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The Alchemist

The Alchemist

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Like the one-time bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Alchemist presents a simple fable, based on simple truths and places it in a highly unique situation. And though we may sniff a bestselling formula, it is certainly not a new one: even the ancient tribal storytellers knew that this is the most successful method of entertaining an audience while slipping in a lesson or two. Brazilian storyteller Paulo Coehlo introduces Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who one night dreams of a distant treasure in the Egyptian pyramids. And so he's off: leaving Spain to literally follow his dream. Along the way he meets many spiritual messengers, who come in unassuming forms such as a camel driver and a well-read Englishman. In one of the Englishman's books, Santiago first learns about the alchemists--men who believed that if a metal were heated for many years, it would free itself of all its individual properties, and what was left would be the "Soul of the World." Of course he does eventually meet an alchemist, and the ensuing student-teacher relationship clarifies much of the boy's misguided agenda, while also emboldening him to stay true to his dreams. "My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer," the boy confides to the alchemist one night as they look up at a moonless night. "Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself," the alchemist replies. "And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity." --Gail Hudson

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Textbook for 1st semester ug philosophy

Textbook for 1st semester ug philosophy

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For more than six decades, and for thousands of students, introduction to logic has been the Gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this fifteenth edition, Carl Cohen and Victor rodych update Irving M. Copi’s classic text, improving on its many strengths and introducing new and helpful material that will greatly assist both students and instructors. In particular, chapters 1, 8, and 9 have been greatly enhanced without disturbing the booklets clear and gradual pedagogical approach. Specifically: br>Chapter 1 now uses a simpler and better definition of "deductive validity," which enhances the rest of the book (especially chapters 1 and 8-10, and their new components). br>Chapter 8 now has: simpler definitions of "simple statement" And "Compound statement" More and more detailed examples of the complete truth-table method. Br>chapter 9 now has: a detailed, step-by-step account of the shorter truth-table method (with detailed step-by-step examples for conclusions of different types) a more complete and detailed account of indirect proof a detailed justification for indirect proof treating each of the three distinct ways in which an argument can be valid a new section on br>conditional proof, which complements the 19 rules of inference and Indirect proof explications of proofs of tautologies using both indirect proof and conditional proof a new section at the end of the br>Chapter explaining the important difference between sound and demonstrative arguments. The appendices now include: a new appendix on making the shorter truth-table technique (sttt) more efficient by selecting the most efficient sequence of sttt steps a new appendix on step 1 calculations for multiple-line shorter truth tables a new appendix on unforced truth-value assignments, invalid arguments, and maxims iii-v.

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