Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery
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Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery This innovative 7-vol. set offers an exceptional, interdisciplinary approach to learning by integrating two important subjects: science and history.
Each volume focuses on a range of years and includes developments in exploration, life sciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and technology.
The volumes are chronologically ordered from 2000 B.C. to the present, addressing a wide variety of scientific developments with explanations of underlying factors and their effects on politics, economics, culture and daily life.
The entries (more than 20 topical essays, 25 full biographies and 85 sketches of notable people in each volume) move forward through history, describing notable scientific discoveries and achievements along with their social and historical impact.
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Weird Science 40 Strange-Acting, Bizarre-Looking, Barely Believable Activities for Kids A strange, creepy, and sometimes gross collection of science facts and activities that kids will love.
Want to get kids interested in science? Let them make their own slime, feed insects to plants, or learn about strange animals and bizarre phenomena. That's the philosophy behind Weird Science, which gives kids 40 activities on such scientific oddities as non-Newtonian fluids, strangler figs, ball lightning, and naked mole rats.
In addition, the book includes "Weird Science in Action" sidebars of bizarre science facts, tips on how to turn an experiment into a science fair project, and lots of illustrations.
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Scientific Writing - Easy When You Know How
This comprehensive and practical book covers the basics of grammar as well as the broad brush issues such as writing a grant application and selling to your potential audience.
The clear explanations are expanded and lightened with helpful examples and telling quotes from the giants of good writing. These experienced writers and teachers make scientific writing enjoyable.
It also includes a lot of usefull web resources and information about specific publication guidelines depending on study design.
One of the best history books for students from intermediate upwards and for those classes that have already studied English in their first, extra year (bilingual secondaries). A fascinating history of the USA from the time of the Amerindians to the culturally diverse but united country of today. Describes all the major events, and concludes with an evaluation of America's impact on the world this century. Makes extensive use of contemporary quotations to examine the contribution made by various people - not all of them famous - to American history.
Cambridge - Exploring Grammar in Context (Upper-intermediate and Advanced)Exploring Grammar in Context draws on real spoken and written English from the most up-to-date research in the Cambridge International Corpus. Clearly structured units focus on main grammar areas with key points summarised in ‘Observations and ‘Summary’ panels. It also offers practical support and useful reference material. Key Features
