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Martin Gardner
The noted expert selects 70 of his favorite short puzzles, including such mind-bogglers as The Returning Explorer, The Mutilated Chessboard, Scrambled Box Tops, and dozens more involving logic and basic…
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This work contains puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet, to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus.
Famed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage mind reading, coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. More than 400 tricks…
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Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.
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Bizarre imagination, originality, trickiness, and whimsy characterize puzzles of Sam Loyd, America’s greatest puzzler. Present selection from fabulously rare Cyclopedia. 150 period line drawings.
Second collection of amusing, thought-provoking problems and puzzles from the Cyclopedia. Arithmetic, algebra, speed and distance problems, game theory, counter and sliding block problems, similar topics. 166 problems. 150 original…
A prominent popular science writer presents simple instructions for 100 illustrated experiments. Memorable, easily understood experiments illuminate principles related to astronomy, chemistry, physiology, psychology, mathematics, topology, probability, acoustics, other areas.
Cipher and decipher codes: transposition and polyalphabetical ciphers, famous codes, typewriter and telephone codes, codes that use playing cards, knots, and swizzle sticks … even invisible writing and sending messages…
Ninety-three riddles, mazes, illusions, tricky questions, word and picture puzzles, and other challenges offer hours of entertainment for youngsters. Richly illustrated with rib-tickling drawings by Laszlo Kubinyi. Includes solutions.
One of the subject’s clearest, most entertaining introductions offers lucid explanations of special and general theories of relativity, gravity, and spacetime, models of the universe, and more. 100 illustrations.
Martin Gardner takes an entertaining look at one of man’s most puzzling questions: Is the universe symmetrical? This book is a popular survey of mirror symmetry (left vs. right) and…
No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium of classic puzzles, paradoxes, and puzzles from America’s best-loved mathematical expert. 320 line drawings.
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[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit. -Entertainment Weekly
In a society begging to be duped, Martin Gardner questions and debunks myths ranging from science and mathematics to literature, philosophy, religion, and mysticism.
An imaginative collection of pieces created in tribute to Martin Gardner. Best known for his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American , Gardner used his fascination with puzzles and magic…
Martin Gardner,Gardner
First published in 1983, this classic work by a consummate philosopher, thinker, and great mathematician is discussed alongside Hofstadter’s Godel, Escher, Bach. the work challenges the discerning reader with fundamental…
Martin A. Gardner
‘Quiz Kids’ was a network radio program aired from 1940 to 1953 featuring smart children answering difficult questions submitted by listeners throughout America. Quiz Kids thrived during this period spanning…
The Marx Brothers’ films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, economic…
Laurie Martin-Gardner
Emerge from melancholy in to a moonlit night of bittersweet poetry and haunting tales of dreams and darkness in the newest work by author Laurie Martin-Gardner. Contains 24 poems and…
Immerse yourself in the dark world of Laurie Martin-Gardner in this collection of nineteen poems and three short stories. Be swept along by the raw and visceral imagery of poems…
Uncover the goddesses buried within the Bible.
Over 100 tried and tested exercises to expand how we look at fashion, how we are part of its system and how we can practice fashion otherwise--for students of all…
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This small, quality hardback book tells the stories of the remarkable native forests and heritage trees of the European yew (Taxus baccata) in the UK and overseas, the progeny of…
Martin Gardner,Paulina Hechenleitner
This book is the result of a 3-year intensive study of some of Chile’s most threatened plant species. It gives up to date information on the distribution, habitat, identification, conservation…
A mixture of old and new riddles covering a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. 65 black-and-white illustrations.
Rudolf Carnap
Stimulating, thought-provoking text by one of the 20th century’s most creative philosophers makes accessible such topics as probability, measurement and quantitative language, causality and determinism, theoretical laws and concepts, more.
Professor Picanumba has dozens of surefire tricks up his sleeve - and he’s willing to show junior mathemagicians how to predict the answers to 88 word and number challenges. Includes…
Jim Tyler,Martin Gardner
Balance a dime on the edge of a dollar bill, pass a dollar bill through a lime, and discover other quick tricks that can be done with coins, pencils, and…
Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner’s short puzzles - along with a few new ones from the master.
Martin Leonard Gardner
An array of subjects hand picked by the author which discuss thoughts as perceived by that author. Subjects all would love to discuss but somehow never seem to. Political, social…
Silvanus P Thompson,Martin Gardner
Calculus Made Easy is an introduction to the subject. In this revision of the text Martin Gardner has updated the text to reflect recent developments in method and terminology, written…
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When Russel B. Nye and Martin Gardner teamed up to bring out a new edition of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, theirs was the first critical analysis of L. Frank…
G. K. Chesterton
In Edwardian era London, Gabriel Syme is recruited at Scotland Yard to a secret anti-anarchist police corps. Syme meets an anarchistic poet at a party and they debate the meaning…
Silvanus Phillips Thompson,Martin Gardner
Updates the classic calculus primer.
A famous puzzlemeister presents 103 perplexing brainteasers, anagrams, and rebus and logic puzzles. There are clues - and humor - in the 69 whimsical illustrations, plus solutions for anyone who…
An eccentric poet acts as spiritual detective in these eight stories by the Father Brown author, in which the philosophical policeman solves and prevents crimes perpetrated by madmen.
Russel B Nye,Martin Gardner
At a state library conference in 1957 the director of the Detroit Public Library system fueled a controversy heard across the nation. He voiced the sentiment that L. Frank Baum’s…
Lewis Carroll
Bringing together a lifetime’s work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll’s puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice’s influence on the Beat poet…
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Reproduces the original illustrations by Henry Holiday of the author’s epic which appeared in 1876. This book also contains F C S Schiller’s Commentary on the Snark and J A…
Boris Kordemsky
Most popular Russian puzzle book ever published. Brain teasers range from simple catch riddles to difficult problems. Lavishly illustrated. First English translation. Introduction. Solutions.
Persi Diaconis,Ron Graham
Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks–and the profound mathematical ideas behind them–that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step…
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Martin Grams
Soon after Duffy’s Tavern premiered over the radio in 1941, Hollywood celebrities flocked to the microphone for a guest appearance and accepted what was rarely heard of in network broadcasting…
In 1952, Martin Gardner wrote the book Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, which has become a modern classic of the skeptical movement. He is best known as…
This book (700 plus pages) documents the entire history of radio’s Duffy’s Tavern, the 1945 motion-picture, the short-lived television program, the lawsuits, Ed Gardner’s personal life, contract negotiations and much…
Raymond M. Smullyan
Characters from Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. The charmingly illustrated challenges range from easy to difficult and…