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Theory of Fun for Game Design
Theory of Fun for Game Design

Now in full color, the 10th anniversary edition of this classic book takes you deep into the influences that underlie modern video games, and examines the elements they share with traditional games such as checkers. At the heart of his exploration, veteran game designer Raph Koster takes a close look at the concept of fun and why...

Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (New Mathematical Library Series/No. 32)
Riddles of the Sphinx and Other Mathematical Puzzle Tales (New Mathematical Library Series/No. 32)
This is the third and final collection of puzzle columns that I contributed to Isaac Asimov' s Science Fiction Magazine over a period of about ten years. The format follows that of two previous anthologies: Science Fiction Puzzle Tales (1981) and Puzzles from Other Worlds (1984).

Each chapter poses a problem answered in the First Answers
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Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles
Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles

Only an elementary knowledge of math is needed to enjoy this entertaining compilation of brain-teasers. It includes a mixture of old and new riddles covering a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles and more. Carefully explained solutions follow each problem. 65...

Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way (Fast and Fun Way Series)
Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way (Fast and Fun Way Series)

Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, this new third editions of Learn Spanish the Fast and Fun Way is suitable as language teaching book for adults as well as for older children. It instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking Spanish. The book lightens language-learning...

Mathematics for the Curious
Mathematics for the Curious

When do the hands of a clock coincide? How likely is it that two children in the same class will share a birthday? How do we calculate the volume of a doughnut? Mathematics for the Curious provides anyone interested in mathematics with a simple and entertaining account of what it can do.

Author Peter Higgins gives clear...

Mad About Modern Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities
Mad About Modern Physics : Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities
This book of almost 250 puzzles begins where our first book, Mad
About Physics: Braintwisters, Paradoxes, and Curiosities (2001)
ended—with the physics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. The Michelson-Morley experiment of 1887, the
challenges posed by atomic spectra and blackbody radiation, the...
Games, Puzzles, and Computation
Games, Puzzles, and Computation

The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation―quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits―offering a new way of thinking about...

Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century
Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century
In the late 1960s, a new field of philosophical and moral enquiry came into existence. Bioethics, as it soon came to be called, quickly mushroomed: it developed its own journals, its own professional associations, its own conferences, degree programs and experts. It developed very rapidly for many reasons, but no doubt the main...
Head Rush Ajax
Head Rush Ajax
Sick of creating web sites that reload every time a user moves the mouse? Tired of servers that wait around to respond to users' requests for movie tickets? It sounds like you need a little (or maybe a lot of) Ajax in your life. Asynchronous programming lets you turn your own websites into smooth, slick, responsive applications that make your users...
Intermediate Statistics For Dummies (Math & Science)
Intermediate Statistics For Dummies (Math & Science)
"style, language, layout,common sense, Minitab output, dire warnings,practicalities,examples,punchy headings and warmth of humour..." (MSOR Connections, Vol 8 No 1)

Need to know how to build and test models based on data? Intermediate Statistics For Dummies gives you the knowledge to estimate,
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Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online
Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online

Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups. But Flickr's own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just...

Barron's Foreign Language Guides:  501 Spanish Verbs  (Book & CD-ROM)
Barron's Foreign Language Guides: 501 Spanish Verbs (Book & CD-ROM)

The World’s Best Selling Verb Book― and with good reason!

Fluency in Spanish starts with knowledge of verbs―and Barron’s 501 Spanish Verbs shows students and travelers exactly how to use the 501 most common and useful Spanish verbs in all 16 tenses and moods. Each verb is
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