A female world-record-setting pilot, Jerrie Cobb was recruited in 1959 to take the astronaut tests. She excelled, so the doctor who supervised the selection of NASA's Mercury astronauts recruited addi
"The ability to reason and think in a logical manner forms the basis of learning for most mathematics, computer science, philosophy and logic students. Based on the author's teaching notes at the Univ
Fun and engaging graphic organizers invite beginning readers to develop reading strategies as they explore concepts of plot, setting, character and story sequence. Kids build skills in inferring, pred
Focusing on the work of the Center for Democracy and Technology, an organization that advocates privacy, this book introduces issues of online privacy and discusses legal ownership of personal data su
This Teaching Guide is packed with strategies, activities, assessment forms, write-and-learn practice pages, reproducible flashcards and mini-book versions of all 25 storybooks!
Wen Ho Lee, a patriotic American scientist born in Taiwan, devoted most of his life to science and to helping improve U.S. defense capabilities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then, in January
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in the hands of both states and terrorist networks, is considered by many to be the greatest threat to global security today. Contemporary Nuclear De
A wide-angle portrait of Texas in the 1880s is typically a difficult picture to capture. But a unique government document of more than three hundred pages does it as well as our imagination will allow
This volume addresses complications that arise from the linking of sets of partial differential equations when applied to physical situations. The authors study the interaction of simple waves and dis
Fun-to-play, pedagogically sound piano arrangements include themes from Beethoven's "Pathétique" Sonata and Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony, along with such favorites as Schumann's Träumerei, Brahms's Lul
"This book contains fifteen chapters written by world leaders in various research areas in radio science. Each chapter describes the most exciting and important scientific developments that have taken
In a new addition to a nature series which features interesting facts hidden under flaps, Jenny watches a pond through spring and summer and witnesses six stages in the life cycle of a Leopard Frog.
The work translated here is Ocherki po etnografii aleutov (konets XVIII-pervaia polovina XIX v.) (Leningrad: Nauka, 1975), one of Roza G. Liapunova's two monographs on the Aleuts of Alaska. Liapunova
“Hezel writes clearly and with erudition and commands an impressive body of information. His book is a tour de force.... Not only will it be read eagerly by Pacific scholars, but it should find a wide
Ocean engineering is generally considered to be concerned with studies on the effects of the ocean on the land and with the design, construction and operation of vehicles, structures and systems for u
