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Douglas Hofstadter is formally trained in math and physics, but his imagination proved too big for one field. He arrived at the intersection of philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and psychology known as cognitive science. And he’s been a very effective evangelist for the field. Scientific American called his first book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller Gödel, Escher, Bach, a “major literary event,” and each successive work has been met with eager anticipation.

To mark the occasion, we’re offering 30% off his new book, Surfaces and Essences, coauthored by French psychologist Emmanuel Sander, as well as his three most popular backlist titles, Gödel, Escher, Bach (1979), The Mind’s I (1981), and I Am a Strange Loop (2007): http://powells.us/12FRSGy

Our staff handpicked some of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century, as well as a few emerging talents. Select titles are 20% off.

Let the following list of our favorite young adult novels from 2012 release your imagination into the celestial wilds, free from restraint, from convention, from parents…

And while you’re roaming the hoary moors of moon-bathed dreamscapes, your soul awakening with a Primal Howl, remember: all titles are 20% off.

Back to rain here in Portland. (Womp, womp.)

Stock up on these books that will make life better.

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