This informative two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of the fads and crazes that have taken America by storm from colonial times to the present. Entries cover a range of topics, including food, entertainment, fashion, music, and language. Why could hula hoops and TV westerns only have been found in every household in the 1950s? What murdered Russian princess can be seen in one of the first documented selfies, taken in 1914? This book answers those questions and more in its documentation of all of the most captivating trends that have defined American popular culture since before the country began. Entries are well-researched and alphabetized by decade. At the start of every section is an insightful historical overview of the decade, and the set uniquely illustrates what today's readers have in common with the past. It also contains a Glossary of Slang for each decade as well as a bibliography, plus suggestions for further reading for each entry. Students and readers interested in history will enjoy discovering trends through the years in such areas as fashion, movies, music, and sports.

Have fun and flex your mental muscle with brainteasers, word searches, cryptograms, optical illusions, sudoku, frameworks, logic puzzles, trivia and more. Did you know that different parts of your brain control different functions, and that with exercise, you can make each part of your brain stronger? In The Total Brain Workout you’ll find 450 fun, challenging and absorbing puzzles designed to specifically target the core parts of your brain that control language, logic, memory, reasoning and visual perception. Each set of puzzles ranges from easy to challenging, and is presented with information on the area of your brain being targeted and the functions it controls, so you can customize your own workout to the specific areas you want to improve.

Catch the latest wave in Sudoku-mania! These 275 X-Factor SuDoku puzzles are for the diagonally challenged, in 6 difficulty levels from Simple to Fiendish. X-Factor puzzles follow the same rules as for regular SuDoku puzzles PLUS the two shaded diagonal regions also contain the numbers 1 to 9 once only. Each X-Factor puzzle is joined to a previous and following puzzle through common puzzle solution numbers. As well, this book is an extension of "The World's Longest SuDoku Puzzle", now at 1,271 puzzles in length. Includes strategy guide for solving SuDoku puzzles, and tips on how to find X-Factor numbers. And for those who still can't get enough, try solving 275 riddles! Joe Defries is a current 2-time Guinness World Record holder, and is the joe in suJoku.com & joe-ks.com (the Largest Source of Internet Humour). Betcha Can't Beat That!* * re Joe's 'super-human puzzling feat' - the World's Longest SuDoku Marathon - as published in "The Addict's Guide to Everything Sudoku" by Fiorella Grossi, Fair Winds Press, 2007

Written by a sudoku solving expert, this workbook offers 150 puzzles generated by a software program. It includes an introduction that covers major techniques from pairs and triples to X-wing, swordfish and non-unique rectangles. Each of the puzzles has accompanying tips for those who feel they need a helping hand, and a grade-yourself time score.

Are you up to the challenge? Sharpen Your Mental Skills! If you enjoy relaxing while solving sudoku puzzles, these are for you! Solve Easy to Unfair puzzles with the 5 Step Sudoku method. 310 Puzzles! Hours of Entertainment! New Puzzles in Four difficulty levels: Easy (10 puzzles), Medium (20 puzzles), Hard (40 puzzles), and Unfair (240 puzzles) Hours of Fun! The answers are in back! puzzles increase gradually in difficulty For those hooked on solving Sudoku puzzles A great gift for yourself and others Easily tear out the puzzles Can you and your friends solve all the puzzles? Buy some today and see. From the Back Cover: Thank you for purchasing Volume 2 of the book 5 Step Sudoku I For Addicts. If you like to solve harder puzzles than volume 1, you'll find that inside. This is second in this series For Addicts I. Each level increases the number and difficulty of the puzzles, ex: 10 Easy, 20 Medium, 40 Hard, and 240 Unfair puzzles. The Unfair puzzles also replace the Extreme puzzles to keep this series easier to solve. This book has 310 puzzles and two puzzles per page. You have 5 sudoku solving methods or steps that can help you solve sudoku puzzles. You can keep your thinking and problem solving in top shape, by solving these puzzles. - J.J. Popps

Are you up to the challenge? Sharpen Your Mental Skills! If you enjoy relaxing while solving sudoku puzzles, these are for you! Solve Easy to Unfair puzzles with the 5 Step Sudoku method. 310 Puzzles! Hours of Entertainment! New Puzzles in Four difficulty levels: Easy (10 puzzles), Medium (20 puzzles), Hard (40 puzzles), and Unfair (240 puzzles) Hours of Fun! The answers are in back! puzzles increase gradually in difficulty For those hooked on solving Sudoku puzzles A great gift for yourself and others Easily tear out the puzzles Can you and your friends solve all the puzzles? Buy some today and see. From the Back Cover: Thank you for purchasing Volume 1 of the book 5 Step Sudoku I For Addicts. If you like to relax solving sudoku puzzles, you'll find that inside. This is first in this series For Addicts I. Each level increases the number and difficulty of the puzzles, ex: 10 Easy, 20 Medium, 40 Hard, and 240 Unfair puzzles. The Unfair puzzles also replace the Extreme puzzles to keep this series easier to solve. This book has 310 puzzles and two puzzles per page. You have 5 sudoku solving methods or steps that can help you solve sudoku puzzles. You can keep your thinking and problem solving in top shape, by solving these puzzles. - J.J. Popps