Rubik's Cubic Compendium

Rubik's Cubic Compendium
Author: Ernő Rubik
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1987
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

Co-written by the cube's inventor, this book serves as a comprehensive guide to the Rubik's cube. It opens up a wealth of fascinating mathematics and offers a vast number of new ideas and possibilities to those who have solved the cube as well as to those who remain puzzled.

White House Studies Compendium

White House Studies Compendium
Author: Robert W. Watson
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781600215339

" ... brings together piercing analyses of the American presidency - dealing with both current issues and historical events. The compendia consists of the combined and rearranged issues of [the journal] "White House Studies" with the addition of a comprehensive subject index."--Preface.

The American Piano Concerto Compendium

The American Piano Concerto Compendium
Author: William Phemister
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-06-20
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1538112345

The second edition of William Phemister’s The American Piano Concerto Compendium reveals to professional and amateurs pianists alike a vast collection of available compositions by American composers. Analysis expands outside mainstream concerto styles to include those considered experimental or popular derivatives. The range of music flows from Pulitzer Prize winners like Samuel Barber, Gail Kubik, and John LaMontaine, to lesser-known multi-ethnic composers such as Tania León and Samuel Zyman, to old standards like Edward MacDowell and the first piano concerto written by an American-born composer, Otis B. Boise (1875), to the cutting-edge avant-garde of Milton Babbitt and Elliott Carter, just to name a few. These all contribute to the varied narrative that animates American piano music. With forty percent more works described, documented, and reviewed than were listed in the 1985 first edition from the College Music Society, this second edition is a valuable resource not only for pianists and conductors, but also for orchestras, teachers, students, music historians and critics, collectors, and concert attendees.

Cracking the Cube

Cracking the Cube
Author: Ian Scheffler
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-07-04
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1501121936

"[The author, a] journalist and aspiring "speedcuber," attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik's Cube ... while exploring the greater lessons that can be learned through solving it"--Amazon.com.

The Puzzle Instinct

The Puzzle Instinct
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2004-02-20
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780253217080

"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers

Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium

Gabay's Copywriters' Compendium
Author: J. Jonathan Gabay
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 711
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0750683201

Marketers, creative writers, and individuals for whom copywriting forms part of their job are often required to produce innovative and engaging copy in a short space of time. Creativity is not always to hand, and therefore on some occasions additional help is required to find the right phrase, description or slogan. Gabay's Copywriting Compendium contains a wealth of inspiring tips, ideas and descriptions to aid the writing process, such as advice on spelling and grammar, examples of rhyming words, suggested euphemisms, and odd facts.

Universe of Cube

Universe of Cube
Author: Henrique Marinho
Publisher: Henrique Marinho
Total Pages: 137
Release:
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN:

Have you ever played with a Rubik’s Cube during your childhood? Did you make some moves and then give up because you found it impossible to solve? Did you miss it because you couldn’t bring all 6 colors together at all? Learning to solve the Rubbik’s Cube you learn in theory and practice how to assimilate a technique, you learn to learn and understand how to overcome difficulties. You develop and improve perhaps the most important skill of all, the ability to solve problems. Embark on this fantastic journey in the cube universe: – Learn to solve the Rubik’s Cube with the basic method. – Complete Fridrich method with 2 algorithms for each of the 119 cases. – Learn the history of the most famous puzzle in the world. – Challenge your limits by knowing other puzzles. – Understand the modalities of official resolutions. – Meet the greatest cubists in Brazil and the world. – Full glossary of cubist terms, acronyms and records. – List of appearances of the rubik’s cube in films, series and other media. – List of curiosities about the 3x3x3 magic cube. – List of 3x3x3 magic cube patterns. – Complete basic method of solving Square-1. – + Extra content. Will you solve this cube or leave it adorning the bookcase just as a piece of decoration? Learn a simple resolution technique and gain motivation to get other projects out of your life on paper. Understand the inner workings of the cube with several illustrations and entertain yourself in this light reading and in a very good mood.

An Anthropology of Puzzles

An Anthropology of Puzzles
Author: Marcel Danesi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2020-05-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000185508

An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from discoveries in mathematics to disquisitions in philosophy. Danesi examines the cognitive processes that are involved in puzzle making and solving, and connects them to the actual physical manifestations of classic puzzles. Building on a concept of puzzles as based on Jungian archetypes, such as the river crossing image, the path metaphor, and the journey, Danesi suggests this could be one way to understand the public fascination with puzzles. As well as drawing on underlying mental archetypes, the act of solving puzzles also provides an outlet to move beyond biological evolution, and Danesi shows that puzzles could be the product of the same basic neural mechanism that produces language and culture. Finally, Danesi explores how understanding puzzles can be a new way of understanding our human culture.

Rubik's

Rubik's
Author: Official Rubik's
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0711298289

A vibrant visual celebration of the iconic cube. The Rubik’s® Cube was created in 1974 by Ernő Rubik, a Hungarian architecture professor. Rubik later used the Cube as a learning exercise to teach his students about three-dimensional spaces. Little did he know his ‘magic cube’ (as he originally named it) would become one of the most famous puzzles of all time! By the 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube was a worldwide craze, selling millions every year and cementing its pop culture legacy. It has featured in everything from The Simpsons to Harry Styles' last tour. Perfect for all fans of the Cube, this book is a vibrant celebration of the iconic puzzle. It explores 50 key moments in the Cube's life, encompassing everything from its design evolution to celebrity solvers and cube-solving records. With great quotes, fascinating stats and facts, fun photos and plenty of nostalgia it is a perfect gift for the Rubik's fan in your life and offers plenty of new insight for seasoned solvers. Includes a foreword by Ernő Rubik.