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Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary
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Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the OrdinaryWittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary

Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein's remark that "philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry," Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the "poet." What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal.

 
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Tags: Wittgenstein, poetry, Perloff, begins, learn, Ordinary, Strangeness
A Smoother Pebble: Mathematical Explorations
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A Smoother Pebble: Mathematical ExplorationsA Smoother Pebble: Mathematical Explorations

This book takes a novel look at the topics of school mathematics--arithmetic, geometry, algebra, and calculus. In this stroll on the mathematical seashore we hope to find, quoting Newton, "...a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary..." This book assembles a collection of mathematical pebbles that are important as well as beautiful.
 
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The Four Million
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The Four MillionThe Four Million

The Four Million is the second book written by O. Henry while he served time for embezzlement in a penitentiary in Ohio. The book is a series of short stories which take place in New York City in the early years of the 20th century and are representative of the surprise endings that popularized O. Henry’s work. They also capture his use of coincidence or chance to create humor in the story. O Henry wrote about ordinary people in everyday circumstances. He is quoted as once saying, “There are stories in everything. I’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts and newspaper stands.”

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Richard Scarry - Sergeant Murphy's Busy Day
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Richard Scarry - Sergeant Murphy's Busy DayRichard Scarry - Sergeant Murphy's Busy Day

Sergeant Murphy is a busy police officer in Busytown, but his job is even more interesting when he doesn't have his whistle! A fun short story all about the day in the life of a not so ordinary police officer.
 
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Nora Roberts - Captivated & Entranced
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Nora Roberts - Captivated & EntrancedOnly the phenomenal Nora Roberts could have created the remarkable Donovan clan. Fascinating and irresistible, the mysterious Donovan cousins share a secret that's been handed down through generations - a secret that sets them apart from ordinary beings.

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Tags: Audiobook Mystery, Roberts, Captivated, secret, Donovan, Entranced, generations, thats, handed, through, ordinary, beings