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Bergmann, Claudia D. Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18. Walter de Gruyter, 2009.

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Bruijn, Hans. The Governance of Privacy. Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463729673.

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We can hardly underestimate the importance of privacy in our data-driven world. Privacy breaches are not just about disclosing information. Personal data is used to profile and manipulate us – sometimes on such a large scale that it affects society as a whole. What can governments do to protect our privacy? In The Governance of Privacy Hans de Bruijn first analyses the complexity of the governance challenge, using the metaphor of a journey. At the start, users have strong incentives to share data. Harvested data continue the journey that might lead to a privacy breach, but not necessarily – it

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Müller, Cornelia. Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking: A Dynamic View. University of Chicago Press, 2009.

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Metaphors dead and alive, sleeping and waking: A dynamic view. University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Ismond, Patricia. Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry. University of the West Indies Press, 2002.

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Abandoning dead metaphors: The Caribbean phase of Derek Walcott's poetry. University of the West Indies Press, 2001.

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Melson, Roger. Playing cat and mouse with the dead donkey: The translation of animal metaphors. 1996.

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Bommert, Saskia. England look dead and buried: Usage of conceptual metaphors in live football commentary. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2011.

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Dead Metaphor: Three Plays. Talonbooks, Limited, 2015.

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Walker, George F. Dead Metaphor: Three Plays. Talonbooks, 2015.

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Campos, Liliane. ‘Wheels have been set in motion’: Geocentrism and Relativity in Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427814.003.0012.

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By decentring our reading of Hamlet, Stoppard’s tragicomedy questions the legitimacy of centres and of stable frames of reference. So Liliane Campos examines how Stoppard plays with the physical and cosmological models he finds in Hamlet, particularly those of the wheel and the compass, and gives a new scientific depth to the fear that time is ‘out of joint’. In both his play and his own film adaptation, Stoppard’s rewriting gives a 20th-century twist to these metaphors, through references to relativity, indeterminacy, and the role of the observer. When they refer to the uncontrollable wheels

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Metaphor stories for deaf children. Butte Publications, 1998.

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Gill, Jerry H., and Laura Lyn Inglis. Old Dead White Men's Philosophy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 1998.

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Riggs, Christina. 5. Signs, sex, status. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199682782.003.0005.

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Through the materials they used and the objects they made, ancient Egyptian artists and craftsmen turned animals, plants, and the Nile into metaphors for what cannot be seen: good and evil, creation, or the transformation of the dead. ‘Signs, sex, status’ considers the references to hippopotami, the goddess Isis, the marshes, and fertility and sexual imagery that recur throughout Egyptian art and architecture, with their distinct hieroglyphic symbols, compositional rules, and social strictures. It shows how much elite men dominated the world of high culture. Women were an integral part of this

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Dear Sebastian: Reclaiming the Power of Metaphor. Outskirts Press, 2008.

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Wheeler, Kathleen. Coleridge, John Dewey, and the Art of Contemplation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799511.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 reads Dewey’s Art as Experience as steeped in Coleridge, a constant reference throughout this foundational pragmatist aesthetics. Indeed Dewey said he found ‘spiritual emancipation’ in Coleridge’s Aids to Reflection, calling it ‘my first Bible’ (qtd in John Beer Aids to Reflection cxxv). Coleridge’s account of perception as active and creative, not passively receptive, gave Dewey profound insight into human experience, helping him articulate his philosophy of ‘art as experience’ whereby art originates in imaginative ordinary life. For Coleridge, ‘act’ and ‘activity’ ground both mind

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Becker, Sandra, Megen de Bruin-Molé, and Sara Polak, eds. Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. University of Wales Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.16922/contagion.

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From Outbreak to The Walking Dead, apocalyptic narratives of infection, contagion and global pandemic are an inescapable part of twenty-first-century popular culture. Yet these fears and fantasies are too virulent to be simply quarantined within fictional texts. The vocabulary and metaphors of outbreak narratives have permeated how news media, policymakers and the general public view the real world and the people within it. In an age where fact and fiction seem increasingly difficult to separate, contagious bodies (and the discourses that contain them) continually blur established boundaries b

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Bergmann, Claudia D. Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1qh XI, 1-18. De Gruyter, Inc., 2008.

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Childbirth as a Metaphor for Crisis: Evidence from the Ancient near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18. De Gruyter, Inc., 2008.

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Childbirth as a metaphor for crisis: Evidence from the ancient Near East, the Hebrew Bible, and 1QH XI, 1-18. Walter de Gruyter, 2008.

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Perkins, Petra Jacqueline. Looking for the resurrection of the dead: "Generation X" and the search for a metaphor for teaching. 1994.

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Lippitt, John. Love's Forgiveness. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198861836.001.0001.

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This book combines a discussion of the nature and ethics of forgiveness with a discussion—inspired by Kierkegaard—of the implications of considering interpersonal forgiveness as a ‘work of love’. It introduces the reader to some key questions that have exercised recent philosophers of forgiveness, discussing the relationship between forgiveness and an extended notion of resentment; considering whether forgiveness should be ‘conditional’ or ‘unconditional’ (showcasing a particular understanding of the latter); and arguing that there are legitimate forms of ‘third party’ forgiveness. It then int

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Saussy, Haun. Translation as Citation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812531.001.0001.

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Translation as Citation denies that translating amounts to the composition, in one language, of statements equivalent to statements previously made in another. Rather, translation works with elements of the language and culture in which it arrives, often reconfiguring them irreversibly: it creates, with a fine disregard for precedent, loan words, calques, forced metaphors, forged pasts, imaginary relationships, and dialogues of the dead. Creativity, in this form of writing usually considered merely reproductive, is the subject of this book. When the first proponents of Buddhism arrived in Chin

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Fisk, Catherine L. &: Law _ Society in Historical Legal Research. Edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.26.

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This chapter begins with a brief survey of different interdisciplinary approaches to the historical study of law. It then explores the growth of both halves of the law & society dyad. It explains how that growth put pressure on the conjunctive metaphor that has long been used to describe the relationship between law and that which stands outside law, whether it be society, economy, polity, or something else. It suggests that the nature of law & society approaches to history has a great deal to do with what practitioners of the historical study of law conceptualize as being required by

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Bégin, Camille. A “Well-Filled Melting Pot”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040252.003.0006.

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This chapter provides an ethnographic reading of New Deal food writing to understand the centrality of ethnic taste in 1930s sensory economies. Federal Writers' Project workers described ethnic food using well-known keywords such as “the melting pot” or “cosmopolitanism”—given the topic at hand and the pressing need to produce material, these were tempting tropes. Still, New Deal food writing coming from midwestern and western rural and industrial areas updated the paradigmatic metaphors and described a sensory cosmopolitanism where culinary encounters and working-class solidarities combined t

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Fuks, Abraham. The Language of Medicine. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190944834.001.0001.

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The words that physicians use with patients have the power to heal or harm. The practice of medicine is shaped by the potent metaphors that are prevalent in clinical care, and military metaphors and the words of war bring with them unfortunate consequences for patients and physicians alike. Physicians who fight disease turn the patient into a passive battlefield. Patients are encouraged to remain stoic, blamed for “failing” chemotherapy and sadly remembered in heroic obituaries of lost battles. The search for disease as enemy shifts the doctor’s gaze to the computer and imaging technologies th

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De Souza, Jonathan. Beethoven’s Prosthesis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190271114.003.0002.

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This chapter takes performances by the deaf Beethoven as an instance of body-instrument interaction. Prior research in music theory, drawing on cognitive linguistics, suggests that Beethoven’s music was shaped by conceptual metaphors, which are both culturally specific and grounded in the body. Yet this chapter shows that players’ experience is not simply embodied but also technical. To that end, the chapter explores cognitive neuroscience, ecological psychology, and phenomenology. Patterns of auditory-motor coactivation in players’ brains are made possible by the stable affordances of an inst

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Ty, Eleanor. Representations of Aging in Asian Canadian Performance. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040887.003.0005.

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This chapter looks at two contemporary texts by Asian Canadians that deal with aging and the aged. It discusses ways in which filmmaker Linda Ohama and performer/playwright Catherine Hernandez contest popular Western notions of aging by focusing on affective memories that forestall linear time. Instead of representing the aged woman's body through industrial or post-industrial metaphors of breakdown and wearing out, Ohama and Hernandez emphasize qualities such as energy and endurance in their female protagonists. Through the use of flashbacks, memories, magic realism, and motifs, these authors

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Trump, Erik, and Jake Parcell. Architecture of Survival. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 2023. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978729261.

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The Architecture of Survival: Setting and Politics in Apocalypse Films offers a compelling exploration of how popular films and TV series from the past two decades use architectural spaces to comment on socio-political issues. The authors harness varied theoretical perspectives to demonstrate how, through set design, these works suggest that certain kinds of architecture support human development, community, and freedom, while other kinds separate us from our fellow humans and make democratic politics impossible. The clean lines of modernist design serve in films such as Contagion and Ex Machi

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Karras, Ruth Mazo. Reproducing Medieval Christianity. Edited by Adrian Thatcher. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199664153.013.007.

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This chapter examines three ways in which ideas about reproduction loomed large in medieval Christian culture: its relation to ideas about sexuality and nature, the somewhat overlapping topic of its relation to the sacrament of marriage, and the use of fictive parenthood or reproductive metaphors in Christian thought. Medieval Judaism is used as a point of comparison to highlight what is, or is not, distinctive about Christianity. The chapter argues that although virginity and celibacy got a great deal of literary attention, reproduction was the expectation for most medieval people and a tensi

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Kritsky, Gene, ed. A Cultural History of Insects In Antiquity. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474203807.

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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS IN ANTIQUITY A Cultural History of Insects covers the period from 1000 BCE to 500 CE. As different cultures expanded so did their interactions with insects, largely seen as vectors of disease and as agricultural and bodily pests. However, as knowledge of insects grew, insect products were developed, notably honey or beeswax as used in food, preservation, medicine, and religious ritual. Insects were feared but were also invested with great power, even sanctity. The jewelry of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome fashioned insects into symbols of the beauty of nature, wh

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Liebel, Manfred. Decolonizing Childhoods. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447356400.001.0001.

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This book addresses key aspects of the post- and decolonial analysis of childhood, such as the scope and limitations of Eurocentric concepts of childhood and the impact of social inequality aggravated by capitalist globalization on children's life prospects. In this context, it discusses the specific modes of agency emerging in children of the Global South. It reconstructs the way in which the colonialization process and the ideologies that supported it have used the metaphor of childhood, and investigates the extent to which they are reproduced in processes of colonizing childhoods. The book

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Peterson, Robert K. D., ed. A Cultural History of Insects In The Modern Age. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474203845.

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A CULTURAL HISTORY OF INSECTS IN THE MODERN AGE A Cultural History of Insects in the Modern Age covers the period from 1920 to the present, a time of tremendous scientific advances in our understanding of insects and their place in the natural world. The age ushered in an optimism fueled by the power of science and technology to improve the human condition and included stunning achievements in managing insect pests in the first half of the century. Today, although insects are recognised as cultural symbols of natural harmony and as bellwethers of ecological damage, our irrational fears continu

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Freire, Olival, ed. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Quantum Interpretations. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198844495.001.0001.

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Quantum mechanics approaches its centenary with an impressive record. It became the backbone of most research in physics, led to applications such as the transistor and laser, and prompted an upheaval in the philosophy of science. Its scope and its precision have been constantly growing, and it is now promising more powerful computers and safer cryptography. This century of conquests has also been a time of ongoing debates about the foundations and interpretation of the theory, which has been referred to as the quantum controversy. The controversy has been unusually long and remains open. Jamm

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Jecker, Nancy S. Ending Midlife Bias. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949075.001.0001.

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We live at a time when human lifespans have increased like never before. As average lifespans stretch to new lengths, how does this impact the values we hold most dear? Do these values change over the course of our ever-increasing lifespans? Ending Midlife Bias argues that at different life stages, different values emerge as central. During early life, caring and trust matter more, given human vulnerability and dependency. By early adulthood, growing independence provides a reason to value autonomy more. Later in life, heightened risk for chronic disease and disability warrants focusing on mai

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