The Unofficial IEEE Brainbuster Gamebook: Mental Workouts for the Technically Inclined
Trying to keep those mental muscles in shape? Search no further! Here’s a book with hours and hours of IQ-busting fun to challenge your brain strength and test the very depths of your gumption. These innovative, witty, and utterly outrageous brainbusters engage your reasoning power while honing your problem-solving skills. Beginning with easier puzzles, then getting progressively more difficult, this tantalizing collection will increase brain power with each puzzle you conquer. Need help? Don’t worry—we’ve added a special "Solutions" section that gives a detailed answer to each brainbuster. This ingenious volume offers more than 180 puzzlers
In 2003, Aron Ralston set off for a day's hiking in the Utah canyons. As he slid down and off of a boulder it shifted, trapping his right hand against the canyon wall. No one knew where he was. He remained trapped for five days in the canyon: hypothermic at night, de-hydrated and hallucinating by day. Finally, he faced the most terrible decision of his life: what to do to save his life.
This is the account of those five days, of the years that led up to them, and where he goes from here. It is narrative non-fiction at its most compelling.
The movie 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle, is based on this book.
Trying to dream up different topics and questions is difficult at times. This book covered a wide spectrum of topics that stimulated hours and hours of laughter and conversations. Talk your head off is a kind of book teachers and students have been talking about for a long time. Students want an interesting book that does not rely on boring rote drilling. Teachers want a book that simplifies the learning process and makes it enjoyable. Talk your head of accomplishes this and more. This book is filled with targeted questions on many interesting topics. Students respond to the questions using appropriate tenses and grammatical forms.
First published in the UK in 1995, this psychological mystery/thriller has a plot that springs from the chance encounter between English businessman Robin Timariot and Lady Louise Paxton, who meet briefly while hiking near Wales. Hours later, Paxton is found raped and strangled in a nearby cottage. Over the proceeding months and years,
A six-level course that gives children more vocabulary, more reading, and more lessons than other primary courses. Your pupils will definitely learn more! For schools with 4 hours of teaching per week, or with 3 hours per week looking for a more demanding course. * A CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) section in every unit teaches students other subjects through English. * CLIL posters in levels 3-6 extend the topics of the units.
