Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens, the novelist, humorist, journalist, and orator who came to be known as Mark Twain was renowned for his wit, wisdom, and keen social commentary. He remains not only one of the most quoted and widely read American authors, and his life and work continue to generate biographical and critical interest today. This new volume in the "Bloom's Classic Critical Views" series presents historical essays from the 19th and early 20th century about this American novelist.

Surprising and seemingly impossible effects result from the 40 experiments included in this fascinating science resource—all based on real magnetic physics. Each experiment—such as using a common refrigerator magnet to create a three-dimensional image or floating a magnet and carbon sheet in midair—is outlined with step-by-step instructions and diagrams that illustrate the key concepts of magnetism.

Even the most experienced science teacher or at-home tinkerer will find dozens of new tricks in this amazing collection.

How does a city obtain water, gas, and electricity? Where do these services come from? How are they transported? The answer is infrastructure, or the inner, and sometimes invisible, workings of the city. Roads, railroads, bridges, telephone wires, and power lines are visible elements of the infrastructure; sewers, plumbing pipes, wires, tunnels, cables, and sometimes rails are usually buried underground or hidden behind walls.

Experiments, games, and construction diagrams show how these structures are built, how they work, and how they affect the environment of the city and the land outside it.

Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Living

Fully updated and revised, the second edition of Spinal Cord Injury is the definitive guide for people with SCI and their families. Combining first-person accounts with up-to-date medical information, the book addresses all aspects of spinal cord injury -- recovery and coping, sex and family matters, transportation and housing, employment and leisure -- and reviews the challenges encountered by people with spinal cord injury throughout their lives.

Accounting Fundamentals

This text undertakes to provide a first-year course in accounting, with accepted principles of accounting arranged in an orderly fashion to capture the student's interest, to hold it, and to anticipate his difficulties so that unnecessary questions are avoided. Additional illustrative material should strengthen and clarify the presentation, particularly in connection with such subjects as analysis of proprietorship, adjustments, bad debts, depreciation, corporations and payroll.