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Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games
Tackling word puzzles is a great tactic to keep your mind in
tip-top shape! Studies show that one way to be sure your brain
stays at its best is to learn new things regularly, creating new
neural connections. This book offers a fun way to do just that,
with a variety of word puzzles that require solvers to reorient
their perspective and think differently about language. One-third
of the book features Split Decisions, a popular puzzle type that
author Fred Piscop contributes regularly to the New York Times.
Throughout the rest is a mix of other puzzles: Bits & Pieces
(in which solvers answer clues using and reusing blocks of
letters), Clueless Crosswords (featuring grids partly filled in so
that there is only one possible way to complete them), Double
Exposure (testing pattern recognition in two different ways),
Mixagrams (where words are interwoven in a simple yet confounding
way), and Two by Two (in which each grid contains only two
consonants... but you have to figure out which).
The VW Transporter is back! When VW started mass production of the
legendary Volkswagen Type 2 - better known in Germany as the
'Bulli', the hippie van or the VW microbus - in 1950, they could
not have imagined that its success story would reach this far into
the future. The VW Transporter is a street icon and remains a dream
vehicle for many car fans even today. The camper van version, in
particular, is the epitome of freedom, adventure and the urge to
venture into the great unknown. The cardboard model The VW
Transporter kit brings the camper van version of the T2 into your
home and onto your desk in the form of a 38-piece cardboard model.
The most remarkable features of this lovingly designed model are
the detailed interiors and the pop-top. Real 50s flair! It takes
just about an hour and not a single drop of glue to build a VW
Transporter for your desk. The companion book The high-quality
companion guide contains a step-by-step construction manual for
your cardboard model. In addition to that, you'll get a wealth of
background information on the history and technology of the famous
VW Transporter, as well as extensive images to provide you with
real insight into the world of camping in the 50s and 60s.
With a separate sudoku book for every level, all puzzle lovers can
play this wildly popular, incredibly addictive game that's
appearing in major newspapers all over! Taking a page from karate -
another Japanese art - each title is graded by colour: White Belt
for easy, Green Belt for medium level, Brown Belt for hard, and
Black Belt for the super-tough solvers. And because each book has
an amazing 300 puzzles, the fun can go on for hours.
For centuries logic puzzles have entertained, inspired an educated
kids of all ages Studies have shown that these engaging 'brain
teasers' provide unsurpassed benefits to the body and mind,
increasing manual dexterity, mathematical abilities and overall
intellectual agility. "Crafting Wood Logic Puzzles" provides plans
and instructions for crafting 18 of the most popular manual
puzzles. Projects range from traditional 'out together / take
apart' games like pentominoes and soma cubes to more sophisticated
'unlocking' head-scratchers, such as the Burr and Heart Box
puzzles. Readers will also learn specialised cutting, drilling,
sanding, gluing and finishing techniques that make crafting wooden
puzzles possible.
Calling all puzzle lovers, get ready to go word hunting!
77 Bible Word Searches for Kids helps kids to know God as they read 77
stories from the Bible about God's love for us and His faithfulness
throughout history.
Each story is followed by a Word Search with ten key words to help kids
remember what they have read in a way that is playful and engaging.
Join the hunt and see if you can find 770 words!
Special features:
• Softcover
• Gloss Laminated Cover
• One-color insides
• For 8-to-10-year-olds
Now in paperback comes the first and authorized biography of Stuey
Ungar, the greatest card player of all time, who was backed by the
Mob in New York before moving to Las Vegas where he won the World
Series of Poker three times, then died mysteriously in a seedy
motel on the Vegas strip at the age of 45. He was the Jim Morrison
of the casino, a legend before he was of legal age. Stuey Ungar,
the son of a Jewish bookie on Manhattan's Lower East Side, dropped
out of high school to become an underground card-table sensation,
eventually taking out every top gin-rummy player on the East Coast.
Bankrolled by the Genovese crime family, Stuey would soon travel
around the country in search of new opponents and
opportunities--including poker. He would go on to win the World
Series of Poker a record three times. And then his luck began to
run out. One of a Kind is the startling tale of a man who won at
his game and lost control of his life. Whether tossing away his
winnings at the racetrack or on a single roll of the dice, Stuey
was notorious for gambling every single dollar in his pocket.
Though he had won an estimated $30 million in his lifetime, Stuey
had no bank account, not even a home address. He was found dead in
a Vegas motel--with $800 in cash on his person, the only money he
had left--at the age of forty-five. An intimate, authorized
biography--Nolan Dalla was commissioned by Stuey in 1998 to pen his
story, resulting in hundreds of hours of taped interviews and
conversations--One of a Kind illuminates the dark genius of one of
poker's most memorable figures.
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