Figures for Fun

Figures for Fun

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  • Author: Yakov Perelman
  • Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
  • ISBN: 0486803457
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 144

"Does your brain need a workout? Are you wondering what to do? Well this could be the book for you! This is a great book for anyone who is looking for a challenge and, if you get too stuck, the author kindly also provided the answers at the end of each chapter!" — Splashes Into Books Give your mind a playful workout with this collection of more than 100 inventive puzzles. Finding the solutions requires only minimal mathematical knowledge and will test your imagination as well as your brainpower. The motley collection ranges from conundrums and mathematical stunts to practical situations involving counting and measuring. Chess problems, magic squares, and a host of other intriguing scenarios will amuse and challenge puzzle enthusiasts and fans of recreational mathematics. Answers appear at the end of each chapter. These puzzles are the inventions of a gifted Soviet mathematician, Yakov Perelman, whose popular science books on astronomy, physics, and mathematics inspired generations of readers. Perelman's distinctive style, abounding in wit and ingenuity, adds a special flair to his timeless riddles and brainteasers.


It Figures!

It Figures!

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  • Author: Marvin Terban
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ISBN: 0547346271
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 67

“Enjoyable and informative . . . Using this humorously presented book, children will truly improve their styles of writing” (School Library Journal). Writing “The road was bumpy” is okay . . . but isn’t it more fun to say “It felt like we were riding on square tires”? This lively guide shows kids how to make their writing more dramatic, more memorable, or just plain funnier—whether they’re writing for school or for creative expression. It explains six techniques: Similes Metaphors Onomatopoeia Alliteration Hyperbole Personification . . . and provides guidelines for their use, plenty of examples, and entertaining illustrations.


Go Figure!

Go Figure!

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  • Author: Johnny Ball
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 0756686121
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 98

Experience the mysterious and magical world of numbers as never before. This unique book investigates mathematical marvels such as why daisies always have 34, 55, or 89 petals, why the world''s phone numbers appear in Pi, and other patterns and paradoxes that will make readers look at numbers in a whole new way.


Fascinating String Figures

Fascinating String Figures

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  • Author: International String Figure Association
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780486404004
  • Category : Games & Activities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 84

Collects instructions drawn from the pages of String Figure Magazine explaining how to create such string "sculptures" as "Twinkling star," "Polar Bear," "Erupting volcano," and "Andromeda galaxy"


Fabulous Figures

Fabulous Figures

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  • Author: Jane Davenport
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781942021322
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Start with a heart . . . and create beautiful in-proportion people! Aspiring artists who feel intimidated at drawing figures will love Jane Davenport's amazingly easy technique, developed while she worked as a fashion illustrator. It involves using equal-size hearts to build the body's structure, and the results are astounding. Jane lays out the basics and walks you through working with different mediums; drawing the head, face, clothing, hair, and features; and constructing figures inspired by fashion, fantasy, life drawing, and more.


String Figures and how to Make Them

String Figures and how to Make Them

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  • Author: Caroline F. Jayne
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 9780486201528
  • Category : Games & Activities
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 476

Diagrams and text illustrate the steps involved in creating over one hundred string figures while providing information on their origin and cultural background


Figures of Speech

Figures of Speech

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  • Author: Arthur Quinn
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136784985
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 112

Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make language do for us almost anything we want. Or at least a Shakespeare can. The figures of speech help to see how he does it, and how we might. Therefore, in the chapters presented in this volume, the quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, and other sources are not presented to exemplify the definitions. Rather, the definitions are presented to lead to the quotations. And the quotations are there to show us how to do with language what we have not done before. They are there for imitation.


The Pocket Daring Book for Girls

The Pocket Daring Book for Girls

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  • Author: Andrea J. Buchanan
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061649945
  • Category : Sports & Recreation
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 276

Revisit old favorites and discover even more facts and stories. The perfect pocket book for any girl on a quest for knowledge. Includes New Chapters + the Best Wisdom & Wonder from The Daring Book for Girls


Fashion Illustration Art

Fashion Illustration Art

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  • Author: Jennifer Lilya
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • ISBN: 1440335478
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 125

From the clothes to the pose, here's everything you need to create fierce fashion illustrations. Create fabulous fashion moments! Drawing on 20+ years of fashion illustrating experience, Jennifer Lilya uses acrylic paint and black ink to show you how to draw the clothes, poses and attitudes behind runway-worthy art. Follow her expert tips, techniques and step-by-step illustrations to draw girls that rock the look, from flirty and fun to strong and sexy. Illustrated with tons of gorgeous examples, this guide covers everything from assembling your tools and mixing skin tones to the secrets behind natural looking poses and proper fabric drape. Jennifer uses acrylic paint and black ink to create her happy illustrations, and shows you how, too. But you can follow along with markers, pencils or whatever you like! Find out how to: • Draw standing and walking poses full of attitude and movement. • Use highlights, shadows and line quality to liven up your illustrations. • Evoke a variety of facial expressions using loose indications of eyes, lips and noses. • Create the look of batik, plaid, leather, lace, tweed and other fabrics. • Pull it all together into complete fashion illustrations. Pulsing with style, color and energy, this super-sassy guide will help you move your fashion art forward. Give your girls the spirit and spunk they need to enchant the crowd as they cruise the runway, hit the town or strike a pose.


Cool Action Figures & Dolls

Cool Action Figures & Dolls

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  • Author: Rebecca Felix
  • Publisher: Checkerboard Library
  • ISBN: 9781680780451
  • Category : Dollmaking
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

Presents step-by-step instructions for five projects featuring dolls and action figures, including a sprite made from pipe cleaners, a secret container creature, and a Barbie adventure case.