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A coloring book that invites readers to explore symmetry and the beauty of math visually.

Beautiful Symmetry is a coloring book about math, inviting us to engage with mathematical concepts visually through coloring challenges and visual puzzles. We can explore symmetry and the beauty of mathematics playfully, coloring through ideas usually reserved for advanced courses. The book is for children and adults, for math nerds and math avoiders, for educators, students, and coloring enthusiasts.

Through illustration, language that is visual, and words that are jargon-free, the book introduces group theory as the mathematical foundation for discussions of symmetry, covering symmetry groups that include the cyclic groups, frieze groups, and wallpaper groups. The illustrations are drawn by algorithms, following the symmetry rules for each given group. The coloring challenges can be completed and fully realized only on the page; solutions are provided. Online, in a complementary digital edition, the illustrations come to life with animated interactions that show the symmetries that generated them.

Traditional math curricula focus on arithmetic and the manipulation of numbers, and may make some learners feel that math is not for them. By offering a more visual and tactile approach, this book shows how math can be for everyone. Combining the playful and the pedagogical, Beautiful Symmetry offers both relaxing entertainment for recreational colorers and a resource for math-curious readers, students, and educators.

The perfect primer for novice chess players.

This wonderful collection is packed with more than 350 puzzles and is perfect for all crossword fans. The striking flexi-bound cover and coloured end papers also make this book a beautiful gift.

Over 30 days in early 2009, Richard Roeper risked more than a quarter-million dollars on practically every method of gambling currently available in America. Bet the House chronicles his wild journey. Follow Roeper as he travels from celebrity-filled Vegas tournaments to podunk dog races, negotiates illegal sports bets with shadowy bookies, trolls overseas-based Internet gaming sites, wagers against a radio comedian, haunts blackjack tables, and flips coins at a bar. As the wins and losses mount, you'll share his suspense over that next big bet, the one that might, just might, get him back to black by the end of his odyssey. Bet the House also explores: - What it's like to bet money you don't have, knowing that if you lose, you're in some serious trouble.- The worst referee's decision in the NFL in the last decade, and how it cost the author thousands of dollars.- The time Roeper won more than $20,000 on a single horse race. - Why the slots are such a bad play, why Roeper hates baccarat, and why state lotteries are worse than any numbers game run by the mob.- The 10 best gambling movies of all time. The true national pastime isn't baseball or football or basketball. It's gambling--on fantasy football, March Madness, poker, slots, the lottery, keno, church raffles, bingo, and more. Bet the House recounts with humor and pride the ultimate thrill ride of one American gambler.

4th Bestselling Children's Book Series of all Time -The New Yorker

Spend your spring vacation with the legendary Bigfoot, either camping in the mountains in the Pacific Northwest or surfing in Hawaii.

Big Bigfoot's Secret Vacation takes you on a magical adventure through the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest and the beaches of Hawaii. You are finally on spring break after a rainy winter. All you wanted was to spend your school vacation in Hawaii on the beach, but your parents have other plans. You're going camping at Bigfoot Research Camp in the rainy Pacific Northwest. You are afraid you will die of boredom until a real, live Bigfoot shows up. Maybe this camping trip won't turn out to be so boring after all?

Choose Your Own Adventure is the bestselling gamebook series of all time. Empowering generations of children through choice, it is widely commended for its appeal to reluctant readers.

Containing a massive 300 killer sudoku puzzles packaged in a stylish paperback, this is the perfect killer sudoku gift book for adults of any age. With a mix of 100 easy, 100 medium, and 100 hard puzzles, the 9 x 9 grids are each arranged on their own page and solutions are easily found in the back of the book. Printed in a highly portable format, the book can be taken on your travels or sit neatly on your nightstand.

Packed with hundreds of brain-teasing puzzles on a variety of topics, this book has something for everyone! There are captivating crosswords of every type, from easy to expert level. True puzzle aficionados can dare to take a stab at the special challenger and diagramless crosswords. Whether you are on a train or plane, in a waiting room, or nestled on your comfortable sofa, this compilation will provide hours of fun. Sharpen those pencils and get ready for this ultimate collection that will surely challenge even the most savvy puzzle solver!