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Doable Renewables
16 Alternative Energy Projects for Young Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Kids will learn valuable hands-on lessons from this guide by constructing working models that generate renewable, alternative energy. Budding scientists learn how to build their own Kelvin water-drop generator out of six recycled cans and alligator-clip jumpers; a solar-powered seesaw from a large...
by Ed Sobey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Illustrating how a fire alarm detects smoke and what the plasma” is in a plasma screen television, this fascinating handbook explains how everyday household devices function and operate. More than 180 different household technologies are covered, including gadgets unique to apartment buildings...
Your Second Pregnancy
What to Expect This Time
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1995
Every pregnancy is different. This is the only book available that discusses what is different about your second pregnancy and why.
Keys to American History
Understanding Our Most Important Historic Documents
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2009
The past is brought to life in this fascinating new reference that highlights some of the most seminal documents in American history, including the Declaration of Independence, Washington’s Farewell Address, the Compromise of 1850, and the Emancipation Proclamation. Each key text is prefaced with...
Volunteer Vacations
Short-Term Adventures That Will Benefit You and Others
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
For the increasing number of people looking for ways to make a difference while on vacation, this fully updated edition is filled with in-depth information to get them ready for their adventure, including contacts, locations, costs, dates, project details, and profiles of 150 select organizations...
The Weed Runners
Travels with the Outlaw Capitalists of America's Medical Marijuana Trade
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Drawing on unparalleled access to sources including lawyers, The Weed Runners is both journalistic exposé and adventure story. There is a vast network fueling the ongoing nationwide explosion of medical marijuana, and this book focuses on an incredibly dynamic three-year period from 2009 to 2012....
Unscrewed
Salvage and Reuse Motors, Gears, Switches, and More from Your Old Electronics
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Perfect for the do-it-yourselfer, this handy guide to household electronics gives the weekend workbench enthusiast a multitude of ideas on how to salvage valuable parts from old electronics and turn them into useful gadgets once more. This handbook is loaded with information and helpful tips for disassembling...
Oddball Texas
A Guide to Some Really Strange Places
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This amusing travel guide to the Lone Star State doesn't waste travelers' time telling them where to find antiques in the Hill Country, take breathtaking hikes through Big Bend, or gaze upon the Alamo. Instead, it guides television fans to a modern replica of the Munsters's mansion, leads the nonsqueamish...
La Belle Créole
The Cuban Countess Who Captivated Havana, Madrid, and Paris
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
The adventurous woman nicknamed La Belle Créole is brought to life in this book through the full use of her memoirs, contemporary accounts, and her intimate letters. The fascinating María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz y Montalvo, also known as Mercedes, and later the Comtesse Merlin, was a Cuban-born...
Haywired
Pointless (Yet Awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Demonstrating that not all science needs to be serious to be educational or worthwhile, the electrifying projects in this packed resource offer science enthusiasts and weekend workbench hobbyists odd creations that will amuse them for years to come. Helpful hints on soldering, wire wrapping, and...
Rooted in the Earth
Reclaiming the African American Environmental Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
With a basis in environmental history, this groundbreaking study challenges the idea that a meaningful attachment to nature and the outdoors is contrary to the black experience. The discussion shows that contemporary African American culture is usually seen as an urban culture, one that arose out...
California History for Kids
Missions, Miners, and Moviemakers in the Golden State, Includes 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
The rich story of the men and women who settled and built the Golden State is told in this engaging chronicle, from the first native inhabitants that arrived 9,000 years ago and the Spanish in the 1700s to the followers of the Gold Rush in 1848 and the Hollywood and Silicon Valley newcomers. They...
World War I for Kids
A History with 21 Activities
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
An educational and interactive children’s guide to the Great War
In time for the 2014 centennial of the start of the Great War, this activity book provides an intriguing and comprehensive look at World War I, which involved all of the world’s superpowers during a time of great...
Green Thumbs
A Kid's Activity Guide to Indoor and Outdoor Gardening
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 1995
Budding gardeners will learn what it takes to make things grow with fun activities that require only readily available materials.