Raymond: 2733 books

This is the final book written by the late great puzzle master and logician, Dr. Raymond Smullyan. This book is a sequel to my Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic. The previous volume deals with elements of propositional and first-order logic, contains a bit on formal systems and...

Haiti is a small country, with many people. It is a beautiful country, with scenic mountains, trees that grow year-round, and bougainvillea blooming with pink and white flowers. It is a poor country, with needy and destitute people who do not always know where their next meal is coming fromor...

Florida—like the rest of America—experienced tremendous economic growth during World War II. Money poured into the Sunshine State and generated widespread employment. In this setting we find our main character’s father on a quest to find the perfect job. As the family travels from town to town...

Raymond Roussel, dont les Surréalistes furent les premiers à honorer l'importance, ne cesse de voir sa place grandir dans le paysage moderne. Grande fortune, d'abord compositeur, mais aussi inventeur, voyageur, il n'y a que la littérature qui comptait pour lui, et on lui fit payer cher son...

Grand Raymond Roussel : vie hors du commun bien sûr, un héritage qui fait de lui un homme fortuné, libre de se consacrer aux passions qui le brûlent. Compositeur, pianiste de génie, inventeur tous azimuts, sauf qu'incompris. Et, au-des la passion d'écrire : un inventeur, un manipulateur (voir...

The lives of Raymond Aron and Charles de Gaulle intersected at significant moments in twentieth-century history, though they differed on many issues during World War II and over the subsequent decades. Aron, for example, distinguished between the attitude and responsibility of the Vichy government...

Much political thinking today, particularly that influenced by liberalism, assumes a clear distinction between the public and the private, and holds that the correct understanding of this should weigh heavily in our attitude to human goods. It is, for instance, widely held that the state may address...

Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of our time, startled the world of mathematics in 1931 with his Theorem of Undecidability, which showed that some statements in mathematics are inherently "undecidable." His work on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency...

What might the findings of researchers engaged in the quest for the historical Jesus mean to Christians? In posing this question and others, The Elusive Messiah opens a window for looking anew at the age old problem of faith vs. reason.To fully understand the implications of the historical search,...

Every relationship and marriage has more obstacles that make them unsuccessful, and mainly because people stop doing, what they did to win the heart of their mates. Nowadays, women work, take care of the children, and contribute with finances of their families, and all they ask for is a thank you...

In the age of Ikea Hackers and salvagepunks, this book charts the emergence of "rugged consumers" who creatively misuse, reuse, and repurpose the objects within their environments to suit their idiosyncratic needs and desires. Figures of both literary and material culture whose behavior...

From the Award-Winning Author of GPS Wealth: Your Roadmap to Growth Success and Abundance with first-class endorsements from the best names in the personal growth industry comes an amazing new concept combined with the classic wisdom from The Secret of the Ages by Robert Collier teaching you step-by-step...

Citation : « Le concept d’adolescent – qui n’avait d’ailleurs jamais été étranger à la pensée occidentale – se lie avant tout à la naissance des sociétés modernes, aux structures de pensée et à la vision propres à la modernité » Horváth Csaba Le grand...

En 1920, à Paris, François de Séryeuse, jeune étudiant issu de la vieille noblesse féodale et le comte Anne d'Orgel, venu de la noblesse de cour, se lient d'amitié dans le but initial de jouer Paul Robin, ami commun et diplomate, le soir d'un spectacle chez Medrano. C'est à cette occasion que...