Features hundreds of recipes along with full-color photographs for classic American dishes including mac'n'cheese, turkey, and potato casserole. Examines the science behind the cooking to enable readers to create their own recipes using the same scientific principals. Includes conversion charts and suggested experiments to reinforce science concepts.
my adventures with the world's most misunderstood mammals
Tuttle, Merlin D
The author describes his decades of research on bats, offering information on their physical traits, intelligent and social behavior, benefits, habitat, and conservation.
Examines how scientists arrived at the theory of cells as the basic units of living things, as well as what has resulted from the widespread acceptance of this theory.
"In the 1990s, scientists lived inside Biosphere 2 (Biosphere 1 is the Earth itself) for two years, trying to figure out if colonizing Mars would ever be possible. Now scientists don't live there but instead conduct all sorts of studies and experiments aimed to help us better understand our environment and especially understand what sort of things are happening to it due to climate change and other man-made problems. It's a unique take on the 'Scientists in the Field' mission statement - in this case, the field/lab is a replica that allows the scientists to conduct large scale experiments that would otherwise be impossible."--Provided by publisher.
Examines the experiences of the children and husband of Henrietta Lacks, who, twenty years after her death from cervical cancer in 1951, learned doctors and researchers took cells from her cervix without consent which were used to create the immortal cell line known as the HeLa cell; provides an overview of Henrietta's life; and explores issues of experimentation on African-Americans and bioethics.
Explores the importance of philanthropy in reasearching diseases, developing vaccines, and teaching people about basic hygeine in order to stop the spread of disease around the world.
