Here is an engaging, informative, and no-nonsense look at the everyday situations and issuesand their legal consequencesthat affect dogs and their owners.
Starting from the depths of the Bathroom Reader archives, you'll be transported to exotic lands where you'll learn the local customs and sample the curious cuisine (without those annoying stomach cramps).
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.
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.
A collection of crazy-but-true facts, peculiar occurrences, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unbelievable creatures, and many more shocking oddities.
The book not only contains the most famous and loved riddles, but also a number of interesting and fun riddles which the author has made for enhancing the reader’s knowledge and mental ability.
Award-winning author Sandy Silverthorne and John Warner's first collection of one-minute mysteries has sold more than 100,000 copies, and now the two offer more fun thinking puzzles for super-sleuths of all ages.
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!
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.
Sir Elton John, blind fish, the original Twinkie, President Ronald Reagan's Secret Service detail, and mummies don't usually come up in the same conversation-unless you're at Mammoth Cave National Park!
The International Chess Federation or FIDE (from the French Federation Internationale des Echecs) was founded in Paris in 1924 but only from 1950 began to award international titles.
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?
Population Explosion and Other Mathematical Puzzles is a wonderful addition to Dr Dick Hess's previous successful books, Mental Gymnastics: Recreational Mathematical Puzzles, Golf on the Moon, (Dover Publishing, 2011 and 2014 respectively) and Number-Crunching Math Puzzles (Puzzlewright, 2013), a republication of All-Star Mathlete Puzzles (Sterling Publishing, 2009).
This unique book - based on the author's experience in teaching his grandchildren mathematics the fun way - provides the knowledge and skills to teach math to young children, through learning games with playing cards.