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Alex Through the Looking-glass: How Life Reflects Numbers and Numbers Reflect Life by Alex Bellos
36.99 NZD
Category: Science
From triangles, rotations and power laws, to fractals, cones and curves, bestselling author Alex Bellos takes you on a journey of mathematical discovery with his signature wit, engaging stories and limitless enthusiasm. As he narrates a series of eye-opening encounters with lively personalities all over ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
29.99 NZD
Category: Science
The world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In se ...Show more
Alex's Adventures in Numberland - Despatches from the wonderful world of mathematics by Alex Bellos
35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In this richly entertaining and accessible book, Alex Bellos explodes the myth that maths is best left to the geeks. Covering subjects from adding to algebra, from set theory to statistics, and from logarithms to logical paradoxes, he explains how mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our ...Show more
Can You Solve My Problems?: A Casebook of Ingenious, Perplexing and Totally Satisfying Puzzles by Alex Bellos
32.99 NZD
Category: Science
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here is the story of the puzzle, one of mankind's oldest and greatest forms of entertainment and enlightenment, told through 125 of the world's best brain ...Show more
Can You Solve My Problems?: A casebook of ingenious, perplexing and totally satisfying puzzles by Alex Bellos
24.99 NZD
Category: Puzzle Books
Are you smarter than a Singaporean ten-year-old? Can you beat Sherlock Holmes? If you think the answer is yes - I challenge you to solve my problems. Here are 125 of the world's best brainteasers from the last two millennia, taking us from ancient China to medieval Europe, Victorian England to modern-da ...Show more
Pele : the Autobiography by Pele with Orlando Duarte & Alex Bellos (tr from Portuguese Dabiel Hahn)
39.99 NZD
Category: Other Sports
Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian players universally acknowledged as the most accomplished and attractive group of footballers ever to play the game, he won the World Cup three times and is Brazil's all-time record goalscorer. But how did this man - ...Show more
Puzzle Ninja: Pit Your Wits Against The Japanese Puzzle Masters by Alex Bellos
32.99 NZD
Category: Hobbies
The Japanese logic puzzle is one of the most addictive products known to man. Alex Bellos travelled to Tokyo to meet the puzzle masters behind these habit-forming brainteasers and brought back over 200 puzzles that will flex, stretch, and blow your mind. Can you beat the puzzle masters to become a puzzl ...Show more
Snowflake, Seashell, Star: Colouring Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos
22.99 NZD
Category: Colouring Books for Adults
This book offers a joyful contemplation of mathematical patterns has long been part of the human experience, from the philosophers of Ancient Greece to the artists of the Renaissance, via Islamic design and Hindu mandalas. Now, Alex Bellos, the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland, take ...Show more
So You Think You've Got Problems?: Surprising and rewarding puzzles to sharpen your mind by Alex Bellos
36.99 NZD
Category: Puzzle Books
This is a collection of ingenious and satisfying puzzles drawn from across the ancient and modern world. You will be imprisoned by a sadistic logician; thrown in an arena with a famished lion; and balancing along an ever-expanding elastic band. Implausible scenarios in daily life, perhaps. But in puzzle ...Show more
The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: Lexical perplexities and cracking conundrums from across the globe by Alex Bellos
27.99 NZD
Category: Language
From the bestselling author of Alex's Adventures in Numberland and Can You Solve My Problems? comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining collection of puzzles for crossword addicts and language-lovers of all stripes.'The only puzzle book I've seen that manages to befuddle both sides of the brain at the sa ...Show more
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