I Is an Other

For lovers of language and fans ofBlinkandFreakonomics,New York Timesbestselling author James Geary offers this fascinating look at metaphors and their influence in every aspect of our lives, from art to medicine, psychology to the stock market.From President Obamas political rhetoric to the bursting of the housing bubble, from conversations to commercials, James Geary shows that every aspect of our day-to-day experience is molded by metaphor. Geary takes readers from Aristotles investigation of metaphor right up to the latest neuroscientific insights into how metaphor works in the brain.Romeos exclamation It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! may be one of the most well-known metaphors in literature, but metaphor is more than a device of love-struck poets. As Geary demonstrates, metaphor has leaped off the page and landed with a mighty splash right in the middle of the stream of consciousness.Witty, persuasive, and original,I Is an Otherexplores metaphors effects on financial decision making, effective advertising, leadership, learning, and more.