'Metaphor in Cognitive Linguistics' is a collection of papers (from the fifth International Conference in Cognitive Linguistics, Amsterdam, 1997) that covers a wide range of current trends and interests in metaphor studies. For instance, if one is not familiar with Grady's excellent work on primary metaphors, there is a chapter that provides a concise introduction to his work and puts forward a typology of motivation for conceptual metaphor. Grady, Oakley, and Coulson's chapter summarizes blending theory, succeeds in differentiating it from conceptual metaphor theory, and shows how the two frameworks are not contrasting but complementary. Boers and Balaban demonstrate how quantitative methods can be helpful in researching metaphor in a cultural context (economic discourse in the former's case, religious discourse in the latter's). Other topics that are central to the book and are dealt with in greater detail here are (a) the cognitive roots of metaphor, (b) metaphor identification, and (c) metaphor and culture. (Sakis Kyratzis)