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- Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century
- Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century. Marina Warner. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]18.99. xx + 469 pages. ISBN 0-19-929994-3. Marina Warner, who rejects the thesis of a 'God-given soul', is concerned in this book (originating with O.U.P. New York) with the relationship among soul, spirit and...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- A squirt or a surge? Both are miscast war metaphors
- When talking about war, sports analogies are out, liquid metaphors are in. Turn on the tube and some military official or policy wonk is likely to be yapping on about Iraq in language that will make you thirsty. Take Gen. David Petraeus' interview with PBS' Jim...
- Research articles 2007-06-04
- Russel Cooper, Gary Madden, Ashley Lloyd & Michael Schipp The Economics of Online Markets and ICT Networks
- Russel COOPER, Gary MADDEN, Ashley LLOYD & Michael SCHIPP Eds The Economics of Online Markets and ICT Networks Physica-Verlag, Contributions to Economics Series, Heidelberg, 2006, 267 pages The contributions brought together in this book are representative of the current state of the economy of ICTs: They effectively cover...
- Research articles 2006-10-01
- I hear you knocking.
- I hear you knocking. Automated port scans, which look for open ports that might be candidates for exploitation, are sometimes likened to a thief rattling doorknobs, looking for one that's unlocked. New research from the University of Maryland shows that this metaphor might be off base....
- Research articles 2006-03-01
- Myths & metaphors: Janet Soskice on reason, religion and language
- JANET MARTIN SOSKICE of Cambridge University has been at the forefront of a theological movement largely inspired by Karl Barth that asserts a renewed confidence in the intelligibility of theology. Her book Metaphor and Religious Language Oxford University Press argues for taking biblical metaphors seriously and for not translating them...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- "A due circulation in the veins of the publick": imagining credit in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England.(Tribute issue to Professor J. Douglas Canfield, University of Arizona)
- "I am to speak of what all People are busie about, but not one in Forty understands: Every Man has a Concern in it, few know what it is, nor is it easy to define or describe it. If a Man goes about to explain it by...
- Research articles 2005-09-22
- Rampling radiant at 60 in role about sex tourism in Haiti
- VENICE, Italy AFP — Sipping a coffee in a small cafe on the Venice Lido, Charlotte Rampling reflects on romantic love and says she believes that only the finest of faultlines exist between love and disaster. "We think we're creating a home, that we're creating a universe, that we're...
- Research articles 2005-09-08
- Elsewhere
- SIRENS AND SOPRANOS Before he sailed to Ithaca, Odysseus was warned by the goddess Circe to beware the Sirens, who lured sailors to wreck on their craggy-shored island with beautiful, hypnotic singing. Odysseus, wishing to hear the Sirens without falling prey to their temptation, ordered his men to tie him...
- Research articles 2005-01-06
- Speech and strife.
- But no one can make his way into a strong man's house and plunder his property unless he has first tied up the strong man. (1) INTRODUCTION The anthropologist Clifford Geertz once observed that "[a]t the political center of any...
- Research articles 2004-06-22
- Marshall's dilemma: equilibrium versus evolution
- Alfred Marshall remains somewhat of an enigmatic figure in the evolution of economic analysis. Historians of economic thought almost invariably accord Marshall a prominent role in the early development of "neoclassical" economics and in partial equilibrium analysis in particular. However, as Gerald Shove's (1942) and Joseph Schumpeter's (1941) semi-centennial appraisals...
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Practicing world-class wealth-care: advisors must demonstrate, and clients experience, competence, caring and integrity if they want to make it in today's competitive arena.(Your Clients for Life)
- THE TIME HAS COME FOR A NEW METAPHORICAL STANDARD OR archetype in the business of providing financial advice. The reason this industry needs a new metaphorical anchor is because the metaphor that defines the industry also defines the client's experience. Exactly what archetype has undergirded this...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose.(Book Review)
- By MICHAEL RUSE. Harvard University Press. 371pp. $29.95. With a palpable twinge of defensiveness, the French biologist Lucien Cuenot once boldly asserted, "It is not foolhardy to believe that the eye is made for seeing." No kidding. So why the defensive tone? Such is...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Presidential Speechwriting: From the New Deal to the Reagan Revolution and Beyond.(Book Review)
- Edited by Kurt Ritter and Martin Medhurst. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 221 pp. Presidential Speechwriting is a compendium of eight essays on the speechwriting strategies of nine presidents, from Franklin Roosevelt through Ronald Reagan. These essays were first delivered at...
- Research articles 2003-09-01
- Bad dog, Barney
- H'RUMPHS HUMOR Remember the TV commercial where a man is walking down a dark city street and nervously glances back at two shadowy figures? The tension builds until the figures step into the light and reveal themselves as Boy Scouts, leaving the man visibly relieved and a little embarrassed that...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa - exhibition preview
- "Art of the Lega: Meaning and Metaphor in Central Africa" is a collaborative effort between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. Drawing from the collection of Jay T. Last, the exhibition's curator, Elisabeth L. Cameron, selected approximately 240 animal and...
- Research articles 2002-06-22
- From Broadway to the ABCs: Making meaning of arts reform in the age of accountability
- Introduction In this paper I explore the power of metaphors, both implicit and explicit, to inhibit or prompt school change. I use case study data collected at Cape Fear Elementary School over a five-year period to illustrate the shifting interpretations of an arts-based reform, the A+ Schools Program, as it...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- New Maps for Old: Explorations in Science and Religion. (Shorter Reviews).~(book review)
- by Mary Gerhart and Allan Melvin Russell Continuum, New York, 2001. 240 pp. $24.95. ISBN 0-8264-1338-2. THE AUTHORS' Metaphoric Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious Understanding (Texas Christian University Press, 1984) received considerable acclaim as a new and imaginative way to understand metaphor as...
- Research articles 2002-04-01
- Organizational size, multiple audiences, and web site design. (Applied Research).
- The Internet has given rise to new forms of organizing work and new ways of doing business. The operation of virtual and network organizations that represent new forms of organizing relies to a large extent on the Internet. Similarly, the Internet makes possible new ways of...
- Research articles 2002-02-01
- At least Floyd, Jauron, in their own ways, get a merry Christmas.(Sports)
- Byline: Barry Rozner It will be remembered as one of the wackiest and most surprising Christmas Eves in Chicago Sports history, overanalyzed and exaggerated as with all things Bears and Bulls. But unlike the Billy Reay Memorial Pink Slip Under the Door,...
- Research articles 2001-12-25
- "Ironing the bugs out": Mixed metaphors. (Editing).
- The mixed metaphor has long been vilified by language lovers. After all, a metaphor per se is often a stretch. The attempt to combine two or more vastly dissimilar figures of speech usually results in a jarring incongruity and an absurd image. Such clashes are often amusing,...
- Research articles 2001-12-17
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