Seasoned with Gardner's interest in the history and philosophy of science, this delightful book is a treasure-trove of puzzles, anecdotes, games, and logical theory. These intriguing problems, collected from Gardner's Scientific American columns, involve knots, interlocking rings, rotations and reflections, logical paradox, two-dimensional universes, chess strategies, and gambl...(展开全部)

In this brief, elegant treatise, accessible to anyone who likes to think, Ivar Ekeland explains some philosophical implications of recent mathematics.

London:Ferret Fantasy (1979 First edition) 这是一本关于密室和不可能犯罪的书目作品，1979年版本收录了1280种，1991年的增订版收录超过2000种。和一般书目不同的是，它给出了每本作品的谜团和解答。不过相当简单。这部书可以称得上梦幻之书，相当难找，而且价格极其昂贵。1979年版本是私人出版物，虽然有出版社代为排版印刷，但是并无书号。1991年的版本是由美国的Crossover Press出版，定价就40美元，如今也很难见到80美元以下的二手书买卖。

London:Ferret Fantasy (1979 First edition) 这是一本关于密室和不可能犯罪的书目作品，1979年版本收录了1280种，1991年的增订版收录超过2000种。和一般书目不同的是，它给出了每本作品的谜团和解答。不过相当简单。这部书可以称得上梦幻之书，相当难找，而且价格极其昂贵。1979年版本是私人出版物，虽然有出版社代为排版印刷，但是并无书号。1991年的版本是由美国的Crossover Press出版，定价就40美元，如今也很难见到80美元以下的二手书买卖。

约翰尼斯•费边，著名人类学家，曾在美国西北大学、卫斯理学院等多所大学执教，担任波恩大学、科隆大学、巴黎大学的访问学者。退休前任教于荷兰阿姆斯特丹大学，现居德国。他写了很多批评性的著作，《时间与他者》是他的代表作，这本书是人类学领域的经典著作，改变了人类学家“建立研究对象”的方法。

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella; a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat; a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventiona...(展开全部)

Welcome back to Ian Stewart's magical world of mathematics! This is a strange world of never-ending chess games, empires on the moon, furious fireflies, and, of course, disputes over how best to cut a cake. Each quirky tale presents a fascinating mathematical puzzle - challenging, fun, and also introducing the reader to a significant mathematical problem in an engaging and witt...(展开全部)

A perfect introduction for new readers and a must-have for avid fans, this New York Times Notable Book includes "Bloodchild," winner of both the Hugo and the Nebula awards and "Speech Sounds," winner of the Hugo Award. Appearing in print for the first time, "Amnesty" is a story of a woman named Noah who works to negotiate the tense and co-dependent relationship between humans a...(展开全部)