Book Description
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.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 16,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780393020236
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.
Author : Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 13,89 MB
Release : 2001-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780393320886
A collection of oft-repeated urban legends brings together the best of modern myths, from the stoned baby sitter who mistook a baby for a turkey to the fabulously expensive recipe for chocolate chip cookies.
Author : David White
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 12,3 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Dinosaurs
ISBN :
Introduction to the giants that roamed the earth millions of years ago. Combines adventure-filled stories with true-to-life narrative and facts.
Author : Grosset & Dunlap
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,46 MB
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0698193717
An 8x8 storybook based on the deep-sea adventures of the Octonauts! As they travel through deep, dark waters, the Octonauts find themselves in a battle with a colossal squid! The squid is determined to win against the Octopod—can the crew keep hold of their ship in this tough round of tentacle wrestling?
Author : Scott Tribble
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
Release : 2008-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 074256472X
In October 1869, as America stood on the brink of becoming a thoroughly modern nation, workers unearthed what appeared to be a petrified ten-foot giant on a remote farm in upstate New York. The discovery caused a sensation. Over the next several months, newspapers devoted daily headlines to the story and tens of thousands of Americans—including Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the great showman P. T. Barnum—flocked to see the giant on exhibition. In the colossus, many saw evidence that their continent, and the tiny hamlet of Cardiff, had ties to Biblical history. American science also weighed in on the discovery, and in doing so revealed its own growing pains, including the shortcomings of traditional education, the weaknesses of archaeological methodology, as well as the vexing presence of amateurs and charlatans within its ranks. A national debate ensued over the giant's origins, and was played out in the daily press. Ultimately, the discovery proved to be an elaborate hoax. Still, the story of the Cardiff Giant reveals many things about America in the post-Civil War years. After four years of destruction on an unimagined scale, Americans had increasingly turned their attention to the renewal of progress. But the story of the Cardiff Giant seemed to shed light on a complicated, mysterious past, and for a time scientists, clergymen, newspaper editors, and ordinary Americans struggled to make sense of it. Hucksters, of course, did their best to take advantage of it. The Cardiff Giant was one of the leading questions of the day, and how citizens answered it said much about Americans in 1869 as well as about America more generally.
Author : Phineas Taylor Barnum
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1866
Category : Impostors and imposture
ISBN :
Author : Julie Berry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1101513241
Headmaster Farley's back and he's ready for revenge, but an unexpected visit from his estranged sister brings monstrous results as she takes over Splurch Academy. Forced to retreat to his laboratory, he hatches a plan to reclaim the school. Meanwhile, Cody Mack and the other boys are pitted against their new classmates-the girls of Priscilla Prim Academy for Precious and Proper Young Ladies.
Author : Hajime Isayama
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,33 MB
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1612626874
ERWIN'S GREATEST GAMBLE Commander Erwin has finally come to a decision: Putting their own wealth and position ahead of the survival of humanity, the royal government is no longer fit to lead. To execute their leader's most audacious plan yet, Eren and Krista will have to put themselves in peril yet again, and Armin, Mikasa, and the rest of the Survey Corps will have to turn from humanity's guardians into traitors. If they fail this time, they'll face not a Titan's gaping mouth, but the gallows...
Author : Highlights
Publisher : Highlights
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Picture puzzles
ISBN : 9781563979521
Each page presents a challenge to find various objects within an illustration.
Author : Martin Gardner
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 11,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780393061147
The renowned provocateur of popular math presents a collection of his widely recognized short puzzles--along with a few new ones--that explore chess, physics, probability, and topology, among other topics.