Segal, Sandra SylvesterISBN 1904424910 (1-904424-91-0)
Softcover, Crown House Publishing
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ericksonian Approaches : A Comprehensive Manual'Book summary:This outstanding manual of Ericksonian hypnotherapy has now been thoroughly revised and updated and includes two new chapters one on Metaphor Therapy and Guided Metaphor, the other on Ernest Rossi's work on the psychobiology of gene expression, which also includes a section on the brain and hypnosis. Dr. South has expanded the chapter on utilization with another section dealing with pain control. The chapter dealing with ethics and the law has been significantly updated as well. Overall, this definitive training manual provides a systematic approach to thoroughly learning about the topic and is set against a clinical background. It is a thoroughly practical resource that assumes no previous knowledge of the field and develops the reader's understanding. It includes: the history of hypnosis, myths and misconceptions, traditional vs. non-traditional inductions, basic and advanced inductions, language forms, utilization of ideodynamic responses, hypnotherapy without trance, basic and advanced metaphor, and much more. [via]
More editions of Ericksonian Approaches : A Comprehensive Manual:
-
Ficcionesby Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan, Anthony BonnerISBN 8420633127 (84-206-3312-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones'Book summary:En Español: Una de las colecciones literarias más importantes del siglo veinte, los dieciocho cuentos contenidos en la obra Ficciones de Jorge Luis Borges invitan al lector a reexaminar sus previas suposiciones y preocupaciones relativas a la naturaleza del universo. Desde Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius , el relato que, según muchos críticos, predijo la creación de Internet, y Examen de la obra de Herbert Quain , que combina la prueba matemática con la reseña literaria, hasta El Sur , una amalgama de fantasía, autobiografía, y folklórica argentina (y que Borges una vez dijo que era su cuento preferido), estas Ficciones abarcan lo esencial del inimitable estilo borgesiano. [via]
More editions of Ficciones:
-
From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structureby Eve SweetserISBN 0521424429 (0-521-42442-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure'Book summary:This book offers a new approach to the analysis of the multiple meanings of english modals, conjunctions, conditionals, and perception verbs. Although such ambiguities cannot easily be accounted for by feature-analyses of word meaning, eve sweetser's argument shows that they can be analyzed both readily and systematically. Meaning relationships in general cannot be understood independently of human cognitive structure, including the metaphorical and cultural aspects of that structure. Sweetser shows that both lexical polysemy and pragmatic ambiguity are shaped by our metaphorical folk understanding of epistemic processes and of speech interaction. Similar regularities can be shown to structure the contrast among root, epistemic and speech act uses of modal verbs, multiple uses of conjunctions and conditionals, and certain processes of historical change observed in indo-european languages. Since polysemy is typically the intermediate step in semantic change, the same regularities observable in polysemy can be extended to an analysis of semantic change [via]
More editions of From Etymology to Pragmatics: Metaphorical and Cultural Aspects of Semantic Structure:
![[???]: George Orwell Complete & Unabridged](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/P/0905712048.01._SL160_SCLZZZZZZZ__.jpg "[???]: George Orwell Complete & Unabridged")
George Orwell Complete & UnabridgedISBN 0905712048 (0-905712-04-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
Find This BookMore editions of George Orwell Complete & Unabridged:
-
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0465026567 (0-465-02656-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid'Book summary:As stated in the Scientific American, "Every few decades an unknown author brings out a boof of such depth, clarity range, wit beauty and originality that it is recognized at once as a major literary event - this is such a work." [via]
More editions of Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid:
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: ISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: ISBN 0394756827 (0-394-75682-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: ISBN 0465026850 (0-465-02685-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group - Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: ISBN 0465026567 (0-465-02656-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid: ISBN 0394745027 (0-394-74502-7)
Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan SwiftISBN 1890517011 (1-890517-01-1)
Hardcover, Core Knowledge Foundation
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gulliver's Travels'Book summary:This Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition" includes a glossary and readers notes to help the modern reader contend with Swifts complex references and vocabulary. First published anonymously in 1727, Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels created a storm of criticismfrom those who believed the stories to be true and knew exactly who Lemuel Gulliver was, to those who demanded that the writer of the seditious tales be hunted down and executed for high treason. Even today, Swifts vitriolic attacks on politics, culture, and human nature itself have earned him the reputation of a crazed misanthrope. Swift, through his hero, consistently rails against political whims, human follies, and the bestial behaviors of the human race: In Lilliput, Gulliver is twelve times the size of the European-like natives. In Brobdingnag, he is one-twelfth the size of the primitive but moral inhabitants. In Laputa, buildings collapse and clothing does not fit, although constructed by the most modern and reasonable means. Finally, in the land of the horse-like Houyhnhnms Gulliver realizes that he and his race are nothing but a brood of Yahoos. [via]
-
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradISBN 3829030037 (3-8290-3003-7)
Hardcover, Konemann
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' is widely regarded as one of the most significant works of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story was the inspiration for Francis Ford Coppola's 'Apocalypse Now'. This highly symbolic story is actually a story within a story, or frame narrative. It follows Marlow as he recounts, from dusk through to late night, his adventure into the Congo to a group of men aboard a ship anchored in the Thames Estuary. The story details an incident when Marlow, an Englishman, took a foreign assignment as a ferry-boat captain, employed by a Belgian trading company. Although the river is never specifically named, readers may assume it is the Congo River, in the Congo Free State, a private colony of King Leopold II. Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however, his more pressing assignment is to return Kurtz, another ivory trader, to civilization in a cover up. [via]
More editions of Heart of Darkness:
-
Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0312420137 (0-312-42013-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors: And, AIDS And Its Metaphors'Book summary:Brimming with humane and original ideas about a disease and the modern condition, this classic essay and its sequel -- written 10 years later -- are compassionate exhortations and a liberating event. "Taken together, the two essays are an exemplary demonstration of the power of the intellect in the face of the lethal metaphors of fear." -- The Nation [via]
More editions of Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors:
- Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: ISBN 0385267053 (0-385-26705-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Illness As Metaphor and Aids and Its Metaphors: ISBN 0374102570 (0-374-10257-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux - Illness As Metaphor And AIDS And Its Metaphors: And, AIDS And Its Metaphors: ISBN 0312420137 (0-312-42013-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
- Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors: ISBN 0385267053 (0-385-26705-3)
-
Isla Del Dia De Antes: Laura EsquivelISBN 8426412386 (84-264-1238-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
Find This BookMore editions of Isla Del Dia De Antes: Laura Esquivel:
-
John Henryby Julius Lester, Jerry PinkneyISBN 0140566228 (0-14-056622-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'John Henry'Book summary:[via]Nothing can stop John Henry-no boulder, no mountain, and definitely no steam drill. Newbery Honor winner Julius Lester writes with such power that this African-American folk hero becomes as awesome as a natural phenomenon. Jerry Pinkney received a Caldecott Honor for his exuberant, glowing watercolor paintings of the hero. The book, celebrating its tenth year in print, was also a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, a Parents magazine Best Book, and an ALA Notable Book, among other honors.
-
L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246442 (88-452-4644-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Isola Del Giorno Prima'Book summary:Nell'estate del 1643 un giovane piemontese naufraga, nei mari del sud, su di una nave deserta. Di fronte a lui un'Isola che non può raggiungere. Intorno a lui un ambiente apparentemente accogliente. Solo, su un mare sconosciuto, Roberto de la Grive vede per la prima volta in vita sua cieli, acque, uccelli, piante, pesci e coralli che non sa come nominare. Scrive lettere d'amore, attraverso le quali si indovina la sua storia: una lenta e traumatica iniziazione al mondo secentesco della nuova scienza, della ragion di stato, di un cosmo in cui la terra non è più al centro dell'universo. Roberto vive la sua vicenda tutta giocata sulla memoria e sull'attesa di approdare a un'Isola che non è lontana solo nello spazio, ma anche nel tempo. [via]
More editions of L'Isola Del Giorno Prima:
-
LA Pesteby Albert CamusISBN 2070360423 (2-07-036042-3)
Softcover, Gallimard
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Peste'Book summary:La Peste est un roman dAlbert Camus publié en 1947 qui permit en partie à son auteur de remporter le prix Nobel en 1957. Il a pour théâtre Oran durant la période de lAlgérie française. Lhistoire se déroule dans les années 1940. Le roman raconte sous forme de chronique la vie quotidienne des habitants de la ville pendant une épidémie de peste qui frappe la ville et la coupe du monde extérieur. [via]
-
The Language of Metaphorsby Andrew GoatlyISBN 0415128773 (0-415-12877-3)
Softcover, Routledge
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Metaphors'Book summary:In this ambitious and wide-ranging textbook Andrew Goatly explores the language of metaphor. Combining insights from relevance theory and functional linguistics, he provides a powerful model for understanding how metaphors work in real communicative situations, how we use them to communicate meaning as well as how we process them. This book:
* examines the distinction between literal and metaphorical language
* surveys the means by which metaphors are realised in texts
* locates the interpretation of metaphor in its social context
* contains tasks and suggestions for further work
* uses examples from a wide variety of genres, including conversation, popular science, advertising, news reports, novels and poetry. [via]More editions of The Language of Metaphors:
-
Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestatby Anne RiceISBN 2266032119 (2-266-03211-9)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat'Book summary:Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat [Mass Market Paperback] Anne Rice (Author) Anne Rice was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She holds a Master of Arts Degree in English and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, as well as a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. [via]
More editions of Lestat Le Vampire/the Vampire Lestat:
-
Lestat, El Vampiroby Rice, Hernan SabateISBN 8466616888 (84-666-1688-8)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lestat, El Vampiro'Book summary:Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, the vampire Lestat has rushed through the centuries in search of others like him, from Rome in the age of Augustus, to Britain during the time of the druids and the frantic world of American rock music, seeking the answer to the mystery of his terrifying existence. Determined to achieve international fame as a rock star while ending centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of a band and pens his own autobiography, telling the story of his quest for the origins of the undead.[via]More editions of Lestat, El Vampiro:
-
Life of Piby Yann MartelISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Life of Pi'Book summary:Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas." Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they hitch a ride on an enormous freighter. After a harrowing shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean, trapped on a 26-foot lifeboat with a wounded zebra, a spotted hyena, a seasick orangutan, and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker ("His head was the size and color of the lifebuoy, with teeth"). It sounds like a colorful setup, but these wild beasts don't burst into song as if co-starring in an anthropomorphized Disney feature. After much gore and infighting, Pi and Richard Parker remain the boat's sole passengers, drifting for 227 days through shark-infested waters while fighting hunger, the elements, and an overactive imagination. In rich, hallucinatory passages, Pi recounts the harrowing journey as the days blur together, elegantly cataloging the endless passage of time and his struggles to survive: "It is pointless to say that this or that night was the worst of my life. I have so many bad nights to choose from that I've made none the champion."
An award winner in Canada (and winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize), Life of Pi, Yann Martel's second novel, should prove to be a breakout book in the U.S. At one point in his journey, Pi recounts, "My greatest wish--other than salvation--was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One that I could read again and again, with new eyes and fresh understanding each time." It's safe to say that the fabulous, fablelike Life of Pi is such a book. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
More editions of Life of Pi:
- Life of Pi: ISBN 0156030209 (0-15-603020-9)
Softcover, Harvest Books - Life of Pi: ISBN 0151008116 (0-15-100811-6)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Life of Pi: ISBN 0676978991 (0-676-97899-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc - Life of Pi: ISBN 0606284001 (0-606-28400-1)
Hardcover, Demco Media - Life of Pi: ISBN 0156027321 (0-15-602732-1)
Softcover, Harcourt
- Life of Pi: ISBN 0156030209 (0-15-603020-9)
-
The Magic of Metaphor: 77 Stories for Teachers, Trainers & Thinkersby Nick OwenISBN 1899836705 (1-899836-70-5)
Softcover, Crown House Pub Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic of Metaphor: 77 Stories for Teachers, Trainers & Thinkers'Book summary:This work is a collection of stories designed to engage, inspire and transform the listener and the reader. Some of the stories motivate, some are spiritual, and some provide strategies for excellence. All set out to promote positive feelings, encouraging confidence, direction and vision. The stories contained in "The Magic of Metaphor" focus on values, responsibility, and leadership in all its forms. They have been specially selected to promote change in people's ideas, attitudes, beliefs, visions and behaviours. These stories act as reframes, challenging and disturbing our existing frames of reference, recharting our accustomed maps of the world, and shifting us away from our limited thinking towards new learning and discovery through the use of effective metaphor. As a result, we are encouraged to understand our world from a new perspective, and are provided with powerful ways to generate greater choice in our lives. Containing 16 suggestions (or tips) for effective storytelling, advice on organization, style and storytelling skills, and a selection of stories that can be adapted and developed, this work is a sourcebook for counsellors, health workers, psychologists, professional speakers, managers, leaders and NLP practitioners, as well as for teachers, trainers, therapists. [via]
More editions of The Magic of Metaphor: 77 Stories for Teachers, Trainers & Thinkers:
-
Metamorfosis / Metamorphosesby OvidISBN 8437613817 (84-376-1381-7)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Metamorfosis / Metamorphoses'Book summary:La metamorfosis, fuente de inspiración de poetas, humanistas y artistas de todas las épocas, es la más fecunda creación literaria de la antigüedad. Este extenso poema épico ofrece una espléndida muestra mitográfica arropada por un coherente marco filosófico. Doscientas cincuenta historias, mitos y leyendas que abarcan desde el nacimiento de la humanidad y la creación del mundo, en la era de los cataclismos, hasta la muerte y apoteosis de César. La metamorfosis describe lo maravilloso, lo prodigioso, las más increíbles transformaciones, en un estilo rápido y elegante. Se considera uno de los trabajos sobre mitología más populares, una joya de la literatura romana, llegando a ser la obra más conocida por los escritores medievales y por lo tanto teniendo una gran influencia en la poesía medieval. Publio Ovidio Nasón (43 a. C. 17 d. C.), fue un poeta romano muy conocido en su época, y que su talento influyó el mundo artístico europeo por cientos de años. Era caballero de rancia estirpe, de cuya antigüedad se sentía orgulloso. [via]
More editions of Metamorfosis / Metamorphoses:
Metaphor, Analogy, And The Place Of Places: Where Religion And Philosophy Meetby Carl G. VaughtISBN 1932792074 (1-932792-07-4)
Hardcover, Baylor Univ Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Metaphor, Analogy, And The Place Of Places: Where Religion And Philosophy Meet'More editions of Metaphor, Analogy, And The Place Of Places: Where Religion And Philosophy Meet:
Metaphorical Theology: Models of Godby Sallie McFague, Sallie McFaugeISBN 0800616871 (0-8006-1687-1)
Softcover, Augsburg Fortress Pub
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Metaphorical Theology: Models of God'More editions of Metaphorical Theology: Models of God:
-
Metaphors We Live byby George Lakoff, Mark JohnsonISBN 0226468011 (0-226-46801-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Metaphors We Live by'Book summary:The now-classic Metaphors We Live By changed our understanding of metaphor and its role in language and the mind. Metaphor, the authors explain, is a fundamental mechanism of mind, one that allows us to use what we know about our physical and social experience to provide understanding of countless other subjects. Because such metaphors structure our most basic understandings of our experience, they are "metaphors we live by"metaphors that can shape our perceptions and actions without our ever noticing them.[via]
In this updated edition of Lakoff and Johnson's influential book, the authors supply an afterword surveying how their theory of metaphor has developed within the cognitive sciences to become central to the contemporary understanding of how we think and how we express our thoughts in language. -
More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphorby Mark Turner, George LakoffISBN 0226468127 (0-226-46812-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor'Book summary:"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 weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn; as though, for that matter, Reason was really 'cool.' What we're saying whenever we say is a theme this book illumines for anyone attentive." Hugh Kenner, Johns Hopkins University[via]
"In this bold and powerful book, Lakoff and Turner continue their use of metaphor to show how our minds get hold of the world. They have achieved nothing less than a postmodern Understanding Poetry, a new way of reading and teaching that makes poetry again important." Norman Holland, University of FloridaMore editions of More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor:
-
Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thoughtby George LakoffISBN 0465056741 (0-465-05674-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought'Book summary:George Lakoff and Mark Johnson take on the daunting task of rebuilding Western philosophy in alignment with three fundamental lessons from cognitive science: The mind is inherently embodied, thought is mostly unconscious, and abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. Why so daunting? "Cognitive science--the empirical study of the mind--calls upon us to create a new, empirically responsible philosophy, a philosophy consistent with empirical discoveries about the nature of mind," they write. "A serious appreciation of cognitive science requires us to rethink philosophy from the beginning, in a way that would put it more in touch with the reality of how we think." In other words, no Platonic forms, no Cartesian mind-body duality, no Kantian pure logic. Even Noam Chomsky's generative linguistics is revealed under scrutiny to have substantial problems.
Parts of Philosophy in the Flesh retrace the ground covered in the authors' earlier Metaphors We Live By, which revealed how we deal with abstract concepts through metaphor. (The previous sentence, for example, relies on the metaphors "Knowledge is a place" and "Knowing is seeing" to make its point.) Here they reveal the metaphorical underpinnings of basic philosophical concepts like time, causality--even morality--demonstrating how these metaphors are rooted in our embodied experiences. They repropose philosophy as an attempt to perfect such conceptual metaphors so that we can understand how our thought processes shape our experience; they even make a tentative effort toward rescuing spirituality from the heavy blows dealt by the disproving of the disembodied mind or "soul" by reimagining "transcendence" as "imaginative empathetic projection." Their source list is helpfully arranged by subject matter, making it easier to follow up on their citations. If you enjoyed the mental workout from Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works, Lakoff and Johnson will, to pursue the "Learning is exercise" metaphor, take you to the next level of training. --Ron Hogan [via]
More editions of Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought:
-
The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 1932307362 (1-932307-36-2)
Softcover, Emerald House Group Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:John Bunyans immortal classic Pilgrims Progress is one of the best-selling books of all time and holds a unique place in the history of English literature. An allegory of the man named Christian, the book depicts the life of a born-again believer and his struggles and victories through his pilgrimage to heaven. It follows the journey of Christian from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, a story that has brought comfort and inspiration to millions of believers. The truths of this volume are simple enough for children to understand, and they are equally cherished by adults of all ages. This illustrated edition, including two hundred and seventy engravings, was first published in 1845. [via]
More editions of The Pilgrim's Progress:
The Power of Metaphor: Story Telling and Guided Journeys for Teachers, Trainers & Therapistsby David Brown, Michael BermanISBN 1899836438 (1-899836-43-8)
Softcover, Crown House Pub Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Power of Metaphor: Story Telling and Guided Journeys for Teachers, Trainers & Therapists'More editions of The Power of Metaphor: Story Telling and Guided Journeys for Teachers, Trainers & Therapists:
-
Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farmby George OrwellISBN 8423337332 (84-233-3733-2)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebelion En La Granja / Animal Farm'Book summary:Esta es una fabula en la que la adjudicacion de las aflicciones y las necesidades humanas a los animales protagonistas vencio la resistencia nacional de los primeros lectores a mirar lo que no querian mirar. Lo que nos cuenta el autor ya estaba en los periodicos: la historia sobre los crimenes estalinistas en la Union Sovietica. [via]
More editions of Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farm:
The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Languageby Paul Ricoeur, Robert CzernyISBN 0802064477 (0-8020-6447-7)
Softcover, University of Toronto Press
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language'More editions of The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language:
- The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language: ISBN 0802053262 (0-8020-5326-2)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press - The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language: ISBN 0802064477 (0-8020-6447-7)
Softcover, University of Toronto Press
- The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies of the Creation of Meaning in Language: ISBN 0802053262 (0-8020-5326-2)
The Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology of Nlpby L. Michael Hall, Barbara P. BelnapISBN 1899836225 (1-899836-22-5)
Softcover, Crown House Pub Ltd
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology of Nlp'More editions of The Sourcebook of Magic: A Comprehensive Guide to the Technology of Nlp:
-
Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Beingby George Lakoff, Rafael E. NunezISBN 0465037712 (0-465-03771-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being'Book summary:If Barbie thinks math class is tough, what could she possibly think about math as a class of metaphorical thought? Cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez explore that theme in great depth in Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being. This book is not for the faint of heart or those with an aversion to heavy abstraction--Lakoff and Nuñez pull no punches in their analysis of mathematical thinking. Their basic premise, that all of mathematics is derived from the metaphors we use to maneuver in the world around us, is easy enough to grasp, but following the reasoning requires a willingness to approach complex mathematical and linguistic concepts--a combination that is sure to alienate a fair number of readers.
Those willing to brave its rigors will find Where Mathematics Comes From rewarding and profoundly thought-provoking. The heart of the book wrestles with the important concept of infinity and tries to explain how our limited experience in a seemingly finite world can lead to such a crazy idea. The authors know their math and their cognitive theory. While those who want their abstractions to reflect the real world rather than merely the insides of their skulls will have trouble reading while rolling their eyes, most readers will take to the new conception of mathematical thinking as a satisfying, if challenging, solution. --Rob Lightner [via]
More editions of Where Mathematics Comes from: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being:
-
Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mindby George LakoffISBN 0226468046 (0-226-46804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind'Book summary:"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."David E. Leary, American Scientist[via]More editions of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind:
Spanish
Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas/a Traves Del Espejo/ LA Caza Del Snarkby Lewis CarrollISBN 8489693838 (84-89693-83-8)
Hardcover, Optima Editorial
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas/a Traves Del Espejo/ LA Caza Del Snark'More editions of Alicia En El Pais De Las Maravillas/a Traves Del Espejo/ LA Caza Del Snark:
-
Ensayo Sobre LA Cegueraby Jose SaramagoISBN 8420428655 (84-204-2865-5)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensayo Sobre LA Ceguera'Book summary:A driver waiting at a red light suddenly becomes blind. So does his wife and the doctor who examines them. They are the first cases of an "epidemic" of blindness. A terrifying allegory of the dark times that we are living as we approach the new millennium. [via]
More editions of Ensayo Sobre LA Ceguera:
-
Ficcionarioby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 9681620283 (968-16-2028-3)
Softcover, Fondo De Cultura Economica USA
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficcionario'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
More editions of Ficcionario:
-
Ficciones/ Fictionby Luis Jorge BorgesISBN 9500426005 (950-04-2600-5)
Softcover, Emece
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones/ Fiction'Book summary:Reading Jorge Luis Borges is an experience akin to having the top of one's head removed for repairs. First comes the unfamiliar breeze tickling your cerebral cortex; then disorientation, even mild discomfort; and finally, the sense that the world has been irrevocably altered--and in this case, rendered infinitely more complex. First published in 1945, his Ficciones compressed several centuries' worth of philosophy and poetry into 17 tiny, unclassifiable pieces of prose. He offered up diabolical tigers, imaginary encyclopedias, ontological detective stories, and scholarly commentaries on nonexistent books, and in the process exploded all previous notions of genre. Would any of David Foster Wallace's famous footnotes be possible without Borges? Or, for that matter, the syntactical games of Perec, the metafictional pastiche of Calvino? For good or for ill, the blind Argentinian paved the way for a generation's worth of postmodern monkey business--and fiction will never be simply "fiction" again.
Its enormous influence on writers aside, Ficciones has also--perhaps more importantly--changed the way that we read. Borges's Pierre Menard, for instance, undertakes the most audacious project imaginable: to create not a contemporary version of Cervantes's most famous work but the Quixote itself, word for word. This second text is "verbally identical" to the original, yet, because of its new associations, "infinitely richer"; every time we read, he suggests, we are in effect creating an entirely new text, simply by viewing it through the distorting lens of history. "A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships," Borges once wrote in an essay about George Bernard Shaw. "All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare," he tells us in "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius." In this spirit, Borges is not above impersonating, even quoting, himself.
It is hard, exactly, to say what all of this means, at least in any of the usual ways. Borges wrote not with an ideological agenda, but with a kind of radical philosophical playfulness. Labyrinths, libraries, lotteries, doubles, dreams, mirrors, heresiarchs: these are the tokens with which he plays his ontological games. In the end, ideas themselves are less important to him than their aesthetic and imaginative possibilities. Like the idealist philosophers of Tlön, Borges does not "seek for the truth or even for verisimilitude, but rather for the astounding"; for him as for them, "metaphysics is a branch of fantastic literature." --Mary Park [via]
More editions of Ficciones/ Fiction:
-
Ficciones/ Fictionsby Jorge Luis BorgesISBN 8420666564 (84-206-6656-4)
Hardcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ficciones/ Fictions'More editions of Ficciones/ Fictions:
-
Gdel, Escher, Bachby D.R. HofstadterISBN 8472234592 (84-7223-459-2)
Softcover, Tusquets Editor
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Gdel, Escher, Bach'Book summary:¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física, la biología, la psicología y, muy especialmente, el lenguaje. Douglas R. Hofstadter, joven y ya célebre científico, nos abre la puerta del enigma con la belleza y la alegría creadora de su estilo. Sorprendentes paralelismos ocultos entre los grabados de Escher y la música de Bach nos remiten a las paradojas clásicas de los antiguos griegos y a un teorema de la lógica matemática moderna que ha estremecido el pensamiento del siglo XX : el de Kurt Gödel. Todo lenguaje, todo sistema formal, todo programa de ordenador, todo proceso de pensamiento, llegan, tarde o temprano, a la situación límite de la autorreferencia : de querer expresarse sobre sí mismos. Surge entonces la emoción del infinito, como dos espejos enfrentados y obligados a reflejarse mutua e indefinidamente. Gödel, Escher, Bach: un Eterno y Grácil Bucle, es una obra de arte escrita por un sabio. Versa sobre los misterios del pensamiento e incluye, ella misma, sus propios misterios. / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel.mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence. [via]
More editions of Gdel, Escher, Bach:
-
La Isla Del Dia De Antesby Umberto Eco, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497593847 (84-9759-384-7)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'La Isla Del Dia De Antes'More editions of La Isla Del Dia De Antes:
-
La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Islandby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414397 (84-264-1439-7)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Island'Book summary:Tras el éxito de El nombre de la rosa y El péndulo de Foucault , Umberto Eco vuelve a la novela para contarnos la historia de Roberto de la Grive, un joven piamontés que en el verano de 1963 llega como náufrago a una nave abandonada en los Mares del Sur, y en la embarcación solo encuentra animales desconocidos y extrañas máquinas. Confinado en este exiguo espacio, Roberto nos pone al corriente de su pasado y nos lleva hasta la época renacentista para hacernos partícipes de duelos y lances amorosos, de especulaciones intelectuales entorno a los cálculos que falicitaron en aquel entonces la navegación y los artilugios que permitieron al hombre ir avanzando en el descubrimiento de tierras lejanas. Novela filosófica y a la vez de aventuras, La isla del día de antes se suma felizmente a la gran tradición de Swift y Voltaire para indagar con el poder de la imaginación los fallos y pecados de nuestra realidad. [via]
More editions of La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Island:
-
Jorge Luis Borgesby Jorge Luis Borges AcevedoISBN 8420613207 (84-206-1320-7)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Jorge Luis Borges'Book summary:EN ESPANOL. In Spanish. Book Description: Barcelona, Emecé Editores/Alianza Editorial (El Libro de Bolsillo, 32w0), 1984 (12th printing). Binding is Paperback. Unites two Borges titles (with some modifications): "El Jardín de los Senderos que se Bifurcan" (1941) and "Artificios" (1944) 206p. [via]
More editions of Jorge Luis Borges:
-
El Leon, LA Bruja Y El Armario/the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeby C. S. LewisISBN 8420445649 (84-204-4564-9)
Softcover, Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'El Leon, LA Bruja Y El Armario/the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'Book summary:El presente libro es el primero de la serie, en el que Peter, Susan, Edmund y Lucy encuentran en el fondo de un armario el camino hacia el fascinante país de Narnia. [via]
More editions of El Leon, LA Bruja Y El Armario/the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
Lestat, El Vampiroby RiceISBN 844064227X (84-406-4227-X)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Lestat, El Vampiro'More editions of Lestat, El Vampiro:
LA Montana Del Almaby Gao XingjianISBN 8484539598 (84-8453-959-8)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Montana Del Alma'More editions of LA Montana Del Alma:
-
La Montana Del Almaby Xingjian GaoISBN 8484530442 (84-8453-044-2)
Hardcover, Ediciones del Bronce
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'La Montana Del Alma'More editions of La Montana Del Alma:
-
Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farmby G. OrwelISBN 9706438807 (970-643-880-7)
Softcover, Selector S.A. De C.V.
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Rebelion En La Granja / Animal Farm'More editions of Rebelion en la granja / Animal Farm:
Vida De Pi / Life of Piby Yann Martel, Bianca SouthwoodISBN 8423335127 (84-233-3512-7)
Hardcover, Destino
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Vida De Pi / Life of Pi'More editions of Vida De Pi / Life of Pi:
Portuguese
-
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romanceby Jose SaramagoISBN 9722110217 (972-21-1021-7)
Hardcover, Caminho
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romance'Book summary:Um homem fica cego, inexplicavelmente, quando se encontra no seu carro no meio do trânsito. A cegueira alastra como «um rastilho de pólvora». Uma cegueira colectiva. Romance contundente. Saramago a ver mais longe. Personagens sem nome. Um mundo com as contradições da espécie humana. Não se situa em nenhum tempo específico. É um tempo que pode ser ontem, hoje ou amanhã. As ideias a virem ao de cima, sempre na escrita de Saramago. A alegoria. O poder da palavra a abrir os olhos, face ao risco de uma situação terminal generalizada. A arte da escrita ao serviço da preocupação cívica.» (Diário de Notícias, 9 de Outubro de 1998) [via]
More editions of Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira: Romance:
French
-
L Armoire Magiqueby C. S. LewisISBN 2070546438 (2-07-054643-8)
Softcover, Sodis
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'L Armoire Magique'Book summary:Traces d'usages, nom intérieur mais sinon bel ouvrage.Expédition rapide de votre commande avec protection soignée de vos articles.Professionnel de la vente à distance.Professional on e-business.Fast delivery of your order.Item very well packed(réf 21g) [via]
More editions of L Armoire Magique:
Italian
-
L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228134 (88-452-2813-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Isola Del Giorno Prima'More editions of L'Isola Del Giorno Prima:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}