books about: conundrum

books about: conundrum

books:

Conundrum

Why Do Dogs Drink Out of the Toilet?: 101 of the Most Perplexing Questions Answered About Canine Conundrums, ...

Marty Becker D.V.M., Gina Spadafori

HCI, 2006

Now my DOG makes sense!
This book has helped me understand my dog, and I think he is happier too!

Why Do Dogs Like Balls?: More Than 200 Canine Quirks, Curiosities, and Conundrums Revealed

D. Caroline Coile, Margaret H. Bonham

Sterling, 2008

Puzzled about Fido's quirks? This is the book for you!
This is a funny, cute book about dogs. The author asks questions you've already wondered about, then fills in the answers in a few paragraphs, so it's an easy book to pick up and read for a few minutes, and then put down. Have you ever wondered if dogs that only ...

Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place

Will Self

Bloomsbury USA, 2007

Modern Situationist
Psychogeography in its contemporary manifestation owes much to the 1950s situationists from the Left Bank of Paris believing (this was after several carafes of vin de table) that by traversing the city on foot they could bring down the micro climate structures of ...

Conundrum (New York Review Books Classics)

Jan Morris

NYRB Classics, 2006

MAN ENOUGH TO BE A WOMAN...
This is an intriguing memoir, beautifully written by an author who has written numerous other non-fiction books. Jan Morris, formerly known as James Morris, was the correspondent for the London Times assigned to cover England's historic summit of Everest. The author ...

The Egyptian Jukebox: A Conundrum

Nick Bantock

Viking Adult, 1993

WHY did I ever lend this book out?
It was never returned, and I mourn its absence. To me, The Egyptian Jukebox is the "Myst" of book puzzles. With a central theme that mixes Egyptology with Rock & Roll, woven together with intriguing little trinkets, cryptic narration, and a deceivingly simple riddle to ...

The Riddles of the Sphinx: . . . and the puzzles, word games, brainteasers, conundrums, quizzes, mysteries, ...
David J. Bodycombe

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007

The story of the puzzles, brainteasers, maps, codes, and other mysteries that have entertained and confused the world over the last century From Sudoku to crosswords, Victorian parlor games to lateral thinking, cryptograms to today?s latest brainteasers, The Riddles of the Sphinx tells the little-known histories behind a host of puzzles, ...

Photoshop LAB Color: The Canyon Conundrum and Other Adventures in the Most Powerful Colorspace

Dan Margulis

Peachpit Press, 2005

A totally new way of improving your pictures
A fellow flickr member pointed me toward this title, when I asked him how he got such beautifully, vivid colors. The author is, prior commentaries notwithstanding, a master of words, using them to make a fairly complex and potentially dry subject quite palatable. As I ...

Fundrum My Conundrum: A Book of Riddles

Raymond Epstein, Benjamin Kovler

Fundrum Pub, 1994

Fun-Riddlistic!
This book is the pinacle of riddle fun! I popped like a spring chicken when I bought this book because it's so small, but HUGE with entertainment and mind-titilating fun. Most riddle books are really joke books, but this one is the REAL THING! There are hours of ...

How to Cut a Cake: And Other Mathematical Conundrums

Ian Stewart

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

How To Cut A Cake
From 1987 until 2001, Ian Stewart wrote columns for Scientific American magazine and its foreign-language editions. This book is a collection of twenty of those columns including the last one he wrote, Easter is a Quasicrystal. I suppose there is no way getting ...

Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums

Julian Havil

Princeton University Press, 2008

you may be a little too surprised by these surprises to be surprised
i warn the potential purchaser that this may not be quite what you expect. There is a demand for substantial mathematical sophistication - which was a little beyond my level (i do have a doctorate, but not in math, and had to stop taking math courses after my sophomore ...

Conundrum: The Evolution of Homosexuality

N. J. Peters

AuthorHouse, 2006

The Straight Talk on Gay Science
A "conundrum" is a difficult problem, one without an easy answer, and that makes Conundrum an excellent title for a book about the evolution of homosexuality. This book looks at a topic that I am frequently asked about by my students. If behavior is something that ...

Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Studies in Crime and Justice)

Leo Katz

University Of Chicago Press, 1987

Hard cases make bad law?
On the contrary, says Leo Katz: hard cases _expose_ bad law and force us to correct it. The flaws in apparently sound principles aren't always obvious when we apply them only to easy cases. With this approach, Katz offers a book that is all but unique in the ...

Multiple Intelligence Approaches to Assessment: Solving the Assessment Conundrum
David Lazear

Zephyr Press, 1999

More than 1,000 specific ideas are provided to help teachers accurately assess students' academic progress in math, language arts, history, science, social studies, and practical and fine arts. ?Student Watch? assessment instruments are provided so that teachers may observe and score students involved in various activities and learning tasks. ...

Conundrum (Dragonlance: The Age of Mortals)

Jeff Crook

Wizards of the Coast, 2001

The book that drew me in...
This was the first Dragonlance novel I had ever read. It was the cover art that attracted me to this book (...a stupid reason to decied to read a book, huh?). I knew nothing about the characters, their history, or the World in which they lived, but I decied to give it ...