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. read more

With these two volumes of At Home with Science, you can satisfy young kids’ curiosity about the way things work — and give them an inviting introduction to basic science in the process. Guided by Archie the elephant, Frank the flamingo, Marie the monkey and Dot the kangaroo, your children will learn how to perform twenty-four easy experiments using household objects — experiments which will give them answers to everyday science questions that they’re probably already asking you! read more

This fascinating book reveals how God, through His creation, has always provided the model for man-made technology. An easy-to-use teaching tool, this book describes technology’s predecessors—the rattlesnake as inspiration for the burglar alarm, the limpet as the originator of the suction cup, and much more. read more

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Haven't we all wondered why flat soda tastes sweeter than fresh, how Alka-Seltzer settles your stomach, or how copy machines work? Here are 52 experiments that focus on answering questions such as these, brought to you by the world-famous Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco. 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

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."

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Many parents believe they can't homeschool because they lack some quality or skill successful homeschoolers have. But believe it or not, you don't have to be a certified teacher, a former academic whiz, or even a particularly well-organized person to homeschool well. The truth is that homeschooling can be done, and done well, by most ordinary people. In Homeschooling: Take a Deep Breath -- You Can Do This!, Terrie Lynn Bittner takes you by the hand and shows you how.

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Jam-packed with firsthand narratives, diary entries, personal letters, and patriotic songs and poems, the "Source-Readers in American History" series truly lives up to its ambitious title. Originally published at the turn of the century as a 4-volume set, here, back in print and available to Club members ONLY are volumes 3 & 4: How Our Grandfathers Lived and The Romance of the Civil War.

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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

There are plenty of guides to homeschooling available now, but it would be hard to find one as comprehensive as The Unofficial Guide to Homeschooling. It manages to cover virtually all the ground that other guides deal with piecemeal or not at all. And it gives you a refreshing new perspective on issues you may think you have completely covered — from a panel of experts including Maureen McCaffrey of Homeschooling Today magazine, Brian Ray, president of the National Home Education Research Institute, and others who know homeschooling issues inside and out. read more

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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In the 1925 Scopes trial, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to allow the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. Seventy-five years later, in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the ACLU sued to prevent the teaching of an alternative to Darwin's theory known as "Intelligent Design" -- and won. Why did the ACLU turn from defending the free-speech rights of Darwinists to silencing their opponents? In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., reveals that, for today's Darwinists, there may be no other choice: unable to fend off growing challenges from scientists, or to compete with rival theories better adapted to the latest evidence, Darwinism - like Marxism and Freudianism before it -- is simply unfit to survive.

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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 Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery provides proof that Earth is a lot more significant than virtually anyone has realized -- except for tenacious post-Copernican theists.

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As the first decade of the 21st century nears its end, there is ever more evidence to suggest that, thanks to global warming, the world may be heading towards an unprecedented catastrophe. But it is not the one which has been so widely and noisily predicted by the likes of Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore. The real disaster to be brought about by global warming, writes Christopher Booker, is not the technicolor apocalypse promised by Gore and his many allies -- melting ice sheets, rising sea levels, hurricanes, droughts, mass-extinctions. It will be the result of all those measures being proposed by the world's politicians in the hope that they can avert a nightmare scenario which, as many experts now believe, was never going to materialize anyway.

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Most scientists today would answer the latter. To them, physical reality is the only reality. Absolutely everything else -- including thought, feeling, mind, and will -- can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena, leaving no room for the possibility that religious and spiritual experiences are anything but illusions. But neuroscientist Mario Beauregard does not approach his work with such materialist presumptions. So when he first began studying the spiritual experiences of Carmelite nuns at the University of Montreal, he didn't doubt in principle that a contemplative might contact a reality outside herself during a mystical experience. Now, in The Spiritual Brain: How Neuroscience is Revealing the Existence of God, Beauregard (with co-author Denyse O'Leary) offers compelling evidence from his research that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin -- and that may indeed be God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain. read more

The Trivium is a rigorous and utterly delightful presentation of the three areas that form the basis for all learning: logic, grammar, and rhetoric. Sister Miriam Joseph Rauh, a professor of English at St. Mary's College for thirty years, helps you see the unity and harmony of these three areas as she gives you solid and easily-grasped explanations of even their most abstruse elements: not just general grammar, but also propositions, syllogisms, enthymemes, fallacies, poetics, figurative language, and metrical discourse! Attractively laid out to maximize clarity, this book is also packed with lively examples, exercises, and illustrations drawn from the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Plato, and others. The examples are so rich that they're a literary education in themselves. read more

The Confederate soldier was revered by Northerners and Southerners alike long after the war ended for what Philip A. Bruce calls “the high, the gallant, and the romantic aspects” of his character. Examples of character traits like these are rare in public life nowadays, but they abound on the pages of Brave Deeds of Confederate Soldiers. Bruce’s vivid account of numerous deeds of daring, bravado, cunning, and selfless courage by Confederate partisans during the great conflict will fire your children’s imaginations — and impress upon them the all-important lesson that some causes are worth risking everything to advance. read more