Janice VanCleave's Chemistry for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work

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Janice VanCleave's Chemistry for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work
Janice VanCleave
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0471620858

Book Description

Why do newspapers turn yellow?

How does bleach make colors disappear?

Why can't you mix oil and water?

Find out the answers to these and other mysteries of chemistry in this fascinating collection of ideas, projects, and activities that teach the basics of chemistry theory and practice.

Turn steel wool into a glutinous green blob. Separate an egg from its shell without breaking the shell. Make copper pennies turn green. Have fun while you learn simple chemistry from a solution of colored water, and the behavior of gases with the help of a soda bottle. Through these and other activities, you'll explore the structure of matter, the workings of acids, gases, and solutions . . . and much more.

You'll find most of the materials you need around the house or classroom. Every activity has been pretested and can be performed safely and cheaply in the classroom, at a science fair, or at home.

Also available in this series from Janice VanCleave:

ASTRONOMY FOR EVERY KID
BIOLOGY FOR EVERY KID
DINOSAURS FOR EVERY KID
EARTH SCIENCE FOR EVERY KID
GEOGRAPHY FOR EVERY KID
GEOMETRY FOR EVERY KID
THE HUMAN BODY FOR EVERY KID
MATH FOR EVERY KID
PHYSICS FOR EVERY KID.

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My kids LOVE chemistry now!.......2006-03-15

Janice VanCleave's Chemistry For Every Kid is a must have book for upper elementary/middle school science teachers. The experiments are easy to set up and the kids LOVE them! Janice has tackled tough Chemistry concepts and come up with simple experiments that the kids ACTUALLY understand! I have used the activities in this book numerous times and couldn't recommend this book highly enough. The way I use the activities in this book, along with the others in the series, is set them up as stations and have the kids rotate through them. You will not be disappointed with this purchase and your kids will love you for it.

simplistic .......2005-09-29

No handwriting required and no over-the-head scientific explanations. It is clear, simple, and EASY to pull off the shelf and use. I recommend previewing the list of materials for the week to be sure you have the needed items. Substitutions can effect the experiment. I use this with ages 4-10 and they ALL enjoy the experiments. The experiments are simplistic and easy for young children to grasp the idea yet have enough information to get the parents thought process going! A great introduction to chemistry that takes very little time to prep and do. I even use this book as birthday party entertainment! A favorite with us.

Janice VanCleave's Chemistry for Every Kid: 101 Easy Experiments that Really Work.......2005-08-17

The book is in very good condition and will replace a library book that was lost. Thank you. Nancy L. Bert - Branch Manager - Blue Ridge Summit Free Library.

Great!.......2000-04-08

My mom bought this book for me, and I was always begging to do more experiments. They're so easy and fun to do. This is a must have for kids who are doing science fair projects!

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Madness is the central mystery of the human psyche. Our minds evolved to give us a faithful understanding of reality, to allow us to integrate into our communities, and to help us adapt our behaviour to our environment. Yet in serious mental illness, the mind does exactly the opposite of these things. The sufferer builds castles of imaginative delusion, fails to adapt, and becomes a stranger among his own people. Yet mental illness is no marginal phenomenon: it is found in all societies and all historical epochs, and the genes that underlie it are quite common. Furthermore, the traits that identify the madman are found in attenuated form in normal thinking and feeling. The persistence of madness, then, is a terrible puzzle from both an evolutionary and a human point of view. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare suggested a link between madness and artistic creativity: 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet', he wrote, 'Are of imagination all compact'. Recent studies have shown that there is indeed a connection. Rates of mental illness are hugely elevated in the families of poets, writers and artists, suggesting that the same genes, the same temperaments, and the same imaginative capacities are at work in insanity and in creative ability. Thus the reason madness continues to exist is that the traits behind it have psychological benefits as well as psychological costs. In Strong Imagination, Daniel Nettle explores the nature of mental illness, the biological mechanisms that underlie it, and its link to creative genius. He goes on to consider the place of both madness and creative imagination in the evolution of our species.

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Strong Imagination, Madness, and Creativity........2006-10-05

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet
Are of imagination all compact.
- _A Midsummer Night's Dream_, William Shakespeare.

_Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature_ by anthropologist Daniel Nettle is a fascinating account of the intertwining relationship between madness (mental illness), creativity, and human nature all linked together through the notion of "strong imagination". As the author points out, "strong imagination" was recognized by William Shakespeare who noted three things about it: that it is an inherent aspect of human nature, that it is highly developed in madness and creativity, and that it may be associated with love or sexual attraction. The author also states later in the book that what he means by madness is really "psychosis", "the state where the sufferer passes beyond the bounds of reality, intelligibility, and rationality as defined by the bulk of society". Psychosis is mostly seen in the more extreme forms of depression, manic depression, and schizophrenia (formerly known as "dementia praecox"). The author also brings up a fourth category: the "schizoaffective" (shading between depression and/or mania and schizophrenia), although the usefulness of these categories remains a matter of some debate. Of course the very notion of mental illness and psychosis remains extremely controversial, and the author must spend a great deal of the earlier parts of this book defining exactly what he means, answering possible objections, and ultimately defending his viewpoint that mental illness is a brain disorder and results from either a chemical imbalance in the brain, an "organic" disturbance, or an atrophy in certain parts of the brain. The author also contends that medication that works on neurotransmitters in the brain (in particular antidepressants such as Prozac for minor and major depression, lithium for manic depression, and anti-psychotics for schizophrenia) dampens the effects of mood swings and may be useful for alleviating thought disorder, psychosis, or the so-called positive symptoms of schizophrenia. Furthermore, the author contends that tendencies towards psychosis (or affective disorder) are hereditary. All of this of course remains extremely controversial.

The author begins by showing what he means by "strong imagination" and its interaction with madness, especially in his comparisons of Shakespeare's plays and the bizarre delusions of an apparently schizophrenic man, Mr. Matthews, in Eighteenth century London who believed that a "gang of seven" was plotting against him and devised all sorts of explanations for their nefarious schemes. The author next explains what he means by psychosis. Important distinctions arise at this point, first between the outdated categories of neurosis (minor mental complaint) and psychosis, and secondly between two forms of psychosis (organic and functional). The distinction between organic and functional psychosis highlights two different methods of understanding mental illness (one rooted in dualism between mind and body and the other rooted in biological materialism). The author highlights some of the earlier means of treating mental illness that were rooted in this dualistic understanding, including psychotherapy and mentioning in particular Freud. The alternative approach was to treat mental illness as a form of brain disorder (and this is the dominant approach today), and thus a search for appropriate medications began. Other more radical thinkers such as Thomas Szasz have argued that mental illness does not exist at all, and that the mentally ill merely have different or unpopular beliefs, comparing schizophrenics to conscientious objectors and separatists. While there is some truth in Szasz's arguments, they ultimately rest on a misunderstanding of the concept of disease and the resulting social implications that we should not attempt to treat schizophrenics or the severely depressed are horrendous and cruel. A second distinction arises between "nature and nurture". The nature position having its roots in Galton for example, contended that mental illness was a hereditary disease and biological in nature. The nurture position which was defended by Freud, but also in a particularly extreme form by R. D. Laing, contended that mental illness arose as a result of family difficulties (or was the only rational response to the inherent contradictions of modern capitalist society) and particularly blamed the mother for them. The author will contend that the nature position has largely been vindicated and provides much evidence to show this. The author next turns his attention to manic depression and schizophrenia, attempting to show how these disorders arise and the biological basis for them. The author contends that it is useful to think of manic depression and schizophrenia as two separate entities (though the separation is fuzzy and this remains a controversial point). The author also contends that manic depressive moods (in particular the high moods of hypomania) are particularly inducive to creative work. The author also contends that schizophrenic thinking (the thought disorder of psychosis) is also inducive to creative thinking. The author proposes two distinct personality dimensions (thymotypy and schizotypy) to indicate individuals who are prone to psychosis but who may also be particularly creative. The author shows how many creative geniuses of eminence (particularly in the creative arts, though I suspect also in mathematics and philosophy) had these traits. The author also shows how these traits might have been selected for evolutionarily. Here he discusses not only their role in modern societies, but also their role in "primitive" cultures, emphasizing for example the role of shaman and bard. The author contends that the creative process may have been selected for in a similar manner to the way the peacock's beautiful tail was selected for, as part of sexual selection. The author also considers the possibility that mental illness is increasing in modern civilization. Finally, the author explains the need for creative individuals to "keep sane" and not seek out psychosis, because though thymotypy and schizotypy may be indicative of creative tendencies, outright psychosis largely interferes with creative work.

This book offers a fascinating study of the relationship between madness and creative thinking as part of "strong imagination". The author's theories are certainly interesting and backed up with much evidence to support them. As someone who has experienced both mental illness (manic depression including some psychosis) and highly creative states, I found this book to be particularly insightful.

Bring your brain.......2004-12-08

I'm a writer with manic depression who is bothered by the way mental illness is romanticized within the writing community. So many people I know believe that writers with manic depression should not take medication because it will "kill" their creativity. I find this attitude really offensive -- not just because it is false -- but also because it puts manic-depressive writers and artists in danger. I have found very few resources that adequately address this issue, very few books that explain why allowing full blown psychosis to developed is a bad idea, not just for the health of the person in question, but for his or her creativity as well. Daniel Nettle really hit this one it on the head as far as I'm concerned.

I was particularly drawn into the parts of the book that dealt with the "nature vs. nuture" argument, and the history behind each way of thinking. This information is complex but assessable. I read the book in just a few sittings.

Don't get me wrong -- this is no dumbed down self-help book. This is a heady and academic work, full of carefully thought out arguments. Bring your brain and a lot of sticky arrows to mark your favorite passages. My book is now full of them.

grasping at non-existent justifications..........2002-12-09

I respect the author's intentions to provide a form of consolation for troubled individuals like myself. However, the attempt falls short in the too-real context of inevitable aging and death. Assuming that personal efficacy in ordinary matters is self-evidently a cure simply loses sight of the fact that concentrating on mundane matters must be conducted without any form of external justification.

I recommend readers interested in this subject turn to different techniques of being resigned to the purposelessness and meaninglessness that scientific investigations continually reveal. In particular, I recommend the scientifically grounded "cosmic spirituality" as described by Milton Munitz in books such as The Question of Reality; Cosmic Understanding and Does Life Have A Meaning?. Owen Flanagan also provides comfort in his discussions, including The Problem of the Soul.

Having to face reality is always a difficult task. And Daniel Nettle courageously takes up this task with all good intention to alert troubled individuals to NOT indulge in nihilistic self-destruction for the sake of "art" or other means to attention and notoriety. This is sound advice. As is Nettle's advice to pursue robust health. These are all necessary but ultimately insufficient steps on the way to a comfortable avoidance of insanity. For a self-sufficient presence, one still must face one's personal orientation to the totality of reality.

The over-arching issue remains the absence of external justification of one's actions and one's presence. And for this there is no simple fix. Making oneself at home in the universe remains an extremely elusive destination...

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Certain noises, many aspects of turbulence, and almost all aspects of finance exhibit a level of temporal and spatial variability whose "wildness" impressed itself vividly upon the author, Benoit Mandelbrot, in the early 1960's. He soon realized that those phenomena cannot be described by simply adapting the statistical techniques of earlier physics, or even extending those techniques slightly. It appeared that the study of finance and turbulence could not move forward without the recognition that those phenomena represented a new second stage of indeterminism. Altogether new mathematical tools were needed. The papers in this Selecta volume reflect that realization and the work that Dr. Mandelbrot did toward the development of those new tools.

Customer Reviews:

Clay.......2003-02-25

M. is a great man in (large) part because of what he has written, including these papers. And yes they are challenging. I find them nearly self-contained though.

No One Can Duplicate The Cover.......2002-12-11

I went and asked K. G. Monks for help. Even with his direction I only got a bad approximation.
The rest of the book is less readable than that. It is a collection of Dr. Mandelbrot's
old articles. I interviewed Dr. Mandelbrot several years ago before a lecture of his
at U. C. Riverside. He is not a very friendly or communicative man. His
articles in general are very hard to read and without adequate history and definitions.
It is , thus, incredible that his original book was such a success. Looking at
his work, I would call him a "noise" specialist and not a fractalist at all.
This book is really a book about very hard parts of noise theory.
In my mind Dr. Mandelbrot is very wrong in many of his conclusions ,
but he has some very nice results here. Don't
waste your money if you don't have a graduate degree in mathematics
with a specialization in noise, chaos and dynamics. Most of his recent
articles have been on multifractals applied to stock market theory.
He is one of the great men of our age
and these articles are his feet of clay.

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One of the best–loved Spanish novels of all time, The Three–Cornered Hat is a hilarious tale of lust, intrigue, and corruption set in 18th–century Andalusia. The musical compositions inspired by this masterpiece have become staples of both the ballet and orchestral repertoires.

When the hideous and lascivious corregidor Don Eugenio takes a fancy to the formidable— and formidably desirable—Señora Frasquita, the wife of the local miller, the couple sets about foiling his plans for a seduction. There ensues a fast–paced comedy of moonlight flits, clothes swapping, mistaken identity, and slapstick mishaps as the characters struggle in vain to maintain both dignity and marital harmony. Calm is eventually restored in a scene of unmasking and mutual forgiveness of truly operatic proportions. Pedro Alarcón (183391) is one of Spain’s most prominent writers. He is chiefly remembered for his subtly ironic plots and quintessentially Spanish settings and characterizations.

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Somewhat humourous Spanish folktale........2006-11-13

The three-cornered hat is based on an old folktale involving a small village in Andulasia, with the romantic complications of an ugly but lovable miller, his wise and beautiful wife and the corrupt and foolish mayor who becomes smitten with the miller's wife. Misunderstandings lead to bedroom shenanigans, but all ends well for the good guys and the mayor gets his.

A wild night in Andalusia.......2004-10-22

This book is like a comedy of errors told as a short novel. It is about a very happy couple, a miller and his beautiful wife, who live in a pretty mill-house in Andalusia, Southern Spain, in the early 1800's. Everybody in town has a crush with the miller's wife, including the town's principal political figure, a disgusting, lascivious old man. When this man tries to seduce the woman, all hell breaks loose in a crazy tale of mistaken identities, nocturnal escapades, horseriding and farce. It is a very easy to read book and it will give you a couple of hours of good-written entertainment, just like if you had gone to the movies, only here you get to decide the faces, places and color of everything.

An amusing tale of morality in a 1800's Spanish community:.......1998-03-24

The Three Cornered Hat is an amusing tale of mistaken identities and moral folkways in the Spain of early 1800's. Though the plot is not an entirely original one (the reader can recall similar stories such as Chaucer's Reeve's Tale), the story is written in an original way, describing the Andalucian countryside and colorful examples of local characters.

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Amor, celos, suspenso, humor.......2000-09-07

Como tenia que leer esta novelita para una clase de literatura española del siglo XIX, yo habia pensado que iba a ser lenta, triste y no muy agradable. ¡Cual fue mi sorpresa cuando descubri que no es asi! Tiene de todo: descripciones fascinantes de cada detalle de los personajes, relaciones sorprendentemente modernas entre marido y mujer, casos de personas que coquetean y los celos que esto provoca... pero a pesar de lo que indique este resumen, no se parece nada a una telenovela. Me puse a reir varias veces y no me pude acostar hasta que ya supe que habia pasado entre el tio Lucas, el Corregidor, la seña Frasquita y la Corregidora.

El Sombrero De Tres Picos / The Three-Cornered Hat (Clasicos Universales)

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El Sombrero De Tres Picos / The Three-Cornered Hat (Clasicos Universales)
Pedro Antonio De Alarcon , and Joseph Conrad
Manufacturer: Jorge Mesta Editores
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Binding: Paperback

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El Sombrero De Tres Picos / The Three-Cornered Hat (Classics of Spanish Literature)

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El Sombrero De Tres Picos / The Three-Cornered Hat (Classics of Spanish Literature)
Alberto Romo
Manufacturer: Regents/Prentice Hall
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Picasso Theatre Opera-Ballet - El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) 3-Dimensional playset with CD (Music from the Ballet)

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Picasso Theatre Opera-Ballet - El Sombrero de Tres Picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) 3-Dimensional playset with CD (Music from the Ballet)

Manufacturer: Picasso Theatre
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000FLT7JO

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This is a tabletop version of the Opera-Ballet "El Sombrero de Tres Picos", also referred to as "The Three-Cornered Hat" and "Le Tricone". It includes all the punch out heavy-grade colored cardboard pieces necessary to assemble and re-enact the ballet, including the floor, stage, curtains and dancers, and floor directions. It comes with an Audio CD of the Opera-Ballet, and a booklet detailing the ballet. The booklet is printed in English, French, and Spanish.

The Three-Cornered Hat (El Sombrero De Tres Picos)

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The Three-Cornered Hat (El Sombrero De Tres Picos)
Manuel De Falla
Manufacturer: Urania Records
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000W7Y5HA

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The Three-cornered Hat - El Sombrero De Tres Picos
Harriet; Introduction by Colford, William E. Alarcon; Translation by De Onis
Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series
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