Product Description: Calling all puzzlers... From mathematics to word puzzles, from logic to lateral thinking, veteran puzzle maker Derrick Niederman delights in tackling the trickiest brainteasers in a new way. Among the old chestnuts he cracks wide open are the following classics: Knights and knaves The monk and the mountain The dominoes and the chessboard The unexpected hanging The Tower of HanoiUsing real-world analogies, infectious humor, and a fresh approach, this deceptively simple volume will challenge, amuse, enlighten, and surprise even the most experienced puzzle solver...read more

Product Description: Keep your mind fit with brain aerobics! If you like great mental exercises, try brain aerobics. All you have to do is open this book, lift a pencil, and flex your mind while solving this assortment of invigorating puzzles. In Brain Aerobics Math Puzzles, you’ll need to be on top of your game...read more

Product Description: Give your mind a mathematical workout.Test, prod, and stretch your wits to the outer limits. Even if you’re extra clever, you might get stumped, but we guarantee you'll enjoy every minute of it! Sharpen your smarts on a combination of original puzzles, and classic teasers with new twists...read more

Product Description: This title offers brain-bending puzzles to sharpen your logic skills in no time. It contains 60 perplexing brainteasers. It features a variety of puzzles from crosswords to math stumpers. Unlike most fitness regimes that take a while to start producing results, this mental workout packs in enough brain-bending puzzles to sharpen logic skills in no time...read more

Product Description: Calling all puzzlers... From mathematics to word puzzles, from logic to lateral thinking, veteran puzzle maker Derrick Niederman delights in tackling the trickiest brainteasers in a new way. Among the old chestnuts he cracks wide open are the following classics: Knights and knaves The monk and the mountain The dominoes and the chessboard The unexpected hanging The Tower of HanoiUsing real-world analogies, infectious humor, and a fresh approach, this deceptively simple volume will challenge, amuse, enlighten, and surprise even the most experienced puzzle solver...read more

Product Description: Mystery lovers will delight in solving these devious whodunits. Readers are invited to examine the clues and mull over the evidence to uncover the solution. This book is full of clever puzzles that are based on imagination. Do you love a baffling mystery when the writer plays with your mind and the pivotal piece of evidence appears to make no sense even though it has to? Join forces with some expert crime-solvers to untangle the clues and to find the guilty parties in these wickedly devious whodunits...read more

Product Description: A compulsively readable look at the secret language of numbers- their role in nature, movies, science, and everything in between. What do Fight Club, wallpaper patterns, George Balanchine's Serenade, and Italian superstitions have in common? They're all included in the entry for the number 17 in this engaging book about numbers- detailing their unique properties, patterns, appeal, history, and lore...read more

Product Description: Who ever imagined that such a small book could add up to so much fun? It sure does, with 150 math puzzles of every imaginable type--puzzles with shapes, ones that use logic or tricks, paradoxes, and a whole lot more. (But, no calculus and trigonometry--they're off limits!) They'll challenge, intrigue, and sometimes even amuse you...read more

Offers a series techniques to help readers understand, process, and calculate their way through the vast amount of quantitative data that exists, presenting a series of real-world situatons, ranging from stock market probability and interest rate percentages to political polls and sports scoring.

Presents eighty short mystery stories that contain hidden telltale clues that point to their solution.

Presents an array of mathematical puzzles, gives hints in a separate section as to how to find the answers, and then explains the answers in a final section.

Product Description: Very minor scuffing and creases on cover.

Provides games, puzzles, jokes, and activities to entertain children with a variety of interests.

Presents a collection of various kinds of math puzzles--including number tricks, memory tricks, and geometric designs--in different levels of difficulty; also includes explanations of mathematical principles.

Product Description: Get smart with two tremendous workouts that really train the brain to think sharp. With detectives such as Sherlock Holmes offering a cool series of puzzles, it's no mystery why these whodunits require strong powers of deduction. Join sleuth Thomas P...read more

Product Description: Put your mathematical thinking cap on--because even though these puzzles are toughies, they take insight and brainwork to solve, not a knowledge of calculus or linear algebra or any other kind of advanced math. Consider for a moment:* How can you divide a regular pentagon into five identical pentagonal shapes?* What is the only decade in American history to contain four prime-numbered years?* What three right triangles with integer sides have areas numerically equal to twice their perimeters? Don't worry if the answers don't spring to mind immediately; you'll have plenty of company...read more

Unlike other investment books that dole out one brand of advice to a potentially diverse readership, this unique book guides you to your own best personal strategy by showing you what types of stocks fit your individual style. Written in a witty and engaging style by securities analyst and long-time financial columnist Derrick Niederman, The Inner Game of Investing reveals the Seven Stock Market Personalities: The Bargain Hunter, The Visionary, The Contrarian, The Sentimentalist, The Skeptic, The Trader, and The Adventurist. You will be amazed to see how your own psychological attributes and predispositions interact with the market and how they may be blinding you to both habitual mistakes and golden opportunities. Niederman's invaluable insights extend into other aspects of investing, including widely held, but often misguided beliefs about the irrationality and efficiency of the market, the psychological nuances of dealing with market professionals, and the general psychology of analyzing stocks. The Inner Game of Investing shines a light into areas of your personal investment process. This is one book that could change the way you invest and raise your stock market skills to a level you never thought possible. (view table of contents)

Drawing liberally on his considerable talents as a successful mystery writer, critically acclaimed investment author, and professional securities analyst, the author created a darkly textured tale of suspense that promises a much bigger payoff than your average crime novel.

Presents twelve stories, each with a question and answer section at the end to help solve the mysteries and provides answers at the back of the book

Stating that investment decisions can be made through the observation of trends, a stock buyer's guide demonstrates the correlation between past trends and stocks, and offers tips on recognizing future clues. 15,000 first printing. Tour.