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Maze puzzles challenge readers to find their way through such places as a large factory, medieval castle, and circus bigtop

If you could hike to the moon, how long would it take? Just how many glasses of lemonade would you need to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool? If everyone on Earth owned exactly the same amount of land, how big would your yard be? And how much time would you spend mowing the lawn? Learn the math behind these questions in this hilarious romp through weight, volume, distance, and more. These 12 zany scenarios add up to a book full of fun!

The book covers 201 subjective problems each different from the other.It is meant to help the aspirants of RMO,INMO,IMO and pother Olympiads.It will also help in post college entrances like IIT JAM,GRE,ISI,TIFR,GRE,SAT,GMAT,etc

How is your forearm like a lever? * What makes it easy to pull a flag up a flagpole? * How can a windmill help to do work? Janice VanCleave's Machines includes 20 simple and fun experiments that allow you to discover the answers to these and many other questions, plus dozens of additional suggestions on how to develop your own science fair project. Learn how an elevator works using a box, string, a paper cup, and some coins; build a bubble machine with cardboard boxes, Styrofoam, and wire; and much more. All experiments use inexpensive materials and involve a minimum of preparation and clean up. Children ages 8-12 Also available in the Spectacular Science Projects Series: * Janice VanCleave's Animals * Janice VanCleave's Earthquakes * Janice VanCleave's Electricity * Janice VanCleave's Gravity * Janice VanCleave's Magnets * Janice VanCleave's Molecules * Janice VanCleave's Microscopes and Magnifying Lenses * Janice VanCleave's Volcanoes * Janice VanCleave's Weather

From the author of The Joy of Pi and The Flying Book, an engaging new guide to the amazing unseen world around us.How can we understand the world of the atom or the size of our galaxy? How do we grasp a billionth of a second or a billion years; the freezing point of helium or the heat generated by the blast of an atomic bomb? Spectrums answers these questions and many more by exploring realms we are familiar with in our daily lives, but whose extremes boggle the mind and inspire a sense of wonder. With relish and insight, Blatner re-introduces us to six fundamental spectrums in the world around us: numbers, size, light, sound, heat, and time. Offering fascinating glimpses of hidden realities, full of comparisons, facts, and anecdotes, and illustrated by a wealth of diagrams, photographs, and sidebars, Spectrums illuminates the full range of the bizarre and beautiful world in which we live.

A group of third graders solve fun mysteries in this collectible boxed set that includes all six books of the Third-Grade Detectives series!This collectible boxed set includes: The Clue of the Left-Handed Envelope The Cobweb Confession The Mystery of the Hairy Tomatoes The Puzzle of the Pretty Pink Handkerchief The Riddle of the Stolen Sand The Secret of the Green Skin

A clear-headed command of logic can make the mind powerful enough to outmaneuver the devil himself, according to these intriguing stories. More than 200 puzzles, problems, and paradoxes await within these pages, woven together by a wizard's captivating narrative. The Sorcerer — so skilled in the art of logic that his reasoning seems like magic — takes a puzzle-based perspective on the principles underlying the works of mathematician Georg Cantor. His fascinating riddles involve probability, certainty, time, and infinity, and they unfold amid a landscape populated by honorable knights, lying knaves, quick-witted robots, and other fanciful characters.Amusing and enlightening, the Sorcerer's guided tour of infinity is geared toward the most dedicated puzzle-solvers. Although many of the solutions require only common sense, equations appear in several of the stories, and a familiarity with algebra is essential. The author of several imaginative books on recreational mathematics, Raymond Smullyan is a well-known mathematician and logician. He provides solutions within text, rather than at the end or in footnotes, offering readers a natural progression on a puzzle-filled path through the wonders of logic.

The author of What Is the Name of This Book? presents a compilation of more than two hundred challenging new logic puzzles--ranging from simple brainteasers to complex mathematical paradoxes.

Are spiders insects? * Why do crickets chirp? * How do caterpillars become butterflies? Janice VanCleave's Insects and Spiders includes 20 fun and simple experiments that help you discover the answers to these and other fascinating questions that may be "bugging" you about critters that crawl, burrow, or fly. You'll also find dozens of suggestions for developing your own science fair projects. Make an insect model out of clay, paper, and toothpicks. Discover what straws can tell you about a grasshopper's eyes. Use a jar of baby food to learn how flies eat. All these experiments use inexpensive household materials and involve a minimum of preparation and cleanup.

Puzzlemaster Charles Timmerman fills this new collection with thirteen different kinds of entertaining and challenging puzzles! From crosswords to fill-ins, word searches to sudoku, this book has it all! There’s something for everyone—clever word games, tricky number puzzles, and mind-boggling scrambles and ciphers.Puzzlers young and old will be put to the test with all-new brainteasers, including:QuotagramsDropoutsWord searchesCrosswordsDouble scramblesCryptoquotesWith more than 350 brand-new games, this collection is the avid puzzler’s dream come true!

Directions for mastering fifteen sleights of hand using common household objects.

Seeing is believing. But what if you simply can't believe your eyes? Dive into another dimension and experience the eye-boggling and brain-twisting extremes of these awesome optical illusions. This mind-bending collection of visual puzzles will amaze your friends, mystify your family and even blow your own mind!Xtreme Illusions features every kind of visual trick and deceptive image, all in a cutting-edge style and using dynamic paper mechanics that are instantly engaging.Fun-filled sections include:DIZZY ALERT! You know these pictures aren't moving, but it looks as if they are!PUZZLING PICTURES: Beautiful young lady or elderly woman? Images in this book are not quite as simple as they seem.LOOPY LINES AND SILLY SIZES: Grab your "ruler of truth" included in this book and look closely! Test perplexing patterns where size, shape, or direction appears to be distorted and find out the real deal.LOOK...AND LOOK AGAIN: Nothing is exactly what it appears to be. Look for impossible objects, hidden secrets, and doorways to incredible worlds.Releases simultaneously in Reinforced Library Binding: 978-1-4263-1084-3 , $25.95/$30.00 Can

Seeing is believing. But what if you simply can't believe your eyes? Dive into another dimension and experience the eye-boggling and brain-twisting extremes of these awesome optical illusions. This mind-bending collection of visual puzzles will amaze your friends, mystify your family and even blow your own mind!Xtreme Illusions features every kind of visual trick and deceptive image, all in a cutting-edge style and using dynamic paper mechanics that are instantly engaging.Fun-filled sections include:DIZZY ALERT! You know these pictures aren't moving, but it looks as if they are!PUZZLING PICTURES: Beautiful young lady or elderly woman? Images in this book are not quite as simple as they seem.LOOPY LINES AND SILLY SIZES: Grab your "ruler of truth" included in this book and look closely! Test perplexing patterns where size, shape, or direction appears to be distorted and find out the real deal.LOOK...AND LOOK AGAIN: Nothing is exactly what it appears to be. Look for impossible objects, hidden secrets, and doorways to incredible worlds.Releases simultaneously in Reinforced Library Binding: 978-1-4263-1084-3 , $25.95/$30.00 Can

Love is a many splendored thing and here Primo gives us a reworked classic that once appeared on a United States postage stamp. The amount of books, songs, poems and movies that deal with the subject of love is mind boggling. Love can be wonderful, beautiful, frustrating, elusive, and flabbergasting all at the same time. Primo wraps many characteristics into one intriguing work of art in this painted wall sculpture. It may be old and worn looking, but the beauty of love will always shine through. Color: Multi Color.

Brian Ferneyhough - born in Coventry in 1943 and recipient of the prestigious Siemens Prize in 2007, counts among the great musical challengers of our time. As an unyielding proponent of a steady refinement of musical perception, he doesn't shy away from mind-boggling structural aggregations and extreme technical and artistic demands on his musicians. In doing so he enjoys the support of a handpicked group of virtuosos, who regularly perform his compositions all over the world. One of the most p

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Dress up your room with a vintage looking piece of art with so much attention to detail it's mind boggling. A masterpiece for the "aficionado" of the game. The perfect gift for the sportsman who has everything, well, almost everything.

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The Ceramic Hobs are the band in the corner of the old man's pub round the back of the venue getting drunk before they either: a.) slay your senses with a mind boggling set of punk inspired psychedelia or, b.) fall over screaming and fighting. They make The Fall look as stable as U2 and the Butthole Surfers as mainstream as R.E.M. The band is from Blackpool and they've been going since 1985. This double-LP retrospective of the North of England's most unique, overlooked, and long-lasting undergro

Mind-boggling musicianship. Complex, provocative compositions. Darter, Manring and Kassin are all-around awesome! -Greg Rule, Keyboard Magazine With two gold records and multiple Grammy nominations to his credit, bass phenom Michael Manring joins fellow virtuosos Larry Kassin (flute) and Tom Darter (piano) on their second recording. Riverrun is a new 2-disc release, featuring an entire 2-set (100 min.) live concert. Exploring each of their award-winning compositional styles, the influences ran