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 : 42,31 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 : 44,82 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 :
Publisher : West Side Publishing
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781412715263
The Armchair Reader series will entertain and enlighten with little-known anecdotes, fascinating trivia, off-the-wall facts, alluring lists, and endless humor. The Colossal Reader's innovative approach and unique style will enrapture history buffs, pop-culturephiles, and trivia addicts alike. Discover the secret obsession of famous poets, the dumbest crimes in history, the scariest TV horror hosts, and fashion's greatest blunders. From the marvels of science to the surprising behind-the-scenes stories of well-loved films and books, this collection leaves no stone unturned. Stuff your brain to the brim with conversation starters, cultural tidbits, and important knowledge about our world. Even people who think they know all the nooks and crannies of cultural history will be captivated by this unique and colorful slant on the people, events, ideas, and inventions that have shaped our everyday experience.
Author : David White
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 29,12 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 : Martin Gardner
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 14,20 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.
Author : Highlights
Publisher : Highlights
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2002-03
Category : Picture puzzles
ISBN : 9781563979521
Each page presents a challenge to find various objects within an illustration.
Author : Hajime Isayama
Publisher : Kodansha Comics
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,12 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 : Eric Colossal
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1613128851
In a world where there are dragons, wyverns, and haunted squash, you’d figure someone would have recipes for them, right? Rutabaga and his magic cooking pot, Pot, join young adventurers Winnifred, Manny, and Beef on a quest to defeat a dragon, discover new ingredients, find monsters to have for and/or to dinner, and to save the day through cooking. Rutabaga will dare any danger to uncover new tastes, and there’s a whole world full of food to try—from roasted mud leech to spider soup to peanut butter on crackers. His heroic recipes combine real ingredients, fantasy ingredients, and real ingredients that sound fantastical. Rutabaga the Adventure Chef is the perfect adventure for any kid grossed out when something weird shows up on the dinner table.
Author : Highlights for Children
Publisher : Highlights
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,17 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781563973628
Each page presents a challenge to find various objects within an illustration.
Author : Richard Davis, 1st
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category :
ISBN : 9781733977111
This book is an important resource for any individual challenging issues related toprison life. Topically organized like The Colossal Book of Criminal Citations, this bookidentifies case citations covering a variety of topics nearly every prisoner encounters.Whether challenging the disciplinary process or litigating the denial of medical carethrough a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action, this book is an excellent resource. This book includes:1000+ Supreme, Circuit, District, and State Citations 40+ Important Topics Sample Motions 500+ Legal DefinitionsSelect Federal ProvisionsDistrict Court Addresses8.5 x 11 Soft CoverA Must Have for Prisoners Filing 42 U.S.C. § 1983 Actions