A LIVELY EXPLORATION OF THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE How Did the Universe Begin? The Big Bang has been the accepted theory for decades, but does it explain everything? How Did Life on Earth Get Started? What triggered the cell division that started the evolutionary chain? Did life come from outer space, buried in a chunk of rock? What is Gravity? Newton's apple just got the arguments started, Einstein made things more complicated. Just how does gravity fit in with quantum theory? What Is the Inside of the Earth Like? What exactly is happening beneath our feet, and...
A LIVELY EXPLORATION OF THE BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN SCIENCE How Did the Universe Begin? The Big Bang has been the accepted theory for decades, but ...
Did you know. . . . . . that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high-school dropout who became one of the world's greatest fossil hunters? . . . that the great British scientist Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith and had very little formal education? . . . that Gregor Mendel had time to study inherited traits in garden peas because he failed the test to qualify as a high school science teacher? This is just a small sampling of the many surprises you'll find in this enlightening survey of the mavericks, misfits, and unschooled...
Did you know. . . . . . that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high-school dropout who became o...
Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most importantly, what the future holds.
Areas discussed are: Gay separatism vs. Gay mainstreaming; Coming out; AIDS; Marriage; Adoption; Religion; Politics; Pop culture and media; and, most ...
In 1837 a young couple meet and fall in love on the shores of beautiful Lough Ramor in south-eastern County Cavan, Ireland. They survive poverty, hunger, natural disaster, and the loss of parents, holding on to their common dream of emigration to a new and better life in America. They leave Ireland as newlyweds just three years before the Famine. After an incredible early Steam Age odyssey through Dublin, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Wheeling, they arrive in the summer of 1842 in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on the National Road. Born in the remote Cavan townland of Knockaraheen...
In 1837 a young couple meet and fall in love on the shores of beautiful Lough Ramor in south-eastern County Cavan, Ireland. They survive poverty, hung...
From Manassas to Antietam to Sherman's march to the sea, The Civil War Quiz Book offers challenging questions on every major battle and campaign of the most momentous war in American history. It will enlighten both experts and novices alike.
From Manassas to Antietam to Sherman's march to the sea, The Civil War Quiz Book offers challenging questions on every major battle and campa...
"John Malone's lively and quirky imagination produces widely appealing poetry. The poems in Seeing Things are keenly observed, accessible and often humorous or whimsical. How fortunate we are that one of South Australia's most published children's poets is sharing his other poetry here in Seeing Things. Malone's subject matter is diverse, from bovine weather forecasting in the poem 'Cows in a Paddock' '... you can tell what the weather / Will be like by studying cows in a paddock'; to recalling surgery, hospital and delirium in 'The Pink Hippo' 'You wonder what will come...
"John Malone's lively and quirky imagination produces widely appealing poetry. The poems in Seeing Things are keenly observed, accessible ...
