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The Spider's Thread
Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
An examination of metaphor in poetry as a microcosm of the human imagination—a way to understand the mechanisms of creativity.
In The Spider's Thread, Keith Holyoak looks at metaphor as a microcosm of the creative imagination. Holyoak, a psychologist and poet, draws on the perspectives of...
The Vestigial Heart
A Novel of the Robot Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
A thirteen-year-old girl wakes up in a future where human emotions are extinct and people rely on personal-assistant robots to navigate daily life.
Imagine a future in which many human emotions are extinct, and “emotional masseuses” try to help people recover those lost sensations. Individuals...