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Martin Gardner's Science Magic by Martin Gardner 9780486476575
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $5.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486476575Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
The Yew Hedge by Martin Gardner 9781910877425
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $18.76The Yew Hedge by Martin Gardner from the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh tells the fascinating story of some remarkable native forests and heritage trees of the European yew (Taxus baccata) located in... -
Knots and Borromean Rings, Rep-Tiles, and Eight Queens: Martin Gardner's Unexpected Hanging by Martin Gardner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $22.28The hangman's paradox, cat's cradle, gambling, peg solitaire, pi and e - all these and more are back in Martin Gardner's inimitable style, with updates on new developments and discoveries. Read about... -
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Martin Gardner
Booksplease Price: $8.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486247618Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles by Martin Gardner 9780486252117
RRP: $11.38Booksplease Price: $9.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486252117Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint -
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers by Martin Gardner 9780486256375
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486256375Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science by Martin Gardner 9780486203942
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $15.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486203942Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 373Imprint -
My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner 9780486281520
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $5.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486281520Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint -
Best Remembered Poems by Martin Gardner 9780486271651 [USED COPY]
RRP: $10.04Booksplease Price: $4.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486271651Author Martin GardnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Problems by Martin Gardner
RRP: $42.87Booksplease Price: $40.07Whether discussing hexaflexagons or number theory, Klein bottles or the essence of "nothing," Martin Gardner has single-handedly created the field of "recreational mathematics." The Colossal Book of... -
Hidden Goddess, The: The Quest for the Divine Feminine in the Judeo-Christian Tradition - from Asherah to Mary Magdalene Laurie Martin-Gardner 9781785359088
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $8.25The Hidden Goddess delves into the Bible to uncover the goddesses that have been buried within it. As well as discussing familiar figures such as Eve and Mary, the book also features Asherah, Sophia,... -
The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.37'A landmark, bringing together a lifetime's work on Lewis Carroll by writer and mathematician Martin Gardner. He dazzles on Carroll's puzzles and games of logic and entertains on everything from... -
The Poincaré Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe by Donal O'Shea 9780141032382
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The Poincare Conjecture tells the story behind one of the world's most confounding mathematical theories. Formulated in 1904 by Henri Poincare, his Conjecture promised to describe the very shape of... -
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue by W. H. Auden
RRP: $26.80Booksplease Price: $22.70When it was first published in 1947, The Age of Anxiety--W. H. Auden's last, longest, and most ambitious book-length poem--immediately struck a powerful chord, capturing the imagination of the... -
Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas by Julian Havil 9780691148229
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $20.78Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely... -
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: 150th Anniversary Edition by Lewis Carroll
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $24.13Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge... -
The Annotated Alice: 150th Anniversary Deluxe Edition by Lewis Carroll 9780393245431
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $47.69One summer afternoon in 1862, the Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson took a rowboat out on the Thames. With him were three young friends from the Liddell family-the sisters Lorina, Edith, and Alice... -
Fantastic Flexagons: Hexaflexagons and Other Flexible Folds to Twist and Turn by Nick Robinson
RRP: $8.03Booksplease Price: $6.59Are you ready to flip out? Hexaflexagons are six-sided, flat paper models that can be made to reveal hidden images through a series of flexes and folds. Flexagons were first introduced in a column... -
Who Knows?: A Study of Religious Consciousness by Raymond M. Smullyan
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86Is there really a God, and if so, what is God actually like? Is there an afterlife, and if so, is there such a thing as eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners, as many orthodox Christians and... -
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll 9780140434910
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $11.28'They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway share; They charmed it with smiles and soap' Ever since Lewis... -
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker 9780691191386
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.08A dynamic exploration of infinityIn Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms:... -
Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty by Greer Fitting 9780486482002 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $3.75Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings... -
Surreal Numbers by Donald E. Knuth
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.91Nearly 30 years ago, John Horton Conway introduced a new way to construct numbers. Donald E. Knuth, in appreciation of this revolutionary system, took a week off from work on The Art of Computer... -
Experiments Against Reality: The Fate of Culture in the Postmodern Age by Roger Kimball 9781566634304
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.36Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the... -
Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension by Matt Parker
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.08'Maths at its most playful and multifarious' Jordan EllenbergMatt Parker, author of the No.1 bestseller Humble Pi, takes us on a riotous journey through the possibilities of numbers Mathematician... -
1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics by David Acheson
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.19David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via... -
The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why by Arthur Benjamin
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.59A New York Times Bestseller Arthur Benjamin . . . joyfully shows you how to make nature's numbers dance." ,Bill Nye The Magic of Math is the math book you wish you had in school. Using a...