Bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll, this work looks at Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and focuses on topics ranging from Alice's influence on the Beat poet, Jack Kerouac to how mercury in hat linings turned hatters mad.

The latest on packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, digits of pi, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll.

The latest on packing spheres, Reversi, braids, polyominoes, board games, digits of pi, and the puzzles of Lewis Carroll.

Reproduces the original illustrations by Henry Holiday of the author's epic which appeared in 1876. This book also contains F C S Schiller's Commentary on the Snark and J A Lyndon's Fit the Seven-and-a-Halfth .

Contains Lewis Carroll's poem, The Hunting of the Snark , along with Martin Gardner's Snarkteasers , which includes questions, such as: can you rearrange the letters of ocean to spell something in which one can spend days in the ocean? But if the ocean is frisky, it's risky. Can you make the number even by crossing out one letter in Seven?

Suitable for longtime Gardner readers, this work offers a selection of stimulating intellectual wonders. It discusses two neglected works by G K Chesterton, one of which concerns an imaginary but now very topical war between Islam and Christianity. It also considers the fantasies of L Frank Baum that don't take place in Oz .

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is the quintessential American fairy tale, but it is also a controversial children's book. This annoted edition illuminates the numerous contemporary references, provides character sources, and explains the actual meaning of the word Oz .

First published in 1910, this text aims to make the topic of calculus accessible to students of mathematics. Gardner has updated the text to reflect developments in method and terminology, written an extensive preface and three new chapters, and added more than 20 recreational problems.

The first of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

The second of fifteen updated editions of the collected Mathematical Games of Martin Gardner, king of recreational mathematics.

This work contains the annotations of Martin Gardner of the Alice books. It contains new discoveries and updates drawn from Gardner's knowledge of the texts.

Presents the history of the Urantia movement, from its beginnings in the early 20th century. This book also presents an outline of the Urantia cult's worldview. It also analyzes the flaws in Urantian science and points out many instances of plagiarism.

Gives kids the opportunity to play with the images. This pack also includes punch-out cards that enhance every illusion, plus a vinyl pouch for safely storing the cards afterwards. It helps children figure out if the two differently shaped tables in a picture are actually the same size, by laying a checkered tablecloth over them both.

Martin Gardner's aha! Gotcha and aha! Insight combined: 144 wonderful puzzles from the reigning king of recreational mathematics.

Introduces readers to probability paradoxes, the attacks on the Big Bang Theory, and Marianne Williamson's success promoting The Course of Miracles , which is said to have been channelled by Jesus.

Includes thirty-four essays by some of the eminent philosophers, scientists, and writers on the fundamental aspects of modern science. This title presents an informal history of the people and ideas that have shaped our culture and transformed our everyday lives.