In the foreword, Hofstadter explains that the book ( originally published in 1958 ) exerted a profound influence on him when he was young.

A typical description of the problem is given in the book Gödel, Escher, Bach, by Douglas Hofstadter

A January 1983 Metamagical Themas column by Douglas Hofstadter, in Scientific American, was influential as was his 1985 book of the same name.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

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.

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid ( commonly GEB ) is a 1979 book by Douglas Hofstadter, described by his publishing company as " a metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of Lewis Carroll ".

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 Hofstadter claims the idea of translating his book " never crossed mind " when he was writing it, when approached with the idea by his publisher he was " very excited about seeing book in other languages, especially … French ".

Because of other troubles translators might have retaining the meaning of the book, Hofstadter " painstakingly went through every last sentence of GEB, annotating a copy for translators into any language that might be targeted ".

Douglas Hofstadter referred to the article in his book Metamagical Themas.

* In his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas Hofstadter explains how Shepard scales can be used on the Canon a 2, per tonos in Bach's Musical Offering ( called the Endlessly Rising Canon by Hofstadter ) for making the modulation end in the same pitch instead of an octave higher.

Zinn regularly included it in his lists of recommended readings, and after Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, Zinn wrote, " If Richard Hofstadter were adding to his book The American Political Tradition, in which he found both ' conservative ' and ' liberal ' presidents, both Democrats and Republicans, maintaining for dear life the two critical characteristics of the American system, nationalism and capitalism, Obama would fit the pattern.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language ( ISBN 0-465-08645-4 ), published by Basic Books in 1997, is a book by Douglas Hofstadter in which he explores the meaning, strengths, failings, and beauty of translation.

) In a further play on the title, Hofstadter refers to his deceased wife, to whom the book is dedicated as ma rose (" my rose "), and to himself as ton beau (" your dear ").

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

" Dr. Hofstadter appropriated the characters of Achilles and the Tortoise for other, original, dialogues in the book which alternate contrapuntally with prose chapters.

Metamagical Themas is a collection of eclectic articles written for Scientific American during the early 1980s by Douglas Hofstadter, and published together as a book in 1985 by Basic Books ( ISBN 0-465-04566-9 ).

Douglas Hofstadter published a translation in 1999, again preserving the Onegin stanzas, after having summarised the controversy ( and severely criticised Nabokov's attitude towards verse translation ) in his book Le Ton beau de Marot.

* What's Gained in Translation An article by Douglas Hofstadter on the book, which explains how he can judge the relative worth of different translations of Onegin without being able to read Russian

This is a newer book by Hofstadter that includes the history of Gödel's numbering.

" While Hofstadter is generally credited with popularizing the term in his book " Social Darwinism in American Life " it was Talcott Parsons who paved the way for Hofstadter.

He felt the connection between his screenwriting style and Burroughs ' prose style was so strong, that he jokingly remarked that should Burroughs pass on, " I'll just write his next book.

There are even parts in the book in which the narrative reviews and jokingly deconstructs the work itself.

There are several parts in the book where it reviews and jokingly deconstructs itself.

In the 1980 book entitled The Tribune Tower Competition published by Rizzoli, authors Robert A. M. Stern, Stanley Tigerman as well as Bruce Abbey and other architects jokingly submitted " late entries " in Volume II of the work.

Renaissance humorist François Rabelais jokingly refers to a book titled On the Dignity of Codpieces in the foreword to his book The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

" In a lecture series later published as a book (" The Phoenix Lectures "), he jokingly pointed to a study that implied that a " thetan " manifests a small but measurable amount of mass:

Chapman Pincher in his book " Inside Story " published in the 1978 quotes Manningham-Buller as jokingly saying he could have sued Tom Denning for breach of copyright because significant portions of Manningham-Buller's report appeared in Denning's report virtually unchanged.

Tina Fey's 2011 memoir Bossypants also includes a chapter on her own cruise experience, entitled My Honeymoon: Or, A Supposedly Fun Thing That I ’ ll Never Do Again Either, in which she jokingly suggests that those who've heard of Foster Wallace's book should consider themselves members of the " cultural elite ", who hate their country and flag.

Because the book contained much unknown information about Ross ' alleged diva-ish behavior onstage and off, some people jokingly referred to the book as " Diana Dearest " ( this name was inspired by Christina Crawford's memoir Mommie Dearest ).

* Several children comics, among them: Le roi catastrophe ( 8 volumes ), drawn by Fabrice Parme, a series about a boy king ; Monstrueux ( 3 volumes ), featuring a young French family resembling Trondheim's, and their pet monster Jean-Christophe ; Kaput and Zösky ( 2 volumes ), featuring space aliens, which in recent years, has been converted into a television program ; and more recently A. L. I. E. E. E. N., an " alien children book " Trondheim jokingly claims to have found in a country field while on vacation.

Christie describes entirely different working methods for every book in her autobiography thus contradicts this claim, more likely from theatre, screen film and TV adaptations that vary perpetrators to keep viewers coming back.

One such site featured in her books is the temple site of Abu Simbel in her book Death on the Nile, as well as the great detail in which she describes life at the dig site in her book Murder in Mesopotamia.

The book describes the German soldiers ' extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front.

In his book The Prophets, Abraham Joshua Heschel describes the unique aspect of the Jewish prophets as compared to other similar figures.

In his book Born Again ( 1976 and 2008 ), Watergate conspirator Chuck Colson describes his path to faith in conjunction with his criminal imprisonment and played a significant role in solidifying the " born again " identity as a cultural construct in the US.

One account from the book describes it being prepared for the casualties at Mons where " the orderlies were just beginning to make Bovril for the wounded, when the Germans deliberately shelled the bearers and ambulance wagons as they were bringing the wounded into the hospital.

Unlike Blackstone and the Restatements, Holmes ' book only briefly discusses what the law is ; rather, Holmes describes the common law process.

In his 1806 book Attempt at a Flora ( Försök til en flora ), Retzius describes how chives are used with pancakes, soups, fish and sandwiches.

Said himself describes his book, Orientalism, as a humanist critique of the enlightenment.

In book three, Adomnán describes different apparitions of the Saint, both that Columba receives and those that are seen by others regarding him.

The Old Testament book of the prophet Habbakuk describes the Chaldeans as " a bitter and swift nation ".

In his 1810 book entitled The Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Joseph Strutt describes the way pall mall was played in England in the early 17th century: " Pale-maille is a game wherein a round box ball is struck with a mallet through a high arch of iron, which he that can do at the fewest blows, or at the number agreed upon, wins.

Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.

The book includes several biographies of saints, and describes the process of the New England settlement.

The book describes the general pattern of the past official dynastic historiography on structure, method, order of arrangement, sequence, caption and commentary back to the pre-Qin era.

Those are the things that he describes in this book.

In the book, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health, Hubbard describes techniques that he suggests can rid individuals of fears and psychosomatic illnesses.

Another prominent source, which Cervantes evidently admires more, is Tirant lo Blanch which the priest describes in Chapter VI of Quixote as " the best book in the world.

Herman describes in his book, Beyond Hypocrisy the principle characteristics of doublespeak ;

One book describing the MIT train room describes two buttons by the door: labelled foo and bar.

The biblical account of Pentecost in the second chapter of the book of Acts describes the sound of a mighty rushing wind and " divided tongues like fire " coming to rest on the apostles.

The book describes its own structure around ten " toledot " sections ( the " these are the generations of ..." phrases ), but many modern commentators see it in terms of a " primeval history " ( chapters 1 – 11 ) followed by the cycle of Patriarchal stories ( chapters 12 – 50 ).