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Fall 2005 Issue Index

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Spring 2005 Issue Index

Fall 2005 Issue Index
Articles:
Celebrate Einstein's Miracle Year with Cornerstones of Science
Philip Morrison, An Appreciation by Lee Grodzins
Read, Write & Win - Winning Reviews are Posted on the Web

Book Reviews:
Albert Einstein. A Life of Genius by Elizabeth Macleod
reviewed by Josie T., Hawthorne Elementary School, Brunswick

New Cornerstones Nominees at the Library:
Adult Titles
Beyond the Stony Mountains:
Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today
by Daniel B. Botkin

Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another
by Philip Ball

Endless Forms Most Beautiful:
The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom
by Sean B. Carroll

How to Dunk a Doughnut: The Science of Everyday Life
by Len Fisher

A Well-Ordered Thing: Dmitrii Mendeleev and the Shadow of the Periodic Table
by Michael D. Gordin

Children & Youth Titles
An American Plague:
The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Feber Epidemic of 1793
by Jim Murphy

Antarctic Ice
by Jim Mastro & Norbert Wu

The Boy Who Drew Birds: A Story of John James Audubon
By Jacqueline Davies

I Fall Down
by Vicki Cobb

Marie Curie: A Brilliant Life
by Elizabeth Macleod

Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson
by Amy Ehrlich

Tooth and Claw: Animal Adventures in the Wild
by Ted Lewin

Uluru: Australia's Aboriginal Heart
by Caroline Arnold

Program Announcements:
9/15 Science Sleuths: Odd Boy Out by Don Brown
9/17 Saturday Science: Hands-On Physics
9/21-11/02 Einstein 1905 Brown Bag Lunch Series,
led by Bowdoin College & MIT physicists
9/23-11/18 Einstein Geocache
9/27 Great Creatures of the Past & Creatures of Our Future with author Elin Kelsey
(activites for children, author talk & book signing)
9/29 Strange New Species with author Elin Kelsey (author talk & book signing)
10/07 Kinder Science: Fun with Gravity
10/07 Einstein Trivia Night & Kaffeehaus for youth and families
10/11 NOVA Night & Kaffeehaus
10/13 Science Sleuths: Zero Gravity by Gloria Skurzynski
10/15 Saturday Science: Motion Commotion
10/20 Special Relativity: How Einstein Unified Space and Time, a lecture by Dr. Thomas Baungarte, Bowdoin College
10/28 Einstein Movie Kaffeehaus & Look-a-Like Contest for Teens
11/04 Kinder-Science: What's the Matter: Solid, Liquid, or Gas?
11/17 Science Sleuths: Map Mania by Michael A. DiSpezio
11/19 Saturday Science: Getting There
12/02Kinder-Science: Maps and Measuring

Spring 2005 Issue Index Spring 2005 Newsletter (pdf file Acrobat required)
Articles:
Celebrating Albert Einstein's Miracle Year by Lee Grodzins
Cornerstones on Site: Florida's Endangered Sea Turtles
with Recommended Reading and Resources on Sea Turtles
Read, Write & Win - 2005
Recommended Reading on Einstein & His Work
Students Inspired to Read The Future of Life

Program Announcements:
3/17 Green Living presented by Janis Smith of Ransom Environmental Consultants
4/07 Science Sleuths: Interrupted Journey: Saving Endangered Sea Turtles
by Kathryn Lasky
4/16 Saturday Science: Turtle Science
4/21 Vacation Week Science: Turtle Science
4/22 Vacation Week Science: Bat Science
5/12 Science Sleuths: Buried Treasure: Roots & Tubers
by Meredith Sayles Hughes & Tom Hughes
5/14 Saturday Science: Plant Science