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1000 Playthinks - Puzzles, Paradoxes, Illusions & GamesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A fantastic compendium of puzzles and games for solo or group use. Some are mind puzzles, some require pencil and paper, and some involve tracing/copying and cutting. Each is rated in difficulty fro...
author: Ivan Moscovich |
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A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North AmericaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A wealth of information written in a compact format by one of America's premier tracking experts; includes tracking techniques, a guide to mammal classification, a anatomical guide to the major foot t...
author: James Halfpenny |
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Beating Back the Devil: On the Front Lines with Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence ServiceClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An exciting inside look into the Center for Disease Control's team of elite doctors who make up the Epidemic Intelligence Service. The disease detectives are ready at a moments notice to travel the wo...
author: Maryn McKenna |
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Coincidenses, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty IdeasClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Written in a style that combines his wit as a stand-up comic with his knowledge as Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, this book will appeal to puzzle and math lovers as well as probability ...
author: Edward B. Burger & Michael Starbird |
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Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathamatical ProblemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The amazing story of the Holy Grail of Mathematics and the 356 years of struggle to find the proof, and of Andrew Wiles, the man who did.
author: Simon Singh |
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Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in North AmericaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A wealth of information written in a compact format by one of America's premier tracking experts; includes tracking techniques, a guide to mammal classification, a anatomical guide to the major foot t...
author: James Halfpenny |
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Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused ItClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A dramatic account and globe trotting adventure that relates the mystery surrounding the cause of the flu epidemic of 1918 and the current (1998)race to recover a live sample of the pathogen. Includes...
author: Gina Kolata |
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Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A firsthand account of the search for the cause of Earth's mass extinction 250 million years ago, and of the scientists who work to uncover this mystery.
author: Peter D. Ward |
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If Stones Could Speak - Unlocking the Secrets of StonehengeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A profile of the archaeological work of Mike Parker Pearson and the Riverside Project surrounding the mysteries of Stonehenge. A brief overview of Pearson's childhood and education leads into his earl...
author: Marc Aronson |
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Man-Eating Tigers of SundarbansClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The Sundarbans Reserve along the Bay of Bengal is home to more tigers than anywhere else on earth - close to 500. Nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people, yet here in the Sundarbans Rese...
author: Sy Montgomery |
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Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The author introduces a deck of cards and procedes to explain the story behind one of the best-known, unsolved mathematical mysteries of the last 150 years, one that has kept mathematicians puzzled si...
author: John Derbyshire |
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Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient EgyptClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
author: James Cross Giblin |
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Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the search for the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, for which the Clay Institute put up a $1 million prize in 2001, and of the mathematicians who have worked to solve it. Also a rare inti...
author: Karl Sabbagh |
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Science Is..A Source Book of Fascinating Facts,Projects and ActivitiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A definitive collection of over 450 projects, experiments, games, puzzles, and stories for 6-14 year-olds that covers all areas of science, including matter and energy, the human body, the environment...
author: Susan V. Bosak |
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The Man-Eating Tigers of SundarbansClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The Sundarbans Reserve along the Bay of Bengal is home to more tigers than anywhere else on earth - close to 500. Nowhere else do healthy tigers routinely hunt people, yet here in the Sundarbans Rese...
author: Sy Montgomery |
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The Riddle of the Rosetta Stone: Key to Ancient EgyptClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes how the discovery and deciphering of the Rosetta Stone unlocked the secret of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
author: James Cross Giblin |
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The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in MathematicsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The story of the search for the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis, for which the Clay Institute put up a $1 million prize in 2001, and of the mathematicians who have worked to solve it. Also a rare inti...
author: Karl Sabbagh |
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