Metaphor and Knowledge

Metaphor and KnowledgeAnalyzing the power of metaphor in the rhetoric of science, this book examines the use of words to express complex scientific concepts. Metaphor and Knowledge offers a sweeping history of rhetoric and metaphor in science, delving into questions about how language constitutes knowledge. Weaving together insights from a group of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute as they shape the new interdisciplinary field of complexity science, Ken Baake shows the

metazoan or arthropod infections or infestations

and inferential statistics

Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present

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which compelled tomb builders to introduce special architectural measures to prevent it

Providing a range of perspectives

Sara Suleri

State expenditure on training has risen from less than GBP1 billion in 1978 to nearly GBP3 billion by 1991 without any thought being given to the economic principles which should govern such expenditure

Emporialism

New editorial team and many new contributors provide new perspectives and a modern evidence-based approach

contributes in an innovative way to global history and the history of human migration

and its effects on the Victorian literary imagination