Nature Puzzlers


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Puzzling anecdotes from the real world of nature are dramatized in a short, easy-to-read format and used to encourage critical-thinking skills. Various applications can be employed to guide students through the problem-solving experience, from discussion to creative writing to library research skills. A teacher's key, background information, and solutions are given for each puzzle.




A Nature Puzzle Book


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“A Nature Puzzle Book” is a charming volume full of answers to some of nature's 'mysteries', including why birds sing, what actually happens in a bee-hive, and so on. Written by an experienced nature writer, this volume is highly recommended for those with a love of the great outdoors and the many animals that inhabit it. Contents include: “The Last Hour of the Red Squirrel”, “The End of the Little Foxes”, “Riddles of the Camp”, “Why Do Birds Sing?”, “Frogs, Toads, and Efts”, “Stalking Problems”, “Riddles of the Trail”, “Snake Stories”, “The Human Touch”, “The Last Black Rat”, “Three Feathered Puzzles”, “Mysteries of the Beehive”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.




Nature Lovers' Word Search Puzzles


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Exercise your mind with 100 nature-themed word search puzzles as you hunt for a myriad of natural wonders, including famous hiking trails, rivers of the world, national parks, and dozens more! Solutions are provided.




The Puzzle of Existence


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This groundbreaking volume investigates the most fundamental question of all: Why is there something rather than nothing? The question is explored from diverse and radical perspectives: religious, naturalistic, platonistic and skeptical. Does science answer the question? Or does theology? Does everything need an explanation? Or can there be brute, inexplicable facts? Could there have been nothing whatsoever? Or is there any being that could not have failed to exist? Is the question meaningful after all? The volume advances cutting-edge debates in metaphysics, philosophy of cosmology and philosophy of religion, and will intrigue and challenge readers interested in any of these subjects.




The Nature of Nature


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What is everything made of? How do things change and how do they work? What is life? In The Nature of Nature, visionary scientist Irv Dardik tackles these questions by introducing his discovery of SuperWaves, a singular wave phenomenon whose design generates what we experience as matter, space, time, motion, energy, and order and chaos. Simply put, the SuperWaves principle states that the fundamental stuff of nature is waves—waves waving within waves, to be exact. Dardik challenges the rationality of accepting a priori that the universe is made of discrete particles. Instead, by drawing from his own discovery of a unique wave behavior and combining it with scientific facts, he shows that every single thing in existence—from quantum particles to entire galaxies—is waves waving in the unique pattern he calls SuperWaves. The discovery of SuperWaves and the ideas behind it, while profound, can be intuitively grasped by every reader, whether scientist or layperson. Touching on everything from quantum physics to gravity, to emergent complexity and thermodynamics, to the origins of health and disease, it shows that our health, and the health of the environment and civilization, depend upon our understanding SuperWaves. The Nature of Nature is an absorbing account that combines Dardik’s contrarian look at the history of science with philosophical discussion, his own groundbreaking research, and hope for the future.




Descartes and the Puzzle of Sensory Representation


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Raffaella De Rosa discusses the theory of sensory perception, especially color perception, offered by René Descartes. She offers a detailed overview of the recent literature on the topic and provides a new reading of Descartes' theory; she also raises questions of great interest in the contemporary philosophy of mind and cognitive science.




Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles?


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With bracing clarity, James Elkins explores why images are taken to be more intricate and hard to describe in the twentieth century than they had been in any previous century. Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? uses three models to understand the kinds of complex meaning that pictures are thought to possess: the affinity between the meanings of paintings and jigsaw-puzzles; the contemporary interest in ambiguity and 'levels of meaning'; and the penchant many have to interpret pictures by finding images hidden within them. Elkins explores a wide variety of examples, from the figures hidden in Renaissance paintings to Salvador Dali's paranoiac meditations on Millet's Angelus, from Persian miniature paintings to jigsaw-puzzles. He also examines some of the most vexed works in history, including Watteau's "meaningless" paintings, Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling, and Leonardo's Last Supper.




Salvation Puzzle: Solved


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One of the foundational doctrines in Christianity is Salvation and yet, there are multiple explanations on this subject making it hard for a Christian to come to any conclusion. This book attempts to bring clarity on this subject by means of rebuttal and assertions. It also brings clarity on some of the church practices. Having such clarity is essential especially when the stakes of not having a clarity are higher.




Transitional Puzzles


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In Indian context.




Population Puzzle


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Drawing from government reports, think tank studies, scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and books, this insightful overview offers a range of contrasting viewpoints and policy perspectives on the major issues concerning world population growth, with particular emphasis on the impact of population trends on the United States.