The first English translation of Copi’s comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza.Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris underground, The Queens’ Ball follows the narrator Copi in his attempt to write a novel as life comes undone around him. His Roman lover Pietro is stolen by a Marilyn Monroe impersonator whose coterie take up residence in Copi’s flat and pump out low-budget pornographic rags a...

Every night at 23:12, the neighbor upstairs drags a chair.Nine months of it.Hugo has learned not to hear it.One night, it stops.He goes up. The apartment is empty — no furniture, no trace, no one. Just a chair in the center of the room, facing the wall.When he comes back down, the sound returns.What Hugo doesn't know is that he isn't investigating an anomaly.He's being assessed.The building doesn't evict its tenants.It...

“The Holy Mountain” meets “Ratatouille” in this X-rated fable by French provocateur CopiLife isn’t easy for a Parisian rat. But Gouri is getting by: with his best friend Rakä, he’s got a small business selling worms to pigeons, a cozy bachelor nest at the local florist, an—as spring blooms in the City of Lights—a budding love interest. But after a double date goes horribly wrong, Gouri and Rakä, along with the royal Rat Court—the princesses Iris and Catarina, and t...

Some maps show roads.Others awaken places that were never meant to be found.When Martin discovers an impossible map hidden inside an old forgotten journal, he realizes that certain places do not wait to be explored — they wait to be remembered.Together with Claudia, Carlota, Cayetana and Laika, he is drawn into a journey where reality bends softly at the edges, silence watches too closely, and forgotten objects seem to carry memories of their own.But the map...

Rendered from the 11th Edition of Copi/Cohen, Introduction to Logic, the most respected introductory logic book on the market, this concise version presents a simplified yet rigorous introduction to the study of logic. It covers all major topics and approaches, using a three-part organization that outlines specific topics under logic and language, deduction, and induction. For individuals intrigued by the formal study of logic.

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 book’s clear and gradual pedagogi...

This collection brings together four of Copi’s best-known works for the stage: Eva Perón, The Homosexual, The Four Twinsand Loretta Strong. Set on the borderline between reality and delirium, and featuring such charismatic icons as Eva Perón and Greta Garbo, Copi’s plays are imbued with his trademark racy wit and manic pace, intended at once to unsettle the bien-pensants and to open up radically new insights.The product of one of the most talked-about dramatists in the French language sinc...

This is Volume I of eight of a series on Wittgenstein. Originally published in 1966, this is a collection of essays that review and comment on the form, language, Picture Theory in Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’.

This reissue, first published in 1971, provides a brief historical account of the Theory of Logical Types; and describes the problems that gave rise to it, its various different formulations (Simple and Ramified), the difficulties connected with each, and the criticisms that have been directed against it. Professor Copi seeks to make the subject accessible to the non-specialist and yet provide a sufficiently rigorous exposition for the serious student to see exactly what the theory is and ...

This collection brings together four of Copi’s best-known works for stage: Eva Perón, The Homosexual, The Four Twins and Loretta Strong. Set on the borderline of reality and delirium, and featuring such charismatic icons as Eva Perón and Greta Garbo, they are imbued with Copi’s trademark racy wit and manic pace, intended at once to shock the bien-pensant and to open up radically new insights.The product of one of the most talked-about dramatists in the French language since Arrabal and the...

Dying slowly of an infected wound while on safari in Africa, Harry reflects on his privileged and decadent life, and confronts his failure of realize his potential as a writer. “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” is recognized as one of Ernest Hemingway’s greatest works, and inspired the film adaptation starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner.One of America’s foremost journalists and authors, Ernest Hemingway as also a master of the short story genre, penning more than fifty short stories dur...

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