The Prison as Metaphor
The Prison as Metaphor

Author: Michael P. Marks

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780820468396

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Whether wittingly or unwittingly, scholars of international relations have peppered the field with a wide range of metaphors that serve as vehicles for theorizing about world affairs. Yet as pervasive as metaphors are in international relations theory, theorists' efforts to employ metaphorical imagery to suggest new ways of thinking have been haphazard and sporadic. In this book, Michael P. Marks suggests a new metaphor with which to conceptualize international relations: the modern prison. Many of the same questions that are asked about the so-called «anarchy» of the international system are also frequently asked of life among prison inmates. Marks finds that lessons from inmate relations can be applied to the study of international affairs. This comparison between the prison and international relations reveals how the construction of human interaction in both realms is infinitely complex.

Michael Vey
Michael Vey

Author: Richard Paul Evans

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-07-10

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1442468122

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Michael Vey seems like an ordinary teenager, but he has a unique power. After his mother is kidnapped he and his friends have to find his mother and fight the hunters to save other kids with the same powers.

Perplexities
Perplexities

Author: Max Black

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2019-05-15

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1501745484

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Shortly before his death in 1988, Max Black brought together for this collection previously published major essays on ten intriguing questions concerning ordinary language, rational choice, and literature. Individual chapters explore such fundamental problems as the puzzles posed by meaning and verification; what metaphor is and how metaphors work; the ambiguities and limits of rationality; the usefulness of decision theory to people who wish to make intelligent choices; some questions concerning Bayesian decision theory; the task of demystifying space; and the radical ambiguity of poetry.

Researching and Applying Metaphor
Researching and Applying Metaphor

Author: Graham Low

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-02-11

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780521649643

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This book demonstrates how metaphor needs to be researched using multiple methods of investigation.

Authorial Echoes
Authorial Echoes

Author: Catherine O'Rawe

Publisher: MHRA

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1904713033

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Pirandello is known for his plays, but his narrative production hasn't enjoyed the same degree of attention. This study represents a reassessment of this output, including the "realist" novels, the historical novel "I vecchi e i giovani" and the autobiographical "Suo marito".

Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation
Metaphor, Sustainability, Transformation

Author: Ian Hughes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-07-29

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1000407004

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This book offers an eclectic range of transdisciplinary insights into the role of metaphor, myth and fable in shaping our understanding of the world and how we interact with it and with each other. Drawing on innovative perspectives from widely different fields, this book explores how metaphor might facilitate and underpin transformative change towards environmental, ecological and societal sustainability. It illustrates the ways in which contemporary metaphors lock us into patterns of thinking, modes of behaviour, and styles of living that reproduce and accentuate our current socio-environmental problems. It sets itself the task of finding new metaphors and myths that might help move us towards sustainability as societal flourishing. By examining the use of metaphor in diverse fields such as energy use, the food system, health care, arts and the humanities, it invites the reader to reflect on the deep-seated influence of language in general, and metaphor in particular, in shaping how we understand and act upon the world. Re-imagining the use of language in framing both the problems we face and the solutions we devise, this novel contribution is a vital source of ideas for those aiming to change how we think and act in pursuit of more sustainable futures.

The Spectral Metaphor
The Spectral Metaphor

Author: E. Peeren

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 113737585X

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What does it mean to live as a ghost? Exploring spectrality as a metaphor in the contemporary British and American cultural imagination, Peeren proposes that certain subjects – migrants, servants, mediums and missing persons – are perceived as living ghosts and examines how this figuration can signify both dispossession and empowerment or agency.

Metaphor and Knowledge
Metaphor and Knowledge

Author: Ken Baake

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0791486745

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Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the difficulty of writing science when word meanings are unsettled, and he analyzes the power of metaphor in science.

More Magic of Metaphor
More Magic of Metaphor

Author: Nick Owen

Publisher: Crown House Publishing

Published: 2004-03-11

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1845903455

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More Magic of Metaphor explores the notion of leadership in its widest sense. Whether you lead in business, education, coaching, sports, health, parenting, or any other context this book offers insights into the many aspects of this complex, fascinating, and demanding role that we are all, from time to time, called upon to fulfil.