Charge up your cognitive power with the challenging conundrums crammed into Brain Boosters: Challenging Puzzles. This selection of over 200 illustrated, full colour puzzles has been designed to help expand your brainpower no matter how much free time you've got to spare. There's a plethora of problems including Sudoku, logic sequences, riddles, Latin squares, visual teasers, maths challenges and more. Exercise your mind whether you've got just five minutes or an hour, with puzzles growing slowly from moderate to taxing in difficulty. Who said exercise couldn't be fun?

In Intersectional Tech: Black Users in Digital Gaming, Kishonna L. Gray interrogates blackness in gaming at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and (dis)ability. Situating her argument within the context of the concurrent, seemingly unrelated events of Gamergate and the Black Lives Matter movement, Gray highlights the inescapable chains that bind marginalized populations to stereotypical frames and limited narratives in video games. Intersectional Tech explores the ways that the multiple identities of black gamers some obvious within the context of games, some more easily concealed affect their experiences of gaming. The normalization of whiteness and masculinity in digital culture inevitably leads to isolation, exclusion, and punishment of marginalized people. Yet, Gray argues, we must also examine the individual struggles of prejudice, discrimination, and microaggressions within larger institutional practices that sustain the oppression. These ""new"" racisms and a complementary colorblind ideology are a kind of digital Jim Crow, a new mode of the same strategies of oppression that have targeted black communities throughout American history. Drawing on extensive interviews that engage critically with identity development and justice issues in gaming, Gray explores the capacity for gaming culture to foster critical consciousness, aid in participatory democracy, and effect social change. Intersectional Tech is rooted in concrete situations of marginalized members within gaming culture. It reveals that despite the truths articulated by those who expose the sexism, racism, misogyny, and homophobia that are commonplace within gaming communities, hegemonic narratives continue to be privileged. This text, in contrast, centers the perspectives that are often ignored and provides a critical corrective to notions of gaming as a predominantly white and male space.

Written by an acknowledged expert, this practical book is essential reading for all those railway modellers who wish to build a bridge or a viaduct for their layout. This new book contains in-depth descriptions and photographs of real-life bridges located around Britain (and one in New Zealand), ranging from the small to the monumental, from which the modeller can gain ideas and draw inspiration. As an essential aid to modelling, the constituent parts of the bridges are described as well as the engineering principles that make them 'work' and the materials from which they are built. Step-by-step instructions and photographs depict the construction in plasticard of five models: a simple girder bridge; a truss-girder bridge; a masonry arch bridge; a plate-girder bridge; and a viaduct. Covers prototype research, taking measurements, modelling materials and tools.

This entertaining little book was first published in 1923. The author wrote it with the intention of its contents providing amusement at parties for both children and adults. Its success was proven by demand, with several republications at that time. The books one hundred and eighteen pages contain over one hundred games and other amusements guaranteed to suit all tastes, from those of very young children anxious to play some quiet simple game, to those of adults who have not forgotten that the best way of warding off old age is to "think young." Many of the games and tricks are illustrated with simple and easy to understand black and white illustrations. This book will prove a boon to frustrated parents seeking to keep their children occupied on inclement days, school holidays and party days. What child, or even adult could fail to be entertained and intrigued by thought reading, age guessing, jumping eggs, magic matches, edible candles, blindfold driving, cock fighting and many other period games and tricks. Although the book was penned over eighty years ago and was aimed at the pre-war family without influence of television and computer, its contents, when utilised at the appropriate time cannot fail to amuse and mystify. READ BOOKS specialise in Facsimile Reprints of 19th and 20th Century books that are both informative and amusing. These are published in affordable, high quality, modern editions using the original text and artwork.

John seems like such a noble name. Hmm...maybe not. The names John and Jonathan are held by some of history's most notorious criminals, scoundrels and utter failures. In this book, you'll encounter killers, con men, spies, mobsters and corrupt politicians--all named John. Meet the boy who turned the papal residence into a brothel, the emperor who was a cannibal and the sailor with a hook for a hand. It's the perfect book for anyone named John, Jonathan or Jack.

Officially Licensed Frida Kahlo Corporation Product. Part of an exciting series of sturdy, square-box 1000-piece jigsaw puzzles from Flame Tree, featuring powerful and popular works of art. This new jigsaw will satisfy your need for a challenge, featuring Frida Kahlo Pink. One of the most iconic and important artists of the 20th century, Frida Kahlo's bold, carefully crafted visual identity is in many respects an extension of her art, celebrating her Mexican heritage and countercultural ideals while defying traditional notions of female beauty. Striking and bursting with colour, this portrait captures Kahlo's vibrant, flamboyant sense of style, as well as her steely poise. Her direct, unflinching gaze conveys her strength and tenacity to the viewer, underlining why her image remains as inspiring today as ever. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. Now includes an A4 poster for reference. One of the most iconic and important artists of the 20th century, Frida Kahlo's bold, carefully crafted visual identity is in many respects an extension of her art, celebrating her Mexican heritage and countercultural ideals while defying traditional notions of female beauty. Striking and bursting with colour, this portrait captures Kahlo's vibrant, flamboyant sense of style, as well as her steely poise. Her direct, unflinching gaze conveys her strength and tenacity to the viewer, underlining why her image remains as inspiring today as ever.

1000-PIECE PUZZLE featuring the world of the Tudors in incredible detail. Finished puzzle measures 680 x 485mm SPOT FAMOUS FIGURES, castles and pastimes as you build the puzzle and travel through time from the Battle of Bosworth to Queen Elizabeth I's funeral parade INCLUDES A FOLD-OUT POSTER featuring fun facts about the Tudor period STURDY & ATTRACTIVE BOX perfect for gifting and storage From the Wars of the Roses through plagues, cunning plots, executions and more, the Tudor period is the most dramatic and turbulent in English history. Journey through time to find Henry VIII's six wives, Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake and other famous figures as you build this detailed 1000-piece puzzle.

With 50 hilarious and thought-provoking questions asking players to choose between two equally good, unpleasant, or absurd scenarios, this revealing party game leads to interesting conversations and good fun for all ages!

Part of a new, exciting series of ethical, sustainable and earth-friendly jigsaw puzzles. This high-quality, 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle from Flame Tree is made with renewable board, sturdy pieces and a recyclable bag and features powerful and popular works of art. The 1000 pieces will satisfy your need for a challenge, with the charming The Common by Angela Harding. Intended for adults and children over 13 years. Not suitable for children under 3 years due to small parts. Finished Jigsaw size 735 x 510mm/29 x 20 ins. FSC, recycled materials used. Angela Harding has lived in Rutland in the UK since 1988. She first arrived as Artist in Residence at Uppingham School and has been inspired by the British countryside ever since. She has a love for familiar garden birds and makes quick scribbles when she sees them out in the wild, so that she can develop them into formal designs in her studio. The Common is an illustration of Minchinhampton common in Gloucestershire which resides on chalk land and is a refuge for orchids, blue butterflies and meadow pipits. It is a wonderful piece of the natural world in a busy commuter belt.

Who are the top ten greatest Supreme Court Justices of all time? Who are the worst ten? Which Supreme Court decision helped lead to the Civil War? What are the ten greatest and worst Supreme Court decisions? What are the ten best courtroom movies? Who was the last to use the Supreme Court spittoon? Who was the first Justice to wear trousers beneath his Supreme Court robes?
From John Marshall, the greatest Supreme Court Justice, to Alfred Moore, one of the worst, Bernard Schwartz's A Book of Legal Lists--the first ever compiled--provides the Ten Bests and Worsts in American law (and also includes answers to 150 trivia questions about the legal world). The lists include the greatest dissents and Supreme Court "might have beens;" greatest non-Supreme Court judges (Lemuel Shaw, number one on the Greatest list, played a prominent role in recasting common law into an American mold); greatest and worst non-Supreme Court decisions; greatest law books; lawyers (including Alexander Hamilton, Clarence Darrow "Attorney for the Damned," and Abraham Lincoln); trials; and greatest legal motion pictures. Each list entry has a short essay by Schwartz explaining why it is a best or a worst, and it is in these essays that we gain a wealth of information about the legal world. We learn, for instance, that Sherman Minton, number ten on the Worst Supreme Court Justices list, was such a nonentity that he may be best remembered as the last to use the spittoon provided for each Justice behind the bench. Before he became Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist was known for playing Trivial Pursuit on the bench, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote 873 opinions for the Court (the most in its history), and Roger Brooke Taney, number ten on the Greatest Supreme Court Justices list, was the first Chief Justice to wear trousers beneath his robes (his predecessors had always given judgment in knee breeches).
Stretching back to the early 1700s, the law and the judges who interpret it have maintained a steady presence in our lives--sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. From disappointments like Plessy v. Ferguson (number two on the Ten Worst Supreme Court Decisions list), which gave the lie to the American ideal "that all men are created equal," to lesser known but no less important decisions such as the 1933 United States v. One Book Called "Ulysses," (number nine on the Ten Greatest Non-Supreme Court Decisions) the landmark First Amendment case that eased the law governing censorship, Bernard Schwartz provides legal experts and non-experts alike with entertaining information in a format that can be found nowhere else.