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Secret of the Knights
The reader's decisions determine what adventures will occur during a trip back in time to the fourteenth century to learn more about the Order of the Garter.
Time Machine 4: Sail With Pirates
Sail ahoy! Travel back to the 17th century and become a swashbuckling pirate! Your mission is to find the wreck of the richest silver ship ever to sink in the Caribbean Sea, and bring back some of the treasure. The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.
Sail with Pirates
You are standing face-to-face with a pirate captain. He offers you a choice: join his crew or die. You can sign the parchment and become a pirate or attempt to escape before he can catch you. Your decision may lead you to safety or leave you stranded in time! Are you ready to face the danger?
The Stars My Destination
#5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. “Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them.” —Joe Haldeman #5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. “Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them.” —Joe Haldeman "Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, unbeatable” —James Lovegrove Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. When it comes to pop cul...
The Mystery of Atlantis
While searching for the mythical land of Atlantis, the reader is transported back to ancient Greece and Egypt, to the time of the first Olympics.
Information Design
The contributors to this book are both cautionary and hopeful as they offer visions of how information design can be practiced diligently and ethically, for the benefit of information consumers as well as producers. Information design is the newest of the design disciplines. As a sign of our times, when the crafting of messages and meaning is so central to our lives, information design is not only important—it is essential. Contemporary information designers seek to edify more than to persuade, to exchange more than to foist upon. With ever more powerful technologies of communication, we have learned that the issuer of designed information is as likely as the intended recipient to be chang...
Time Machine 8, The Mystery of Atlantis
Have you ever wanted to see the lost city of Atlantis? Now's your chance! Your mission is to travel to ancient Greece and gather whatever information you can that will help you find Atlantis. The search begins by meeting the great philosopher Plato, and then sailing off for a great ocean voyage where mystery and adventure await! The Time Machine series challenges young readers to use their imagination and decision-making skills to write their own story. Options in the text allow readers to choose any path they like within the plot. Readers must draw on background information about the period to make the right choices. This makes the series a great educational device for youngsters to learn about history and all the different cultures, events, and periods that shaped it.
Multimedia Graphics
Selected by a panel of top International designers, journalists, and scholars, thirty-six of the most imaginative and elegantly executed CD-ROMS, Web sites, and computer games were chosen from an enormous body of recent work as the world's best in six categories: Art and Culture, Education, Family, Magazines, Promotional, and Reference. Captions for each entry discuss the methods and tools used to create these ingenious examples of screen interfaces.
My Life with the Chimpanzees, the Fascinating Story of One of the World's Most Celebrated Naturalists
From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild. On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees -- intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear a surprising resemblance to our own.
Simulations in the Political Science Classroom
This book is premised on the assumption that games and simulations provide welcome alternatives and supplements to traditional lectures and class discussions—especially in political science classrooms, where real-world circumstances provide ideal applications of theory and policy prescriptions. Implementing such an active learning program, however, is sometimes daunting to overburdened professors and teaching assistants. This book addresses the challenges of using games and simulations in the political science classroom, both online and in person. Each chapter offers a game or simulation that politics teachers can use to teach course concepts and explains ways to execute it effectively. In...
