Praised for its "exceptionally good value" by the Journal of Recreational Mathematics, this book offers fun-filled insights into many fields of mathematics. The brainteasers include original puzzles as well as new approaches to classic conundrums. A vast assortment of challenges features domino puzzles, the game of noughts and crosses, games of encirclement, sliding movement puzzles, subtraction games, puzzles in mechanics, games with piles of matches, a road puzzle with concentric circles, "Catch the Giant," and much more.Detailed solutions show several methods by which a particular problem may be answered, why one method is preferable, and where the others fail. With numerous worked examples, the clear, step-by-step analyses cover how the problem should be approached, including hints and enumeration of possibilities and determination of probabilities, application of the theory of probability, and evaluation of contingencies and mean values. Readers are certain to improve their puzzle-solving strategies as well as their mathematical skills.

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Product Description: A book with spaces for a child to fill in information about himself.

Shunned and cast out because of her unwillingness to recognize the powers of the cruel Earth Spirits, willful chieftain's daughter Kori discovers the truth about her people from a brave warrior. Original.

The overriding objective of Eun and Resnick's "International Financial Management, 3e" is to teach students how to be effective global financial managers. The text covers the fundamentals of the macroeconomic environment of international financial management, discusses the financial environment in which the multinational firm and its managers must function, and covers foreign exchange management and financial management in a multinational firm.

Shunned and cast out because of her unwillingness to recognize the powers of the cruel Earth Spirits, willful chieftain's daughter Kori discovers the truth about her people from a brave warrior. Original.

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