Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
By: Paul Cohen
4.28
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
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1. From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
By: Willard Van Orman Quine
4.14
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. At the… read more
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- logic
- philosophy
- mathematics
- nonfiction
"How many possible men are there in that doorway?"-Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
"Nonsense is indeed mere absence of sense, and can always be remedied by arbitrarily assigning some sense."-Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
"As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imp…"-Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays
2. Mercier and Camier
By: Samuel Beckett
3.76
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
One of the most accessible examples of Samuel Beckett’s dark humor, Mercier and Camier is the hilar… read more
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- philosophy
"I don't think I recognize you, sir, said Camier. I am Watt, said Watt. As you say, I'm unrecognizable. Watt? said Camier. The name means nothing to me. I am not widely know, said Watt, true, but I sh…"-Samuel Beckett, Mercier and Camier
3. Ethics
By: Baruch Spinoza , Edwin M. Curley , Stuart Hampshire , None
4.10
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
Published shortly after his death, the Ethics is undoubtedly Spinoza's greatest work—an elegant, fu… read more
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"Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body"-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
"Benevolentia nihil aliud est, quam cupiditas ex commiseratione orta."-Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
4. In Contradiction: A Study of the Transconsistent
By: Graham Priest
4.09
Format: 327 pages, Paperback
In Contradiction advocates and defends the view that there are true contradictions (dialetheism), a… read more
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- logic
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5. Watt
By: Samuel Beckett
4.50
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
Fiction. WATT was the beginning of Samuel Becket's post-war literary career, the fruition of the ye… read more
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6. Letters to a Young Poet
By: Rainer Maria Rilke , Franz Xaver Kappus , Reginald Snell
4.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In 1903, a student at a military academy sent some of his verses to a well-known Austrian poet, req… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
"Everything is gestation and then birthing."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
"Perhaps all dragons in our lives are really princesses just waiting to see us just once being beautiful and courageous."-Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
7. Waiting for Godot
By: Samuel Beckett
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more
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- philosophy
8. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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9. Real and Complex Analysis
By: Walter Rudin
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is an advanced text for the one- or two-semester course in analysis taught primarily to math, … read more
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10. The Complete Essays
By: Michel de Montaigne , M.A. Screech
4.23
Format: 1344 pages, Paperback
Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly resp… read more
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"The thing I fear most is fear."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"We should tend our freedom wisely."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
"To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it."-Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
11. Le Grand Meaulnes
By: Alain-Fournier , None
4.00
Format: 199 pages, Paperback
In a small village in the Sologne, Fifteen-year-old Francois Seurel narrates the story of his relat… read more
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12. Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
By: Sean Carroll
3.91
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativityprovides a lucid and thoroughly modern… read more
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13. Topology
By: James R. Munkres
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
This introduction to topology provides separate, in-depth coverage of both general topology and alg… read more
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- mathematics
- nonfiction
14. The Trial
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Edwin Muir , Willa Muir
3.95
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifyi… read more
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"But I’m not guilty,"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"Asking questions were the most important thing."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"It was very learned, but it didn't actually say anything."-Franz Kafka, The Trial
"The way she sits on my lap as if it were her proper place!"-Franz Kafka, The Trial
15. Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings
By: Hilary Putnam , None
3.99
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Includes several classic essays from the first edition, a representative selection of the most infl… read more
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16. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein
3.68
Format: None pages, Paperback
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Ph… read more
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17. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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18. Naming and Necessity
By: Saul A. Kripke
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is … read more
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19. Invitation to a Beheading
By: Vladimir Nabokov
4.89
Format: 78 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found Like Kafka's The Castle, Invitation to a … read more
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20. On Certainty
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , Georg Henrik von Wright , G.E.M. Anscombe , None
4.50
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Written over the last 18 months of his life & inspired by his interest in G.E. Moore's defense of c… read more
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21. A Brief History of Time
By: Stephen Hawking , Phạm Văn Thiều , None
4.21
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
A landmark volume in science writing by one of the great minds of our time, Stephen Hawking’s book … read more
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"God abhors a naked singularity."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"There should be no boundary to human endeavor."-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"Cuando miramos al universo, lo vemos tal como fue en el pasado"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
"If time travel is possible, where are the tourists from the future?"-Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
22. Autoportrait
By: Édouard Levé , Lorin Stein
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve hides nothing from his readers, setting … read more
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23. Ficciones
By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan
3.53
Format: 320 pages,
The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more
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24. Beyond the Limits of Thought
By: Graham Priest
3.97
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
This second and extended edition of Priest's classic includes new chapters on Heidegger and Nagarju… read more
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25. Mason & Dixon
By: Thomas Pynchon , Jordi Fibla
3.97
Format: 480 pages,
The story of Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779)--the British surveyors best r… read more
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26. Murphy
By: Samuel Beckett
4.14
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Murphy', Samuel Beckett's first published novel, was written in English and published in London in… read more
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27. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
By: Bill Watterson
3.93
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Calvin and Hobbesis unquestionably one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginativ… read more
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28. Snow Country
By: Yasunari Kawabata , Edward G. Seidensticker
3.59
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Nobel Prize recipient Yasunari Kawabata's Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's mast… read more
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"국경의 긴 터널을 빠져나오자, 雪國이었다."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"Nothing is so strange when one is in love."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"In the moonlight the fine geishalike skin took on the luster of a seashell."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
"The notes went out crystalline into the clean winter morning, to sound on the far, snowy peaks."-Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country
29. Representation and Reality (Representation and Mind)
By: Hilary Putnam
3.81
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Hilary Putnam, who may have been the first philosopher to advance the notion that the computer is a… read more
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30. Set Theory and the Continuum Hypothesis (Dover Books on Mathematics)
By: Paul Cohen
4.28
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
This exploration of a notorious mathematical problem is the work of the man who discovered the solu… read more
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31. Basic Category Theory (Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, Series Number 143)
By: Tom Leinster
4.47
Format: 190 pages, Hardcover
At the heart of this short introduction to category theory is the idea of a universal property, imp… read more
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