Comprised of nine independently written chapters of which six were previously published elsewhere. - "Think outside the box", first published in Proverbium 29 (2012), 137-196. - "Life is not a spectator sport", first published in Emotsional'naia sfera cheloveka v iazyke i kommunikatsii (Institut Iazykoznaniia RAN 2018, 7-17). - "Age is just a number", first published in Emotsional'naia sfera cheloveka v iazyke i kommunikatsii (Institut Iazykoznaniia RAN 2019, 7-23). - "No body is perfect", first published in Evraziiskii gumanitarnyi zhurnal 2020: 1, 4-20. - "Dogs don't bark at parked cars", first published in Paremia 29 (2019), 93-112. - "Love is just a four-letter word", first published in Proceedings of the 13th Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Proverbs (Tavira: Tipografia Tavirense, 2020).