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On the Wild Side

Martin Gardner - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2010 - 258 pages
"I have always been intrigued by fringe science," writes Martin Gardner in the preface to this book, "perhaps for the same reason that I enjoy freak shows and circuses ...
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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience

Martin Gardner - Science - 2001 - 352 pages
"[Gardner] zaps his targets with laserlike precision and wit."—Entertainment Weekly Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and ...
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Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries

Martin Gardner - Mathematics - 2004 - 306 pages
In a society begging to be duped, Martin Gardner, the most devastating debunker of scientific fraud and chicanery of our time, ranges here from science and mathematics to ...
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Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher

Martin Gardner - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 272 pages
At a time when popular knowledge of basic science has sunk to a new low and books promoting angels, parapsychology, and bizarre forms of medicine and healing outnumber ...
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Puzzling Questions about the Solar System

Martin Gardner - Science - 1997 - 116 pages
Brief introductions to space flight and the various bodies in the solar system are followed by sections of related puzzle questions. Answers are given at the back of the book.
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The Night Is Large: Collected Essays, 1938-1995

Martin Gardner - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 618 pages
The definitive work of Martin Gardner's brilliant, seven-decades-long career, "The Night Is Large" collects 54 of the most significant essays by this popular writer best known ...
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