Here is an exciting look at the perilous world of exploration. Real-life photographs of famous explorers' equipment, and the objects they found offer a unique eyewitness view of the exploration of the world. See arrows shot into Livingstone's boat, the flag that flew over the North Pole, what a sailor's life was like and specimens brought back by explorers. Learn how the first sailors navigated, what kind of food starving explorers ate, how Arab traders transported their slaves and what the Egyptians found in the legendary "Land of the Gods". Discover what happened to Matthew Flinders' cat, what the earliest underwater explorers wore, who first crossed Australia, and much, much more.
Disney Educational - Bill Nye The Science Guy: Space Exploration
Many things learned through space exploration have important implications in the lives of humans. In this installment of the Bill Nye the Science Guy series, Bill Nye reveals how satellites have been used for some time to provide weather information, and are used in communications throughout the world. Bill Nye the Science Guy: Space Exploration also looks at the difficulties encountered when the objects of study are too small to be seen without instrumentation. Nye inserts his trademark humor and parody into the scientific discussion to create a fun learning atmosphere.
1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
The New York Times bestselling author of 1421 offers another stunning reappraisal of history, presenting compelling new evidence that traces the roots of the European Renaissance to Chinese exploration in the fifteenth century
Knitting is the art of using yarn or thread to make fabric from interlocking loops. Its origin has been traced as far back as the fourth or fifth century B. C.In the past, knitting has been the occupation of shepherds who kept on knitting while watching their flocks, sailors also used to pass their time in the same way while whiling away the hours of long voyages during the age of exploration, apprentices who studied it in 13th and 14th Century knitting guilds and royal knitters in the court of England at the time of King Henry VIII.
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
The best-selling author of The Big Switch returns with an explosive look at technology's effect on the mind. "Is Google making us stupid?" When Nicholas Carr posed that question in an Atlantic Monthly cover story, he tapped into a well of anxiety about how the Internet is changing us. He also crystallized one of the most important debates of our time: as we enjoy the Internet's bounties, are we sacrificing our ability to read and think deeply?
Now, Carr expands his argument into the most compelling exploration yet published of the Internet's intellectual and cultural consequences. Weaving insights from philosophy, neuroscience, and history into a rich narrative
