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Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner

Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner

For Gardner, our mathematically structured universe is undiluted hocus-pocus—a marvelous enigma, in other words. Undiluted Hocus-Pocus offers a rare, intimate look at Gardner’s life and work, and the experiences that shaped both.
Match-IC

Match-IC

Martin Gardner

Originally published in 1935, here is Martin Gardner's collection of more than 70 impromptu tricks with matches. A Brownstone Classic of Magic.
Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century

Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century

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This book is a tribute to the deep and lasting impact of a prolific and brilliant writer. It is for anyone who, like Martin Gardner, loves mathematics.
Black Elected Officials 1991: A National Roster

Black Elected Officials 1991: A National Roster

Emmett Devon Carson

Barbara GARDNER. Charles W GARDNER. Courtney GARDNER. Fred Jr GARDNER. Gretta GARDNER. J Alan GARDNER. Joseph GARDNER. Kirk GARDNER. Matthew GARDNER. Richard L GARNER. Barbara GARNER. Cecil J GARNER.
Mathematical Puzzle Tales

Mathematical Puzzle Tales

Martin Gardner

36 of Martin Gardner's most cunning brainteasers, suitable for all mathematical problem solvers.
Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles

Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles

Martin Gardner

Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection.
American Bookseller

American Bookseller

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... A TEACHER Rhetorical Occasions, 1967-1988 Wayne C. Booth 06581-2 $24.95 February A GREENHOUSE FOR THE MIND Jacquelyn Seevak Sanders 73464-1 $19.95 March GARDNER'S WHYS S WHEREFORES Martin Gardner Illus.
Handbook of Contemporary Paganism

Handbook of Contemporary Paganism

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... fringe group within the Crotona Fellowship that Gardner was subsequently introduced to witchcraft. Gardner's Initiation According to Jack Bracelin's biography of Gardner, Gerald Gardner: Witch,170 a few days after the outbreak of World War ...
Gardner History and Genealogy

Gardner History and Genealogy

Lillian May Stickney Gardner

Lillian May Stickney Gardner, Charles Morris Gardner. SYLVESTER ROBINSON (5). Abigail Gardner (4), William (3), Benony (2), George (1). Sylvester, son of William and Abigail (Gardner) Robinson, was born 1734; married Alice Perry, Dec.
The Gardner-Gardiner family

The Gardner-Gardiner family

William Edward Harper

ABIGAIL GARDNER , first child and first daughter of William Gardner by his wife Elizabeth (Gibbs) Gardner, was born March 6th, 1720. 337. WILLIAM GARDNER, second child and first son of William Gardner by his wife Elizabeth (Gibbs) ...
Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First ...

Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First ...

Martin Gardner

Offers puzzles, games and problems featuring matrixes, probability, topology, card tricks, paradoxes, and logic This book was the very first collection of Gardner's enormously popular 'Scientific American' columns, and its puzzles remain ...
Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem ...

Captain Joseph Peabody: East India Merchant of Salem ...

Walter Muir Whitehill

Frank Augustine Gardner, Gardner Memorial, A Biographical and Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Thomas Gardner, Planter . . . through his son Lieut. George Gardner (Salem, 1933), pp. 127-133. 56. (Salem, 1888), p. 14. 57.
Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families ...

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families ...

William Richard Cutter

Stephen Wilson Gardner and wife Marion Wallace Woods have two children, Dr. Frank Augustine Gardner and Lucy Marion Gardner. (IX) Dr. Frank Augustine Gardner was horn in Salem, Massachusetts, January 7,1861, and was given a good ...
Good Afternoon Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner

Good Afternoon Gentlemen, the Name's Bill Gardner

Bill Gardner

And many familiar faces have queued up to add their comments in this book which shows just what it is that makes Bill Gardner unique among the toughest and the greatest of them all.
Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic

Stealing Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Modern Western Magic

Nevill Drury

The text Gerald Gardner: Witch by J. L. Bracelin, published by Octagon Press, London 1960, is now believed to have been ... Shah apparently did not want to put his name to the Gardner biography so Jack Bracelin, another friend of Gardner's, ...
Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846

Republic of Texas: Poll Lists for 1846

Marion Day Mullins

Martin, William G. Martin, William N. P. Martin, Zadok Mart in as, Guadalupe Martinas, Perfector Martinez, Aus. ... J. Matagorda Martin, J. F. Brazos Martin, J. G. Titus Martin, J. S. Anderson Martin, J. S. Leon Martin, James Limestone Martin, ...
The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness

Chris Gardner

More than a memoir of Gardner's financial success, this is the story of a man who breaks his own family's cycle of men abandoning their children.
Better All the Time

Better All the Time

Carre Armstrong Gardner

Visit Carre Armstrong Gardner's website at www.carregardner.com. TYNDALE and Tyndale's quill logo are registered trademarks of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Better All the Time Copyright © 2015 by Carre Armstrong Gardner. All rights ...
Thomas Gardner, Planter (Cape Ann, 1623-1626, Salem, ...

Thomas Gardner, Planter (Cape Ann, 1623-1626, Salem, ...

Frank Augustine Gardner

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Gardner, Gardeier, Gardiner, Gardinier, Gartner genealogy ...

Gardner, Gardeier, Gardiner, Gardinier, Gartner genealogy ...

Marshall Kim Gardner

DONNA LEE JONES Born : Parents : Married: October 20, 1977 Children: THE FAMILY OF ROHN KIRBY ROBINSON ROHN KIRBY ROBINSON Born: March 30 , 1955 Mesa, Maricopa, Ariz. Parents: Terry Martain Robinson Theresa Gardner ...
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers

Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers

Martin Gardner

Combines two previously published works, resulting in ninety-three brain-teasing puzzles, riddles, and questions with an emphasis on humor.
Winston County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Winston County, Alabama Cemeteries, Volume 2

Robin Sterling

Troy Martin Martin, Billy C., 23 Mar 1940 – 29 Mar 1980; SS Hildred B. Martin Martin, Carrye S., 20 Mar 1909 – 8 May 1986; ... SS Billy C. Martin Martin, Jack J., 18 Aug 1934 – 23 Aug 2000; SS Sadie Jeanette Martin Martin, Jeanette Batchelor, ...
Though He Slay Me

Though He Slay Me

Joyce H. Duckett

As they approached the church they saw Ben Gardner's automobile parked in front. He was the Chairman of Deacons, and had arrived early to get everything comfortable for the people who would arrive later. Ben Gardner was perhaps in his ...
Alabama State Troopers

Alabama State Troopers

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Michael Hicks. David E Hicks. Gary W Higginbotham. Frank E Higgins. Otis. Jr Hill. Angela N Hill. Beverly F Hill. Carol j Hill ... Clayton B Martin. James A Martin. Loretta H Martin. Michael T Martin. Stacy L Martin. Sylvester Martin, Virginia Martin.
Этот правый левый мир

Этот правый левый мир

Мартин Гарднер

This book, "Etot pravyj levyj mir," by Martin Gardner, is a replication of a book originally published before 1967.
The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from ...

The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry and Asymmetry from ...

Martin Gardner

One of the earliest, most eloquent of such scoffers was Francis Robert Japp, a nineteenth-century Scottish chemist at the University of Aberdeen. In a widely discussed address, “Stereochemistry and Vitalism” (printed in Nature, September 8, ...

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