Books

This is the complete collection --73 years-- of articles from Scientific American magazine's legendary column "The Amateur Scientist," plus a second Science Software Library CD with dozens of shareware and freeware programs to feed the passion of any science nut. With over 1,100 projects to challenge science enthusiasts of all ages and skill levels -- rated by cost, potential hazard, and difficulty -- this is the ultimate resource for anyone interested in home-based science. And if that's not enough, it also contains over 1,000 bonus pages of additional how-to science techniques that never appeared in Scientific American.

Fully text-searchable and packaged in an attractive double-CD case. This remarkable browser-based product runs seamlessly on every platform--Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Unix.

This Inventor's handbook is all about communications - the way the information is sent from one place to another. There are activities to try throughout the book and in the final section you will find out how to build your own fully working transistor radio. The hardback book contains spiral-bound colour illustrations and is divided into the following sections:- HISTORY Early messages, Words and printing, Postal systems, Codes, Spy secrets. INNOVATION- Talking wires, Radio days, Going global, Mayday! Mayday! LEISURE- Moving pictures, Television, Digital fun. REVOLUTION- The silicon age, The internet, The future. The handbook also contains some excellent charts and blueprints to help with their understanding of this important subject.

This is a great combination of information and equipment designed to educate and entertain. With over 100 colour illustrations packed into 48 pages and additional cut-outs, templates and stickers at the back of the book, the FUNSTATION provides a comprehensive introduction to the exciting world of nature. This brilliant little set covers a multitude of subjects, including insects, woodlice, snails, worms, trees, plants, flowers, seeds, soil, oxygen, pollution, recycling and wind and rain.

The Science Times book of Fossils and Evolution. Not a glossy picture book short on facts or a "dry as dust" scientific monologue but a series of 50 short well-written articles from the renowned science column of the weekly New York Times. If you want a book to dip into then we thoroughly recommend you put this on your shopping list (Originally published at $25 Hardback 238pp)