Figures of Speech: 60 Ways To Turn A PhraseWriting is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make

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introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular

Dimensions:  11" x 14"

set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months and cover 7

This grammar book

but in many fields he broke new ground and anticipated the findings of Western social scientists of the last two centuries

straightforward answers to everyday language problems

science and theology

this work is an eloquent introduction to mystical love in Islam

How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide

This philosophical engagement with the writings of and about Alfarabi will be essential reading for anyone interested in medieval political philosophy

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