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Brainteasers: New Edition by Derrick Niederman
Category: Education | Series: Sit & Solve
Unlike most fitness regimens that take a while to start producing results, this mental workout packs in enough brain-bending puzzles to sharpen logic skills in no time. From maths stumpers to mini-crosswords, these 60 perplexing brainteasers will challenge your intelligence.
Inspector Forsooth's Mini-mysteries by Derrick Niederman
Category: Children's
Luke Haynes eagerly awaits a visit from his favourite uncle Jeremy - the famous Inspector Forsooth. Together, Luke and Jeremy solve actual crimes, as well as some playful everyday conundrums.
Math Puzzles by Derrick Niederman
Category: Cap Link Damages SPECIALS | Series: Brain Aerobics Ser.
Keep your mind fit with brain aerobics If you like great mental exercises, try brain aerobics. All you have to do is open this book, lift a pencil, and flex your mind while solving this assortment of invigorating puzzles. In Brain Aerobics Math Puzzles, you'll need to be on top of your game. If the pro ...Show more
Number Freak by Derrick Niederman
Category: Science
A compulsively readable look at the secret language of numbersa their role in nature, movies, science, and everything in between. What do "Fight Club," wallpaper patterns, George Balanchineas "Serenade," and Italian superstitions have in common? Theyare all included in the entry for the number 17 in th ...Show more
Number Freak: From 1 to 200 - The Hidden Language of Numbers Revealed by Derrick Niederman
Category: Science
What do wallpaper patterns, George Balanchine's Serenade, and Italian superstitions have in common? They're all included in the entry for the number 17 in this clever, surprising, and engaging book that reveals the secret language of numbers. Number Freak is a guided tour of the numbers 1 to 200, coveri ...Show more
The Puzzler's Dilemma by Derrick Niederman
Category: Science & Natural History
The Puzzler's Dilemma explores the world of classic logic puzzles, and tells the amazing stories behind them, from the Lighthouse of Alexandria to code-breaking with the Enigma machine. Here are brain teasers that even maths whizzes have never seen explained by a mind as nimble as Derrick Niederman's, a ...Show more
The Remarkable Lives of Numbers by NIEDERMAN DERRICK
Category: Science
A brilliantly original tour of numbers, and what makes them special. Did you know there are 17 possible types of symmetric wallpaper pattern? Do you know what 'casting out the nines' is? Or why 88 is the fourth 'untouchable' number? Or how 7 is used to test for the onset of dementia? Number fanatic Derr ...Show more
Whodunit Mysteries by Ian Anderson (Illustrator); Kathleen O'Malley (Illustrator); Matt Lefleur (Illustrator); Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. Staff (Editor); Jim Sukach; Hy Conrad; Stan Smith; Derrick Niederman; Tom Bullimore; Falcon Travis; Lucy Corvino (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: Little Giant Bks.
Solve crimes like a detective; find clues where nobody else would think of looking, trap suspects with their own words - 80 simple stories will show you how to find the culprit while everybody else is completely confused. As you explore these fascinating whodunits, you'll enter a bizarre, glamorous, and ...Show more
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