Fascinating facts about America’s most popular natural landmarks provide the backbone for this fun-filled collection of activities that replicate the organic processes that formed them. Interspersed with history, factoids, and sidebars, this engaging reference explores scientific concepts, such as the formation of coral reefs and the cause of volcanic eruptions.

 

Reading level: Ages 9-12

The Wisdom of Your Cells: How Your Beliefs Control Your Biology (Audio CD)

This is the only lesson you'll ever need on quantum physics and cellular biology. Lipton's love of teaching, his enthusiastic speaking style, and his practical grasp of biophysics make this audio highly accessible. He says that cell membranes are like TV receivers, picking up energy from our thoughts, from other people, and from the universe. Thinking about living organisms in terms of matter or mere heredity overlooks the web of energy that links everyone and everything in the tangible world.

Selves - An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics

What is the self? Does it exist? If it does exist, what is it like? It's not clear that we even know what we're asking about when we ask these large, metaphysical questions. The idea of the self comes very naturally to us, and it seems rather important, but it's also extremely puzzling. As for the word "self"--it's been taken in so many different ways that it seems that you can mean more or less what you like by it and come up with almost any answer.

Mathematical and Analogical Reasoning of Young Learners

This book is a very useful resource not only for mathematics education researchers, cognitive psychologists and teacher educators but would also benefit classroom teachers of young children. Understanding the development of childrens reasoning processes would help teachers tailor instruction that facilitates and nurtures the natural mathematical tendencies of young children....recommended very highly.

The Act of Thinking

In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science—that thinking goes on in the head—is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the person. In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science—that thinking goes on in the head—is mistaken.