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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction
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Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction

This book claims that the text can be read as a unified whole rather than as episodic jumble, despite its fragmentation.
Presented as disturbing as well as comic, intricately structured as well as chaotic, the study asserts that the Satyricon's imagery constantly mirrors apparent paradoxes. Thus corporeality is explored as a metaphor rather than just as an index of the "low" genre of the novel.
 
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Paradoxes from A to Z: 3rd edition
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Paradoxes from A to Z: 3rd editionParadoxes from A to Z, Third edition is the essential guide to paradoxes, and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo, and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such as Achilles and the Tortoise, Theseus’ Ship, and the Prisoner’s Dilemma, taking in subjects as diverse as knowledge, science, art and politics. Clark discusses each paradox in non-technical terms, considering its significance and looking at likely solutions.
 
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This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes
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This Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical ParadoxesThis Sentence is False: An Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes

An entertaining introduction to logic and reasoning, packed with puzzles and thought experiments for the reader to try.
The paradoxes of this book are nearly all philosophical – often with continuing debate over resolution. Many are classical; most are well known to the philosophical community, though a small number feature the author’s own spin.
 
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Why Cats Land on Their Feet: And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles
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Why Cats Land on Their Feet: And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and PuzzlesWhy Cats Land on Their Feet: And 76 Other Physical Paradoxes and Puzzles

Ever wonder why cats land on their feet? Or what holds a spinning top upright? Or whether it is possible to feel the Earth's rotation in an airplane? Why Cats Land on Their Feet is a compendium of paradoxes and puzzles that readers can solve using their own physical intuition. And the surprising answers to virtually all of these astonishing paradoxes can be arrived at with no formal knowledge of physics.

 
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the Novel
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The Brothers Karamazov: Worlds of the NovelFyodor Dostoevsky completed his final novel— The Brothers Karamazov—in 1880. A work of universal appeal and significance, his exploration of good and evil immediately gained an international readership and today “remains harrowingly alive in the face of our present day worries, paradoxes, and joys,” observes Dostoevsky scholar Robin Feuer Miller. 

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