For every day of every month in 2007, this wonderful calendar has its own math problem--the solution of which is the date! The fun lies in figuring out how to arrive at the answer, and possibly discovering more than one way to do it. In addition to the daily puzzles, each month features an intriguing math topic plus plenty of room for reminders about mundane appointment and special occasions.
Bridge is a game of great subtlety and great reward. The New York Time's bridge column has reported on, and influenced, the game for many decades. Featuring fifty-three lucid analyses of particularly interesting tournament hands, this engagement calendar will engage your mind with insights, wry humor, and informed speculation on alternative ways the hands might have played out. With it, you'll find yourself a sharper player by year's end. Also included are international holidays, calling codes, and time differences; 2007 and 2008 yearly grids; page for notes; and a personal information page.
You've heard him on NPR; now get him at home every day of the year. In this 324-page desk cube, America's preeminent puzzle crafter, Will Shortz, brings you 313 outrageous word puzzles (Saturdays and Sundays share a page) that will test your brain-power and sharpen your wits. (For instance: What animal's name, beginning with the letter F, becomes the name of another animal if you drop the first letter?) These puzzles were originally published in the books the Puzzlemaster Presents: 200 Mind-Bending Challenges from NPR, volumes 1 and 2 (Random House, 1996 and 2003). This calendar includes all the answers--thank heavens!--along with yearly grids for 2007 and 2008, and pages for notes.
William Shakespeare produced the loveliest sonnets the language has yet known, but he was equally creative at scabrous verbal abuse, ego-crushing personal appraisals, cudgel-blunt challenges, rapier-sharp ripostes, pungent put-down, and killing kissoffs. This uproarious calendar presents 313 brief excerpts from the plays (each Saturday and Sunday share a page and an excerpt), with citations including act and scene; notes on who is abusing whom and why; and explanations of no longer familiar words. It's a poultice for ill humor and a daily delight for anyone who loves ill humor well expressed.
Whether finding escape in a novel or engulfed in a scholarly treatise, the reading woman has long fascinated artists. Spanning time and place from eighteenth-century Japan to twentieth-century America, this calendar features thirty-two sumptuous images--by Cassatt, Degas, Fragonard, Hassam, Rembrandt, Sargent, Toshihide, Whistler, and twenty-four other masters--of women engaged by the written word. Quotes on the subject of reading accompany the images. Also included are international holidays, calling codes, and time differences; 2007 and 2008 yearly grids; pages for notes; and a personal information page.
A book can stop time, transcend circumstances, conjure a world in which to lose one-self. This calendar's twelve paintings--including Edgar Degas' Visit to a Museum, Laura Coombs Hills' Fire Opal (Grace Mutell), John Singer Sargent's Simplon Pass; Reading, and nine other serene and lovely images--achieve the same thing. Just as the reading woman has temporarily set herself free from her life's narrative, so can we leave ours as we contemplate her image. Well-chosen words on the pleasures of literature, from historic and contemporary readers and writers, accompany each image.
Wine connoisseur Richard O. Nidel is the founder and former owner of Citron 47, a Manhattan bistro known for its extraordinary wine list. In this lively 365-day calendar with 313 entries (Saturdays and Sundays share a page), Nidel offers expert commentary on all aspects of wine--including varietals, terminology, wine-producing regions, viticultural concepts, and selection and storage. The entries are presented in Q&A format, making a fun way to test your wine knowledge against that of your friends. The calendar also includes a pronunciation guide for selected wines and terms; yearly grids for 2007 and 2008; and pages for notes.
Every day, fans can argue about their favorite coaches, players, rivalries, venues and much, much more:
-Who is the better coach: Phil Jackson or Mike Ditka?
-Who's the Sox's biggest rival: Indians, Twins or Cubs?
-Which players, not already in, most deserve to make the Hall of Fame?
-Who is the better coach: Phil Jackson or Mike Ditka?
-Who's the Sox's biggest rival: Indians, Twins or Cubs?
-Which players, not already in, most deserve to make the Hall of Fame?