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Alan Turing's Logic Puzzles for Kids: 109 Mind-Bending Activities
Eric Saunders
Arcturus Editions
2023
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Kids can level up their logic skills with this ingenious puzzle book, inspired by the incredible mind of legendary codebreaker Alan Turing. Designed in partnership with the Turing Trust, this fun-packed collection of brain-teasing puzzles is expertly crafted to captivate, challenge, and motivate young readers. These activities offer a fun and stimulating way to improve logical thinking, concentration, mathematical learning and problem-solving skills . With every challenge, young readers will hone their cognitive abilities, unlocking new levels of potential along the way. Includes: - Word challenges- Picture puzzles- Code-cracking games- Clever counting conundrums. Perfect for budding puzzle masters or anyone looking for a mental workout, this book is a must-have for every young mind seeking to unlock their full potential. Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment for children aged 7+. This book proudly supports the work of The Turing Trust, the charity set up by Alan Turing's closest family in his memory. The Trust commemorates his remarkable achievements by making computers available to less privileged communities in Africa.
Alan Turing's Number Puzzles for Kids: 109 Brain-Boosting Activities
Eric Saunders
Arcturus Editions
2023
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Children can put their math skills to the test with this ingenious puzzle book, inspired by the incredible mind of legendary codebreaker Alan Turing. Designed in partnership with the Turing Trust, this fun-packed collection of number puzzles is expertly crafted to captivate, challenge, and motivate young readers. These activities offer a fun and stimulating way to improve numeracy, logical thinking and problem-solving skills . With every challenge, young readers will hone their cognitive abilities, unlocking new levels of potential along the way. Includes: - Sudoku - Numberlink- Hexagony- Domino games- Sequence puzzles Perfect for budding puzzle masters or anyone looking for a mental workout, this book is a must-have for every young mind seeking to unlock their full potential. Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment for children aged 7+. This book proudly supports the work of The Turing Trust, the charity set up by Alan Turing's closest family in his memory. The Trust commemorates his remarkable achievements by making computers available to less privileged communities in Africa.
Crack codes, decipher ciphers and unravel mysteries with this brain-boosting collection of cryptic puzzles, inspired by the brilliant mind of famous World War II codebreaker, Alan Turing. Alan Turing was a genius codebreaker who played a pivotal role in cracking coded messages from Nazi forces. This puzzle book will put your own codebreaking skills to the test, featuring a prodigious array of challenges, including substitution ciphers, transposition ciphers, and more complex cryptographic techniques. The puzzles become progressively harder, so you can start with the (relatively) easy ones and build up to the truly expert level tests. With clues and hints to help you on your way, you'll need to use your logical thinking, pattern recognition, and deduction skills to break the codes and reveal the hidden messages. Foreworded by Dermot Turing, the nephew of Alan Turing, this puzzle book is a great way to flex your mental muscles and see if you have what it takes to become a codebreaker yourself This book proudly supports the work of The Turing Trust, the charity set up by Alan Turing's closest family in his memory. The Trust commemorates his remarkable achievements by making computers available to less privileged communities in Africa. ABOUT THE SERIES: Sirius Classic Puzzles bring together mind-bending puzzles inspired by classic themes and figures from history and literature, from ancient antiquity to modern greats. These are presented in handsome decorative formats that make the perfect gift.
Alan Turing's Puzzle Machine: 100 Brain Teasers
Emily Stead; Lucy Doncaster
Arcturus Editions
2026
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Published in association with the Turing Trust, this terrific book is packed with super-smart puzzles to challenge and inspire young readers. The 100 puzzles in this book are each illustrated in full-color by the talented Nik Neves. From classic riddles to code-cracking games, there is plenty here to provide hours of entertainment for children aged 7+. Sales of this book support the work of The Turing Trust, the charity set up by Alan's family in his memory to provide computers to schools in less privileged communities. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alan Turing's Puzzle Machine brings together a variety of brain training puzzle books, inspired by the ingenious World War II codebreaker Alan Turing. Young readers can follow in his footsteps by solving these head-scratching conundrums.
Alan Turing's Puzzle Machine: 100 Number Puzzles
Emily Stead; Lucy Doncaster
Arcturus Editions
2026
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Published in association with the Turing Trust, this fun-packed collection of puzzles has been specially designed to intrigue, challenge, and inspire young readers. The 100 puzzles in this book - from number sequences to math mazes - are brought to life by the sophisticated, full color artwork of Nik Neves. Guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment for children aged 7+. Sales of this book support the work of The Turing Trust, the charity set up by Alan's family in his memory to provide computers to schools in less privileged communities. ABOUT THE SERIES: Alan Turing's Puzzle Machine brings together a variety of brain training puzzle books, inspired by the ingenious World War II codebreaker Alan Turing. Young readers can follow in his footsteps by solving these head-scratching conundrums.
After successful ad exec Alan Anderson bombs the biggest pitch of his career, he has an epiphany. His entire career has been about making people buy stuff that they don't need so they feel perpetually unsatisfied and less-than. After a lifetime of striving for capitalism, Alan is opting out. He retires to the ridiculously extravagant playhouse in his family's suburban Connecticut garden (a classic example of something the Andersons didn't need), gives up showering, shoe-wearing, and purchases of all kinds. He might even read a book! This is all very upsetting for his wife Vivian, who is on the verge of being accepted into the insanely elite Queen's Anne Club - guaranteed to make all her insecurities disappear and her children popular. But maybe everyone will want to buy what Alan's not selling? And, in losing his ambition, might he find what we're all looking for? For anyone who has ever cared more about how it looked than how it felt, ALAN OPTS OUT is a hilarious take on consumerism, capitalism and wellness.
Alan Partridge: Every Ruddy Word
Armando Ianucci; Patrick Marber; Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan
Penguin Books Ltd
2013
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Join Alan Partridge on his incredible journey of discovery in Every Ruddy Word: All The Scripts.Alan Partridge is our most remarkable broadcaster. From the giddy heights of his short-lived TV chat show to the crashing lows of six months in a travel tavern, he's done it all. Whether shooting dead one of his guests on air; being crushed under a dead cow; having incomplete sex with a woman he was supposed to be sacking or encountering 'mentalist' fans, Alan remains a formidable presence on Radio Norwich. And despite suffering a breakdown, Toblerone addiction and skewering his foot on a spike he always bounces back.From Alan Partridge's first radio chat show to the pulping of his autobiography, Every Ruddy Word is the complete story of one of Britain's most-enduring comic heroes.'Charts every line of Mr Blazer's plummeting career from radio to TV to corporate video presenter. A treat' THE TIMES'The man is a monster' GUARDIANAlan Partridge presents 'Up With the Partridge' on Radio Norwich and a military-based game show on cable TV. He's appeared in such series as On the Hour, The Day Today, Knowing Me Knowing You and I'm Alan Partridge. He'll soon be living in a house built to his own specifications in the outskirts of Norwich. He has written a bestselling autobiography, I, Partridge, revamped his career in 2010 with the 12 part Foster's Funny series 'Mid Morning Matters', and 2013 sees the release of his long-awaited film Alpha Papa. He drives a Lexus. (Scripts and extra material by Steve Coogan, Armando Ianucci, Peter Baynham and Patrick Marber)
The Winner of the 2017 V&A Best Illustrated Book Award An alligator who snaps, becomes an alligator who th-naps in this hilarious, heart-warming story of making new friends and discovering who you really are.Meet Alan, an alligator with a secret. Famed for his big, scary teeth, he sneaks into the jungle every day to scare the jungle animals ... “I’m big, scary Alan! Fear my razor-sharp teeth!” But after a long day of scaring, Alan likes nothing better than to run a warm mud bath and take out his false teeth, which nobody knows about! That is, until his teeth go missing. What will Alan do now? Scaring is the only thing he knows how to do! Can he still be scary without them? A goofy comedy of self-discovery, witty, warm-hearted storytelling and bright graphic art will make this (and Alan!) a firm children’s book favourite.
Alan Turing: code-breaker, mathematician, father of modern computing. Award-winning children's author, Joanna Nadin, explores the extraordinary life of code-cracking genius, Alan Turing. A Life Story: This gripping series throws the reader directly into the lives of modern society's most influential figures. With striking black-and-white illustration along with timelines and never-heard-before facts. Also in the series: Katherine Johnson: A Life Story Stephen Hawking: A Life Story Rosalind Franklin: A Life Story
As seen on This Time with Alan Partridge on BBC One. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERPraise for Nomad: 'Funniest book of the year' Sunday Telegraph'Alan Partridge's Nomad is almost certainly the funniest book ever written' Caitlin Moran'Sensationally funny. What brilliant writing' Richard Osman'Sensational' Jenny Colgan'Hilarious' Jon Ronson'Brilliantly funny' Marcus BrigstockIn ALAN PARTRIDGE: NOMAD, Alan dons his boots, windcheater and scarf and embarks on an odyssey through a place he once knew - it's called Britain - intent on completing a journey of immense personal significance.Diarising his ramble in the form of a 'journey journal', Alan details the people and places he encounters, ruminates on matters large and small and, on a final leg fraught with danger, becomes - not a man (because he was one to start off with) - but a better, more inspiring example of a man. This deeply personal book is divided into chapters and has a colour photograph on the front cover. It is deeply personal. Through witty vignettes, heavy essays and nod-inducing pieces of wisdom, Alan shines a light on the nooks of the nation and the crannies of himself, making this a biography that biographs the biographer while also biographing bits of Britain.
Alan Watts–Here and Now
State University of New York Press
2012
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Considers the contributions and contemporary significance of Alan Watts.Alan Watts-Here and Now explores the intellectual legacy and continuing relevance of a prolific writer and speaker who was a major influence on American culture during the latter half of the twentieth century. A thinker attuned to the spiritual malaise affecting the Western mind, Watts (1915–1973) provided intellectual and spiritual alternatives that helped shape the Beat culture of the 1950s and the counterculture of the 1960s. Well known for introducing Buddhist and Daoist spirituality to a wide Western audience, he also wrote on psychology, mysticism, and psychedelic experience. Many idolized Watts as a guru-mystic, yet he was also dismissed as intellectually shallow and as a mere popularizer of Asian religions (the "Norman Vincent Peale of Zen"). Both critical and appreciative, this edited volume locates Watts at the forefront of major paradigmatic shifts in Western intellectual life. Contributors explore how Watts's work resonates in present-day scholarship on psychospiritual transformation, Buddhism and psychotherapy, Daoism in the West, phenomenology and hermeneutics, humanistic and transpersonal psychology, mysticism, and ecofeminism, among other areas.
Explores language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy.Gold Winner, 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards in the Philosophy category To commemorate the 2015 centenary of the birth of Alan Watts (1915–1973), Peter J. Columbus and Donadrian L. Rice have assembled a much-needed collection of Watts's scholarly essays and lectures. Compiled from professional journals, monographs, scholarly books, conferences, and symposia proceedings, the volume sheds valuable light on the developmental arc of Watts's thinking about language and mysticism, Buddhism and Zen, Christianity, comparative religion, psychedelics, and psychology and psychotherapy. This definitive collection challenges Watts's reputation as a "popularizer" or "philosophical entertainer," revealing his concerns to be much more expansive and transdisciplinary than is suggested by the parochial "Zen Buddhist" label commonly affixed to his writings. The editors' authoritative introduction elucidates contemporary perspectives on Watts's life and work, and supports a bold rethinking of his contributions to psychology, philosophy, and religion.
'A creation of comic genius.' Jon Ronson'Alan Stoob is to Nazis what Inspector Clouseau is to jewel thieves. He's a marvellous comic creation, and deserves his own series of movies.' - Joanne Harris, author of Chocolat. 'The human story at the heart of the diaries...is tragically comic amid the increasingly surreal plot.' - The TimesAlan Stoob, hero of this hilarious novel has been described as a new member of the great pantheon of British comic characters - genus awkward old bastard - that already includes Mr Micawber, Mr Pooter and Captain Mainwairing.Originally a Twitter sensation, whose fans include India Knight and Dara O'Brien, he now walks the pages of this book finding Nazi conspirators in the most mundane surroundings. Into a very ordinary, domestic setting comes world famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who invites Alan to take on responsibilities for hunting Nazis in hiding in the county of Bedfordshire.Alan agrees and finds that wherever he looks he sees evidence of Nazi conspiracy and he begins to follow a trail of evidence that leads him to members of the UK Cabinet and even the President of the United States.
ALAN IS KING OF THE UNIVERSE. Well, not yet. But he WILL be.An orange cat blessed with opposable thumbs, Alan is convinced he was born to rule and spends his days scheming up brilliant plans to fulfil his destiny - from creating a brand-new country, Alanland, to cloning himself in an attempt raise an entire army of Alans. And his hapless dog sidekick Fido is just happy to be along for the ride!Join these two loveable characters on their hilarious adventures as they try to take over the universe - as long as they're home in time for tea, of course.This two-colour graphic novel series for 7+ readers will have kids and their grown-ups rolling around the floor with laughter.