wyszukanych pozycji: 49
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So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind
ISBN: 9781783351916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) . Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have confounded and intrigued solvers for the last thousand years.
. Everything is at stake in this compendium of more than 150 ingenious puzzles, selected to reveal the wonderful diversity of brainteasers that have...
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Futebol: The Brazilian Way of Life - Updated Edition
ISBN: 9781408854167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Brazilian football team is one of the modern wonders of the world. Travelling extensively from the coastal cities of Rio de Janiero and Sao Paolo to the Amazon jungle, Bellos shows how Brazil changed football and how football shaped Brazil."
The Brazilian football team is one of the modern wonders of the world. Travelling extensively from the coastal cities of Rio de Janiero and Sao Paolo ...
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Puzzle Me Twice: 70 Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong
ISBN: 9798893030280 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in common—a wrong answer that seems so right! In Puzzle Me Twice, you’ll have to think—and think again—to overrule your first instinct and uncover the truth. For example: If a hen and a half lays an egg and a half in a day and a half, how many eggs do half a dozen hens lay in half a dozen days?* Bestselling author Alex Bellos wrangles math and physics, logic and wordplay, optical illusions, card games, and more to tie readers’ brains in pleasurable...
From mathy mind-benders to eye-fooling illusions, here are 70 perplexing puzzles of every kind. But they all have one key thing in common—a wrong an...
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Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese Puzzle Masters
ISBN: 9781783351374 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems? The puzzle masters of Japan create the world's most satisfying puzzles. Each has a distinctive style but what unites them is their megawatt brains and the beauty of their hand-crafted puzzles, which will challenge and sharpen the mind. Alex Bellos has collected over 200 of their most ingenious puzzles, rated easy to excruciating, and introduces over twenty new types of addictive problems to solve. Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzle ninja?
From the Guardian's very own puzzle master, Puzzle Ninja is a new collection following the bestselling Can You Solve My Problems? The puzzle master...
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Here's Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance - An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers
ISBN: 9781416588283 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematical thought is one of the great achievements of the human race, and arguably the foundation of all human progress. The world of mathematics is a remarkable place." Bellos has traveled all around the globe and has plunged into history to uncover fascinating stories of mathematical achievement, from the breakthroughs of Euclid, the greatest mathematician of all time, to the creations of the Zen master of origami, one of the hottest areas of...
Too often math gets a bad rap, characterized as dry and difficult. But, Alex Bellos says, "math can be inspiring and brilliantly creative. Mathematica...
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland: Tenth Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9781526623997 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The tenth anniversary edition of the Sunday Times bestselling book The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating,...
The tenth anniversary edition of the Sunday Times bestselling book The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring...
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The Language Lover’s Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe
ISBN: 9781783352197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Przemyśl to
ISBN: 9788368610079 / Polski / broszurowa / 2025 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Genialne! G.T. Karber, autor MURDLEBestseller The Sunday Times wreszcie w Polsce!Myślisz, że jesteś nieomylny?Pomyśl jeszcze raz.Przed tobą 70 zagadek logicznych, które wydają się banalnie proste! A jednak większość osób ma kłopot z ich poprawnym rozwiązaniem.Czy podejmiesz to wyzwanie?Psychologia, statystyka, iluzje i złudzenia optyczne to tylko nieliczne z kategorii, w których zostaniesz przetestowany. I już teraz wiemy, że popełnisz błąd! Dlaczego tak się stanie? I jak trenować swój umysł, aby nie dać się znów oszukać?Alex Bellos, twórca zagadek...
Genialne! G.T. Karber, autor MURDLEBestseller The Sunday Times wreszcie w Polsce!Myślisz, że jesteś nieomylny?Pomyśl jeszcze raz.Przed tobą 70 z...
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Think Twice: Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong
ISBN: 9781529934793 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Alex za zrcadlem
ISBN: 9788073637743 / Czeski / 2016 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Náš nesmírně složitý svět se překvapivě často řídí neočekávanými matematickými schématy. Alex Bellos, autor bestselleru Alexova dobrodružství v zemi čísel , se opět ujal role zábavného a současně trpělivého průvodce. Z abstraktního světa matematiky se tentokrát vrací do světa konkrétní každodenní zkušenosti. Na cestě matematickou krajinou potkáme trojúhelníky, rotace a mocninové zákony, ale i fraktály, kužele a křivky. Autor se s vámi podělí o výsledky své ankety, ve které hlasovalo 30 000 respondentů o nejoblíbenější číslo na...
Náš nesmírně složitý svět se překvapivě často řídí neočekávanými matematickými schématy. Alex Bellos, autor bestselleru Alexova dobr...
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The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles
ISBN: 9781615198047 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 1-3 dni roboczych |
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Georges Perec: A Life in Words
ISBN: 9781846554209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times. Winner of the Prix Goncourt for Biography, 1994. George Perec (1936-82) was one of the most significant European writers of the twentieth century and undoubtedly the most versatile and innovative writer of his generation. David Bellos's comprehensive biography - which also provides the first full survey of Perec's irreverent, polymathic oeuvre - explores the life of an anguished, comical and endearingly modest man, who worked quietly as an archivist in a medical...
It's hard to see how anyone is ever going to better this User's Manual to the life of Georges Perec - Gilbert Adair, Sunday Times. Winner of the Prix ...
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Think Twice
ISBN: 9783492321587 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Train your brain! Die besten Rätsel sind die, die uns täuschen. Sie erscheinen auf den ersten Blick simpel und banal - und wir lösen sie trotzdem falsch. In diesem Buch finden sich 70 verblüffende Rätsel aus Psychologie, Mathematik, Statistik, Physik, Geografie, Wahrnehmungstheorie und vielen anderen Bereichen. Sie führen (fast) jeden in die Irre und ihre Lösungen sind oft so naheliegend, dass wir uns überrascht und ein wenig beschämt vor die Stirn schlagen. Ganz nach dem Motto: Denke einmal und du wirst stolpern, denke zweimal und du hast eine... Train your brain! Die besten Rätsel sind die, die uns täuschen. Sie erscheinen auf den ersten Blick simpel und banal - und... |
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Alex Through the Looking-Glass: How Life Reflects Numbers, and Numbers Reflect Life
ISBN: 9781408845721 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over the world, Alex demonstrates how numbers have come to be our friends, are fascinating and extremely accessible, and how they have changed our world. He turns even the dreaded calculus into an easy-to-grasp mathematical exposition, and sifts through over 30,000 survey submissions to reveal the...
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discove...
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Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles
ISBN: 9781783351152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Pit your wits against logic puzzles and kinship riddles, pangrams and river-crossing conundrums. Some solutions rely on a touch of cunning, call for creativity, need mercilessly logical thought.
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. ...
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Jacques Tati
ISBN: 9781860469244 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A Frenchman of Russian origins, Jacques Tati worked as a picture-framer and a music-hall mime before being drawn into the world of the French cinema and making the films that rank him with the most popular comedy actor/directors in any country. He brought to his films"Jour de Fete, Monsieur Hulot's Holidays, Mon Oncle, Playtime" and othersa healthy openness to new technology in movie-making and a rigorous precision, the hallmark of many great clowns, in the execution of each scene. In this, the first complete, authoritative biography of the French icon, David Bellos has had the complete...
A Frenchman of Russian origins, Jacques Tati worked as a picture-framer and a music-hall mime before being drawn into the world of the French cinema a...
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Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
ISBN: 9780865478763 / Angielski / Inna / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) An NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek; the Romans made everyone speak Latin; and in India, people learned their neighbors' languages--as did many ordinary Europeans in times past (Christopher Columbus knew Italian, Portuguese, and Castilian Spanish as well as the classical languages). But today, we all use translation to cope with the... An NBCC Award and Los Angeles Times Book Award finalist |
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Foreign Direct Investments Determinants in the Transition Economies
ISBN: 9786139934218 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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L'impatto dei regolamenti sulla massa lorda verificata nelle operazioni portuali
ISBN: 9786204083117 / Włoski / Miękka / 2021 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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The Grapes of Math: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life
ISBN: 9781451640113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics...Great reading for the intellectually curious," (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author of Here's Looking at Euclid--a dazzling new book that turns even the most complex math into a brilliantly entertaining read. From triangles, rotations, and power laws, to cones, curves, and the dreaded calculus, Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit and limitless enthusiasm. He sifts through more than 30,000 survey submissions to uncover the world's favorite number and meets a...
"A first-rate survey of the world of mathematics...Great reading for the intellectually curious," (Kirkus Reviews) from the bestselling author ...
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