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Human Motivation: Metaphors, Theories, and Research: Metaphors, Theories and Research

Author: Bernard Weiner
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Keywords: research, theories, metaphors, motivation, human
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1996-04-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0761904913
ISBN-13: 9780761904915

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MUTATIVE METAPHORS PSYCHOTHER PB

Author: Cox
Publisher: Other
Keywords: psychother, metaphors, mutative
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 1987-12-22
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0422618101
ISBN-13: 9780422618106

This imaginative psychotherapy considers the aim of the Aeolian Mode in releasing an individual’s creative energy by freeing that person from the restrictive legacy of the past.

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Metaphors Dictionary

Author: Elyse Sommer
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Keywords: dictionary, metaphors
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2001-08-01
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1578591376
ISBN-13: 9781578591374

Rates a recommendation to lovers of language. – William Safire, New York Times. A masterful metaphor, like a picture, may be worth a thousand words. By comparing two unlike objects or ideas, it illuminates the similarities between them, accomplishing in a word or phrase what could otherwise be expressed only in many words, if at all. Metaphors Dictionary is an expansive collection of 6,500 colorful classic and contemporary comparative phrases (with full annotations and a complete bibliography of sources). The Metaphors Dictionary revisits most of the great and respected names in the anna

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Using Metaphors In Psychotherapy

Author: Philip Barker
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: psychotherapy, metaphors, using
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1992-11-01
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0876307160
ISBN-13: 9780876307168

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Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors

Author: P.R. Wilkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: metaphors, english, traditional, thesaurus
Number of Pages: 896
Published: 2002-08-02
List price: $350.00
ISBN-10: 0415276853
ISBN-13: 9780415276856

This fascinating collection of traditional metaphors and figures of speech, groups expressions according to theme. The second edition includes over 1,500 new entries, more information on first known usages, a new introduction and two expanded indexes. It will appeal to those interested in cultural history and the English language.

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A Thesaurus of English Traditional Metaphors

Author: P.R. Wilkinson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: metaphors, traditional, english, thesaurus
Number of Pages: 1024
Published: 1993-01
List price: $225.00
ISBN-10: 0415075238
ISBN-13: 9780415075237

In this fascinating, original thesaurus, the author’s definition of "metaphors" is usefully broad and covers a wide variety of figurative language. Offering explanations and derivations, the volume contains around 20,000 traditional English metaphors, similes, proverbs, catch phrases, idioms, and slang expressions. With scholarly analysis and commentary, the material presented is comprehensive, and includes information which cannot be found in any other book.