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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fear of Thinking

Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fear 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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NY: Basic Books, 2013. Remainder-marked along the bottom edge, else textblock very clean and tight; Covers slightly edge and corner rubbed with a few small scuff marks, Dust jacket, in mylar, lightly edge and corner worn and rubbed. 578p., including index.. 1st Printing. Boards. Very Good+/Very Good+ (in mylar). 4to - Over 9 ¾" - 12" Tall. Hardcover.
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  • Title Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fear of Thinking
  • Author Hofstadter, Douglas; Sander, Emmanuel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Pages 592
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, NY
  • Date 2013
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # EW6458
  • 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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  • Kirkus Best Nonfiction, 12/01/2013, Page 19
  • Kirkus Reviews, 03/01/2013, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 05/15/2013, Page 82
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/04/2013, Page 0
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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.

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