USA TODAY Everyday Logic

USA TODAY Everyday Logic
Author: USA Today
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2009-09-15
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0740773569

USA TODAY Everyday Logic: 200 Puzzles from The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper makes every day much more fun. It also makes every day a little more challenging--which is a must for any puzzle master. Puzzlers get a unique collection of 200 logic puzzles to flex their brains and to amuse themselves for hours. The challenges include domino search, battleships, cellblocks, codewords, totalized, and wordwheel, as well as longer story puzzles. It's all skill levels for all sorts of fun.

USA TODAY Logic 2

USA TODAY Logic 2
Author: U. S. A. USA TODAY
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2011-10-04
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1449407307

Puzzlesmiths of all skill levels will find original logic puzzles that will flex the brain, challenge assumptions, and entertain for hours. In addition to offering 200 logic puzzles, this puzzlebook includes a short tutorial on how to play each game, along with a complete back-of-book answer key.

USA TODAY Up & Down Words Infinity

USA TODAY Up & Down Words Infinity
Author: U. S. A. USA TODAY
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2012-05
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1449410014

USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is a new puzzle book concept based on the hit puzzle featured each day in USA TODAY. In Up and Down Words Infinity, the second half of an answer becomes the first half of the next answer. Once started, Up and Down Words Infinity don't stop. The last half of the answer on the bottom of a page becomes the first half of the next answer on the following page. The book becomes one connected puzzle that can be played in sections. Solvers can work forward or backward from anywhere in the book. Packaged in a compact 4 x 6 trim size, USA TODAY Up and Down Words Infinity is the perfect puzzle book for the commute or the waiting room. The book fits easily into any size bag or briefcase.

Nonsense

Nonsense
Author: Robert Gula
Publisher: Axios Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2007
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0975366262

Nonsense is the best compilation and study of verbal logical fallacies available anywhere. It is a handbook of the myriad ways we go about being illogical--how we deceive others and ourselves, how we think and argue in ways that are disorderly, disorganized, or irrelevant. Nonsense is also a short course in nonmathematical logical thinking, especially important for students of philosophy and economics. A book of remarkable scholarship, Nonsense is unexpectedly relaxed, informal, and accessible.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Mensa® Everyday Challenging Mind Games

Mensa® Everyday Challenging Mind Games
Author: Fred Coughlin
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2022-01-25
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781510766877

Work your mind out daily to lower your brain age and hone your puzzling skills! Created in collaboration with American Mensa®, these brand-new puzzles will truly test your noggin. Esteemed puzzler Fred Coughlin will walk you through how to solve each type of puzzle, complete with examples filled in, before sending you on your way into the ten different types of puzzles included. Beginning with a section of Sudoku, then moving into crossword-style fill-in puzzles, as well as logic and number games, there is something for everyone here. Not only will you feel super-smart and accomplished when completing these puzzles, you'll also sharpen your critical thinking and reasoning skills in the process! Brain health is just as important as physical and emotional health, and your brain deserves the best. So pick up a copy and do one puzzle each morning with breakfast, at night before bed, or grab a couple copies for you and a friend and see who can correctly complete the most more quickly!

How Not to Be Wrong

How Not to Be Wrong
Author: Jordan Ellenberg
Publisher: Penguin Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1594205221

A brilliant tour of mathematical thought and a guide to becoming a better thinker, How Not to Be Wrong shows that math is not just a long list of rules to be learned and carried out by rote. Math touches everything we do; It's what makes the world make sense. Using the mathematician's methods and hard-won insights-minus the jargon-professor and popular columnist Jordan Ellenberg guides general readers through his ideas with rigor and lively irreverence, infusing everything from election results to baseball to the existence of God and the psychology of slime molds with a heightened sense of clarity and wonder. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see the hidden structures beneath the messy and chaotic surface of our daily lives. How Not to Be Wrong shows us how--Publisher's description.

The Daily Stoic

The Daily Stoic
Author: Ryan Holiday
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0735211744

From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.

USA TODAY Crossword 2

USA TODAY Crossword 2
Author: Usa Today
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2011-06-07
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1449403131

The nation’s #1 newspaper, USA TODAY, presents a new collection of 200 crossword puzzles. The USA TODAY brand reaches over 6 million people daily. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that cognitive puzzles such as crosswords "can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body." This cranium compendium features 200 brain-boosting crosswords from The Nation's No. 1 Newspaper, USA TODAY. Puzzlesmiths of all skill levels will enjoy this ultimate puzzling challenge offering hours of enlightening entertainment and brain-bolstering fun from America's trusted news--and gaming--authority, USA TODAY. Keep your brain in shape with USA Today Crossword 2.

Vixen in Velvet

Vixen in Velvet
Author: Loretta Chase
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062098268

From the Diary of Leonie Noirot: The perfect corset should invite its undoing . . . Lethally charming Simon Blair, Marquess of Lisburne, has reluctantly returned to London for one reason only: a family obligation. Still, he might make time for the seduction of a certain redheaded dressmaker—but Leonie Noirot hasn't time for him. She's obsessed with transforming his cousin, the dowdy Lady Gladys, into a swan. Leonie's skills can coax curves—and profits—from thin air, but his criminally handsome lordship is too busy trying to seduce her to appreciate her genius. He badly needs to learn a lesson, and the wager she provokes ought to teach him, once and for all. A great plan, in theory—but Lisburne's become a serious distraction and Leonie's usual logic is in danger of slipping away as easily as a silk chemise. Could the Season's greatest transformation be her own?