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The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition

42 reviews
Lewis Carroll, Martin Gardner

W W Norton Co Inc

Alice In Wonderland - Special Book
I was truly pleasingly surprised when I received this book. It was much more than I expected for the price I paid. It is definitely a book I will pass down to my children.

The Annotated Wizard of Oz (Centennial Edition)

35 reviews
L. Frank Baum

W. W. Norton, 2000

Had enough of the "real" world? Oz awaits.
I'm a big fan of these annotated books, not only for their visual appeal on the bookshelf, but for their ability to transport me away from the everyday world. And you may think you know Oz because you can sing "Over the Rainbow" and "Follow the Yellow Brick Road", but I assure you, this book will take you farther into Oz than you ever went before. Unlike The Annotated Alice: The Definitive ...

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare (Annotated Edition)

8 reviews
G. K. Chesterton

Ignatius Press, 2004

On Thursday...
For a book that's as short as this one is, "The Man Who Was Thursday" is pretty packed. G.K. Chesterton's classic novella tackles anarchy, social order, God, peace, war, religion, human nature, and a few dozen other weight concepts. And somehow he manages to mash it all together into a delightful satire, full of tongue-in-cheek commentary that is still relevant today. As the book opens, ...

Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers (Math & Logic Puzzles)

4 reviews
Martin Gardner

Dover Publications, 1988

You probably think you're a pretty smart person.
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers will definitely test your wits and best of all, it'll test your common sense. You'll realize common sense is not so common after all! The book is also full of word games, visual games, conundrums, jokes, palindromes, and some real stumpers. I was given my first copy 18 years ago, and I've been hooked ever since. The illustrations are great; and ...

The Annotated Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

22 reviews
Lewis Carroll

Wings Books, 1998

No need to "Go Ask Alice" when you have the Annotated one
Perhaps no other set of works in literature benefits more from annotation than "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Class." Martin Gardner, the author of a regular monthly column on recreational mathematics for "Scientific American," provides expert commentary on all the jokes, games, puzzles, tricks, parodies, obscure references and other curiosities with which Lewis ...

The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

5 reviews
Martin Gardner

W. W. Norton, 2005

I predict this book will be a Mathematical Recreations classic.
Martin Gardner is the name that always comes to mind when one thinks of Mathematical Recreations. Anyone who ever read Scientific American magazine will remember his column in every issue. He wrote the column for 25 years;and made puzzle lovers of millions of readers. His fans ran the gamut from those with a very elementary background in mathematics to those with a high degree of knowledge. What ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)

81 reviews
Lewis Carroll

Signet Classics, 2000

Excellent Book
This is a book I loved as a child and when I read it now, I find I still enjoy it as much. Great for children and for grown ups as well. Well worth buying.

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Math & Logic Puzzles)

11 reviews
Martin Gardner

Dover Publications, 1994

The best of one of the best
Martin Gardner is the grand old man of puzzles and recreational mathematics. I recommend this book for intermediary and advanced puzzle enthusiasts - beginners might find some of these too challenging. Intermediary puzzlists will find the pleasures of often working at the upper edge of their skills. The solutions at the end of the book are complete enough so that even those who didn't get it ...

The Annotated Alice - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass

1 review
Lewis Carroll

Bramhall House / Clarkson Potter, 1960

Great book
A different edition than I got last time. but still the best version of the Alice stories.

Aha!: Aha! Insight and Aha! Gotcha (Spectrum) (Spectrum)
Martin Gardner

Mathematical Assn of Amer, 2006

"aha! Gotcha" and "aha! Insight" are here combined as a single volume. The aha! books, as they are referred to by fans of the author Martin Gardner, contain 144 wonderful puzzles from the reigning king of recreational mathematics. In this combined volume, you will find puzzles ranging over geometry, logic, probability, statistics, number,time, combinatorics, and word play. Gardner calls these puzzles aha! problems. He explains that aha! ...

Mathematics, Magic and Mystery (Cards, Coins, and Other Magic)

2 reviews
Martin Gardner

Dover Publications, 1956

One of the most fantastic books on close-up magic.
This book is very nice. It teaches you how to do magic with any houshold items. There are 2 chapters with cards too. NONE of the tricks described here use any sort of slight of hand. It is 100% mathematical tricks than ANYONE can do. And they are all nice cloe-up tricks which are the type of tricks which are most baffling. Martin Garder, the author of this book is a very talented writer. He wrote ...

Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles

5 reviews
Martin Gardner

Dover Publications, 1986

A WAY TO GET WARMED UP FOR THE THINKING WORLD
I give this book five stars. Though the problems and puzzles were created several years ago, it introduces or, at least, reintroduces the reader to humorous and thought-provoking examples highlighting how intuitive and counterintuitive processes can collide into one another. Martin Gardner's witty writing style makes this book a pleasant pathway to the realms of logic. Neat and concise with its ...

The Emporer's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics
Roger Penrose

Oxford University Press, 1990

Corrected printing from 1990. 466 pages.

Relativity Simply Explained

10 reviews
Martin Gardner

Dover Publications, 1997

Interesting and very philosophical
This is the 1997 Dover edition of Martin Gardner's 1976 "The Relativity Explosion", which was itself an update of the original 1962 book, published under the title "Relativity for the Million". This present edition contains a short chapter that attempts to update the 1976 version to 1997. Given that 10 years have passed since 1997 and that many new measurements of the cosmos have been made, ...

Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing (Archway Paperback)

5 reviews
Martin Gardner

Simon & Schuster, 1978

Very educational, practical introduction to codes & ciphers
This is a fascinating introductory book about codes and ciphers. It is very readable and understandable for young adults and older. Anyone who is interested in codes and ciphers will like, and want to own this book.

The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)

59 reviews
Roger Penrose

Oxford University Press, USA, 2002

A great, great book.
I was compelled to write as I came by on the way to buying Dr. Penrose's more recent book ("Road to Reality") and was appalled that Amazon features 2 out of 3 negative views on the first page, including one which dismisses the "Emperor's new mind" as "rubbish". Surely the book is controversial in certain quarters, but the vehemence of much of the criticism can only make me wonder why some people ...

Entertaining Science Experiments with Everyday Objects

3 reviews
Martin Gardner

Dover Publications, 1981

Phsyics teacher
I am a physics teacher in a Mexican high school. We have a big problem in our country because we lack a scientific culture and background. This kind of books are excellent because help to promote scientific ideas without being boring.

Calculus Made Easy

77 reviews
Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

St. Martin's Press, 1998

Old classic still the best
Syvanus Thompson wrote numerous books on physics and electromagnetism, math, and engineering topics during his lifetime, but he's most remembered for this great little primer on calculus. Now refurbished by the redoubtable Martin Gardner, who was in his eighties when this was published, if I remember right, it has even more appeal than before. I was most familiar with Gardner from his 25 year ...

The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems

7 reviews
Martin Gardner

W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

The imporatance of Mathematics
Martin Gardner is the grand old man of popular mathematics. He especially likes the math behind puzzles, riddles and logical conundrums. Logic and mathematics is the source of his thinking on the Skepticism he professes in his writings on pseudoscience, religion, the paranormal, UFO's, and other outlands of science and rational thinking. This book is a collection of his best columns from ...

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