Strength Training provides exercises and workouts carefully structured for the maximum benefit in the minimum time. Ideal for anyone new to resistance training, but equally inspirational for the more experienced, this book provides precise, step-by-step instructions on how to increase muscle strength and endurance, and improve mobility and posture. Suitable for both men and women, Strength Training is your own personal trainer, advising you on safety, equipment, and strength training principles, and encouraging you to build day-by-day to a healthier, stronger body.

Strength Training for Muscle Development: A Step-by-step Guide Improve Your Strength 20-minute Worko

Mark Hatfield

Main Street

Knock, knock--guess what's here... This is the funniest, most gigantic compilation of knock-knocks ever! Arranged from A to Z, there are over 250 pages filled with thousands of sidesplitting jokes and comic drawings that will keep you and your friends in stitches. Try these for a good giggle: Knock-knock. Who's there? Celia. Celia who? Celia later, alligator! Knock-knock. Who's there? Ivan. Ivan who? Ivan working on the railroad. So if you're looking for a great big belly laugh, just open up this book and come right in!

Giant Book of Knock-Knock Jokes

Children's Books

Humor

With a little sleight of hand and the secrets behind hundreds of card tricks, you'll amaze, amuse, and astonish your friends every time. Become an expert at "sneaking a peek" at a card without anyone noticing. Practice doing slippery shuffles, cuts, and hand movements that fool an audience and really make a magical show. Win over the crowd with a professional's inventive stage patter and witty wisecracks. Choose from these cool tricks: · "Colorful" and "Presto" Predictions. · Transpose cards with the "Tick Tock Trick," "Easy Aces," and "One in Four." · Using "Easy Estimation," figure out how many cards a spectator picked from the deck. Plus: "The Rare Reverse," "My Favorite Card," the "Impossible Poker Deal," and several hundred more.

Giant Book of Card Tricks

Activities, Crafts & Games

Don't get tongue-tied! Get sharp-tongued with this book of put-downs, insults, and excuses for every occasion. · Need a dastardly dig? How about: You remind me of a seat in church--PEW! · Is the teacher scolding you for calling out? Answer: Would you prefer that I telephone? · Are your parents upset that you forgot to take out the garbage? Try: It never takes me out! · Getting bullied by that creep? Snap back with: "You're the only person I know who got a D in recess." And there are hundreds more, with fun line drawings that add to the hilarity!

Giant Book of Put-Downs, Insults & Excuses!

Rosenbloom, Joseph

Kushner, Maureen

Literature & Fiction

Sharpen your pencil and your wits and try your skills on brain-bending mind-stumpers of every kind! From Solitaire Battleships to wonderfully tricky and intricate mazes, more than 200 super puzzles provide hours of enjoyment. · Whodunit?: Help Professor of Criminology Dr. Quicksolve and his son Junior solve devious crimes in this series of mini mysteries. · Be "Letter Perfect": Fill in the grid in this fun variation on a crossword. Every clue leads to a word that begins and ends with a designated letter. The last letter of the preceding word is also the first one of the next. Remember: always work in the direction of the numbers! · Go on a Word Search: Look up and down, across from left to right and from right to left, and diagonally to find the hidden words. If you're really good, try a hard "guess-the-theme" puzzle! And there's lots more in store, too.

Giant Book of Pencil Puzzles

Humor & Entertainment

Gordon, Peter

Diagram Group, The

Danna, Mark

Allen, Mayme

Kelsch, Janine

Sukach, Jim

Shenk, Mike

Puzzles & Games

Take the Mensa challenge! These extraordinarily entertaining puzzles can confound even those with high IQs-and that's what makes them such delightfully tricky fun. A few can be solved relatively quickly, but the hardest may seem nearly impossible to crack. Give your skills a real workout on numerical conundrums, word games, lateral thinking problems, and riddles. Brainteasers, arranged in order of difficulty, train the mind and provide a good time all at once. The most complex bafflers include chess, logic, and spatial puzzles. Here's a small sampler of what's inside! · A farmer has twenty sheep, ten pigs, and ten cows. If we call the pigs cows, how many cows will he have? · Which three boys' names are anagrams of one another? Answers: 1. Ten cows. We can call the pigs cows, but that doesn't make them cows. 2. Arnold, Roland, and Ronald.

Giant Book of Mensa Mind Challenges

Fernández, J.J. Mendoza

Sole, Tim

Marshall, Rod

Poniachik, Jaime

Poniachik, Lea

Look up and down, and diagonally, too: there's a "buried treasure" of words to uncover, hidden among the random letters. Young puzzle and language lovers can show what sharp eyes they have with this huge collection of word searches. Each one has a different theme, from Things That Fly (airplane, mosquito, flag) to Martial Arts (aikido, kickboxing), from Sundaes (caramel, cherry, yummy) to Wild Cats (cheetah, ocelot, puma). There are even 24 super School Time terms to track down. Only the best and most interesting word searches are found here--hundreds of them--and so are the answers, in the back, for anyone who needs a little help.

Giant Book of Word Search Puzzles

Connect the dots is just the beginning! Kids will have fun completing these animal pictures, but more than that they'll learn fabulous facts about hundreds of creatures from aardvarks to zebras. Whether extinct or still alive, endangered, or prehistoric, wonderful beasts all roam the pages of this delightful book. While children learn all about animals--their food, habitat, and size--they'll also begin to understand our ecosystem and how to conserve. · Prehistoric Pictures: Enter the lost world of the sea turtle Archelon; the fierce little saurus Deinonychus; and the Baluchhitherium--the largest land mammal that ever lived! · Extinct Animals: Meet some lost species, including the Bali Tiger, Dodo, and Eastern Bison. · Endangered Creatures: We can still see the African Elephant, Bengal Tiger, Koala, Panda, and Komodo Dragon, but they may soon disappear. There are lots of other wildlife, too, and mythological animals that you'll only find on the page!

Giant Book of Dot-to-Dot

Russo, Monica

Foretell your future using both the Chinese and Western methods to the zodiac.

The Little Giant Encyclopedia of the Zodiac

The Diagram Group

Reference

Giant Book of Winning Science Fair Projects

Win the science fair, learn about the world, and have fun all at the same time! This great, big, exciting collection of projects allows kids to feel the exhilaration of exploring the environment, energy, flight, space, and astronomy. Using easily available materials, students can show off their smarts by comparing evaporation indoors and out, predicting weather by wind direction, and designing paper airplanes for distance. They'll be amazed at what they can do! · Change the sun's light into heat energy: Take one hot day, ice cubes, a clear-colored soda, and some cola. Will the ice melt more quickly in the cola or the light drink? · Shake, rattle, and germinate: Break down seed coats to understand how plants grow. · Zap smell pollution: By finding out why unwanted odors (like onion) stay in the air, children will sniff out ways to eliminate them, too. There are more winning science fair projects in here than you'll find in any other book!

Keen, Dan

Bonnet, Bob

Science, Nature & How It Works

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