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Ian Scheffler, journalist and aspiring “speedcuber,” attempts to break into the international phenomenon of speedsolving the Rubik’s Cube—think chess played at the speed of Ping-Pong—while exploring the greater lessons that can be learned through solving it. When Hungarian professor Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik’s Cube (or, rather, his Cube) in 1974 out of wooden blocks, rubber bands, and paper clips, he didn’t even know if it could be solved, let alone that it would become the world’s most popular puzzle. Since its creation, the Cube has become many things to many people: one of the bestselling children’s toys of all time, a symbol of intellectual prowess, a frustrating p...
Explains the history of the Rubik's Cube, shares puzzles from around the world based on the same principles, and offers new puzzles and solutions for cubes ranging from 2x2x2 to 7x7x7.
Spread the word . . . but keep the secret! The Cube is an imagination game—and more—that holds a secret you are dared not to reveal. Last seen making the rounds in the coffeehouses of Eastern Europe, the Cube is rumored to be of ancient Sufi origin, but no one really knows for certain. This mystery game just seems to reappear when and where it is needed. Now it is here! Inside these pages, the game is revealed along with intriguing stories of others who have played the Cube—including such celebrities as Gloria Steinem, Willem Dafoe, Erica Jong, and Judy Collins. So don't be square . . . Get Cubed!
Useful handbook to understanding and working out the popular puzzle cube which was invented by Hungarian architect and designer, Ernö Rubik.
"Mastering the Cube" skillfully lays out proven organization design principles. Comparing today's complex organizations to a Rubik's Cube, the authors explain how focusing improvement efforts on just one or two facets of the organization is akin to concentrating on just one side of the cube. Doing so is bound to affect-and more likely jumble-the other areas needed to generate a healthy and sustainable organization. They advocate stepping back and taking a systems-wide, comprehensive view of change and bringing all elements into alignment with strategy. They describe eight common beliefs and missteps that cause leaders to stumble, and they offer eight building blocks to effectively orchestrat...
The Rubik's" is a book that delves into the fascinating world of the Rubik's Cube, a puzzle invented by Hungarian Erno Rubik in 1974. The cube has captured the hearts of millions globally since the 1980s, growing rapidly in popularity. Despite over 350 million Rubik's Cubes being sold, only a mere one percent of the world's population can solve the cube. The book explores the history of the cube, its rise to fame, and the challenges faced by those seeking to conquer it. In the 1980s, learning to solve the Rubik's Cube was a challenge, with limited resources such as books and no internet access. However, in the present day, numerous books and online platforms provide ample opportunities for e...
This monograph of French art theorist and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman centers around a single sculpture: Alberto Giacometti s "Cube" from 1934 (Kunsthaus Zurich), possibly his most peculiar and atypical creation, being his only abstract sculptural work within a wider oeuvre, which consistently had the exploration of reality as its main objective. By conducting a meticulous formal analysis of the sculpture, and consulting sketches, etchings, other sculptural works and texts of Giacometti originating from 1932 to 1935, the formative years of "Cube," Didi-Huberman unwinds a net of questions, hypotheses, and historical contextualizations in which he envelops his investigation to unfold for...
A century from now, Boston is like no other place on Earth: an enormous Cube containing millions of human and alien beings. Boston is slowly sinking, but it's also the site of Earth's only interstellar port-a gateway that has brought dozens of extraterrestrial races to the Cube. Beverly O'Meara is a private detective, a finder of lost people and things. Akktry, her partner, is a small, sharp-clawed animal that has an inhuman affinity with the past, able to recreate the history of any place or person from the remains of the present. A useful talent for a detective... Especially since the most powerful-and hated-woman in the Cube has hired Beverly to track down her missing daughter. Especially since Diana Sherwood's trail leads straight into the Basement, the oldest, lowest, most dangerous part of Boston. The part below sea level. The part you can down in... "In the Cube is David Alexander Smith's best book.... Not only do his humans live and breathe, but he has drawn some of the strangest and most convincing aliens you'll ever meet." -Hugo, Nebula, and Locus award-winning author James Patrick Kelly