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Stand out from the pack--don't think conventionally, think laterally! And, you can start developing well-honed mental skills with more than 80 braintw...
So begins Wit, a collection of hilarious quotes from the famous and infamous by author Des MacHale. MacHale has been collecting quotes over the past 2...
Lateral Solutions to Mathematical Problems offers a fresh approach to mathematical problem solving via lateral thinking. Lateral thinking has long bee...
"A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why?" "A man went around the world in a ship. Yet he was always in sight of la...
The latest in the hugely popular series of think-out-of-the box brainteasers, including Classic Lateral Thinking Challenges and Colorful Lateral Think...
"We never grow tired of good news how come' mysteries of this kind....These story brainteasers are often solved in groups...with solvers asking yes-or...
More than ninety brain teasers test powers of logic - and sense of humor - with word and number puzzles illustrated by cartoons....
In the world of perplexing lateral thinking puzzles, completely normal situations veer off into the world of the bizarre, confounding, and surreal. Re...
Paul Sloane and Des MacHale--the wily puzzle masters who have written several lateral thinking collections--are back with more tear-your-hair-out chal...
Stretch your mind with these ingenious and perplexing puzzles! It will take all your cleverness to overlook the obvious and train your brain to think ...
A Prelude to the Digital Age
First edition published in 1985 as: George Boole: his life and work. Dublin: Boole Press, 1985....
Our lateral thinking experts, Sloane and MacHale, have re-donned their proverbial thinking caps to bring solvers another selection of thought-provokin...
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50 Whodunits and Puzzles for the Junior Detective
Amazing mazes, crafty whodunits, marvelous visual tricks, sly lateral thinking puzzles, and stupefying optical illusions: all these fun challenges--pa...
Presents a collection of puzzles that require creative and alternative problem-solving skills, rated from easy to very difficult, and includes clues a...
Are you good at thinking outside the box? Do you consider yourself logical? And, most important of all, do you love a good challenge? Then this Mensa ...
His Life and Work
Leven en werk van de Engelse wiskundige George Boole (1815-1864)....
A collection of puzzles that will challenge the best puzzle solver....
A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, to...
Learn to "think laterally" and you'll solve pesky puzzles. These 110 puzzles start out fairly easy and the clues get more and more tantalizingly hard ...
"Smart thinking--but not straight thinking. To crack these brain-testing puzzles you can't go for the obvious: instead, be a little "twisted" and look...
As Albert Einstein once said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge," and every puzzle here encourages youngsters to think creatively and find...
A collection of mathematical conundrums with a twist. It presents you with mathematical conundrums, but instead of requiring brute calculating power, ...
A Treasury of the Cleverest Things Ever Said on Any Subject
Think ordinary conundrums are just too humdrum? Do you finish crossword puzzles in ink and in no time flat? Then get ready for a serious test of your ...
Here's the way lateral thinking puzzles work: you're given a mysterious situation with no apparent solution. But there's a challenging twist: the puzz...
George Boole (1815-1864) was born in Lincoln and was largely self taught, having left school before he was sixteen. First, he taught himself languages...
What a bargain! At more than 700 puzzle-packed pages, this huge, value-priced collection should keep any solver happy...and busy for a very long time....
A tribute to the unique wit of Dublin written by Ireland's most prolific joke book and humor writer....
Puzzles to Challenge Your Mind
Develop lateral thinking skills and improve brain power. The goal is to find a logical explanation for what appears to be an illogical situation. Do t...
John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) is the most popular cinematic representation of Ireland, and one of Hollywood's classic romantic comedies. For some v...
John Ford's Oscar-winning film The Quiet Man (1952), based on the story by Maurice Walsh, is one of the best-loved and most popular of all time, and c...
Hi Lover is a collection of over 1,000 quotations from the great lovers, the loved, the lost and the lecherous! It features classic one-liners from a ...
The third volume in the collection of witty remarks, joining Wit and More Wit. Des MacHale, Mathematics Professor, University College, Cork, and lifet...
The bestselling author of the Wit books presents a brand new compilation of quotations covering all the big question in life: love and happiness, poli...
Taken from a wide range of sources, Des MacHale's 'Quick Wit' is a collection of humorous remarks, repostes and put-downs drawn from every walk of lif...
A wonderful collection of spiritual quotations from the great philosophers, poets and thinkers. In the crazy, rushed world of today, these quotations ...
Exercise your mind to keep it in top shape by solving these tantalizingly tough, delightfully challenging, puzzles....