Author: Jan Harold Brunvand
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: legends, urban, book, colossal, true
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 039332088X
ISBN-13: 9780393320886

Have you heard the one about the new computer owner who mistook the CD-ROM player for a cup holder? Or the woman who thought her brains were oozing out of a gunshot wound, when the "truth" was that when her Pillsbury Poppin’ Fresh can exploded, striking her on the head with the lid, the goo she felt was biscuit dough? Jan Harold Brunvand, professor emeritus at the University of Utah and author of numerous urban-legend collections, including The Vanishing Hitchhiker, The Choking Doberman, Curses! Broiled Again, and American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, has been studying urban legends for so

Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: paradoxes, problems, puzzles, classic, book, mathematics, colossal
Number of Pages: 704
Published: 2001-09-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0393020231
ISBN-13: 9780393020236

No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium from America’s best-loved mathematical expert. Whether discussing hexaflexagons or number theory, Klein bottles or the essence of "nothing," Martin Gardner has single-handedly created the field of "recreational mathematics." The Colossal Book of Mathematics collects Gardner’s most popular pieces from his legendary "Mathematical Games" column, which ran in Scientific American for twenty-five years. Gardner’s array of absorbing puzzles and mind-twisting paradoxes opens mathematics up to the world at large, ins

Authors:C. N. R. Rao, B. Raveau,
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: properties, manganese, oxides, related, ordering, magnetoresistance, charge, colossal
Number of Pages: 345
Published: 1998-07-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9810232764
ISBN-13: 9789810232764

Text consists of 11 articles representing the present status of the area of metal oxides which has become specially important after the discovery of high-temperature superconductivity.

Authors:Martin Gardner,  Dana Richard,
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: problems, puzzles, short, book, colossal
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0393061140
ISBN-13: 9780393061147

Finally collected in one volume, Martin Gardner’s immensely popular short puzzles; along with a few new ones from the master. For more than twenty-five years, Martin Gardner was Scientific American’s renowned provocateur of popular math. His yearly gatherings of short and inventive problems were easily his most anticipated math columns. Loyal readers would savor the wit and elegance of his explorations in physics, probability, topology, and chess, among others. Grouped by subject and arrayed from easiest to hardest, the puzzles gathered here, which complement the lengthier, more in

Authors:Lawrence G. McDonald, Patrick Robinso,
Publisher: Crown Busine
Keywords: collapse, lehman, brothers, story, inside, failure, common, sense, colossal
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-07-21
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0307588335
ISBN-13: 9780307588333

One of the biggest questions of the financial crisis has not been answered until now. What happened at Lehman Brothers and why was it allowed to fail, with aftershocks that rocked the global economy? In this news-making, often astonishing book, a former Lehman Brothers Vice President gives us the straight answers�right from the belly of the beast. In A Colossal Failure of Common Sense, Larry McDonald, a Wall Street insider, reveals the culture and unspoken rules of the game like no book has ever done. The book is couched in the very human story of Larry McDonald’s Horatio Alger-like rise

Authors:P T. Barnum,  James W. Cook,
Publisher: University of Illinois Pre
Keywords: universe, reader, barnum, colossal
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2005-12-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0252072952
ISBN-13: 9780252072956

The "P. T. Barnum Reader" reveals the trailblazing American showman P. T. Barnum as, by turns, a moral reformer, a habitual hoaxer, an insightful critic, a savvy ’puffer’, a master of images, a sparkling writer, a relentless provocateur, and an early advocate of ’family’ entertainments. Taken together, these selections paint a new and more complete portrait of this complex man than has ever been seen before. James W. Cook’s "The Colossal P. T. Barnum Reader" is the largest collection of Barnum’s works ever produced. Included are excerpts from his pseudo-auto