Tag: Science

Book Review : Literature : All Things Bright and Beautiful: The Classic Memoirs of a Yorkshire Country Vet by James Herriot

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Watch Review Recommended: High School and over Since we went through the children’s version  of Herriot. I found this version extremely satisfying because it brings in the more realistic and hard details of life which usually aren’t part of children’s literature considering their age. This book details  James Herriot’s life out from college joining internship and settling down into a practice

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Book Review: SCIENCE:INDIA -FIELD GUIDES – BUTTERFLIES , TREES AND SHRUBS – Peter Smetacek, Pradeep Sachdeva

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Recommended: Family Click Here to Watch the Video These Field guides are affordable and worth having handy . A Naturalist’s Guide to the Butterflies of India by Peter Smetacek Since we have a lot of butterfly where we live we thought this would be a good addition .A Gorgeous Book to help identify butterflies. Great information and beautiful pictures .

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Book Review: Science – Biology- The Hidden life of trees by Peter Wohlleben

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Recommended: High School, Young Adult, Adult This book is from Peter Wohlleben a German forester. His research and understanding from working in forests. An interesting book on forests and how trees communicate and grow together in the forest. And understanding terrain ,native species ,co dependencies of species and many many more. And  how we and the trees can economically  co

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Book Review: Science: A Short History of Nearly Everything – BILL BRYSON

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Recommended:Middle School and High School In the school hour rush I didn’t have much time to actually pay details to the history behind them.This book really helped in rectifying that. A much needed book to understand the history of prominent scientific discoveries and it does it in laymen terms. My favorite part of the book was the calculation of the

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Living Books: Homeschool Science: Emperor of All Maladies by Siddharth Mukerjee

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Recommended:High School Yet another favorite reads for the year.All of us know or have some one battling/battled cancer which has become a common household name and hence this one extremely important book to understanding Cancer. A good book to understand the progression of the medical science.From the first cancer patient to the various methods of treatments used in different years

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