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The 15 Puzzle: How it Drove the World Crazy
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The 15 Puzzle: How it Drove the World CrazyThe 15 Puzzle: How it Drove the World Crazy

This book contains the definitive, illustrated history of one of the most popular and important mechanical puzzles of all time. It can be argued that the Fifteen Puzzle in 1880 had the greatest impact on American and European society during of any mechanical puzzle the world has ever known.
Books by famous mathematicians tell that a deaf mute invented the 15 puzzle, but encyclopedias, other books and web sites say it was invented by Sam Loyd who Martin Gardner called "America’s greatest puzzle designer".

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Tags: puzzle, invented, Puzzle, mechanical, greatest
Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan [Audiobook]
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Superman Versus the Ku Klux Klan [AudiobookSuperman Versus the Ku Klux Klan [Audiobook

This book tells a group of intertwining stories that culminate in the historic 1947 collision of the Superman Radio Show and the Ku Klux Klan. It is the story of the two Cleveland teenagers who invented Superman as a defender of the little guy and the New York wheeler-dealers who made him a major media force.

 
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Do You Read Me?: Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, and the Denial of Meaning
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Do You Read Me?: Learning Difficulties, Dyslexia, and the Denial of Meaning

A fascinating and compelling exploration of the learning process for parents, teachers, and anyone with an interest in education.
Reading and writing are fundamentally about the communication of meaning. Yet, when a child has difficulty in learning to read and write, the one area that is never seen as having any relevance is the child’s life experiences. The author’s contention is that the concept of dyslexia is something that has been invented, rather than discovered, in order to evade the question of meaning and the understanding of the individual.
 
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My Invented Country
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My Invented CountryMy Invented Country

Isabel Allende - My Invented Country

Author Isabel Allende is best known for taking memories of her native Chile -- from which she's been exiled for more than a quarter century -- and weaving them into fiction infused with magic realism. In her seventh decade, Allende turns to the art of the memoir, writing a factual account of her family life and career while acknowledging that even this retelling has an element of fabrication to it. Allende writes affectingly of her mother's family, a colorful group who served as the foundation for her bestseller The House of the Spirits.

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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World
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The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern WorldThe Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World

New York Times bestselling author Edward Dolnick brings to light the true story of one of the most pivotal moments in modern intellectual history—when a group of strange, tormented geniuses invented science as we know it, and remade our understanding of the world.
 
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