The Night Is Large: Collected Essays : 1938-1995
Martin Gardner has a knack for wondering about everything. FromAlice in Wonderlandto supply-side economics, Gardner has spent a lifetime discovering, pondering, and explaining ideas. His essays, most of which appeared inScientific AmericanandThe New York Review of Books, often tackles the big issues--is there a God?--in a language the rest of us can digest. He has the eye to recognize what most people don't and the voice to articulate what many of us can't.