When the doorbell rings, I get up to answer the door. Before I even open the door, I can smell the pizza. There's this tiny place about five blocks away from Will's apartment that makes probably the best pizza in the city.
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them.
We must, I'm afraid, return one last time to the Monty Hall Paradox. Consider the situation in which Monty Hall does not know where the car is hidden. Now if he opens door B to reveal a goat then you are indeed left with equal ...
A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes. The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent those that have stumped some of the finest minds.
Smith and Davidson also show, however, that to achieve a better life a person must practice generosity regularly - random acts of kindness are not enough.Offering a wide range of vividly illustrative case studies, this volume will be a ...
When Ava finds herself on a desolate alien planet with no memory of her past, she must survive and somehow discover her mission to save the Earth from a fearsome virus. By the author of Nowhere Girl.
The newest collection of the popular web comic, The Oatmeal.
The ideas in this book will help companies desperate for real, long-term growth see actual, sustainable progress where they’ve failed before.
While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox, and Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery.
This book is a theoretically grounded presentation of the strategic and historical context of organizational paradoxes, exploring the paradoxes in organizational management and the available tactics to manage them.
Thirteen-year-old Nikola Kross's world is turned upside down when her father is abducted by aliens and she is suddenly transported to a special boarding school for geniuses, but things get even stranger when she realizes she has certain ...