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1	Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter G(del, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prizewinning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt G(del, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have.. Douglas Hofstadters book is concerned ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $6.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	I Am a Strange Loop more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter This is Douglas R Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of "Godel", "Escher", "Bach" - an original and controversial view of the nature of consciousness and identity. Why do we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? By "thought" we mean not mere calculation, the manipulation of algorithms and patterns according to fixed rules, but ... see all copies from $2.19! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter From some of the 20th century's greatest thinkers, essays on topics as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolution, science fiction, philosophy, reductionism, and consciousness. With contributions from Jorge Luis Borges, Richard Dawkins, John Searle, and Robert Nozick, The Mind's I explores the meaning of self and consciousness through the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter Hofstadters collection of quirky essays is unified by its primary concern: to examine the way people perceive and think.. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.85! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Godel, Escher, Bach V502 more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter First published in 1979, this is a genuine interdisciplinary work of nonfiction, with dozens of historical references and subtexts. Critics and reviewers have summed up its meaning in varying ways, yet consistently with praise. A mixture of art, philosophy, music, math, technology, and cognitive science, the book's title only reflects one aspect ... see all copies from $3.95! new only from $22.50! \| first editions
6	Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter Douglas Hofstadterauthor of the Pulitzer Prizewinner Gdel, Escher, Bach and a select group of translators, as well as three computer programs, translate a short poem by sixteenth-century French poet Clment Marot from its native tongue into English. In analyzing these translations, each distinct and delightful in its own right, translation becomes ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $19.54! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Godel, Escher, Bach more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter G(del, Escher, Bach is a Pulitzer Prizewinning treatise exploring patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt G(del, artist M. C. Escher and composer Johann Sebastian Bach. A groundbreaking book that has set the standard for interdisciplinary writing. A book every thinking reader must have.. Douglas Hofstadters book is concerned ... see all copies from $9.00! new only from $61.23! \| first editions
8	M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry more books like this by Doris Schattschneider, Douglas R Hofstadter (Foreword by) Doris Schattschneider's classic "M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry (1990) is the most penetrating study of Escher's work in existence, and the one most admired by mathematicians and scientists. It deals with one powerful obsession that preoccupied Escher: what he called the regular division of the plane see all copies from $2.95! new only from $18.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies: Computer Models of the Fundamental Mechanisms of Thought more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter, Fluid Analogies Research Group Hosftadter and his colleagues at The Fluid Analogies Research Group have developed computer models that help describe and explain human discovery, creation and analogical thought. The key issue of perception is investigated through the exploration of playful anagrams, number puzzles, word play and fanciful alphabetical styles, and the result is a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.25! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter Readers of earlier works by Douglas Hofstadter will find this book a natural extension of his style and his ideas about creativity and analogy; in addition, psychologists, philosophers, and artificial-intelligence researchers will find in this elaborate web of ingenious ideas a deep and challenging new view of mind. see all copies from $7.45! new only from $21.06! \| SVS
11	Minds I more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter see all copies from $1.99! new only from $55.93! \| first editions
12	Metamagical Themas more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.05! \| first editions
13	Godel, Escher, Bach: Un Eterno y Gracil Bucle by Douglas R Hofstadter see all copies from $17.88! new only from $17.88! \| SVS
14	The Discovery of Dawn more books like this by Walter Veltroni, Douglas R Hofstadter (Translator) This novel, the first from the mayor of Rome, chronicles two parallel stories. Giovanni Astengo, employed by the Italian State Archives, is driven to uncover the fate of his father, who disappeared in 1977 after the murder of his best friend and colleague. Returning to the former country house of his parents, he is compelled to dial the number of ... see all copies from $4.03! new only from $4.79! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Who Invented the Computer?: The Legal Battle That Changed Computing History more books like this by Alice Rowe Burks, Douglas R Hofstadter (Foreword by) In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the dawning computer revolution. With meticulous research, Alice Rowe Burks examines both the trial and its aftermath, presenting telling evidence in convincing and absorbing fashion, and leaving no doubt about ... see all copies from $6.99! new only from $34.12! \| first editions
16 view cover	Eugene Onegin: Translation by Douglas R. Hofstadter more books like this by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Douglas R Hofstadter (Translator) Douglas Hofstadters translation of Alexander Pushkins classic, Eugene Onegin offers a wonderful version that reflects this inventive authors fascination with beauty and logic, witcraft and narrative.. Sparked by reading Jim Falens beautiful English version of Eugene Onegin (published in 1992), Douglas Hofstadter presents a more liberal, ... see all copies from $14.50! first editions
17	Rhapsody on a Theme By Clement Marot (the Grace a. Tanner Lecture in Human Values Ser. ) by Douglas R. Hofstadter see all copies from $28.00!
18	Ambigrammi : un microcosmo ideale per lo studio della creatività by Douglas R. Hofstadter see all copies from $134.51!
19	Yo Soy Un Extrao Bucle by Douglas R Hofstadter This is no small thing to investigate whether an identity-soul or consciousness' I '- can emerge from simple matter. From the soup of particles, a deeper level, is the human brain, ascend to a jungle of neurons and, further, to a network of abstractions we call "symbols," the more complex and momentous of which is the 'I', that strange loop in the ... see all copies from $52.04! new only from $52.04!
20	Einsicht Ins Ich by Douglas R.; Dennett Hofstadter, Daniel C. see all copies from $62.38! new only from $62.38!
21	Die Fargonauten by Douglas R. Hofstadter see all copies from $80.03! new only from $80.03!

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