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  • A Gardner’s Workout
    Martin Gardner
    This book presents a collection of problems and puzzles, and provides the tools and projects to furnish all-too-sluggish minds with an athletic workout and which foster an agility of the mind as they entertain. It is dedicated to all the underpaid teachers of mathematics everywhere. ...
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    117,49 €

  • The SPRIGHTLY LADY and her Hurricane and Short Stories from Capt. Gardner M. Kelley
    Capt. Gardner Martin Kelley / CaptGardner Martin Kelley
    The 'SPRIGHTLY LADY' and her Hurricane and Short Stories from Capt. Gardner M. Kelley Thelma a rich, 'SPRIGHTLY LADY' with a nice yacht named for herself. She was very disappointed. She had been planning for a cruise to the Abaco’s, in the Bahamas before going north for the summer. She was looking at a picture of a body in a dingy, behind a sailing yacht. The body was not menti...
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    29,59 €

  • Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens
    Martin Gardner
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    26,97 €

  • Quiz Kids
    Martin A. Gardner
    Quiz Kids was a network radio program that aired from 1940 to 1953 featuring smart children answering difficult questions submitted by listeners. Part of radio history during its 'golden age,' Quiz Kids thrived during a period of dramatic change in America. Audiences marveled at the speed with which the Kids answered the most difficult questions, vaulting the show beyond t...
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    49,86 €

  • Escape from the Atomic Fallout
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    The author along with his wife and two young grandsons are stranded at his (almost bomb proof) hunting camp in Marion, Maine after a severe snow storm blocks the roads. Unknown to the fact that there has been a disaster and all are dead, the captain travels by snowshoes to investigate. Rather than join his neighbors in death he must get himself, his wife, and the two boys on a ...
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    29,06 €

  • Perspicacity
    Martin Leonard Gardner
    An array of subjects hand picked by the author which discuss thoughts as perceived by that author. Subjects all would love to discuss but somehow never seem to. Political, social, historical, legal, constitutional, insurance editorial, religious. To put it simply, a book on common sense that lays it all out for your perusal. A book that says what you want to talk about but n...
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    17,57 €

  • Murder on Liberty Ship Hull # 13
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    SynopsisThe Liberty Ship Murder on Hull # 13, it will not be remembered for the murder which was of no importance except to the participants. What will be remembered are the antics of the shipyard stud by many of the young women on their lonely nights?My job was as an agent sent to the ship yard to investigate the demise of a woman worker. My interest was soon diverted to this ...
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    23,37 €

  • To Touch the Moon
    Laurie Martin-Gardner
    Emerge from melancholy in to a moonlit night of bittersweet poetry and haunting tales of dreams and darkness in the newest work by author Laurie Martin-Gardner.Contains 24 poems and 3 short stories. ...
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    14,13 €

  • The Hi-Jack of the Trump Princess
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    Synopsis The captain was an author of several sea stories of adventures since his birth at sea. He had been born on the two mast schooner the 'LIZZIE MAE' while she was 'hove to' in a bad winter storm, around Boon Island Lighthouse. Now with recall he was ready to use his experienced for a new caper. With so many boats being stolen from Florida’s ports going to Cuba and Mexic...
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    23,23 €

  • Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
    Martin Gardner
    Famed puzzle expert explains math behind a multitude of mystifying tricks: card tricks, stage 'mind reading,' coin and match tricks, counting out games, geometric dissections, etc. Probability, sets, theory of numbers clearly explained. Also, more than 400 tricks, guaranteed to work, that you can do. 135 illustrations. ...
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    11,81 €

  • Kathleen of the Outer Banks
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    Kathleen Olsen called Svenska Flicker by her grandmother is of Swedish stock. The old grandmother wants better than a shack on these beautiful Outer Banks Sea Shores; she wants her to have the whole world, as she did sailing with her husband. Kathleen is guarded well, not allowed to run loose as are many of the young girls of the Outer Banks. She is pure and innocent when a you...
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    23,18 €

  • Blackbeard, the Pirate Vs the Outer Banks Boy from Nowhere
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    This story happened between 1714 and 1718. In this story of mine, I have changed the way that Blackbeard was supposed to be killed and the story I have written just might be the way Blackbeard died.I have tried to put together a story from what I have read and what I have learned on the waterways from my adventures and experiences of living and traveling on the water.The Outer ...
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    23,56 €

  • The Search for the 'Molly Brown'
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    Fred did not die on his island, another heart attack did not happen. He had plenty of money and maybe, even some life time left. Fred made up his mind; he would go up and down the waterway searching for his lost boat, the 'MOLLY BROWN'. She had to be hidden very well, no one has seen her.With his old skiff he uses the current to drift south to a town. He rides a bus to Charles...
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    23,61 €

  • Cruising with Fred and His Unsinkable 'Molly Brown'
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    Fred has led a mediocre life for over sixty years. He wants some adventure in his life. He bought a boat to cruise around and down the waterway. His wife will not join him. He has to get away or in his frustration he will do his first acting of violence. He loves the boat and his freedom. He finds exciting sex with a pretty boat bum. Later he is mugged and thrown off a bridg...
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    23,56 €

  • The Outer Banks Sea Gypsies
    Capt Gardner Martin Kelley
    This story of adventure is of the last days of the cargo sailing schooners that carried freight to all ports of the world. Captain Fickett’s son, Ron is swept overboard, to drift ashore on the desolate Outer Banks of North Carolina. The ship is wrecked, later several miles below Cape Hatteras (The Graveyard of the Atlantic). The captain is murdered as he tries to get ashore. Jo...
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    25,13 €

  • When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish
    Martin Gardner
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    16,54 €

  • Gentle Melancholy
    Laurie Martin-Gardner
    Immerse yourself in the dark world of Laurie Martin-Gardner in this collection of nineteen poems and three short stories. Be swept along by the raw and visceral imagery of poems born in the shadows of the heart. Visit the shores of the forbidden and the depths of insanity. Experience eternal power and frightful vengeance. Explore the heights of passion and the depths of despair...
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    17,75 €

  • Sphere Packing, Lewis Carroll, and Reversi
    Martin Gardner
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    26,92 €

  • The Marx Brothers as Social Critics
    Martin A. Gardner
    The Marx Brothers’ films are packed with slapstick and obvious jokes, gags, puns, pratfalls, and mimicry. But beneath the laughs is a serious and biting condemnation of American culture. This book examines historical events, political practices, economic conditions, manners and customs, literary subjects, and popular entertainment as satirized in the films and considers the ...
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    42,89 €

  • Origami, Eleusis, and the Soma Cube
    Martin Gardner
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    27,15 €

  • Hexaflexagons, Probability Paradoxes, and the Tower of Hanoi
    Martin Gardner
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    23,66 €

  • Match-IC
    Martin Gardner
    Originally published in 1935, here is Martin Gardner’s collection of more than 70 impromptu tricks with matches. A Brownstone Classic of Magic. 3 ...
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    8,64 €

  • The Last Recreations
    Martin Gardner
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    38,28 €

  • The Universe in a Handkerchief
    Martin Gardner
    This book contains scores of intriguing puzzles and paradoxes from Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland, whose interests ranged from inventing new games like Arithmetical Croquet to important problems in symbolic logic and propositional calculus. Written by Carroll expert and well-known mathematics author Martin Gardner, this tour through ...
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    45,95 €

  • Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
    Martin Gardner
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    19,77 €

  • The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
    Gardner / Martin Gardner
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    25,69 €

  • Calculus Made Easy
    Martin Gardner / Silvanus P Thompson
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    102,91 €

  • Science
    Martin Gardner
    In this lively collection, Gardner examines the rich and hilarious variety of pseudoscientific conjectures that dominate the media today. With a special emphasis on parapsychology and occultism, these witty pieces address the evidence put forth to support claims of ESP, psychokinesis, faith healing, and other pseudoscience. ...
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    22,89 €

  • Mathematische Knobeleien
    Martin Gardner
    Bei dem englischen Mathematiker john Edenser Littlewood steht in der Einleitung zu Mathematician’s Miscellany, einer Sammlung mathematischer Miscellen, unter anderem der Satz: 'Ein guter mathematischer Scherz ist immer besser - und zwar sogar als Mathematik besser - als ein ganzes Dutzend mittelmäßiger gelehrter Ab­ handlungen. ' Mathematische Scherze...
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    74,54 €

  • Mathemagische Tricks
    Martin Gardner
    Wie viele andere Bereiche, die sich tiber mehrere Fachgebiete erstrecken, wird oft auch die mathematische Zauberei in zweifacher Hinsicht geringschiitzig behandelt. Mathematiker betrachten sie gerne als triviale Spielerei, die Zauberer lehnen sie als zu schwerfallig abo Wenn man ein Epigramm tiber Biophysiker auf diese Situation anwendet, so langweile...
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    72,97 €


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