Martin Gardner: 37 books

"Although we are amused, we may also be embarrassed to find our friends or even ourselves among the gullible advocates of plausible-sounding doubletalk." — Saturday Review"A very able and even-tempered presentation." — New YorkerThis witty and engaging book examines the various fads, fallacies,...

IN this star-studded cross-genre anthology, seventeen of the greatest modern authors of fantasy, science fiction, and romance explore the borderlands of their genres with brand-new tales of ill-fated love. From zombie-infested woods in a postapocalyptic America to faery-haunted rural fields in eighteenth-...

Over a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had not been included in such classic collections...

Über 1000 Seiten – eine Anthologie der Extraklasse Jeder mag Schurken, dabei sind sie oft käuflich, handeln moralisch fragwürdig oder sind politisch inkorrekt. Und gerade deswegen stellen Schurken den eigentlichen Helden so häufig in den Schatten. Denn was wäre Star Wars ohne Han Solo...

QUINZE CONTOS INÉDITOS ESCRITOS POR GRANDES AUTORES DE FICÇÃO CIENTÍFICA REUNIDOS PELA PRIMEIRA VEZ NUM SÓ VOLUME Uma princesa de Marte e As crônicas marcianas, dos mestres Edgar Rice Burroughs e Ray Bradbury, foram clássicos que influenciaram a imaginação de milhões de leitores e mostraram...

Gefährliche Frauen aller Art – Kriegerinnen, Königinnen, Zauberinnen und viele mehr – sind das Thema dieser spannenden Anthologie. Sie enthält 21 bislang unveröffentlichte Erzählungen von Bestsellerautoren wie Joe Abercrombie, Brandon Sanderson und Diana Gabaldon – die eine brandneue Outlander-Story...

Why do card tricks work? How can magicians do astonishing feats of mathematics mentally? Why do stage "mind-reading" tricks work? As a rule, we simply accept these tricks and "magic" without recognizing that they are really demonstrations of strict laws based on probability, sets, number theory, topology,...

Ramon Espejos Leben verläuft bei Weitem nicht so wie geplant. Nicht nur, dass er auf einem kaum erschlossenen Kolonieplaneten gestrandet ist. Er muss auch noch vor der Justiz in die Wildnis flüchten, weil er im Streit um eine Frau seinen Gegner getötet hat. Dort wird er von einem bislang unbekannten...

Avec les nouvelles de : George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, Glen Cook, Walter Jon Williams, Byron Tetrick, Terry Dowling et Jeff VanderMeer. Préfaces de Jack Vance et de Dean Koontz. À l’autre bout du temps, un soleil rouge et obèse jette sur la Terre mourante sa lumière de...

The SPRIGHTLY LADY and her Hurricane and Short Stories from Capt. Gardner M. Kelley Thelma a rich, SPRIGHTLY LADY with a nice yacht named for herself. She was very disappointed. She had been planning for a cruise to the Abacos, in the Bahamas before going north for the summer. She was looking at a...

La Terre se meurt. Dans un futur lointain, l’agonie du soleil hypothèque l’avenir des humains qui ont oublié la technologie au profit de la magie. Dans cette ambiance de fin de partie, les derniers héros de l’humanité s’appellent Cugel ou Rhialto, T’saïs ou Pandelume....

Research and advocacy aimed at understanding and ending violence against women had its beginning in the early 1970s, emerging as a central concern of the feminist movement. This work has expanded exponentially over the past three decades to influence practice and policy at the local, state, and federal...

An array of subjects hand picked by the author which discuss thoughts as perceived by that author. Subjects all would love to discuss but somehow never seem to. Political, social, historical, legal, constitutional, insurance editorial, religious. To put it simply, a book on common sense that lays it all out for your perusal. A book that says what you want to talk about but never do.

Running from poverty and hopelessness, Ramón Espejo boarded one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the new life he found on the far-off planet of São Paulo was no better than the one he abandoned. Then one night his rage and too much alcohol get the better of him. Deadly...