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Comprises the complete texts of both Words for Refrigerator Doors (1985, 1987) and 17 Reasons Why (1988). The Bay Area Reporter (April, 1986) said of Words for Refrigerator Doors: "Treats the tragedy of life with headline succinctness and a warm understanding which points up life's sweet ironies.

Adversarial poetry in a minimalist style unapologetically inspired by vital existence, Satanism, seidr, occultism, misanthropy, cynicism, anarchy, Nihilism, assholery, and generally hellbound shit.

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James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit's End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter, he wri...

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James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns demonstrate the essence of creativity. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there's the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit's End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter, he wri...

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This volume provides bibliographical information on 872 men and women of the Union, covering those who influenced the course of public policy, opinion and events. It includes political leaders, editors, photographers and abolitionists.

A bestselling expert offers an enlightening, entertaining compendium of wit and wisdom, with this comprehensive guide to our most intimate, idiosyncratic literary form. This work is an indispensable tool for writers and public speakers as well as essential reading for all language lovers.

¿Nos permitirán las nuevas tecnologías agudizar y reparar los sentidos, restablecer la movilidad a víctimas de parálisis o devolver la vista a los ciegos? ¿Podremos dotarnos con nuevos sentidos biónicos, como la habilidad para ver radiación infrarroja? ¿Deberían los ordenadores adquirir habilidades sensoriales que los cualificaran como seres vivos? En El cuerpo electrónico , James Geary explora la ciencia existente detrás de esta extraordinari...

From President Obama’s political rhetoric to the bursting of the housing bubble, from conversations to commercials, James Geary shows that every aspect of our day-to-day experience is molded by metaphor. Geary takes readers from Aristotle’s investigation of metaphor right up to the latest neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain. Witty, persuasive, and original, I Is an Other explores metaphor’s effects on financial decisi...