Books with author Marcel Danesi

Solve history’s greatest puzzles with this classic collection of brain teasers from The Best Brain Teasers of All Time.The best brain teasers are those that have challenged and captivated the attention of puzzle lovers throughout time. Collected here to keep your wits sharp, The Best Brain Teasers of All Time features the cleverest brain teasers from around the world and throughout history.The Best Brain Teasers of All Time gives you hours of fun-filled entertainment with brain teasers that develop your problem-solving skills in math, logic, and wordplay. Organized as an integrated challenge, these brain teasers build in momentum as they increase in difficulty from classic nursery rhymes to the riddle of the sphinx.The Best Brain Teasers of All Time puts your mind to the test with:125 Brain Teasers that require no special skills to solve. Plus, each question comes with an optional clue in case you get stumped and a handy answer key in the back to test yourself or play with friendsBrain Teasers for Every Level that cater to beginners and advanced masterminds alike, with brain teasers organized by level of difficulty to improve your skills as you move forwardHints of History that provide fun facts and background information for every brain teaserGet ready to sharpen your wit with every “aha” moment. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time is a go-to source for timeless fun and mind-blowing challenges.

Solve history’s greatest puzzles with this classic collection of brain teasers from The Best Brain Teasers of All Time.The best brain teasers are those that have challenged and captivated the attention of puzzle lovers throughout time. Collected here to keep your wits sharp, The Best Brain Teasers of All Time features the cleverest brain teasers from around the world and throughout history.The Best Brain Teasers of All Time gives you hours of fun-filled entertainment with brain teasers that develop your problem-solving skills in math, logic, and wordplay. Organized as an integrated challenge, these brain teasers build in momentum as they increase in difficulty from classic nursery rhymes to the riddle of the sphinx.The Best Brain Teasers of All Time puts your mind to the test with:125 Brain Teasers that require no special skills to solve. Plus, each question comes with an optional clue in case you get stumped and a handy answer key in the back to test yourself or play with friendsBrain Teasers for Every Level that cater to beginners and advanced masterminds alike, with brain teasers organized by level of difficulty to improve your skills as you move forwardHints of History that provide fun facts and background information for every brain teaserGet ready to sharpen your wit with every “aha” moment. The Best Brain Teasers of All Time is a go-to source for timeless fun and mind-blowing challenges.

Give your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest.Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn’t throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet “doable” puzzles to help build your logic, math, and wordplay.The unique skills derived from solving brain teasers helps put you in a better position to resolve important problems from work to daily life. Go in order of difficulty or skip around—the decision is yours! Solve all 75 brain teasers and stand tall, knowing you have outsmarted the puzzle-maker himself.Inside Brain Teasers for Adults, you’ll find:Choose your difficulty—Moving from simple Duck Soup Puzzles to Head Scratchers, engage your brain on different levels, with each riddle labeled by difficulty.5 Categories—Filled with brain teasers categories such as Wordplay, Logic, Card puzzles, and more are meant to stimulate your thoughts in different ways.Clues to use—An optional clues section has been provided for each question in case a little extra help is needed!Time to discover how fun and rewarding puzzle-solving can be with Brain Teasers for Adults!

Give your brain a test. Give your eyes a rest.Looking for a way to keep your brain on its toes? Well, there is nothing more mentally stimulating or fun than good old-fashioned brain teasers. And since everyday life doesn’t throw perplexing riddles at us very often, Brain Teasers for Adults offers a variety of tricky, yet “doable” puzzles to help build your logic, math, and wordplay.The unique skills derived from solving brain teasers helps put you in a better position to resolve important problems from work to daily life. Go in order of difficulty or skip around―the decision is yours! Solve all 75 brain teasers and stand tall, knowing you have outsmarted the puzzle-maker himself.Inside Brain Teasers for Adults, you’ll find:Choose your difficulty―Moving from simple Duck Soup Puzzles to Head Scratchers, engage your brain on different levels, with each riddle labeled by difficulty.5 Categories―Filled with brain teasers categories such as Wordplay, Logic, Card puzzles, and more are meant to stimulate your thoughts in different ways.Clues to use―An optional clues section has been provided for each question in case a little extra help is needed!Time to discover how fun and rewarding puzzle-solving can be with Brain Teasers for Adults!

Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, this new third editions of Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way is suitable as language teaching book for adults as well as for older children. It instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking Italian. The book lightens language-learning routines with cartoon-style illustrations, language games, and puzzles. A set of vocabulary flashcards and a small staple-bound bilingual dictionary booklet are bound into the book's spine and can be easily removed for supplementary use.

Titles in Barron's extensive Painless Series cover a wide range of subjects as they are taught on middle school and high school levels. These books are written for students who find the subjects unusually difficult and confusing--or in many cases, just plain boring. Barron's Painless Series authors' main goal is to clear up students' confusion and perk up their interest by emphasizing the intriguing and often exciting ways in which they can put each subject to practical use. Most of these books take a light-hearted approach to their subjects, often employing humor, and always presenting fun-learning exercises that include puzzles, games, and challenging "Brain Tickler" problems to solve. This user-friendly textbook supplement demonstrates that learning a foreign language can be both easy and fun when approached in the proper spirit. Students are introduced to interesting aspects of Italian culture and coached in conversational Italian while they learn basics of grammar and vocabulary.

Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, new third edition of Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way book with audio CDs is suitable as a language teacher for adults as well as for older children. This program instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking the new language. The book lightens language-learning routines with cartoon-style illustrations, language games, and puzzles. A set of vocabulary flashcards and a small staple-bound bilingual dictionary booklet are bound into the book's spine and can be easily removed for supplementary use. All Fast and Fun Way books, available in several languages, can be purchased alone or in a sturdy carrying case suitable for travel and including the buyer's choice of tapes or compact discs. The audio resources present dramatized bilingual dialogues that complement the material in the books and introduce language learners to correct pronunciation.

This program is designed to correct pronunciation deficiencies with cassettes that explain rules and encourage practice. This course focuses on vowel sounds, diphthongs, syllable stress, and what seem to English-speakers, unusual Italian consonant combinations such as gli, gn, gh, ch, and others. There is extensive practice with words and sentences.

This program is designed to correct pronunciation deficiencies with cassettes that explain rules and encourage practice. This course focuses on vowel sounds, diphthongs, syllable stress, and what seem to English-speakers, unusual Italian consonant combinations such as gli, gn, gh, ch, and others. There is extensive practice with words and sentences.

Updated with helpful facts and tips for international travelers, new third edition of Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way book with audiocassettes is suitable as a language teacher for adults as well as for older children. This program instructs beginners in the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking the new language. The book lightens language-learning routines with cartoon-style illustrations, language games, and puzzles. A set of vocabulary flashcards and a small staple-bound bilingual dictionary booklet are bound into the book's spine and can be easily removed for supplementary use. All Fast and Fun Way books, available in several languages, can be purchased alone or in a sturdy carrying case suitable for travel and including the buyer's choice of tapes or compact discs. The audio resources present dramatized bilingual dialogues that complement the material in the books and introduce language learners to correct pronunciation.

The popular Fast and Fun Way language learning series, previously available as book-and-cassette programs and in paperback book-only versions, can now be purchased to teach Italian and three other languages as a combination book and audio CD package. This program, designed for both travelers and students, instructs in the basics of speaking, understanding, and reading and writing Italian. Suitable both for adults and older children, the program includes language games and puzzles, cartoon illustrations, vocabulary flash cards, and other features that help make language-learning fun. The four compact discs present dramatized bilingual conversations and introduce students of Italian to correct pronunciation and listening comprehension.