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In 1931 Kurt Godel disrupted some of the fundamental assumptions underlying mathematics and logic with the publication of his revolutionary paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems". Ironically, few mathematicians of the time were able to understand t... More

A major statement of the language, method, and concepts of the physical sciences, this volume traces the history of experimental investigation and the efforts of philosophic minds to state and organize their findings. A classic in the philosophy of science, it introduced the concept of a general met... More

An Introduction to LOGIC and SCIENTIFIC METHOD BY MORRIS R. COHEN Department of Philosophy, College of the City of New York AND ERNEST NAGEL Department of Philosophy, Columbia University HARCOURT, BRACE WORLD, INC. NEW YORK AND BURLINGAME COPYRIGHT, 1934, BY EARCOTJRT, BRACE WORLD, INC, All rights r... More

In 1931, Kurt Godel published his fundamental paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Nagel and Newman provide a readable and accessible explanation of the main ideas and broad implications of Godel's discovery.aA little masterpiece of exege... More

Anthology of the American Short Story offers a diverse collection of stories that reflects not only an expansive range of fictional approaches, but also the breadth of multicultural writers who have contributed to the development of the short-story genre. With a balance between frequently anthologiz... More

Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular." At the same time, each of us is a particular ... More

'The best short story Hemingway has written' Sunday Times Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly... More

Written when Hemingway returned from his 1953 safari, and edited by his son Patrick, True at First Light is a rich blend of autobiography and fiction, a breathtaking final work from one of this century's most beloved and important writers. The book opens on the day Hemingway's close friend Pop, a le... More

Hemingway's passion for Spain and the bullfight is renowned. In Death in the Afternoon he shares the sights, the sounds, the excitement and, above all, the knowledge which fuelled his passion for `the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure classic bea... More