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Metaphors of Eucharistic Presence: Language, Cognition, and the Body and Blood of Christ by Stephen R. Shaver
RRP: €116.62Booksplease Price: €111.16In Metaphors of Eucharistic Presence: Language, Cognition, and the Body and Blood of Christ, Stephen R. Shaver brings together the fields of cognitive linguistics and liturgical theology to propose a... -
The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach by Barbara Dancygier 9781107558618
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €46.66How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional... -
The Language of Stories: A Cognitive Approach by Barbara Dancygier 9781107005822
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €117.26How do we read stories? How do they engage our minds and create meaning? Are they a mental construct, a linguistic one or a cultural one? What is the difference between real stories and fictional... -
Storylife: On Epic, Narrative, and Living Things Joel P. Christensen 9780300269239
Booksplease Price: €25.05From Homer's epics to mainstream news, stories have lives of their own-and humans may not always control the narratives we create Combining ancient epic and myth with analogies from biology and the... -
Philosophy In The Flesh by George Lakoff
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.25What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the centre of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing... -
Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting by Amy Cook
Booksplease Price: €75.27What can we learn about how we understand each other and ourselves by examining the casting we find on stage and film-the casting we find perfect and the casting we find wrong? Building Character... -
A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sorensen 9780759110373
Booksplease Price: €134.60Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by... -
A Cognitive Theory of Magic by Jesper Sorensen 9780759110403
Booksplease Price: €51.56Magic is a universal phenomenon. Everywhere we look people perform ritual actions in which desirable qualities are transferred by means of physical contact and objects or persons are manipulated by... -
Culture Code Champions: 7 Steps to Scale & Succeed in Your Business by Bill Higgs 9781946633699
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.44WHAT'S YOUR CURRENT CULTURE COSTING YOU? Learn how to create and cultivate a championship culture in your business. It will increase your bottom line by attracting and retaining better people,... -
Photons: The History and Mental Models of Light Quanta by Klaus Hentschel 9783319952512
Booksplease Price: €96.06This book focuses on the gradual formation of the concept of 'light quanta' or 'photons', as they have usually been called in English since 1926. The great number of synonyms that have been used by... -
The Contracts of Fiction: Cognition, Culture, Community by Ellen Spolsky 9780190232146
RRP: €98.77Booksplease Price: €75.21The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the... -
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot by Vera Tobin
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €34.51Why do some surprises delight-the endings of Agatha Christie novels, films like The Sixth Sense, the flash awareness that Pip's benefactor is not (and never was!) Miss Havisham? Writing at the... -
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence Angus Fletcher 9780231206921
RRP: €99.96Booksplease Price: €78.94Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan-and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough-starts with... -
Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence by Angus Fletcher
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan-and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough-starts with... -
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer 9780141032139
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.46'Be prepared to be amazed' GuardianCan anyone get a perfect memory?Joshua Foer used to be like most of us, forgetting phone numbers and mislaying keys. Then he learnt the art of memory training,... -
Fictional Minds by Alan Palmer 9780803218352
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60Fictional Minds suggests that readers understand novels primarily by following the functioning of the minds of characters in the novel storyworlds. Despite the importance of this aspect of the...