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Chess Metaphors
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Diego Rasskin-Gutman
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-02-10 - Publisher: MIT Press

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How the moves of thirty-two chess pieces over sixty-four squares can help us understand the workings of the mind. When we play the ancient and noble game of che
Chess Metaphors
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Diego Rasskin-Gutman
Categories: PSYCHOLOGY
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: MIT Press

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"In Chess Metaphors, Diego Rasskin-Gutman explores fundamental questions about memory, thought, emotion, consciousness, and other cognitive processes through th
Metaphors, Narratives, Emotions
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Pages: 408
Authors: Stefán Snævarr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Rodopi

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This book argues that there is a complex logical and epistemological interplay between the concepts of metaphor, narrative, and emotions. They share a number of
Players and Pawns
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Gary Alan Fine
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-06 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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A chess match seems as solitary an endeavor as there is in sports: two minds, on their own, in fierce opposition. In contrast, Gary Alan Fine argues that chess
How Life Imitates Chess
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Garry Kasparov
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08-10 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest player that ever lived. In How Life I