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A Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
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Amateur NaturalistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's 1982 classic, this new edition makes nature accessible to everyone. Bishop begins with the fundamentals of nature study: basic skills, equipment, and rules of co...
author: Nick Baker |
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Astronomy - Out of This World!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Planets, stars, galaxies - the universe is enormous, and chock full of interesting things. Green divides the universe into chapters - The Sun, The Solar System, Inner Circle, Gas Giant Gang, Rising S...
author: Dan Green |
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Beginning - Voyages Through TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Starting with the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, this book traces the origins and history of the universe, our sun, the earth and life upon it through time. Each chapter is devoted to different geolo...
author: Peter Ackroyd |
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Best of Beakman's World (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Journey in time to the erupting volcanoes that created Earth's crust, to the depths of the ocean that housed the first complex creatures, through devastating ice ages, and finally to the future, when ...
author: Paul Zaloom |
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Biology - Life As We Know It!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A cool, concise reference book - a biology primer! Each element of life on earth is explained and illustrated with a cartoonish character, from cells, mitochondria, DNA, to amphibians, worms, mollusks...
author: Dan Green |
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Cartoon Guide to ChemistryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Using clear, funny illustrations/cartoons and text, the history and basics of such topics as chemistry, atomic theory, combustion, solubility, the mole, entropy, and more are explained. Gonick has al...
author: Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle |
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Forensic Science Projects with a Crime Lab You Can BuildClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An interesting and thorough introduction to forensic science, this book contains information and instruction for setting up your own crime lab and collecting information from different types of eviden...
author: Robert Gardner |
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Great Brain Book - An Inside Look At the Inside of Your HeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the history of brain science and how it has grown and changed. The different parts of the brain and their functions are explained, as well as how you learn and remember, how you can train yo...
author: HP Newquist |
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Human BodyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Text and illustrations present information on the parts of the body and how they work. Includes the body's different systems, the senses, reproduction and birth, and early medical practices and thoug...
author: Steve Parker |
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Joy of Science (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Professor Robert M. Hazen, an advocate of science education for non-scientists, gives 60 engaging thirty-minute lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all the physical and...
author: The Teaching Company |
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Mad Science: Experiments You Can Do at Home - But Probably Shouldn'tClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Theodore Gray demonstrates scientific principles through extreme experiments in this book containing 55 step-by-step, hands-on experiments. Full-color photos give the reader a front row seat to exotic...
author: Theodore Gray |
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Physics - Why Matter Matters!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A hip, inviting reference book containing the basics from the world of physics. Each concept -friction, amplitude, inertia, mass, and much more - is given a page-long explanation and an illustrated ch...
author: Dan Green |
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Powers of Ten - The Relative Size of Things in the UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A visual journey from the farthest dimensions of the universe to the interior of a single atom, this book contains 42 photos, each a power of ten closer than the one before it (meters in10 to the 25th...
author: Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, C. & R. Eames |
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Science Is..A Source Book of Fascinating Facts,Projects and ActivitiesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A definitive collection of over 450 projects, experiments, games, puzzles, and stories for 6-14 year-olds that covers all areas of science, including matter and energy, the human body, the environment...
author: Susan V. Bosak |
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Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
author: Bill Bryson |
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The Amateur NaturalistClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Inspired by Gerald and Lee Durrell's 1982 classic, this new edition makes nature accessible to everyone. Bishop begins with the fundamentals of nature study: basic skills, equipment, and rules of co...
author: Nick Baker |
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The Beginning - Voyages Through TimeClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Starting with the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, this book traces the origins and history of the universe, our sun, the earth and life upon it through time. Each chapter is devoted to different geolo...
author: Peter Ackroyd |
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The Best of Beakman's World (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Journey in time to the erupting volcanoes that created Earth's crust, to the depths of the ocean that housed the first complex creatures, through devastating ice ages, and finally to the future, when ...
author: Paul Zaloom |
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The Cartoon Guide to ChemistryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Using clear, funny illustrations/cartoons and text, the history and basics of such topics as chemistry, atomic theory, combustion, solubility, the mole, entropy, and more are explained. Gonick has al...
author: Larry Gonick, Craig Criddle |
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The Great Brain Book - An Inside Look At the Inside of Your HeadClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores the history of brain science and how it has grown and changed. The different parts of the brain and their functions are explained, as well as how you learn and remember, how you can train yo...
author: HP Newquist |
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The Joy of Science (DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Professor Robert M. Hazen, an advocate of science education for non-scientists, gives 60 engaging thirty-minute lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all the physical and...
author: The Teaching Company |
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Waves - The Electromagnetic UniverseClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Examines different kinds of electromagnetic waves, including radio waves, microwaves, light, X-rays and gamma rays, and their everyday uses. Describes how the universe is studied at many different w...
author: Gloria Skurzynski |
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