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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking Hardcover - 2013

by Hofstadter, Douglas; Sander, Emmanuel

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A Pulitzer Prize-winning cognitive scientist and a leading psychologist offera lively new way of thinking about thinking.

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New York: Basic Books, 2013. 1st printing. Tight and unmarked hardcover showing very light shelf wear. 578pp. Very nice unclipped jacket now in a new mylar cover. Large book: NO international orders.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9" - 12" Tall.
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  • Title Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
  • Author Hofstadter, Douglas; Sander, Emmanuel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York
  • Date 2013
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 064332
  • ISBN 9780465018475 / 0465018475
  • Weight 2.22 lbs (1.01 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 7.69 x 1.91 in (24.08 x 19.53 x 4.85 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Reasoning, Analogy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013932688
  • Dewey Decimal Code 169

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About the author

Douglas Hofstadter is Distinguished College of Arts and Sciences Professor of Cognitive Science and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. His previous books include G, Escher, Bach (which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1980) and Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies.

Emmanuel Sander is Professor of Cognitive and Developmental Psychology at the University of Paris (Saint-Denis), specializing in the study of analogy-making and categorization and their connections to education. Among his previous works is the book Analogy, from the Na to the Creative.