The right side of your brain specializes in recognizing shapes and visualizing them in space. Engineers, architects, carpenters and map readers are strong in this skill. This is brain-candy for them and a test of knowledge for collectors of antique household items and tools. Sharp, detailed photographs of collectible antiques and curiousities with descriptions of their use plus old-time household tips and remedies. If you can identify 10% of them before you have to turn the page for the answer you are doing well. Featured on The David Letterman TV show.
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Allen D. Bragdon is the founding editor of Games magazine, editor of the New York Times "Playspace" puzzle column, and co-author with David Gamon of "Building Mental Muscle" and "How Sharp is Your Pencil?"
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Building Mental Muscle
Building Left Brain Power
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Little discernible purpose behind the selection,
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This review is from: Right-Brain Teasers: A Photo Quiz for the Mind's Eye (Brainwaves Books) (Paperback)
This volume contains a large selection of photographs of primarily Victorian artefacts. Readers are invited to discern the purpose of each oddity - hence the claim to 'right brain' strengthening. I could not discern themes, trends or any guiding cognitive theory holding the assembly together. What the reader gets is a mish-mash of images more suited to an antique store fetishist. If poring over images of Victorian apple corers. toasters and other assorted early industrial artefacts, is your hobby, then this book is right up your alley. On the other hand, if you expected this book (which I bought on the assumption that it might have something interesting to say about right brain visualisation and cognition)to be of some intellectual value, you will be sadly disappointed. Ironically it is a book largely about rubbish; the rubbish of a bygone age. Happily, this book, a testimonial to that age, I suspect will soon be numbered among its ranks.
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A refreshingly different kind of brain teaser book,
By Bill M. "bill_m1" (MA, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Right-Brain Teasers: A Photo Quiz for the Mind's Eye (Brainwaves Books) (Paperback)
Being a life-long lover of puzzles and mind games, I've collected lots of brain teaser books over the years. The title of this book really caught my eye. After all, aren't all brain teaser books "left-brained" by definition? Not necessarily so with this book.The format is quite simple: each page shows a house-hold invention from the 18th or 19th century, along with the real life dimensions of the object written at the bottom of the page. Your challenge is to find out what exactly the device was used for. This forces you to think about things creatively, not just in a linearly logical way. Each answer also includes some very interesting history on how the tool was put into overall practice, and other related customs for the times. There are countless puzzle books in print, most of them dealing with the same old word problems and lateral thinking problems. But this one offers something creatively different than the rest.
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While it might be a pleasant relaxation nowadays to sit on the back porch and peel apples for a pie or two, preparing a bountiful harvest of fruit for a winter's worth of eating used to be a monumental chore. Read the first page New!
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While it might be a pleasant relaxation nowadays to sit on the back porch and peel apples for a pie or two, preparing a bountiful harvest of fruit for a winter's worth of eating used to be a monumental chore. Read the first page New!
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