Balance : : How It Works and What It Means /

Balance : : How It Works and What It Means / / Paul Thagard.

Living is a balancing act. Ordinary activities like walking, running, or riding a bike require the brain to keep the body in balance. A dancer’s poised elegance and a tightrope walker’s breathtaking performance are feats of balance. Language abounds with expressions and figures of speech that invoke...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Thagard, Paul,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 38 figures, 21 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1 BALANCED BODIES AND LIVES
  • 2 BALANCE AND THE BRAIN
  • 3 VERTIGO, NAUSEA, AND FALLS
  • 4 CONSCIOUSNESS
  • 5 HOW METAPHORS WORK
  • 6 NATURE
  • 7 MEDICINE
  • 8 SOCIETY
  • 9 THE ARTS
  • 10 PHILOSOPHY
  • Appendix BALANCE AND IMBALANCE METAPHORS (56 METAPHORS ARRANGED BY TARGET / SOURCE / CHAPTER)
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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