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'Dear God, what is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring.'

Can you pit your wits against the best and the wisest? Through these 200 puzzles and challenges, you'll be able to elevate your powers of deduction, detection and general brilliance.

From codes and sequences to perceptual and logic problems, there are puzzles for all levels, from beginner (John) to expert (Sherlock). With hints and tips for solving the most difficult puzzles, and explanations of how Sherlock (and hopefully you) arrived at them, this is your chance to build your own mind palace....

By the end of the fifteenth century most European counties had witnessed a profound reformation of their poor relief and health care policies. As this book demonstrates, Portugal was among them and actively participated in such reforms. Providing the first English language monograph on this this topic, Laurinda Abreu examines the Portuguese experience and places it within the broader European context. She shows that, in line with much that was happening throughout the rest of Europe, Portugal had not only set up a systematic reform of the hospitals but had also developed new formal...

A lost sketch book on a Portuguese castle rampart left Manuel Joao Ramos bereft, and the impulse to draw deserted him - but his first trip to Ethiopia reawakened this pleasure, so long denied. Drawing obsessively and free from care, his rapidly caught impressions convey the rough edges of the intensely lived experiences that are fundamental to the desire to travel. For the travel sketch is more than a record or register of attendance (`been there, seen that'): it holds invisibly within itself the remnant of a look, the hint of a memory and a trace of an osmosis of feelings between the...