Discover Yourself Through Palm Reading: Learning How to Read Yourself and Your Future, Line by Line
This book is about discovering inherited personality traits, temperament, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses, abilities and talents through a study of hands, and using this insight to improve all areas of your life. Throughout the book, readers will learn the meanings of certain lines and formations.
The Secret Language of Symbols: A Visual Key to Symbols Their Meanings
From the I Ching and the Chakras to the Tarot and the Zodiac, this credible, highly readable, and vividily illustrated encyclopedic volume traces the origins and evolution of hundreds of symbols and symbol systems that have impacted human culture, history, art, and psychology since the dawn of time. 450 full-color illustrations.
Lives in Science: How Institutions Affect Academic Careers
What can we learn when we follow people over the years and across the course of their professional lives? Joseph C. Hermanowicz asks this question specifically about scientists and answers it here by tracking fifty-five physicists through different stages of their careers at a variety of universities across the country.
Hidden Connections, Double Meanings: A Mathematical Exploration
This book subverts and surprises. It explores mathematical topics, finding amazing similarities and looking at familiar objects in new ways. It shows mathematics as something mysterious, intriguing and pleasurably puzzling. You do not need to be a mathematician to enjoy this book. The style is relaxed. It emphasises insight and imagination rather than technique.
On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language
In this volume, Rachel Giora explores how the salient meanings of words--the meanings that stand out as most prominent and accessible in our minds--shape how we think and how we speak. For Giora, salient meanings display interesting effects in both figurative and literal language. In both domains, speakers and writers creatively exploit the possibilities inherent in the fact that, while words have multiple meanings, some meanings are more accessible than others.
