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54 super-entertaining projects offer insights into the sights, sounds, and smells of nature

Nature meets the Evil Genius via 54 fun, safe, and inexpensive projects that allow you to explore the fascinating and often mysterious world of natural phenomena using your own home-built sensors. Each project includes a list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions.

• Projects include: rain detector, air pressure sensor, cloud chamber, lightning detector, electronic gas sniffer, seismograph, radiation detector, and more

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Not just another book on the theory of strategic planning, here are dozens of recipes for creative group activities to facilitate strategic planning in any organization. Designed for use by consultants, facilitators, and management team leaders, step-by-step instructions guide you through exercises for gaining employee and management participation, gathering feedback from management about the current state of the organization, creating an organized mission, vison and values statement, and planning so that the vision becomes reality. Ready-to-use reproducible materials and handouts are also included..
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Without electricity, life would be radically different. This book explains electricity and its natural counterpart, lightning With fascinating facts, including ancient myths and early scientific experiments like Ben Franklin's famous kite-flying adventure, this subject is perfect for young readers who study electricity and lightning..
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Winner of the 1993 Edelstein Prize sponsored by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) and Winner, Abel Wolman award given by the Public Works Historical Society and American Public Works Association, 1990.

How did electricity enter everyday life in America? Using Muncie, Indiana, as a touchstone, David Nye explores how electricity seeped into and redefined American culture. With an eye for telling details and a broad understanding of cultural and social history, he creates a thought-provoking panorama of a technology fundamental to modern life.

Emphasizing the experiences of ordinary men and women rather than the lives of inventors and entrepreneurs, Nye treats electrification as a set of technical possibilities that were selectively adopted to create the streetcar suburb, the amusement park, the "Great White Way," the assembly line, the electrified home, and the industrialized farm. He shows how electricity touched every part of American life, how it became an extension of political ideologies, how it virtually created the image of the modern city, and how it even pervaded colloquial speech, confirming the values of high energy and speed that have become hallmarks of the twentieth century. He also pursues the social meaning of electrification as expressed in utopian ideas and exhibits at world's fairs, and explores the evocation of electrical landscapes in painting, literature, and photography.

Electrifying America combines chronology and topicality to examine the major forms of light and power as they came into general use. It shows that in the city electrification promoted a more varied landscape and made possible new art forms and new consumption environments. In the factory, electricity permitted a complete redesign of the size and scale of operations, shifting power away from the shop floor to managers. Electrical appliances redefined domestic work and transformed the landscape of the home, while on the farm electricity laid the foundation for today's agribusiness..
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Bring the fun of a world-famous science museum into your own classroom or home!

THE EXPLORATORIUM SCIENCE SNACKBOOK SERIES

"Clear, concise, and visual—the best assortment of wonder- filled ideas I have seen. A must-have " —Paul Hewitt, author of Conceptual Physics

"Almost as much fun as exploring the Exploratorium, which, of course, is a googolplex of fun." —Jearl Walker, author of The Flying Circus of Physics, with Answers

Now you can do your own version of 22 Exploratorium experiments on energy and matter. All you need is a little curiosity, a few simple materials . . . and this book. Each experiment is easy to do, fully illustrated, and loaded with advice, ideas, helpful hints, and dynamic discoveries.

Use the energy of an electric current to create movement. See a metal wire melt by changing its resistance to electricity. Through these and other projects in The Cool Hot Rod, you can learn the science behind electricity and energy transformation.

San Francisco's EXPLORATORIUM, source of the best-selling Explorabook, hosts half a million visitors each year. PAUL DOHERTY is the Director of the Exploratorium Teacher Institute, which introduces and encourages inquiry-based science teaching. DON RATHJEN is a physics and resource teacher-in-residence at the Exploratorium Teacher Institute.

Also available in The Exploratorium Science Snackbook Series:

• The Cheshire Cat and Other Eye-Popping Experiments on How We See the World
• The Magic Wand and Other Bright Experiments on Light and Color
• The Spinning Blackboard and Other Dynamic Experiments on Force and Motion

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An Electrifying Journey is a compilation of many stories and activities that became the life of the author. As a youth he became fascinated with electricity and magnetism in its many forms and the wonders of nature first experienced in the Northwood's of Wisconsin. His education and work allowed the expansion of that fascination with contributions to engineering and a further appreciation of science and nature. These pages record the author's experiences of childhood, the Depression, WWII, a career, and retirement..
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