In this handy guide you’ll find all you need to know to make a scientific expedition to the beach (or to a rocky shore, a salt marsh, and more). The author, science professor Elizabeth Lawlor, is completely practical: along with guidelines about what to take along in order to perform mini-scientific experiments right at the beach, she includes advice about how to dress and other ways you can be prepared for anything that might arise.
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Now, Christians have their own nature books, every bit as attractive and fascinating as ones you get from secular publishers. No longer will you have to rely on unbelieving scientists to teach your children the wonders of God’s creation. Every word of these professionally crafted books adheres to Scripture while bringing God’s exotic animals alive. read more
A complete earth science curriculum for ages 8-12. You can use this book as your core text, no matter what your teaching style. Answer your child’s questions about the Earth, the weather, plants, mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes without forgetting that it is all God’s design. read more
Cloning, gene therapy, Prozac, Ritalin: science is running amok, and Peter Augustine Lawler argues that nothing less than our very humanity is at risk. In his thought-provoking new book, Aliens in America, he declares that scientists' attempt to transform human nature through biochemistry threatens to strip us of the very things that make us human: the ability to love and hate, the thirst for truth and wisdom, and the search for God. read more
More needed than ever in these times of war and liberal self-doubt, Lynne Cheney's America: A Patriotic Primer is an alphabet primer in which A is for America and B is for "the Birthday of this country of ours"! Exuberantly illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, this book takes your kids on a whirlwind tour through the alphabet to teach them the history, values, tenacity, and faith of the American people. read more
. . . full of old-fashioned fun and friendship and virtue. No wonder that for 60 years young girls have been reading and rereading these four delightful Betsy-Tacy stories. Now your daughters can do the same. But don’t forget yourself. Did you miss these way back when? Is it time to revive some old memories? Reading these stories aloud to your girls could be the perfect way. In fact, that’s how the series got started. read more
Today, researchers claim to have cloned an embryo that is mostly human, but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as "products" for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited master-race thinking, James Watson, who won a Nobel Prize for co-discovering the DNA double helix, claims that genetically enhanced people will someday "dominate the world."
Ever since Walter R. Brooks created Freddy back in 1927, this resourceful pig has been beloved by kids and parents alike. In Brooks' series of wry and winsome adventures, Freddy assumes an amazing number of vocations and avocations, leads his band of talking animals through marvelous adventures, and always provides hours of good fun for young readers read more
Ever since Walter R. Brooks created Freddy back in 1927, this resourceful pig has been beloved by kids and parents alike. In Brooks’ series of wry and winsome adventures, Freddy assumes an amazing number of vocations and avocations, leads his band of talking animals through marvelous adventures, and always provides hours of good fun for young readers. read more
A dark figure stood behind the bale. A flare of light crossed the corner and I saw who it was. It was Jotham and there was something with him, something small that was clinging to him and trying to hide. One of the guards was coming to the corner. I turned toward him, my body shielding Jotham and the child from his sight. I felt the point of the knife at the back of my neck.
Is there a better way to show your children their faith than through the lives of the saints? Written especially for parents to read to pre-schoolers and lower grade children, this newly republished book of saints easily engages youngsters in the stories of the men and women and, yes, even children whose lives embody both great faith and virtue. Each of the 14 stories is told with an eye to capturing a young child's interest and imagination -- and showing them virtues in practice. Not to mention introducing them to places and times they should know about. read more
In King Solomon's Mines, three men set out on a journey into the heart of Africa to search for a lost friend. They stumble upon an unknown country and learn of a diamond mine, from which no one has ever returned. read more
Stem cells. Cloning. The human genome project. Bioethics issues increasingly dominate the news. All too often, conservatives find themselves bewildered by the tangle of ethical issues involved and speechless before the media elite's pro-biotechnology onslaught. But now Leon Kass's Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics gives you the information you need to fight back in defense of life. read more
The words of George Washington still inspire Americans. In this collection, compiled in 1854, you will find excerpts from writings and speeches that touched on such topics as: republicanism, civil liberties, taxes, states rights, religion, the Constitution, and honesty. read more
Somehow, all little children know it's true -- when they're sleeping or away from home, their toys come alive, performing feats of daring-do and going on grand adventures (which is why kids can never find their toys where they left them). Now, in one enchanting volume, delight to 8 best-loved tales that prove the secret magic of toys. read more
Well, not at the geographical center -- but here is proof that one of the most cherished assumptions of materialism, that Earth is an insignificant dust speck in an obscure corner of the universe, is dead wrong. The acclaimed documentary The Privileged Planet, now available on DVD, provides proof that Earth is a lot more significant than virtually anyone has realized -- except for tenacious post-Copernican theists.
Time, chance, and natural selection... Since Darwin, biologists have relied on such processes to account for the origin of living things. Yet today, this approach is being challenged as never before. "Unlocking the Mystery of Life" explains how biological evidence both challenges Darwinian evolution and strongly supports the alternative theory of Intelligent Design.
Ten years ago, Darwinists could credibly boast that no "serious" scientist took issue with Darwin's theory of evolution. Then came biochemist Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box -- and everything changed. Drawing on cutting-edge discoveries in biochemistry, Dr. Behe revealed that life at the molecular level exhibits unmistakeable evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Using the examples of vision, bloodclotting, cellular transport, and more, he showed how the biochemical world comprises an arsenal of chemical machines with so many finely calibrated, interdependent parts as to be "irreducibly complex" -- meaning that they cannot have evolved by stages, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part would be completely nonfunctional.
Morning had fallen on a modest stable just outside Jerusalem, where Hannibal and his friends live. Suddenly, excitement fills the place as a kindly stranger arrives. read more
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