Ludwig Boltzmann arguably played the key role in establishing that submicroscopic structures underlie the ordinary world. He had a tremendous impact on late 19th-century and early 20th-century physics, and he anticipated many contemporary ideas, including Kuhn's theory of scientific revolutions and recent theories of knowledge based on Darwinian principles. This book is the first accessible biography of this important figure. Without relying on equations, it provides a deep look at the full range of his scientific and philosophical ideas, discussing both their original context and their relevance today.
Principles of Economics ushered in modern economics. Principles not only revolutionized value, price, and marginal utility theories, but it was also used as the primary textbook by several generations of Austrian students and scholars, including Ludwig von Mises and F. A. von Hayek. No economist's library is complete without a copy of this classic work.
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The Collected Works of Ludwig Wittgenstein contains the complete Wittgenstein corpus as published by Basil Blackwell. Most of the texts were written in German (and are included in Wittgenstein’s Nachlass), but were edited and translated for publication in English. The German texts are not included.
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For Wittgenstein, logic was something we use to conquer a reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. He famously summarized the book in the following words: 'What can be said at all can be said clearly; and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.' David Pears and Brian McGuinness received the highest praise for their meticulous translation. The work is prefaced by Bertrand Russell's original introduction to the first English edition.
A Chilrdren's Biography of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Without a doubt the author of this biography presents her readers with a thorough and a very sympathetic portrait of Beethoven. We come to appreciate not only how talented and how admired Beethoven was, but also how lonely he was and how hard it was him to lose is hearing so early in his life. This is one of the titles in the “Creative Minds Biographies” series.
