From The Wandering Jew To William F Buckley Jr
 Odd Assortment: I came to this book with the wrong idea. I had expected variations on a theme, but this turned out to be a bewildering hodge-podge. (I had hoped for a running dissection of the strange things people believe and why they believe them -- [... more]
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Urantia Great Cult Mystery
From Amazon.com: The media has temporarily turned its large but constantly blinking eye away from cult-of-the-day reportage after the Waco conflagration, but such organizations continue to collect adherents. Martin Gardner, best known as mathematical- [... more]
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The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry ...
Wonderful, but somewhat out-of-date (only at the end).: I think that THE NEW AMBIDEXTROUS UNIVERSE (1990) is a wonderful book on symmetry and asymmetry in the worlds of everyday life, chemistry, physics, and unification theories. Everything in this book [... more]
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Smart Science Tricks
Author: Martin Gardner Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 793.8 EAN: 9781402722202 ISBN: 1402722206 Number Of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2005-10-01 Reading Level: Ages 9-12 [... more]
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Classic Brainteasers
Okay, so, you think you're so smart, huh? Try this book...: My favorite part of Martin Gardner's "Classic Brainteasers" are the Logic Puzzles (although I was miffed when he actually provided a hint on one of them!). The Warming Up section might [... more]
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Sciencegood Bad Bogus
The simple, effective arguments against pseudoscience: I first read this book almost twenty years ago and even though some of the events and principals have faded into oblivion, the basic theme has not. While there are some negative consequences of [... more]
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Martin Gardner's Table Magic
Excellent for beginners or even old pros!: This book has excerpted material also found in Gardner's mammoth "Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic," and the material, as the title suggests, is limited to items performable in an after-dinner setting. [... more]
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Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
One of the most fantastic books on close-up magic.: This book is very nice. It teaches you how to do magic with any houshold items. There are 2 chapters with cards too. NONE of the tricks described here use any sort of slight of hand. It is 100% [... more]
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Calculus Made Easy
More interesting than crosswords: I withdrew from first year university calculus after the first lecture - it was some impossible situation involving rowing across a river. In a theatre with hundreds of not especially attentive students, it was just all [... more]
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No Sided Professor
Author: Martin Gardner Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780879753900 ISBN: 0879753900 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 1996-10-31 Release Date: 1996-10-31 [... more]
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The Whys Of a Philosophical Scrivener
Great book from America's Leading Freethinker: This is yet another great collection in which Gardner sets about destroying the illogical and psychologically damaging views propounded by new age guru's, pseudo-science and religious fanatics. A great [... more]
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Haha ou l'eclair de la comprehension mathematique
Author: Gardner Martin Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 793.7'4 EAN: 9782902918874 ISBN: 2902918879 Number Of Pages: 182 Publication Date: 1996 [... more]
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