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From Monsters and Critics.com Non-Fiction Book Reviews For readers unfamiliar with Gardner’s work, there can be no better introduction then this collection of frequently offbeat, thought provoking essays on everything from the nature and cost of supposedly repressed memories to a look at how Clement Clarke Moore came to pen one of the best-loved Christmas poems ever written. This delightfully quirky compilation gets its title from a mathematics oriented thought experiment involving a genie (a jinn) that sought to show there is no distinction between inside and out. Lesser known works of Lewis Carroll’s are given the attention they deserve, some different avenues of the string theory are explored and a series of four letters Gardner sent to assorted papers are but a few of the offerings for those readers who aren’t afraid to expand their horizons and challenge the conventional.
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