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31 reviews
Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman

NYU Press, 2001

how i understand Godel
Godel was able to construct a formula from the axioms of Principia Mathematica (PM, and related systems, due to Russell and Whitehead) that is (roughly) "There exists no proof for this formula". This IS the formula itself. now, we need to know if this is true or not. so we try to find a proof for it within PM. if it is possible to find the proof, that means the formula is correct. but the formula ...

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

26 reviews
Daniel J. Velleman

Cambridge University Press, 2006

Rigorous but accesible..an engineer's intro to proofs
I write this review on the context of having done all the math required for mechanical engineer but never havin to do proofs... as B.Rusell once said do and the by faith you will believe... trying to escape that state of mind I got this book some years ago, Im glad for the author follows a structure approach similar to learning a programming language, once you master some elemenatry techniques ...

Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare

10 reviews
Kenneth Burke

Parlor Press, 2007

Burke on the Bard
All of Kenneth Burke's writings on Shakespeare have been assembled in one place in this book, and even a compendium of brief mentions of Shakespeare, through the assiduous efforts of Scott Newstok. And what a treasure trove it is. As an undergraduate, I remember working my way diligently through Burke's A Rhetoric of Motives and A Grammar of Motives and being dazzled by the breadth and depth of ...

Analysis: With an Introduction to Proof (4th Edition)

6 reviews
Steven R. Lay

Prentice Hall, 2004

Great book
Analysis at this level is probably the most challenging class for an undergraduate degree. However, this book made it very manageable. I found the introduction to proof very helpful. I encourage anyone who is using this book to study this chapter ahead of time. It will make the subsequent chapters a lot easier to handle. If it was not for this book and the outsdanting professor I had, I would ...

Organization Theory: Modern, Symbolic, and Postmodern Perspectives

2 reviews
Mary Jo Hatch

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Organization Theory Resource
This book is required reading for a graduate OD course I completed this summer. Using the organizational theory perspectives of modernist, symbolic and post modernist, the author carefully guides and builds on theories that support these perspectives. In the end, it give professional change experts a foundation for recommendations. I will continue to use this book as a reference for my internal ...

Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

12 reviews
Kenneth H. Rosen

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2006

Updating Review...
I gave 1 out of 5 stars to this book on my previous review based on the fact that my professor assigned a lot of homeworks, and many of them I found that there were no discussions/ or no related concepts represented in the book. Several of questions ask about the problems that the author never mentions in his text. I found myself in desperate situation with those questions, so I purchased a ...

Finite and Infinite Games

38 reviews
James P. Carse

Ballantine Books, 1987

Infinitely fascinating
I recovered this book after many years on loan and realized I must not have read it before it was lent. Whiz bang wonderful is what it is, and way deep. As Robert M. Pirsig (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) said about this book, "Normally we add new facts to existing knowledge. But once in a while a book like this comes along and does just the opposite -- it adds a new pattern of ...

The Logic Book with Student Solutions CD-ROM

11 reviews
Merrie Bergmann, James Moor, ...

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2003

Logic courses text book
This book was used as a college level text for a Philosophy course in introductory Logicc. As a guide to SL, I found it easy to understand and informative when in conjunction with a structured lecture.

Evolution in Four Dimensions: Genetic, Epigenetic, Behavioral, and Symbolic Variation in the History of Life ...

11 reviews
Eva Jablonka, Marion J. Lamb

The MIT Press, 2006

The opposite of the opposite conjecture
I loved the book's treatment of genetic and epigenetic inheritance systems (dimensions 1 and 2). I appreciated the discussion of behavioral inheritance systems (dimension 3). I wasn't sold on the fourth dimension (symbolic inheritance systems) being fundamentally different than the third. All that aside as an undergraduate psych student, without a ton of genetics under my belt, this was an ...

Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics)

40 reviews
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Routledge, 2001

'The world is all that is the case'
The Tractatus was Wittgenstein's attempt to solve all philosophical problems. Believing he was successful, he retired from Philosophy after publishing this text to become a schoolteacher for several years in Austria, before returning to philosophy. The Tractatus is one of the most important intellectual works of the 20th century, arguably as important as Bertrand Russell's and Whitehead's ...

The Bald Eagle (Welcome Books)

1 review
Lloyd G. Douglas

Children's Press (CT), 2003

Great for Beginning Readers and ESOL students!
This book allows children with low reading abilities to learn and participate in Social Studies classes. Wonderful series and I highly recommend it.

The Equations: Icons of Knowledge

8 reviews
Sander Bais

Harvard University Press, 2005

An esthetic high level overview of all of mathematical science
The existence of a mathematical equation that summarizes a large body of physical knowledge is a remarkable achievement, a pinnacle of science. The excitement of such equations is something that normally remains inaccessible to the public at large. By presenting some of the main equations of science as icons this book allows the reader to get a taste of what they are about without wading ...

Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method

3 reviews
Herbert Blumer

University of California Press, 1986

Informative
Meaningful communication occurs in context. In fact the context frames the message. Blumer describes how factors such as relationships and interpretation construct meaning. Relationships have histories. Meanings change as relationships mature. If one is to understand interpretation, one must be familiar with these realities. What is "real" is what is real in the mind of the receiver. Individual ...

Brain Busters! Mind-Stretching Puzzles in Math and Logic

6 reviews
Barry R. Clarke

Dover Publications, 2003

The Mathematical Poetry of a Puzzle Artist: Barry R. Clarke
In this most recent adventure into the Puzzling World of Barry R. Clarke, I found my mind quite well entertained. What I enjoy most about logic puzzles is their requirement for little if any prior knowledge, and each of Barry's "puzzlers" is no different. However, what is missing in most logic and mathematical puzzle books is a touch of true creativity and humor. In Brain Busters! I found that ...

Perspective as Symbolic Form

3 reviews
Erwin Panofsky

Zone Books, 1993

Interesting book and short
Panofsky's book on perspective, Perspective as Symbolic Form, is a short book about the development of perspective from ancient perspective to the full, abstract space of an Alberti. This is interesting for a number of reasons, which are: a) ancient perspective is the perspective of angles, not of distances. This is hard to explain without a diagram, but basically an object at a 45 degree angle ...

Four Gospels, One Jesus: A symbolic Reading

5 reviews
Richard A. Burridge

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005

An excellent guide to understanding the gospels.
This is one of the most concise yet comprehensive books I've read on the subject, a book that effectively combines scholarship and faith. As Michael Green writes," Few academics emerge from the ivory tower to write in an attractive way for the general reader. Few theologians combine academic rigour with spiritual sensitivity. Richard Burridge does both these things,..." My students ...

Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning (Volume I)

5 reviews
G. Polya

Princeton University Press, 1990

At the very root of mathematical discovery
One of the most beautiful books on scientific discovery. Read this book and then keep it at bedside for sheer amusement. Analogies are frequently the key to a discovery, but it is rare that this essential step receives credit. Here there is a collection of them: some of the most beautiful. Perhaps the most famous is Bernoulli's solution of the brachistochrone problem, based on an analogy with the ...

Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)

2 reviews
Ernst Lehner, Johanna Lehner

Dover Publications, 2003

a very useful book!
My concentration for my major is ethnobotany, and this is a definite must-have addition to my collection! THe illustrations are wonderful! Each section done has at least one illustration and a good paragraph explaining its origins. I particularly enjoy the seasons section, as well as the chinese flower calendar and the japanese flower calendar. There is also a shortened "sentiments and symbolism" ...

Language and Symbolic Power

2 reviews
Pierre Bourdieu

Harvard University Press, 1999

abstract but has a lot of potential
This book will most likely not appeal to US students in linguistics. Because Bourdieu deals with rather abstract concepts which cover a lot of social ground (e.g., symbolic, cultural, economic capital, field, etc.)and not enough linguistic ground, some linguists will have trouble applying concepts to the actual production of speech at the phonological, morpho-syntactic, pragmatic and discourse ...

Social Problems (7th Edition) (MySocKit Series)
James M. Henslin

Allyn & Bacon, 2005

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