This book is fascinating in so many ways. Barbara Tversky accomplishes the creative task of making the familiar strange and new again. Her findings dovetail nicely with the study of analogy, since so often our spatial and embodied relations are transferred to more abstract realms. Abstract language is, in fact, largely built by analogy.

Loved the prose style. I think sentence fragments, as long as the meaning is clear, are often a more concise, quicker way to impart information than unnecessa...