Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 28 October 2010
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Deadly Advice: An Advice Column Mystery
I won't bother summarizing the plot since it's been done so thoroughly by others, but I will say that although people refer to this book as a "cozy," it is anything but. Sure, there's the amateur sleuth, a bevy of sidekicks, and touches of humor but this book is considerably less "gentle" than most cozy mysteries. In fact, that's why I like it better. So if you're getting tired of the small-town, small-minds type of cozy, pick this one up. You *won't* be disappointed!
Added by: susan6th | Karma: 3133.45 | Fiction literature | 28 October 2010
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Preaching to the Corpse: An Advice Column Mystery
The most fun in the book, I thought, came from the bitterness of the search. One church lady denounces a female candidate, at one point, because she believes the job should go to a man. "We just aren't built the same way," she explains. A man, meanwhile, is hostile to a candidate he suspects is gay.
After several fun twists and turns, the book ends in an improbable, but exciting, way that makes Preaching to the Corpse, all in all, a very fun ride.
The entire collection of Martin Gardner's Scientific American columns on one searchable CD! Martin Gardner’s “Mathematical Games” column ran in Scientific American from 1956 to 1986. In these columns Gardner introduced hundreds of thousands of readers to the delights of mathematics and of puzzles and problem solving. His column broke such stories as Rivest, Shamir and Adelman on public-key cryptography
Added by: englishcology | Karma: 4552.53 | Other exams, Medicine | 14 March 2010
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Offers information on history taking, physical examination, and interpretation of findings in two methods for each page. Offers a detailed, in-depth narrative text on one column and the same information is presented in a concise format in the other column.
Sudoku, sometimes spelled Su Doku (sudoko, sodoku), is a placement puzzle, also known as Number Place in the United States. * Enter digits from 1 to 9 into the blank spaces. * Every row must contain one of each digit. So must every column, as must every 3x3 square. * It has a unique solution that can be reached logically without guessing. * It's fun. It's challenging. It's addictive!
