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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-12-08 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Both an expert and a collector, James Geary has devoted his life to aphorisms-and the last few years to organizing, indexing, and even translating them. The res
Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-01 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the story of the aphorism through spirited a
Language: en
Pages: 248
Pages: 248
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:
‘We Are What We Think’ are the words with which the Buddha begins the Dhammapada, one of the world’s earliest collections of sayings. In this single, shor
Language: en
Pages: 202
Pages: 202
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-13 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End “convey[s] the power of wit to refresh the mind” (Henry Hitchings, Wall Street Journal). In “
Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-08 - Publisher: Harper Collins
The New York Times bestselling author examines how metaphors influence every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market. Metaphor
