Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Hill and Wang
ISBN: 1429935545
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 257
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Best known as the longtime writer of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American—which introduced generations of readers to the joys of recreational mathematics—Martin Gardner has for decades pursued a parallel career as a devastatingly effective debunker of what he once famously dubbed "fads and fallacies in the name of science." It is mainly in this latter role that he is onstage in this collection of choice essays. When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish takes aim at a gallery of amusing targets, ranging from Ann Coulter's qualifications as an evolutionary biologist to the logical fallacies of precognition and extrasensory perception, from Santa Claus to The Wizard of Oz, from mutilated chessboards to the little-known "one-poem poet" Langdon Smith (the original author of this volume's title line). The writings assembled here fall naturally into seven broad categories: Science, Bogus Science, Mathematics, Logic, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, and Politics. Under each heading, Gardner displays an awesome level of erudition combined with a wicked sense of humor.
Author: Leo Lionni
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0553522183
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Leo Lionni’s spirited story about a minnow and a tadpole is now available as a Step 3 Step into Reading book—perfect for children who are ready to read on their own!
Author: Ivan G. Black
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Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 800
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1334
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Pages : 832
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Pages : 806
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Author: Jeanne Willis
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448187419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she tells him she loves everything about him. "Promise that you will never change," she says. But as the seasons pass and he matures, his legs grow, and then his arms - and what happens to his beautiful rainbow friend? As he sits on his lily pad, digesting a butterfly, Tadpole little realises that now he will never know! Follow the predictable changes of a tadpole and a caterpillar to their natural conclusion in this award winning picture book.
Author: Hazel Felleman
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385000197
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.
