His 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology.

Hofstadter's 2007 book I Am a Strange Loop carries his vision of consciousness considerably further, including the idea that each human " I " is distributed over numerous brains, rather than being limited to precisely one brain.

Famous authors of the city include Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, Muriel Spark, author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, James Hogg, author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Ian Rankin, author of the Inspector Rebus series of crime thrillers, J. K. Rowling, the author of Harry Potter, who began her first book in an Edinburgh coffee shop, Adam Smith, economist, born in Kirkcaldy, and author of The Wealth of Nations, Sir Walter Scott, the author of famous titles such as Rob Roy, Ivanhoe and Heart of Midlothian, Robert Louis Stevenson, creator of Treasure Island, Kidnapped and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting.

Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book Stranger in a Strange Land.

Among his films is Kwaidan ( 1965 ), a collection of four ghost stories drawn from the book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things by Lafcadio Hearn, each of which has a surprise ending.

** QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, a 1985 book adapting lectures by Richard Feynman on quantum electrodynamics

" Steve " Ditko ( born November 2, 1927 ) is an American comic book artist and writer best known as the artist and co-creator, with Stan Lee, of the Marvel Comics heroes Spider-Man and Doctor Strange.

Rumors of poisoning were fueled, in part, by a book called The Strange Death of President Harding, in which the author ( convicted criminal, former Ohio Gang member, and detective Gaston Means, hired by Mrs. Harding to investigate Warren Harding and his mistress ) suggested that Mrs. Harding had poisoned her husband.

The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007.

So the difference between the video-feedback loop and our strange loops, our " I " s, is that while the former converts light to the same pattern on a screen, the latter categorizes a pattern and outputs its essence, so that as we get closer and closer to our essence, we get further down our strange loop ( according to Hofstadter's book ' I am a Strange Loop ').

To describe such self-referencing objects, Hofstadter coins the term " strange loop ", a concept he examines in more depth in his follow-up book I Am a Strange Loop.

Although commonly referred to as simply Robinson Crusoe, the book ’ s complete, original title as it appears on the title page of the first edition is The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque ; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself.

During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms ( AD 907 – 960 ), a book called the Records of the Unworldly and the Strange written by Chinese author Tao Gu in about 950 stated:

Strange Kitty was most accused culprit of stealing Kitty's presents in " Happy Birthday, Bad Kitty ", but had nothing to do with the mystery ( it turned out Puppy was the one who stole it ), the same book makes him find a mouse friend.

Alternatively, the comic book story " Mickey's Strange Mission " from Walt Disney's Comics & Stories # 245 ( 1961, by Carl Fallberg and Paul Murry ) suggests a cultured ancestry for Pete, giving his full name as the genteel Percy P. Percival.

A. Lawrence's Mudd's Angels, John M. Ford's The Final Reflection, Margaret Wander Bonanno's Strangers from the Sky ( which adopts the conceit that it is book from the future by an author called Gen Jaramet-Sauner ), and J. R. Rasmussen's " Research " in the anthology Star Trek: Strange New Worlds II.

" He has also written Liftoff: The Story of America's Adventure in Space ( 1988 ), a history of the American space program, Mission to Mars ( 1990 ), a non-fiction book on human spaceflight to Mars, and Flying to the Moon and Other Strange Places ( 1976 ).

* Tracy was mentioned in Hunter S. Thompson's book, " Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs.

This has also been documented in Frank Edwards ' book, Strange World, from an edition in the early to mid sixties.

( Hofstadter went on to follow with an even more personal book titled I Am a Strange Loop after the death of his wife.

Lafcadio Hearn related in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things " Mimi-nashi Hoichi " ( Hoichi the Earless ), a Japanese ghost story about a blind biwa hōshi who performs " The Tale of the Heike "

Most commonly, they are simply taken from a word used in the narrative of a book ; a few representative examples are: " grok " ( to achieve complete intuitive understanding ), from Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; " McJob ", from Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture by Douglas Coupland ; " cyberspace ", from Neuromancer by William Gibson ; " nymphet " from Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.

His latest book is " Long for This World: The Strange Science of Immortality " ( Ecco Press, July 2010 ) a look at the scientific search for the Fountain of Youth.

This book, Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, profiles the gang as Thompson spent roughly a year embedded among the Angels, during a time when their notoriety was at an all time high.

* 1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia ; involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book, the case remains unsolved and is " one of Australia's most profound mysteries ".

Foster's latest defence of his views is in his book A World for Us: The Case for Phenomenalistic Idealism.

Leaflets arguing against the film's representation of the New Testament ( for example, suggesting that the Wise Men would not have approached the wrong stable as they do in the opening of the film ) were documented in Robert Hewison's book Monty Python: The Case Against.

Taj Hashmi discusses misogyny in relation to Muslim culture, and Bangladesh specifically, in the book Popular Islam and Misogyny: A Case Study of Bangladesh.

It was originally detailed in a research paper by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, and later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars.

Disappointed with the lack of interest from government in Mars exploration and after the success of his book The Case for Mars as well as leadership experience at the National Space Society, Zubrin established the Mars Society in 1998.

This view is best exemplified by the book Doing Cultural Studies: The Case of the Sony Walkman ( by Paul du Gay et al.

* 1995 Mr. Christie's Book Award ( for the best English book age 8 to 11 ) for Jacob Two-Two's First Spy Case.

In 1955, Morris K. Jessup, an astronomer and former graduate-level researcher, published The Case for the UFO, a book about unidentified flying objects that contains some theories about the different means of propulsion that flying-saucer-style UFOs might use.

Karen Armstrong, in her book The Case for God ( 2009 ), notices a recovery of apophatic theology in postmodern theology.

Marshall Industries ' dramatic transformation and growth from $ 400 million to $ 1. 8 billion in sales was chronicled in Deming's last book " The New Economics ", a Harvard Case Study, and " Free Perfect and Now ".

Perhaps his most important book, the Penguin paperback " The Case for Conservatism ," was a similar response to " Labour Marches On " by John Parker M. P.

" In the book Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates, Switters and Case both spit whenever they refer to John Foster Dulles.

* Jeannine Hall Gailey wrote several poems based on the myth that appear in her book Becoming the Villainess: " Remembering Philomel ," " Philomel's Rape ," " On Rubens ' Tereus Confronted with the Head of His Son Itylus ", " Case Studies in Revenge: Philomel Gives Some Advice ," and " Procne and Philomel, At the End.

Another part of the intellectual underpinning of the Bush Doctrine was the 2004 book The Case for Democracy, written by Israeli politician and author Natan Sharansky and Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs in the United States Ron Dermer, which Bush has cited as influential in his thinking.

Depicted in Carol Pogash's book, " Seduced By Madness: The True Story of The Susan Polk Murder Case ".

The writer of a William Randolph Hearst-syndicated comic strip titled Little Margie in Misty Magic Land, Case wrote Promethea into her comic book as a helpful spirit to the titular young adventurer, and ended up personifying Promethea to help soldiers on the battlefield from 1900 – 1920, in a manner similar to the legendary Angels of Mons.

However, as documented in the book review, " THE TWO BABYLONS: A Case Study in Poor Methodology ", by Ralph Woodrow, which appeared in volume 22, number 2 ( 2000 ) of the Christian Research Journal ( Article DC187 ), Two Babylons Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who " picked, chose and mixed " portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.

In his book Monty Python: The Case Against Irreverence, Scurrility, Profanity, Vilification, and Licentious Abuse, Robert Hewison describes the dwarfs as a comment on the Monty Python troupe.

The book also includes a summary of the McLibel Case.

Anya Cordell, Byrdsong's neighbor, wrote the anti-hate crime book, " Race: An Open and Shut Case.

Stephen Singular, investigative journalist and author of the book Presumed Guilty: An Investigation into the JonBenet Ramsey Case, the Media and the Culture of Pornography, suggests the existence of a connection of the murder to the industry of child pornography.

Historian of science Daniel Kevles recounts the affair in his 1998 book, The Baltimore Case, while Yale University mathematician Serge Lang strongly criticized Baltimore's behavior.