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Brain Puzzler's Delight
by Emmet, E. R
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Fair
- Seller
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Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Buchanan: Emerson Books, Inc., 1973. BOOK: Corners, Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Moderately Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Moderately Creased; Moderately Chipped; Spine Heavily Faded Due to Sun Exposure; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. CONTENTS: Preface; Part One: Miscellaneous - Easy; Part Two: Football Matches; Part Three: Missing Digits (Decimal Scale); Part Four: Missing Digits (Binary and Other Scales); Part Five: Miscellaneous - Not So Easy; Part Six: Cross - Number Puzzles; Part Seven: Some Orders of Merit; Part Eight: Our Factory; Part Nine: The Island of Imperfection; Part Ten: Miscellaneous - Hard; Solutions. SYNOPSIS: These unique mind-stretching puzzles call for clear, logical thinking and reasoning. No specialized mathematics is involved in the puzzles, though numbers do enter to some extent. There are no traps - no double meanings - no false scents - only straightforward situations, in varying degrees of complexity. The solutions call for ingenuity, imagination, and insight - and, above all, for the ability to stay with the thread of reasoning, wherever it leads and however unlikely its meanderings. Mr. Emmet is the author also of Learning to Think and Thinking Clearly. He holds strongly the view that our educational system today places too much emphasis on remembering and not enough on the use of the mind for thinking. The world in which he moves in this book is the unreal world of "closed system" thinking, where there is no place for what is probable or uncertain. If we are told that Duggie is a liar we can e sure there will be no deviation from his untruthfulness, that no change of heart or thoughtlessness on his part will result in truth slipping through. The puzzles are of varying types and arranged in order of difficulty. The puzzle buff is certain to derive pleasure, entertainment, and relaxation from Brain Puzzlers' Delight; more, and as a bonus, he will emerge with a mind elegantly exercised in disciplined, systematic, and resourceful thinking. But again, this will be lagniappe - the book is for enjoying. Solutions will full explanations appear at the close. Some of The Puzzles - MISCELLANEOUS - EASY Who Killed Popoff? The Engine-driver's Shirt. Wedding Predictions. Rithmetic Road. On the Tiles. Homes, Houses and Hopes. Vests and Vocations. Ping Pong Pill Passes On. Liars Again. The Poison Spreads. The Mathematics Paper. Abacus Avenue. MISSING DIGITS; MISCELLANEOUS - NOT SO EASY The Christmas Party. Alf, Bert and Charlie in the Classroom. The Years Roll By. Sinister Street. Youthful Ambitions. Alpha Avenue. Uncle Knows Best. Acacia Avenue. The Willahs and the Wallahs. Out of the Window and Over the Wall. The World of Bonkers. CROSS - NUMBER PUZZLES; SOME ORDERS OF MERIT Mathematics, English and French. The Deception Test. Who Beat Whom? The Race Is to the Ruthless. The Brainstorm Brothers. The Efficiency Test. Bert Goes Psychic. The Ladies' Tests. Latin, Greek and Mathematics. Honesty, Intelligence and Charm. OUR FACTORY Cousins and Uncles. Higher Thinking by Alf and Ernie. Personnel Tests. Intellectual Awareness. An Intelligence Test in the Factory. The Birthday Kings. Holidays Abroad. Names, Names, Names. How Old? THE ISLAND OF IMPERFECTION Tom, Dick and Harry. Awful, Beastly, Chronic and Dim. Monogamy Comes to the Island. Discontent in the Island. MISCELLANEOUS - HARD Clubs and Careers. The Car of Jones. Frocks for the Frolic. The Five Discs. Time Trouble. Salamanca Street. Round the Bend. The Island of Indecision. Calculation Crescent.. 5th Printing. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fully Booked
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002009
- Title
- Brain Puzzler's Delight
- Author
- Emmet, E. R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Edition
- 5th Printing
- Publisher
- Emerson Books, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Buchanan
- Date Published
- 1973
- Keywords
- Games,Puzzles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Games - Puzzles;
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cardboard boxes or cardboard shipping wraps
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For a good portion of the 1990's, our family was interested in the idea of entering the used book business. We are all avid readers, book lovers, and book collectors who cannot pass a bookstore without popping in. Family trips to the library and our local used bookstore were a regularity while growing up. With each of us having interests in different genres (with a little overlapping here and there), we cover a lot of bases. The thought of having a store of our own was appealing, and the hunt was on - both for stock and a location.
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
We thought to combine under one roof many different things that would appeal to readers and book lovers. Not only used books, but some new items as well. Bookmarks (to ward off dog-eared pages), bookends (to keep those out-of-control collections under control), bookplates (to label books on the "Can I borrow that?" circuit to ensure that they always found their way home), book repair tape (to lend a helping hand to collectors with tattered favourites in their collections), and so on. With an interest in book-themed knick knacks as well, we had two sides to our would-be business: books and knick-knacks. Hence the business was born.
In the early part of 1998 we bought a commercial property, and in the summer we first opened our doors in a storefront in Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada. With start-up stock consisting of a garage full of books hand-picked for just such a venture that we purchased from someone who changed their plans, we were in business.
For several years we operated in this storefront, growing our business and learning about the industry and the backbone of it - the customers. It was very satisfying to be present at the end of someone's book quest, as we were quite often. Many a time we heard shouts of joy from somewhere in the shop as customers happened upon just what they'd been looking for (oftentimes for quite a while). At other times, people would approach us with bits and pieces of information that they remembered from long ago favourites in hopes that we could at least help them come up with an author or title to help in their search, which we often times did, with the book in hand. And when we couldn't come up with anything on our own, we would pick the brains of other customers in conversation, or turn to the internet for help for them. For us, quality and selection of stock go hand-in-hand with customer service. One isn't much good without the other.
But times, people, places, and lives change and after several years in our storefront we made a change of our own - in 2004 we relocated to the internet. Now a home-based business in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, we are gradually bringing our inventory online here.
We carry used paperbacks, hardbacks, and magazines for both adults and children. We have thousands upon thousands of books that are not yet listed for sale on the internet, but are gradually making their way there.Fully Booked sells on Biblio.com, as well as on other online venues: abebooks.com (as Past Pages), alibris.com (under Lisa Van Munster), amazon.ca (as resurrectedreads), Etsy.com (as OutOfOurHands), and from time to time on ebay.ca (as littleredreadinghood or thebigbadbookseller).
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