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  by katie & 2 users

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Type: documentary

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Status: I recommend

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Authors: Chip Heath Dan Heath

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Tags: metaphors information cognitive_science storytelling

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Description: Following on from Gladwell's The Tipping Point, this book teaches and summaries (completeFollowing on from Gladwell's The Tipping Point, this book teaches and summaries (complete with "clinics" at the end of chapters and an "easy reference guide" of notes at the end of the book) what makes ideas sticky: SUCCESs = 1. Simple (find the core), 2. Unexpected (get attention), 3. Concrete (help people understand), 4. Credible (help people believe), 5. Emotional (make people care), and 6. Stories (get people to act)...

2007-12-27

  by katie & 2 users

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Type: documentary

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Douglas Hofstadter

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Tags: philosophy math metaphors cognitive_science brains

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Description: Some of it is beyond me, of course, but a great exercise in thinking about thinking -- especiallySome of it is beyond me, of course, but a great exercise in thinking about thinking -- especially about what makes an "I" to think. The idea of self and interiority developing over time via encounters that Hofstadter compares to "video loops" -- a camera trained on its own output, feeding back into itself endlessly and settling into a stable pattern eventually. His use of and belief in metaphor is central and effective....

2007-08-03

  by betweenthelines & 228 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: to read

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Author: George Orwell

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Tags: philosophy politics capitalism culture metaphors

2007-06-04

  by ahora_despierto

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Type: educational

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Status: I recommend

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Author: Murray Edelman

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Tags: art education politics culture americana media metaphors @finished read4college

2005-09-05

  by ahora_despierto & 350 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Author: George Orwell

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Tags: scifi dystopia politics culture 5stars metaphors community @finished

2005-09-04

  by ahora_despierto & 193 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Author: Orson Scott Card

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Tags: scifi classic technology violence metaphors @finished

2005-09-04

  by ohmygolly & 228 users

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Type: fiction

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Status: favorite

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Author: George Orwell

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Tags: politics evilpigs metaphors

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Description: Pigs and politics.

2005-09-03