Puzzles and quizzes

In this sequel to the best-selling Uncle Johns Presents Book of the Dumb, guest author John Scalzi casts a wide net to bring readers more mind-boggling dumbosities perpetrated by dumb-doers.

An entertaining trivia compendium flush with fun facts about all things science.

Its one of Uncle Johns most popular editions!

With this volume filled with thousands of bizarrely fascinating facts, we're on a roll!

Strange-but-true stories, colorful characters, and big-league bizarreness for fans of America's pastime!

Sensitively answers the most common inquiries about Amish and Mennonite peoples.

From the Mall of America to the worlds only two-story outhouse, weve got Minnesota covered like never before!

A compendium of funny feline facts and strange stories even more entertaining than a stuffed mouse on a stick!

Uncle Johns 24th flagship edition is glittering with more than 500 all-new pages of absorbing material that prove once again why Uncle John makes the best-selling bathroom-reading series in the world.

A fun look at calculus in our everyday livesCalculus.

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History repeats itself as Uncle John presents another volume of funny stories and fascinating facts about the past!

Uncle John's latest compendium of the most bizarre and entertaining information imaginable: a Worldwide Weird-opedia!

If you consider yourself a trivia expert, Uncle John has created the perfect book for you.

Open this book anywhere, any time, any place for bite-size morsels of essential (and not-so-essential) knowledge.

Over 70% of North Americans are (water) closet readers.

Here is an engaging, informative, and no-nonsense look at the everyday situations and issuesand their legal consequencesthat affect dogs and their owners.

The autobiography of the beloved writer who inspired a generation to study math and scienceMartin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland.

Although we seldom think of it, our lives are played out in a world of numbers.

Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians.

Simple and effective techniques for quickly estimating virtually anythingGuesstimation 2.

What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery?

We all played tag when we were kids.

How to use physical reasoning to solve surprising paradoxesEver wonder why cats land on their feet?

Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China.

How does mathematics enable us to send pictures from space back to Earth?

Guesstimation is a book that unlocks the power of approximation--it's popular mathematics rounded to the nearest power of ten!

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreationLogic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since.

Emotional Intelligence is the ability to be aware of one's own emotions and those of other people.

A collection of crazy-but-true facts, peculiar occurrences, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unbelievable creatures, and many more shocking oddities.

Another variation of successful bathroom reader single topic books.

Find out what millions of trivia lovers already know: Uncle John is your #1 source when it comes to throne-room reading entertainment.

Why is our lucky 13th edition All-Purpose?

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One of Uncle Johns all-time biggest sellers, Great Big is overflowing with everything our fans have come to expect: urban legends, forgotten history, myth-conceptions, business blunders, strange lawsuits, weird politics, amazing origins, dumb crooks, celebrity gossip, brain teasers, short facts, and more!

Grab some quiet time for yourself and enjoy hundreds of pages of the world's most twisted trivia!

Discover hundreds of entertaining and often hilarious etymological journeys, by the bestselling author of Can Holding in a Fart Kill You?

In 'The Canterbury Puzzles & Other Curious Problems' by Henry Ernest Dudeney, readers are presented with a collection of challenging puzzles and brain-teasers that have entertained and perplexed readers for generations.

Discover the fascinating facts and riveting stories of the world beneath your toilet in this fully illustrated bathroom reader for adults.

How well do you know the Old Testament of the Bible?

Rätselblock ab 10 Jahre, Band 2 – abwechslungsreiche Rätsel zur Beschäftigung für Kinder✅ Altersgerechter Rätselspaß: Labyrinthe, Sudokus und Fehlerbilder✅ Zahlen- und Wörträtsel sowie Scherzfragen und Witze✅ Fokus auf logischem Denken und Zusammenhänge erkennen✅ Förderung der Aufmerksamkeit, Konzentration und Feinmotorik✅ Sinnvolle Beschäftigung für zuhause und unterwegsFakten zum Rätselblock✅ DIN-A5-Block✅ 64 Seiten✅ Liebevoll farbig illustriert✅ Mit Lösungsteil am Ende des BlocksUnsere Rätselblock-Reihe: Rätselspaß für 3- bis 12-JährigeLangeweile?

Two instructional classics condensed into one practical volume!

Every club player knows the problem: the opening has ended, and now what?

Today's young players have benefited greatly from working with chess computers.

Most chess opening books are either too detailed or too shallow.

Playing blitz is one of the great joys in every chess player's life.

No matter how unconventional, irrational or even crazy an opening is, sooner or later every chess player will have to face it.

Everything you always wanted to know about world chess champion Bobby Fischer, complete with easily accessible examples of his chess playing style, in one compact and very readable volume.

The Sicilian Defence is Black's most popular reply to 1.

Grandmaster Larry Kaufman presents a very effective way for White to disrupt the plans and demolish the position of players on the black side of the popular Grunfeld Defence.