MARCEL DANESI is a professor of linguistics anthropology and semiotics at the University of Toronto, and has composed puzzles for Reader's Digest as well as a blog for Psychology Today, discussing the significance of many types of puzzles. He abides by the principle that even though some puzzles may take more patience to solve, they all should be ""do-able"" and eventually lead to a grasp of the solution.
I've always enjoyed having conversations with Marcel, appreciating his incredibly wide knowledge, sense of humor, and deep understanding of human beings. A colleague to whom you can definitely apply Terence's sentence: Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me. He will always challenge you to be better, to know more, to widen your horizons. --Lorenzo Cantoni, professor of communication at Universita della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland Prof. Danesi is a puzzle lover, and his book is a wonderful brain teaser for puzzle lovers like him, who understand that the idea of 'use it or lose it' applies to our brain and its constant need to be in shape. --Prof. Yair Neuman, cognitive and brain sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel This is a fun, challenging, useful, enriching, brain-healthy puzzle book! I am sure that all puzzle lovers, and all those who want to improve and maintain their mental and emotional health, will want to get their hands on it. Marcel Danesi is something of a genius, and this second volume of The Ultimate Brain Health Puzzle Book for Adults shows another side of that quality. --Michael Lettieri, professor and vice-dean, Academic Experience, University of Toronto Mississauga