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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things
What Categories Reveal About the Mind
by George Lakoff
ISBN: 0226468046
ISBN-13: 9780226468044
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Published date: 1990
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 2.15 pounds
Publisher's Notes
This book presents some of the most stimulating ideas on mind and meaning I have ever read. It is a book that has far-reaching consequences and is sure to rattle the foundations of thinking and research in the cognitive sciences.
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