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29 produkter
Language Lover’s Puzzle Book
Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
141 kr
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From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes. 'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the same time.'DARA Ó BRIAIN'Such fun, full of unexpected ideas and charmingly written.'TIM HARFORDThe Language Lover's Puzzle Book is a book of more than 100 surprising and entertaining puzzles that celebrate the amazing diversity of the world of words and language.Featuring a huge variety of ancient, modern and even invented languages, this collection of problems will introduce you to unusual alphabets and scripts, curious vocabularies and phonologies, and global variations in simple behaviours like counting, telling the time, and naming children.Whether you are a crossword solver, a code-breaker or a Scrabble addict, these puzzles are guaranteed to twist your tongue and sharpen your mind.'Alex Bellos is a dazzling polymath whose cleverness and ingenuity are on full display in this utterly brilliant and original collection of linguistic puzzles. This book is destined to be a classic for puzzle lovers.'JOSHUA FOER, co-founder of Atlas Obscura and author Moonwalking with Einstein'An irresistible linguistic workout - challenging and deeply satisfying.'GASTON DORREN, author of Lingo and Babel'For all the language and puzzle fans in your life!' GRETCHEN McCULLOCH'A cornucopia of ingenious and insightful challenges.' DAVID CRYSTAL'This compendium of puzzles is a great idea.' MICHAEL ROSEN'You'll love what Alex Bellos has done here.' GYLES BRANDRETH'Tantalisting.' THE ECONOMIST'The perfect way to pass the time.' BBC SCIENCE FOCUS
104 kr
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A groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football. The first book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads. When do footballers poo? Can you play football on Mars? What is a magic sponge? You will find the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects such as history, geography, biology and maths. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football. Your coaches at Football School, Alex Bellos and Ben Lyttleton, are journalists, broadcasters and award-winning science and sports writers. Their knowledge, enthusiasm and engaging writing make them the perfect team to teach you how to score with your head.
100 kr
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The second book in the groundbreaking new series from two bestselling writers that teaches you about the world through football.This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads - and it's all about football. What is a vomitory? When do footballers wee? Where do goalkeepers let in chickens? When did women start playing football? You'll find the answers to these questions and more in chapters on subjects such as biology, maths and history. Illustrated throughout with hilarious cartoons and filled with laugh-out-loud gags this is the perfect book for any boy or girl who loves football.
83 kr
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The Amazing Quiz Book is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.Test your football knowledge with over 300 funny and fascinating questions about international games.How much do you know about the World Cup – and the world? Test yourself and your friends with over 300 brain-busting questions from Football School. Why are England called the Three Lions? What is Lionel Messi's creepy-crawly nickname? Which World Cup player wore a wig? Discover the answers to these questions and much, much more. Packed with hilarious cartoons and fascinating trivia, this spin-off from the bestselling series is the perfect way for fans to learn more about the beautiful game.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly“Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!
104 kr
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Football School Season 3 is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads – and it's all about football. What colour are Cristiano Ronaldo's pyjamas? How many bones are there in the human foot? And why is that dodo alive and kicking? The third book in the bestselling series teaches children about history, maths, geography and biology through football, facts and fun. With side-splitting cartoons and multiple choice quizzes, this is the perfect book for anyone who loves football.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!
Football School Star Players
Find out about your 50 favourite players, for football fans age 7-11, from the bestselling, easy-to-read series packed with funny facts about the world of soccer
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
104 kr
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THE JAM-PACKED BOOK OF FOOTBALL BIOGRAPHIES IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES WHERE FOOTBALL AND FACTS COME TOGETHER IN A DREAM TEAM FORMATION ‘An inspirational read.’ – The Week JuniorWelcome to Football School STAR PLAYERS – packed with the inspiring true stories of 50 football legends from Messi to Marta, Harry Kane to Kylian Mbappé! You’ll find out:- The secret behind Lionel Messi’s standout success - How Harry Kane overcame the odds to win the Golden Boot - What made Pelé the greatest player of all timePlus many more incredible true stories about the game's greatest legends, who changed the world of football.‘We love this series!’ Match of the Day Magazine***There’s a whole world of Football School to enjoy, where every lesson is all about football – collect the series!The Football School Puzzle Collection – Pre-order now to celebrate the 2026 World Cup and enjoy 101 football-themed activitiesFootball School Facts– Discover 365 football facts every day of the yearFootball School Encyclopedia – Find out everything you want to know about footballEpic Heroes – Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football historyTerrific Teams – Discover the incredible stories behind the most famous clubs in the worldThe Amazing Quiz Book – Test your World Cup knowledge with 300+ brain-busting questions about international gamesThe Incredible Joke Book – Laugh out loud reading 200+ side-splitting football jokesThe Ultimate Puzzle Book – Train your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed puzzlesThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – Test your football knowledge with 300+ funny and fascinating questions about the beautiful gameFour books that explains the best and worst things in the world through football!Season One: Where Football Explains the WorldSeason Two: Where Football Saves the WorldSeason Three: Where Football Tackles the WorldSeason Four: Where Football Celebrates the World
Football School Epic Heroes
From the bestselling series, a must-have collection of stories about the greatest players and moments in football history, for fans age 7+
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
104 kr
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Football School Epic Heroes is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachersCelebrate the greatest names and teams in football history with this collection of 50 true stories.Discover the greatest football moments of all time in this collection of 50 exciting stories, perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players. Discover the incredible stories of heroes such as Messi, Ronaldo, Klopp and Rapinoe, but also the tales of the dog that helped win the league for his team and the team who won the championship with the very final kick of the game. Bringing together the best names in the game with some truly weird, wonderful and hilarious occurrences, this book is a must-read for any young football fan.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!
104 kr
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Football School Terrific Teams is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.Discover the incredible true stories behind the most famous clubs in history.Find out the stories behind the most legendary clubs in football history, such as Manchester United, Real Madrid and Liverpool. Explore how these teams have overcome failure and tragedy to win leagues and lift trophies and enter the record books. Also discover fascinating facts about more unknown clubs, including the German team with skull and crossbones logo and the most eco-friendly club in the world. Perfect for fans of Football School: Star Players and Football School: Epic Heroes, this collection of fifty true stories is a must-read for any young football fan.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!
104 kr
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Football School Season 4 is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.This book is packed with awesome true stories, real science and fascinating facts and will make you laugh loads – and it's all about football! Discover when robots play football, where the highest ever football match took place, how referees keep time in matches and what llamas and professional footballers have in common. With hilarious illustrations throughout and laugh-out-loud gags, this is the perfect book for football-mad children everywhere.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly“Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!
104 kr
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The Incredible Joke Book is part of the bestselling Football School series, which teaches you about the world through football, packed with superstar stories, fun facts and laugh-out-loud illustrations. Perfect for readers 7+ and recommended by the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, the Premier League and parents and teachers.Get ready to laugh your football socks off with this side-splitting joke book.What's a striker's favourite magic routine? A hat trick!Why was the peacock sent off? It was a professional fowlWhat’s a chip-lover’s top footie show? Catch of the Day, with Gary VinegarPacked with great gags about silly stars, team titters and naughty nicknames, this is the perfect gift to give any football fan the giggles.“We love this book series!” Match of the Day Weekly “Intelligent, inspiring, funny” Head of Education, Premier LeagueCollect the series!Football School Season 1–4Star PlayersEpic HeroesFootball School Terrific Teams20 Fantastic Football StoriesThe Amazing Quiz BookThe Incredible Joke BookThe Ultimate Puzzle BookThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – out in 2022!
Alex Through the Looking-Glass
How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life
Häftad, Engelska, 2015
148 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our world.He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to reveal the world’s favourite number. In Germany, he meets the engineer who designed the first roller-coaster loop, whilst in India he joins the world’s highly numerate community at the International Congress of Mathematicians. He explores the wonders behind the Game of Life program, and explains mathematical logic, growth and negative numbers. Stateside, he hangs out with a private detective in Oregon and meets the mathematician who looks for universes from his garage in Illinois.Read this captivating book, and you won’t realise that you’re learning about complex concepts. Alex will get you hooked on maths as he delves deep into humankind’s turbulent relationship with numbers, and proves just how much fun we can have with them.
227 kr
Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar
The Brazilian football team is one of the wonders of the modern world and legendary names like Pelé, Garrincha and Ronaldo inspire awe in football-lovers everywhere. But in Latin America’s largest country, football also symbolises racial harmony, the madness of love and the flamboyance of youth – it’s a sport that expresses the identity of a nation.This edition of a book that is now a modern classic, updated to coincide with the 2014 World Cup, explores what makes Brazil the ‘football country’ it is. From the Amazonian jungle to the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Alex Bellos weaves a golden-yellow tapestry of stories of great names, great teams and great matches. Mixing fact with local legend, history and myth, in Futebol he uncovers what makes football the Brazilian way of life.
103 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
A ‘mathemagical’ colouring book, with 60 patterns to colour and 10 more that YOU create!For those who ponder the most intriguing questions in maths, the realm of numbers is not only visual but also beautiful. What does a sphere look like in four dimensions? How can a knight on a chessboard visit every square? And can a five-sided tile cover an infinite floor? Visions of Numberland unlocks the world’s greatest mathematical mysteries, with 60 patterns to colour in and 10 more that you can create from scratch. The friendly explanations next to each pattern unlock the secrets of an intellectual quest that has been underway for three thousand years – but no maths knowledge is required. Anyone can be an artist in Numberland!
Here's Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance - An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
250 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
250 kr
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158 kr
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A tenth anniversary edition of the iconic book about the wonderful world of mathsSunday Times bestseller | Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize‘Original and highly entertaining' Sunday Times‘A page turner about humanity's strange, never easy and, above all, never dull relationship with numbers' New Scientist‘Will leave you hooked on numbers' Daily TelegraphIn this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks, and demonstrates the remarkable ways it's linked to our everyday lives.Alex explains the surprising geometry of the 50p piece, and the strategy of how best to gamble it in a casino. He shines a light on the mathematical patterns in nature, and on the peculiar predictability of random behaviour. He eats a potato crisp whose revolutionary shape was unpalatable to the ancient Greeks, and he shows the deep connections between maths, religion and philosophy.From the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany to numerologists in the US desert, from a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan to venerable Hindu sages in India, these dispatches from 'Numberland' are an unlikely but exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs. The world of maths is a much friendlier and more colourful place than you might have imagined.This anniversary edition is fully revised and updated.
Del 7 - Football School
Football School: The Greatest Ever Quiz Book
The perfect Christmas present for football fans age 7+ with over 300 funny and fascinating questions, from the bestselling series
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
100 kr
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TEST YOUR FOOTBALL KNOWLEDGE IN THIS BOOK OF FOOTBALL QUIZZES, JAM-PACKED WITH OVER 300 FUNNY AND FASCINATING QUESTIONS ABOUT THE BEAUTIFUL GAME.How much do you know about football – and the world? Test yourself and your friends with hundreds of brain-busting questions from Football School. Discover questions on:- Star strikers- Crafty coaches- Momentous matchesPlus much more fascinating trivia and hilarious cartoons! This spin-off from the bestselling series is the perfect way for fans to learn more about the beautiful game.‘We love this series!’ Match of the Day Magazine***There’s a whole world of Football School to enjoy, where every lesson is all about football – collect the series!Football School Facts – Discover 365 football facts every day of the yearFootball School Encyclopedia – Find out everything you want to know about footballEpic Heroes – Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football historyTerrific Teams – Discover the incredible stories behind the most famous clubs in the worldThe Amazing Quiz Book – Test your World Cup knowledge with 300+ brain-busting questions about international gamesThe Incredible Joke Book – Laugh out loud reading 200+ side-splitting football jokesThe Ultimate Puzzle Book – Train your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed puzzlesFour books that explains the best and worst things in the world through football!Season One: Where Football Explains the WorldSeason Two: Where Football Saves the WorldSeason Three: Where Football Tackles the WorldSeason Four: Where Football Celebrates the World
Del 8 - Football School
Football School Encyclopedia
The ULTIMATE football gift book for fans age 7-11, from the bestselling series that’s packed with funny, fascinating facts about the world of soccer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2023
176 kr
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DISCOVER EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT FOOTBALL - THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL YOUNG FANS. FOOTBALL SCHOOL IS THE BESTSELLING SERIES WHERE FOOTBALL AND FACTS COME TOGETHER IN A DREAM TEAM FORMATION."Full of facts, figures, quizzes and cartoons, this brilliant compendium has the answers to everything football fans could ever want to know" – Sunday ExpressWelcome to The Football School Encyclopedia! It’s a book of facts and so let’s start with an important one: football is the best sport in the world.You’ll find out:- What Premier League players eat for breakfast - Secrets for taking the perfect corner - Which teams in the world have the best mascot - Who is the biggest superfan in the worldPlus much, much more all about players, clubs, trophies and tactics – and, well, everything you could possibly want to know about football! ‘We love this series!’ Match of the Day Magazine***There’s a whole world of Football School to enjoy, where every lesson is all about football!Football School Puzzle Collection – Pre-order now to celebrate the 2026 World Cup and enjoy 101 football-themed activitiesFootball School Facts – Discover 365 football facts every day of the yearStar Players – Read the inspiring true stories of 50 football legendsEpic Heroes – Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football historyTerrific Teams – Discover the incredible stories behind the most famous clubs in the worldThe Amazing Quiz Book – Test your World Cup knowledge with 300+ brain-busting questions about international gamesThe Incredible Joke Book – Laugh out loud reading 200+ side-splitting football jokesThe Ultimate Puzzle Book – Train your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed puzzlesThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – Test your football knowledge with 300+ funny and fascinating questions about the beautiful gameFour books that explains the best and worst things in the world through football!Season One: Where Football Explains the WorldSeason Two: Where Football Saves the WorldSeason Three: Where Football Tackles the WorldSeason Four: Where Football Celebrates the World
Del 12 - Football School
Football School Facts: A Fact for Every Day of the Year
The perfect football gift for fans age 7-11, from the bestselling series that’s packed with funny, fascinating facts about the world of soccer
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
176 kr
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CELEBRATE FOOTBALL EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR WITH THE BRAND-NEW BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES WHERE FOOTBALL AND FACTS COME TOGETHER IN A DREAM TEAM FORMATION. THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL YOUNG FANS."The ultimate football yearbook where you can discover a new fun footie fact for every day of the year." - The Week JuniorWelcome to Football School Facts! It’s a book of facts and so let’s start with an important one: football is the best sport in the world.- Did you know that Erling Haaland is a record-breaking goalscoring machine?- That a player was once sent off for farting on the pitch?- Or that Diego Maradona has a religion named after him?Discover all this and much, much more all about your favourite players, great goals, super stadiums and marvellous mascots – the perfect gift for all young fans and their families to enjoy."An engaging, fun read that will keep children laughing, learning and dreaming of the pitch." - Women's Weekly "We love this series!" - Match of the Day Weekly***There’s a whole world of Football School to enjoy, where every lesson is all about football – collect the series!Football School Encyclopedia – Find out everything you want to know about footballThe Football School Puzzle Collection – Pre-order now to celebrate the 2026 World Cup and enjoy 101 football-themed activitiesStar Players – Read the inspiring true stories of 50 football legendsEpic Heroes – Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football historyTerrific Teams – Discover the incredible stories behind the most famous clubs in the worldThe Amazing Quiz Book – Test your World Cup knowledge with 300+ brain-busting questions about international gamesThe Incredible Joke Book – Laugh out loud reading 200+ side-splitting football jokesThe Ultimate Puzzle Book – Train your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed puzzlesThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – Test your football knowledge with 300+ funny and fascinating questions about the beautiful gameFour books that explains the best and worst things in the world through football!Season One: Where Football Explains the WorldSeason Two: Where Football Saves the WorldSeason Three: Where Football Tackles the WorldSeason Four: Where Football Celebrates the World
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Del 13 - Football School
Football School Puzzle Collection: Become a Champion with 101 World Cup Activities
Football activity book packed with 100 puzzles, quizzes and joke for boys and girls aged 7, 8, 9, 10 who love football - hours of holiday reading fun
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
104 kr
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BECOME A WORLD CUP PUZZLE CHAMPION AND ENJOY HOURS OF FOOTBALL FUN IN THIS EPIC NEW PUZZLE BOOK IN THE BESTSELLING SERIES – WHERE FOOTBALL AND FACTS COME TOGETHER IN A DREAM TEAM FORMATION.Welcome to the Football School Puzzle Collection - packed with 101 awesome activities to keep young fans entertained for hours during the holidays, including:- Wonderful word searches- Spot the difference- Confusing conundrums- Clever quizzes- Tricky True or False- Marvellous mazes ... and MORE!Solve the star player riddles, crack the mystery of the stolen World Cup, match the shirts to the teams and much more!"We love this series!" - Match of the Day Weekly***There’s a whole world of Football School to enjoy, where every lesson is all about football – collect the series!Football School Facts – Discover 365 football facts every day of the yearFootball School Encyclopedia – Find out everything you want to know about footballStar Players – Read the inspiring true stories of 50 football legendsEpic Heroes – Celebrate the greatest names and teams in football historyTerrific Teams – Discover the incredible stories behind the most famous clubs in the worldThe Amazing Quiz Book – Test your World Cup knowledge with 300+ brain-busting questions about international gamesThe Incredible Joke Book – Laugh out loud reading 200+ side-splitting football jokesThe Ultimate Puzzle Book – Train your brain and enjoy hours of football-themed puzzlesThe Greatest Ever Quiz Book – Test your football knowledge with 300+ funny and fascinating questions about the beautiful gameFour books that explains the best and worst things in the world through football!Season One: Where Football Explains the WorldSeason Two: Where Football Saves the WorldSeason Three: Where Football Tackles the WorldSeason Four: Where Football Celebrates the World
144 kr
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*70 BRAIN-TEASING FAMILY PUZZLES*'Brilliant' G.T. Karber, author of MURDLE'A lot of fun especially if shared' ***** Amazon reader review'We had great fun as a family trying to puzzle these out' ***** Amazon reader reviewEveryone else gets these seemingly simple puzzles wrong.Will you and your friends beat Alex Bellos, creator of the Guardian's Monday Puzzle, at his own game?‘I’m a sucker for Alex Bellos’s books – they’re just such fun’ Tim HarfordAlex Bellos knows better than anyone that the puzzles we find irresistible are the ones that deceive us. Those that seem blindingly, obviously simple – and yet we can’t help but get wrong.These 70 confounding puzzles – which Alex has scoured from across psychology, mathematics, statistics, physics, geography, the science of perception and more – are guaranteed to catch you and your friends off guard. But why are you getting them wrong? And how can you get them right?Alex delights in tripping us up before righting through explanations for how these puzzles work, the biases holding us back: and how to train your brain to avoid being hoodwinked again.THINK TWICE is an exhilarating family game to play for adults and kids alike. So, pit yourself against Alex's puzzles or play quiz master to friends and family - either way, you're in for a mind-boggling treat!Think once and you will stumble.Think twice and you are in with a chance.Now that you’ve been warned, can you prove Alex wrong?
165 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
148 kr
Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar
Publisher’s note: Patterns of the Universe was previously published under the title Snowflake, Seashell, Star.Contemplate the Patterns of the Universe as you color! Math is at the heart of many natural wonders and has an abstract beauty all its own—in the silhouette of a snowflake, the spiral seeds of a sunflower, and the symmetry of the Sri Yantra mandala.From the 4-D hypercube that casts a starlike shadow, to the infinite pattern of Penrose tiles that never perfectly repeats, these 57 exquisite designs reveal their secrets as you fill them with color. Art becomes an act of discovery—no math knowledge is required!In the bonus Creating section, as you join dots, flip coins, and follow other simple steps, 12 surprising images will emerge before your eyes.This is an adventure for all ages—and a treasure for artists in Numberland!
Can You Solve My Problems?
A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
Häftad, Engelska, 2017
118 kr
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Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old?Can you beat Sherlock Holmes?If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-day Japan, with stories of espionage, mathematical breakthroughs and puzzling rivalries along the way.Pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, others call for creativity, others need mercilessly logical thought. Some can only be solved be 2 per cent of the population. All are guaranteed to sharpen your mind. Let's get puzzling!
125 kr
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From the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems?The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but what unites them is their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen the mind. Alex Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over twenty new types of addictive problems to solve.Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja?
So You Think You've Got Problems?
Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind
Inbunden, Engelska, 2019
198 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be:Imprisoned by a sadistic logician.Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island.And much more besides . . .Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?
So You Think You've Got Problems?
Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
118 kr
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Thought you had it bad? In this book, you will be:Imprisoned by a sadistic logician.Challenged to raise dogs from the dead. Trapped on a burning island.And much more besides . . .Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years. You'll need to pit your wits against probability problems, wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry and scrabble for survival. Along the way you will discover stories of whip-smart thinkers, eccentric novelists and a poodle with allegedly supernatural powers. You will absorb fascinating and important mathematical ideas. Some solutions will rely on ingenuity, some will challenge you to spot hidden patterns, others call for extreme rationality. All will surprise, entertain and stretch your brain. Will you make it out with your puzzling pride intact?
147 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
238 kr
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