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    When Einstein Walked with Gödel (eBook, ePUB)
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who've tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites us to consider why the greatest logician of the twentieth century believed the U.S. Constitution contained a terrible contradiction-and whether the universe truly has a future.
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    Political Ideals , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 114min
    Russell sets forth the idea that political ideals must be based upon the ideals that best benefit the individual to create the best life possible. He details the issues that his current economic system and the unequal distribution of wealth present in achieving said ideals. He puts forth his beliefs on what the purposes of an economic system should be, including production and security. He criticizes monopolies and all the damage that they have done. Russell then moves toward a critique of socialism and the connection between the distribution of power and the distribution of wealth. From there, he discusses individual liberty and public control and then expands to national independence and internationalism. He finishes with his belief that men must improve their feelings toward each other and mankind as a whole in order to fix the larger problems at hand. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was a British philosopher considered to be one of the founders of analytic philosophy. He was considered a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, as well as a historian, logician, mathematician, and social critic. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950 and wrote several volumes on his views. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Peter Bishop. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001379/bk_gdan_001379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mood Swings: How to Control Your Mood Swings to Avoid Emotional Rollercoasters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 21min
    Have you ever skipped from great mood to terrible, possibly three or four times - notwithstanding that nothing in the real world has changed? A great many individuals take medication to suppress their mood swings. In 2011 drug companies sold $11 billion value of antidepressants; antipsychotics (to fight additionally weakening tribulations like bipolar issue and mental trips) included $18 billion. At that point there are millions more who experience the ill effects of the sort of mellow yet discomforting moodiness that prompts terrible choices like offering an underestimated stock or squabbling with a life partner but doesn't justify a solution. Like anything else, mastering your moods takes practice. Whatever routines you pick, move rapidly before the unsettling begins to eat at itself. Get a lucid view and understand the situation. There are various alleged psychological twists that exacerbate things that appear other than they truly are and in this way trigger terrible moods. Henceforth Greek logician Epictetus' perception: "Individuals are not exasperated by things, but rather by the perspective that they take of them." In this book you will learn to see a different perspective on how you see things and avoid emotional rollercoasters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Terry Murphy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/039379/bk_acx0_039379_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Einstein's Genius Club: The True Story of a Group of Scientists Who Changed the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 463min
    From the acclaimed author of The Nobel Prize comes this fascinating portrait of four of the greatest minds in the history of science and the impossible turning point they faced. As World War II wound down, and it became increasingly clear that the Allies would emerge victorious, Albert Einstein invited three close friends - all titans of contemporary science and philosophy - to his home at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey, to discuss what they loved best: science and philosophy. His guests were the legendary philosopher and pacifist Bertrand Russell; the boy wonder of quantum physics, Wolfgang Pauli; and the brilliant logician Kurt Gödel. Their casual meetings took place far from the horrific battlefields of the war and the (then) secret lair of experimental atomic physicists in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Using these historic meetings as his launching pad, Feldman sketches the lives and contributions of the four friends, colleagues, and rivals - especially Einstein, innately self-confident but frustrated in his attempt to come up with a unified theory, and the aristocratic but self-doubting Lord Russell. Masterfully researched, this book accessibly illuminates the feelings of these notable men about the world of science that was then beginning to pass them by, and about the dawning atomic age that terrified them all. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Victor Bevine. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/003411/bk_adbl_003411_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: And Through the Looking Glass , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 363min
    Lewis Carroll was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, its sequel Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark" - all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 fantasy novel. It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. Its narrative course and structure, characters, and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. Through the Looking-Glass (1871) is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Heidi Gregory. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/110287/bk_acx0_110287_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 919min
    From Jim Holt, New York Times best-selling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought, an entertaining and accessible audiobook guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot. In this audiobook, Holt offers a painless and playful introduction to many of our most beautiful but least understood ideas, from Einsteinian relativity to string theory, and also invites listeners to consider why the greatest logician of the 20th century believed the US Constitution contained a terrible contradiction - and whether the universe truly has a future. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Stifel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/003496/bk_aren_003496_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Problems of Philosophy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
    The Problems of Philosophy discusses Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy and the problems that arise in the field. Russell's views focus on knowledge rather than the metaphysical realm of philosophy. The Problems with Philosophy revolves around the central question that Russell asks in his opening line of Chapter 1 - Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? He examines this question by delving into the idea of reality versus appearance, as for Russell and other philosophers who share his ideas it is sensory perception of the world around them that shapes their knowledge. It is in this work that he discusses his idea of sense-data to help explain the differences between appearance and reality. The Problems of Philosophy is Russell's first attempt at recording and working through a theory of epistemology, which is the theory of the nature of human knowledge. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) was an English philosopher, logician, mathematician, social critic, and historian. He is remembered as being a leader in the British revolt against idealism, as well as a founding father of the field of analytic philosophy. He was also well known for his very public anti-war and anti-imperialist stances. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: James Langton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/000808/bk_gdan_000808_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Journey to the Edge of Reason
    Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life. Stephen Budiansky's Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon Gödel's voluminous letters and writings-including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts-to explore Gödel's profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Gödel's and Jewish intellectuals' flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Gödel and Einstein both worked. Eloquent and insightful, Journey to the Edge of Reason is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gödel's revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man's place in the cosmos.
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma: Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota, Book 8 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 502min
    Dogged by depression, doubt, and - as a trip to the Mayo Clinic has revealed - emphysema, 66-year-old Sherlock Holmes is preparing to return to England when he receives a shock: a note slipped under his hotel room door, from a vicious murderer he'd nearly captured in Munich in 1892. The murderer, known as the Monster of Munich, announces that he has relocated to Eisendorf, a tiny village near the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. If Holmes is not what he once was, the same can be said for Eisendorf: once a thriving community founded by German idealists but now a dying town with only 40 residents - two of whom have, indeed, died recently under highly mysterious circumstances. Replete with all the Gothic richness of Larry Millett's earlier Holmes novels, Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma links events in 1892 Germany with those in small-town Minnesota in 1920 in a double mystery that tests the aging detective's mettle - and the listener's nerve - as never before. Guided by Eisendorf's peculiar archivist and taunted by the Monster, Holmes finds himself drawn into the town's dark history of violence and secrecy and into the strange tunnels that underscore the old flour mill where answers and grievous danger lie in wait. No longer the cool, flawless logician of times past, Holmes must nonetheless match wits with a fiendish opponent who taunts him right up to an explosive final confrontation. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve Hendrickson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010050/bk_blak_010050_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Learn and Understand Philosophy , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 41min
    Philosophy is not a lifestyle. Each individual does not have his or her own logic. Philosophy is not just a hypothesis about something. Nor is philosophy a conviction or a wish. Logic is an action: a mission after intelligence. Philosophy is a movement of thought. Philosophy is a specific, one-of-a-kind sort of thought or style of considering. Logic is not to be mistaken for its item. What a savant gives is a group of rational thought, not a philosophy. A philosopher authorizes a philosophy, a journey after intelligence. Philosophy is not what collection of thought one might want to call one's own or might want to have faith in - a decision based on individual inclinations or sentiments. The reasoning is an interest. One can be philosophical. One can be a logician. One cannot pick a philosophy. philosophy, seeing that it might be connected at all to a lifestyle, is a type of intuition intended to guide activity or to endorse a lifestyle. The insightful lifestyle, if there is one, is shown in an existence in which activity is held to be best coordinated when philosophical reflection has given that heading - e.g., Socrates, the worldview of a thinker. Philosophy is a movement of thought, a kind of consideration. Philosophy is basic and extensive thought, the most basic and complete way of deduction that the human species has formulated. This scholarly process incorporates both an expository and a manufactured method of operation. Philosophy as a basic and complete procedure of thought includes determining disarray, unmasking suspicions, uncovering presuppositions, recognizing significance, testing positions, revising twists, searching for reasons, looking at world perspectives, and addressing calculated structures. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/058253/bk_acx0_058253_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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