The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Kordemsky Boris A.)(Paperback)

The Moscow Puzzles: 359 Mathematical Recreations (Kordemsky Boris A.)(Paperback)

This is, quite simply, the best and most popular puzzle book ever published in the Soviet Union. Since its first appearance in 1956 there have been eight editions as well as translations from the original Russian into Ukrainian, Estonian, Lettish, and Lithuanian. Almost a million copies of the

Mathematical Recreations (Kraitchik Maurice)(Paperback)

Ranging from ancient Greek and Roman problems to the most modern applications of special mathematical techniques for amusement, this popular volume contains material to delight both beginners and advanced mathematicians. Its 250 lively puzzles, problems, situations, and demonstrations of

Mathematical Team Games - Enjoyable Activities to Enhance the Curriculum (Lucas Vivien)(Paperback / softback)

Team Games are special mathematical puzzles and problems which produce real cooperation between the members of a team. The mathematical content is that of the normal curriculum and whether you call them games, puzzles or problems they undoubtedly offer a very positive experience at a variety of

My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Gardner Martin)(Paperback)

Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities (Stewart Professor Ian)(Paperback / softback)

Features mathematical oddities such as games, puzzles, facts, numbers and mathematical

Doctor Zhivago (Pasternak Boris)(Paperback / softback)

Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara

Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles (Gardner Martin)(Paperback)

Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime -- as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem.Written

The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time (Devlin Keith)(Paperback)

In 2000, the Clay Foundation of Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced a historic competition: whoever could solve any of seven extraordinarily difficult mathematical problems, and have the solution acknowledged as correct by the experts, would receive 1 million in prize money. There was some

Boris - The Adventures of Boris Johnson (Gimson Andrew)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive word on Boris Johnson, the UK's most colourful politician who led the country to Brexit but missed out on becoming

Moscow, 1937 (Schlgel Karl)(Paperback)

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin's dictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane of violence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schl gel reconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, month by month, the terrorism of a

GED Mathematical Reasoning Test for Dummies (Shukyn Murray)(Paperback)

Gear up to crush the GED Mathematical Test Does the thought of taking the GED Mathematical Reasoning Test make you weak? Fear not With the help of GED Mathematical Reasoning Test For Dummies, you'll get up to speed on the new structure and computer-based format of the GED and gain the confidence

Moscow at Midnight (McGrane Sally)(Paperback / softback)

Max Rushmore is re-hired by the CIA to return to Moscow and investigate the death of a beautiful nuclear waste disposal expert. So begins a game of cat-and-mouse that takes Max across Russia, as he follows his only clue: a rare Siberian diamond. All the breathless tension of classic espionage

Mathematical Puzzles (Winkler Peter)(Paperback)

Research in mathematics is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases one's armory of techniques for doing mathematics. Mathematical Puzzles makes this connection explicit by isolating important mathematical

Mathematical Techniques: An Introduction for the Engineering, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences (Jordan Dominic)(Paperback)

Boris Johnson - The Gambler (Bower Tom)(Paperback / softback)

Moscow Rules: What Drives Russia to Confront the West (Giles Keir)(Paperback)

From Moscow, the world looks different. It is through understanding how Russia sees the world--and its place in it--that the West can best meet the Russian challenge.Russia and the West are like neighbors who never seem able to understand each other. A major reason, this book argues, is that

Moscow, St. Petersburg & the Golden Ring (Nordbye Masha)(Paperback)

As the symbolic heart of Russia, Moscow, which celebrated its 867th anniversary in 2014, has enjoyed a renaissance as one of the world's great cities. The capital's streets now buzz 24 hours a day, and joint ventures between east and west have already

Number Puzzles (Montague-Smith Ann)(Paperback / softback)

Written by teachers for Key Stage 2 children, this work helps develop mathematical and thinking skills. It includes puzzle types such as: Sodoku, Kakuro, Arithmagons, Magic squares, Latin squares, Multiplication pyramids and Grand

Mathematical Puzzles: A Connoisseur's Collection (Winkler Peter)(Paperback)

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler, of Bell Labs, dozens of elegant, intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain, but without this book, devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or

DK Eyewitness Moscow (DK Eyewitness)(Paperback / softback)

Leads you straight to the best attractions Moscow has to offer. This guide includes unique cutaways, floorplans and reconstructions of the city's architecture, as well as 3D aerial views of the key districts to explore on foot. It also includes detailed listings of the best hotels, restaurants,

More Without Words: Mathematical Puzzles to Confound and Delight (Tanton James)(Paperback / softback)

All real life mathematics is problem solving. And all those fascinated by puzzles are problem solvers at heart. But thinking mathematically is a skill we have to learn and one which it is easy to forget. Recreational mathematicians and students can practise problem solving in different ways. In

Art Power (Groys Boris)(Paperback)

A new book by Boris Groys acknowledges the problem and potential of art's complex relationship to power.Art has its own power in the world, and is as much a force in the power play of global politics today as it once was in the arena of cold war politics. Art, argues the distinguished theoretician

Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow (Reyfman Irina)(Paperback)

Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow is among the most important pieces of writing to come out of Russia in the age of Catherine the Great. An account of a fictional journey along a postal route, it blends literature, philosophy, and political economy to expose social and

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations (Haywood John)(Paperback)

This new historical atlas - richly illustrated with photographs, artwork recreations and full-colour maps - explores the world's earliest civilisations from the first farming settlements of Mesopotamia, via Egypt, Greece and Rome, to the civilisations of the Far East, Europe and America