It isn't always easy to recognize evil until it comes after you. He would come for her tonight. When this day ended, one of them would be dead. Would she be able to use the weapon she had always despised to save herself? Or would he finally destroy her?
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.
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.
In this book, Jim Al-Khalili reveals his own personal favourite puzzles and conundrums in science, all of which have famously been referred to as paradoxes, but which turn out not to be paradoxes at all when viewed from the right angle.
With this framework in place, the book then turns to an in-depth treatment of the Prediction Paradox, versions of the Preface/Fallibility Paradox, the Lottery Paradox, Newcomb's Problem, the Prisoner's Dilemma and the Sorites Paradox.
Science fiction-roman.
Secrets of the Paradox is written for the general reader, yet is sufficiently rigorous to satisfy the demands of the professional philosopher. If you relish an intellectual challenge, this book is for you!
Curry's. Paradox. Sometimes philosophy students ask for advice on how to get a job after graduation. Fortunately, I have discovered a logically foolproof method. When you apply for the job that you desire, just include the following ...
This guide to paradoxes takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell.
Economist Jan Eeckhout shows how this is due to a small number of companies exploiting an unbridled rise in market power—the ability to set prices higher than they could in a properly functioning competitive marketplace.
A vital contribution to discussions of mystical experience, The Uses of Paradox reveals how much this experience relies on social attitudes and cosmological speculation.