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|  | Visual Analogy by Barbara M. Stafford
Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum. How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference. Well-designed images, Stafford argues, reveal the mind`s intuitive leaps to connect known with unknown experience. The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude. The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times. The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. In the fourth chapter, Stafford intervenes in the consciousness debates to propose a humanistic cognitive science with bridging/analogy at its artful core. AUTHOR: Barbara M. Stafford
PUBLISHER: MIT Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference 
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 | A Is for Salad by Mike Lester
A wacky alphabet book, in which A is really for the alligator eating the salad and W for the walrus eating the cake--but that's something for a child with a sense of humor to figure out and laugh at! AUTHOR: Mike Lester
PUBLISHER: Putnam Publishing Group, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Langenscheidt Spanish Standard Dictionary
This 1,104 pages, 75,000 entries dictionary contains extensive grammar coverage and usage examples. A compact, sturdy and comprehensive reference work recommended for home and classroom.
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style & Usage by Andrea Sutcliffe
A writing guide for everyone--not just academics and editors. With 13 chapters on style, this thorough guide covers grammar, design, publishing, charts, tables, illustrations, printing, desktop publishing, and every subject from manuscript to finished publication. Moreover, this edition covers the use of computer technology in publishing. 832 pages. AUTHOR: Andrea Sutcliffe
PUBLISHER: HarperInformation
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | When Is a Pig a Hog by Bernice Randall
When is a pig not a pig? When it tips the scale at 120 pounds and becomes a hog, of course! This witty and informative guide explains hundreds of tricky, similar words that confound even the most savvy wordsmiths. Learn the difference between a street and an avenue; a couch, a sofa, and a davenport; pay phones and public phones; and hundreds of other words and terms. This entertaining and lively reference covers a broad range of subjects, from Human and Not So Human Beings to The Arts: Fine and Otherwise, and includes a complete word index, reference list, and two appendices. Everyone with an interest in words and a curiosity about people, places, and things will delight in this lighthearted yet accurate treasury of information about the English language. AUTHOR: Bernice Randall
PUBLISHER: Galahad Books
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Reference
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 | Elements of Grammar by Margaret Shertzer
A handy compendium of grammar in the same format as the perennial bestseller. AUTHOR: Margaret Shertzer
PUBLISHER: Longman Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Reference
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