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• In Six Days : Why Fifty Scientists Choose to Believe in Creation

  Stephen J. Gould, Harvard professor, claims that “professionally trained scientists virtually to a person, understand the factual basis of evolution and don’t dispute it.” This book refutes that statement with essays from 50 doctorate-holding scientists from around the globe who give sound reasoning and evidence for believing in a literal six-day creation.

• An Anthropologist On Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales

  Detailed and fascinating portraits of seven neurological patients, including a surgeon consumed by the compulsive tics of Tourette’s syndrome unless he is operating; an artist who loses all sense of color in a car accident, but finds a new sensibility and creative power in black and white; and an autistic professor who cannot decipher the [...]

• Astronomical Enigmas: Life on Mars, the Star of Bethlehem, and Other Milky Way Mysteries

  Questions about the heavens are as old as civilization, perhaps as old as language itself. Is this universe infinite? What are the lights we see in the sky? In the millennia since our distant ancestors first looked up, these basic questions have been answered in countless ways, while other, more difficult questions have arisen and [...]

• Mixing It Up: Integrated, Interdisciplinary, Intriguing Science in the Elementary Classroom

  This book—a compilation of 25 practical articles from NSTA’s elementary school journal, Science & Children—offers a wealth of lesson plans and idea starters using interdisciplinary, integrated, and thematic approaches. Discover how a language arts unit on survival can include student inquiry into properties of ice, ways to improve students’ observational skills as they write haiku [...]

• Astronomy: A Beginner’s Guide to the Universe

  For one-semester Introduction to Astronomy courses. The authors incorporate three themes in the briefer of their two textbooks; process of science (how we know what we know), the size and scale of the universe as well as the evolution of the universe. A Beginner’s Guide emphasizes critical thinking and visualization, and a leading-edge technology program…. [...]