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| Renowned for its decorative effect, the ever-evolving art of Japan includes painted screens, wood block prints, lacquerware, ceramics, netsuke, and gorgeous kimonos. Traditional methods of Japanese painting---influenced by the Chinese style of painting and calligraphy, Buddhist iconography, nature themes, and literary works---appeared in beautiful hanging scrolls made of silk or soft paper and painted with ink and watercolors. The dry-lacquer process was used in sculptures, and representations of Buddhist deities and saints were depicted in wood and bronze. The forty-eight cards in this deck reveal the vibrancy, life, and color of Japanese art: each card depicts on one side a full-color reproduction of a work, and the other side presents interesting information about the image. | Pickover, the amiable if slightly sadistic genius, returns to torment and delight our intellects with a more than usually wacky batch of word puzzles. Famous-Name Anagrams swaps the letters of those famous names around until they become new and startling word combinations. Who but Pickover would have the brutal wit to turn Richard Milhous Nixon into His Round Rhino Climax, Henry Kissinger into Sink Ring Heresy, Mel Gibson into Bong Slime, or Friedrich Nietzsche into Hen Fresh Criticized? Tangled names and a clue in the form of a quotation from the owner of the name appears on one side of each of the 48 cards in the deck (Nietzsche’s clue: "This famous philosopher commented that 'Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called Ego.'") Solutions are found on the reverse. |
| PO-175 The Art of Japan $9.95 Is this item in stock? Click Here to find out! |
PO-176 Mind-Bending Puzzles:
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| Run, here he comes again. Pickover’s latest collection features two kinds of puzzles. One invites its victim to recognize logical patterns and sequences in arrays of amusing symbols (dinosaurs, abstract designs, assorted livestock, pictographs, eggplants and pies, and so on). Solving the second type of puzzle involves finding your way through a maze. Not an ordinary get-lost-in-it maze but one in which your path to success is governed by following prescribed rules and constraints—avoiding consecutive cells occupied by identical symbols, for example, or making your way only via cell series where a symbol pattern is repeated (e.g. lion-mouse-dog, lion-mouse-dog). Learning to detect the underlying order that governs these puzzles is very unlike the type of thinking that most of us do in daily life. It’s refreshing and even liberating to give one’s brain such a good shaking out and airing! Answers appear on the opposite sides of each of the 48 cards in the deck. |
It’s one thing to rattle off “Show me the money,” another to come up with “She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up.” Hollywood prides itself on memorable phrases, but many of the finest—along with their contexts—have been forgotten. This deck of Knowledge Cards revives forty-eight priceless moments (each from a different motion picture) between 1932 and the present when screenwriter, director, and actor collaborated on a perfect line. Each card contains a memorable line with related information that tells you who said what to whom, and in what film the phrase was featured. The cards can be read just for pleasure, or they can form the basis for a game that tests players’ knowledge of historic films. Movies named to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, which recognizes significant works in American culture, are distinguished by an asterisk. |
| PO-177 Mind-Bending Puzzles: Mazes
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PO-278 Great Lines From
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| “Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” --Samuel Beckett Funny, clever, bitter, incisive, bracing, loopy, elegant, elegiac: lovers of literature will find that this deck merits all those adjectives and many more. Observations, aphorisms, put-downs, joyful tidings, lame excuses, choice turns of phrase, and brave exhortations will also come to mind. A quotation with attribution appears on one side of each of the 48 cards; the other side features a brisk, yet accurate biography and an overview of the quote’s authorial source. In addition to book-knowledgeable, author Dona Budd is a witty and articulate writer. She has chosen her authors well, synopsizing their lives and works with insight, sympathy, and humor. |
Written by Diane McGarvey. With questions on one side and answers on the other, these 48 fact-filled Knowledge Cards are a great source of condensed information—all in a deck the size of a pack of playing cards! Perfect for students, teachers, science buffs, and the purely inquisitive, this deck is sure to spark your curiosity and encourage you to delve deeper into this fascinating subject. |
| PO-179 In Their Own Words: Eminent
Writers on the Craft of Writing
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PO-180 Scientific American:
Geography Quiz Deck
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