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There’s something new on the sudoku scene—and it’s bound to capture the attention of word lovers. Wordoku follows the same basic principles as sudoku, except that solvers fill the grid with nine letters. Under each grid, the letters for that puzzle appear, in a pronounceable anagram. Then, just like the original, you have to arrange them so that every letter appears in every column, every row, and every 3x3 box just one time: anyone, including non-English speakers, can do that. But unlike sudoku, the fun doesn’t end there: buried inside the grid, you’ll also find the answer to the anagram. (In some cases, to make it tougher, the anagram actually has TWO possible solutions.) It’s brainbusting, entertaining, and irresistible.
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The Official Book of Wordoku.......2007-01-16
I bought this for my cousin who loves doing crossword puzzles and sudoku. Sudoku was challenging enough for her, but wordoku is a beast. She loves the mental motivation.
new puzzle.......2007-01-14
I love the new type of puzzle called Wordoko--I had gotten bored with Suduko & was looking for something different & found it in Worduko.
Adds sense of accomplishment to Sudoku.......2006-04-07
I thought Sudoku was a little boring before I got this book. When you are done, all you had was a grid of numbers. With Wordoku, you discover the solution to a jumbled word. The nine letters are given in an order that makes them easy to remember, but still very difficult to guess the word upfront. There are a variety of difficulty levels, including the last 10 puzzles where only 8 of the letters are given, so you can't really guess the word until you solve the puzzle.
I definately recommend to Sudoku and word puzzle lovers. It's very addictive and a great way to take a break or pass time on a flight, etc. My only complaint is that they haven't come out with Wordoku 2 yet, so I'm forced to print more puzzles off the internet instead.
Pretty Good.......2006-03-29
I got into playing Sudoku puzzles a few months ago, and I have to say that it's addicting! Every night now I find myself doing at least one puzzle - it's hard to put them down!
This particular book combines Sudoku with word puzzles. So, instead of filling the grids with the numbers 1 through 9, you're filling the grids in with specific letters - and, when you're done, you get to try to solve the anagram of the letters given by finding that 9 letter word within the grid.
In case you haven't played Sudoku before, it's a numbers (in this case letters) logic puzzle. You're given a 9x9 grid, and you have to determine which numbers/letters go into which square within the smaller 3x3 grid, and then again within the larger 9x9 grid. Each letter/number can only be used once within each square, row and column. You do this by working off of the few answers given - deducing the correct answers along the way.
The reason I gave this book 4 stars instead of 5 is that each puzzle has a different set of letters to work with - so every time you do a new puzzle, you have to memorize the letters that are being used. I found that it helps if I try to solve the anagram first - that way I only have to remember that one word as I work through solving the puzzle.
Overall, I found it to be a fun twist to the traditional Sudoku. So, if you like this type of logic puzzle, you may want to give this a try.
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Here’s more fun for wordoku lovers: a third “Official” puzzle collection! And this time, the there’s something new: several 10x10 puzzles to go along with the 9x9’s and 12x12’s. Wordoku follows the same basic principles as sudoku, except that solvers fill the grid with letters. Under each grid, the letters for that puzzle appear, in a pronounceable anagram. Then, just like the original, you arrange them so that every letter appears in every column, every row, and every box just one time. Unlike sudoku, the fun doesn’t end there, because the answer to the anagram lies buried inside the grid. But beware: in some cases the anagram actually has more than one possible solution!
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A second helping of fun for solvers who enjoy the popular combination of sudoku and wordplay. And this time, #2 includes five larger-than-usual, super-challenging grids that measure 12 x 12.
Wordoku follows the same basic principles as sudoku, except that solvers fill the grid with letters. Under each grid, the letters for that puzzle appear, in a pronounceable anagram. Then, just like the original, you arrange them so that every letter appears in every column, every row, and every box just one time. Unlike sudoku, the fun doesn’t end there, because the answer to the anagram lies buried inside the grid. But beware: in some cases the anagram actually has more than one possible solution!
Customer Reviews:
different fun.......2007-04-07
These books are the best puzzles yet---I rotate between them every day{several times during a day} & never tire of them.
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Word lovers will welcome the fourth book in the popular series—which has sold more than 100,000 copies! This time there’s yet another fun twist to the game: the answers are proper names or phrases, like “Ypsilanti,” “Sigourney,” “Barcelona,” or “Hemingway.” That raises the stakes…and increases the difficulty. To solve the puzzles, which come in 9x9, 10x10 and 12x12, follow the basic rules of regular sudoku—except using the letters appearing under the puzzle. Arrange them so that every letter appears in every column, row, and box just one time. When you’re done, you’ll discover an anagram buried inside the grid. But be warned: just because a word seems to be forming doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the right one. A few traps await you!
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Over the last 150 years the corporation has risen from relative obscurity to become the world's dominant economic institution. Eminent Canadian law professor and legal theorist Joel Bakan contends that today's corporation is a pathological institution, a dangerous possessor of the great power it wields over people and societies.
In this revolutionary assessment of the history, character, and globalization of the modern business corporation, Bakan backs his premise with the following observations:
- The corporation's legally defined mandate is to pursue relentlessly and without exception its own economic self-interest, regardless of the harmful consequences it might cause to others.
- The corporation's unbridled self-interest victimizes individuals, society, and, when it goes awry, even shareholders and can cause corporations to self-destruct, as recent Wall Street scandals reveal.
- Governments have freed the corporation, despite its flawed character, from legal constraints through deregulation and granted it ever greater authority over society through privatization.
But Bakan believes change is possible and he outlines a far-reaching program of achievable reforms through legal regulation and democratic control.
Featuring in-depth interviews with such wide-ranging figures as Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman, business guru Peter Drucker, and cultural critic Noam Chomsky, The Corporation is an extraordinary work that will educate and enlighten students, CEOs, whistle-blowers, power brokers, pawns, pundits, and politicians alike.
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Loved, a great insight into how evil corporation are meant to be .......2007-09-26
this book is great, im glad I purchased, its a well worth read for anyone wanting to seek the truth about corporation. The books walks you the beginning of time where corporation we're first created as a strategic monopoly move to take over the trading businesses to our most recent times where scandal such as Enron emerged. With enough evidence to support it's case the author goes a great job breezing the user through.
Excellent, Honest, and Accurate Text about Corporations.......2007-06-24
This book is needed in a world where corporations have become more powerful than states. It is an honest reflection on what corporations are and what they do. The "evilness" is very accurate and can be researched through recorded historical precedents. It is no mystery or surprise that corporations are only interested in profit and nothing else. These institutions need to be understood for what they are. If they can be changed, people need to understand the corporate mandate for success and survival and recognize that it needs changing. It is the drive for profit that is destroying people and the world, and Bakan does an excellent job in analyzing this in clear, accurate language. Anyone who believes that this text is incorrect should spend some time in the real world, examining and studying the way these institutions operate and get away with murder, destruction, and theft.
This text cannot be recommended enough. Anyone who is interested in truth should read this book.
The Corporation.......2007-04-26
Joel Bakan's The Corporation provides great insight into the corruption and power of the corporation system and how it became the way it is. Explaining in the first few pages of the book that "The purpose of this book is to explore what the corporation, as an institution, truly is" Bakan goes deeply into the ways in which corporations have gained status since their creation in the sixteenth century. He also explores the extreme self-interest of corporations and how they manipulate, therefore govern our lives to a great extent. Bakan is explicitly against the idea of an almighty corporation system and gives many detailed suggestions on how to fix this massive problem within his writing.
I can respect where Bakan is coming from in The Corporation. He has probably been one of the many people who have felt subordinate and ripped off by a large and uncaring corporation, as many, if not most people have been. However, although most of his criticisms of the institution are probably valid, the extreme evilness of the corporation as he depicts may be out of proportion. We have to think, where would our lives be without the corporation? They provide most necessities for living in one way or another every day and although they may have too much power and are being run by the objective of gaining capitol, they still are a basic part of most peoples lives, especially those who want to live comfortably. If you are someone who has, however, felt cheated by a corporation, you will certainly agree with Bakan in this book.
Corporations are pathological: but maybe what we deserve... .......2006-09-02
Joel Bakan's THE CORPORATION is a short 167 pages. Yet, the book presents a complete thesis with all the requisite details and convincing examples.
His thesis is as follows: Corporations are entities created by governments. Originally the corporate form was created for specific purposes (such as canal building) to serve the public good. However, they transformed to become pathological, psychopathic entities that will do anything for profit.
What caused this transformation? Governmental legislation. For instance, governmental legislation introduced limited liability, so masses of stockholders would invest in corporations to finance large projects such as railroads (as the most they could loose was their initial investment, but their gain was limitless). However, such large numbers of owners could not all possibly run a corporation, leading to the fear that corporate managers would misuse funds (other people's money). Thus 'best interest of the corporation' principle was born, in which legislation REQUIRES companies to put shareholder financial interest, or profit, above all other interests.
Bakan goes into considerable depth as to what corporations will sink to in order to maximize profits, including 'externalization' which is transferring as much of their costs as possible onto vulnerable 'third parties' (ex, dumping toxic waste into rivers) and exploitation (ex, using sweatshop workers and making money from disasters such as 9-11), excessive lobbying of political leaders for deregulation (ex, of energy markets causing the enron scandal), manipulating children so they can manipulate parents (to buy not just toys and fast food, but cars and beer!) and fooling most of us with the rhetoric of 'social responsibility' (a public relations ruse to actually make more profit).
Bakan offers a number of both short-term and long-term suggestions on how to control this Frankenstein monster. Most importantly, we must remember that corporations are entities created and shaped by governmental legislation (the best interest principle and also pro-corporate legislation such as corporate law and property law), thus, they can be controlled and yes, even revoked, by governmental legislation.
In democratic societies, this ultimately means us! In the short term, we can increase pro-public regulation (and reduce pro-corporate legislation), remove corporate financing of elections, protect the public sphere from corporate infringement (such as utilities, education, health, parks, etc) and challenge neo-liberalistic ideologies. In the long term, we can work to create a more just human order by either changing corporate structures (ie, defining the 'best interest' principle more broadly than just profit, say by including human and environmental welfare) or by getting rid of corporations all together.
Bakan contends that ultimately, things will have to change because corporations and the corporate world-view are based on too narrow of a conception of humanity-self interest and greed. On the other hand, he believes that humans are empathic, compassionate creatures.
Unfortunately, I am not so sure. I am disturbed by nagging doubts that we as democratic citizens of the US maybe getting exactly the system we deserve. After all, many of us realize to some extent or another that corporations use sweatshop labor, yet we (including me) still buy Nike Shoes and shop at Walmart. Most of us realize that gas guzzling SUVs pollute the environment, but SUV are still very popular. Most of us realize that fast food isn't healthy but happily eat it anyway (not just the poor who can't afford many other options, but many middle class and wealthy Americans as well).
Are we really ready to push for regulation and change that, although may improve the world around us, may result in higher prices? Unfortunately, I would say probably not, barring another catastrophe such as the Great Depression, which indeed did result in powerful governmental regulation that reined in corporate power...for awhile.
A central reason why things are the way they are.......2006-06-06
After seeing the film I decided to read the book .This is a classic read.Short and to the point .This book lets you see how nice people can do evil and how if we don't either change the legal status of corporations or replace them with something better the future doesn't look pretty.
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- A very thought-provoking book, worth reading!
- Informative, easy read
- great book even better movie
- Highly recomended
- You'll probably be sorry, but.......
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A very thought-provoking book, worth reading!.......2005-06-10
I very much enjoyed Dr. Bakan's book. It was truly thought-provoking, and jelled a number of thoughts and ideas I had had in the past about the how and why of corporations. I have started up a company of my own in the past, and plan to do so again in the future. After having read Dr. Bakan's book as well as "Big Vision, Small Business" by Jaimie Walters, I have definitely changed my mind about HOW to set it up and run it!. I think this should be read by anybody and everybody in corporate and government roles today...As Dr. Bakan says, it isn't the cure-all, but it may nudge a few people to work towards the appropriate solution!
Informative, easy read.......2005-03-30
I think this should be required reading for all citizens.
Exposes (without ideological idealism) the facts about corporations. Most people have vague misgivings about corporations, but don't have much of an idea of why. This book helps to clarify and explain what we instinctively feel.
I got a kick out of the psychological assessment of the corporation, a legal person without moral conscience, as a psychopath.
great book even better movie.......2004-12-06
corporations rule the world. if you don't agree you are living in a dream world. extremely importaint topic. A must read.
Highly recomended.......2004-12-04
I highly recomend this book for anyone that is even remotely interested in globilization and the corporate world. It shows just how much of our daily lives are influenced and even controlled by corporations. It makes you realize that no matter what they say, a corporation really does only look out for itself, and any advertisements that claim that corporations help communities and people and save the environment out of their own good will have absolutely no truth to them. It also makes you realize how far a corporation will go to save a few dollars, knowingly putting lives at risk in the process.
The book is also very well written, with plenty of explinations, so you don't need a background in economics to understand it.
In short, I totally recomend this book to anyone that wants to know the truth about the corporation. It will make you sick to realize what lengths they will go to in order to exploit everyone and everything.
You'll probably be sorry, but..............2004-07-28
For me, this wasn't one of those 'couldn't put it down' books. Just the opposite in fact. A quarter or a half a chapter was about all I could take at one time. And I dreaded going back to it, which I did, and will continue to do for years to come. Maybe I'm just a soft-hearted wimp, a daydreaming fool who believes in the innate decency of mankind. Maybe that's why at times this book brought tears of shame, and pity, and rage, to my eyes. But please read this book. Do whatever it takes: beg, borrow, or buy, but please read this book.....!
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Title: The Corporation: two views.
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