(Read ebook) The Puzzle Instinct: The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life
·•●- Marcel Danesi ·•●-
| #1608336 in Books | Marcel Danesi | 2004-02-20 | 2004-02-20 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.80 x6.12l,.80 | File Name: 0253217083 | 288 pages | The Puzzle Instinct The Meaning of Puzzles in Human Life
||30 of 31 people found the following review helpful.| The Puzzle Is: Why Puzzles?|By Rob Hardy|Twenty-five years ago, there was a boom in sales of a fist-sized ingenious contraption of plastic, a fractured cube of multi-colored sides, the pieces of which could be twisted so that all the six faces had different colors (easy) or back to the one configuration where each face had only its own color (hard). The ubiquitous Rubik's|||"Danesi, a professor of semiotics and anthropology (Univ. of Toronto), explores why puzzles, having arisen in earliest human history at the same time as mystery cults, are an intrinsic part of human life. Will Shortz, crossword puzzle editor of the New York
"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles―for the sheer pleasure of it―and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." ―Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times
"... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered...
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