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"Speed of a Bullet"
Science Education Partnerships.
August 1, 2003. Oregon State University, January 4, 2005

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Sullivan, Jim. "How Big Is a...?"
Cells Alive!
September 8, 2006

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Tully, Brent. "How Big Is the Universe?"
NOVA Online.
University of Hawaii. June 23, 2006

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"What Is the Average Speed of a Bullet Leaving the Muzzle of a Handgun?"
Answerbag.
January 4, 2005

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4. Physics: And Nothing's Plenty for Me

Altschuler, Daniel R.
Children of the Stars: Our Origin, Evolution and Destiny.
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Atkins, Peter.
Galileo's Finger.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Atkins, P. W.
The Periodic Kingdom.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Beaty, William J. "What Is 'Electricity'?"
Bill B's Science Hobbyist.
1996. June 23, 2006

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Charap, John M.
Explaining the Universe.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Emsley, John.
Nature's Building Blocks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

European Space Agency. "Creation of Light Elements."
ESA High School Education.
April 9, 2003. December 1, 2005

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Ferris, Timothy.
The Whole Shebang.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.

Feynman, Richard P.
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out.
Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 1999.

Ford, Kenneth W.
The Quantum World.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2004.

Freudenrich, Craig. "How Light Works."
How Stuff Works.
June 23, 2006

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Gamow, George.
Mr Tompkins in Paperback.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Gleick, James.
Isaac Newton.
New York: Pantheon, 2003.

Gonick, Larry, and Art Huffman.
The Cartoon Guide to Physics.
New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.

Hazen, Robert M., and James Trefil.
Achieving Science Literacy.
New York: Doubleday, 1990.

Krauss, Lawrence M.
Fear of Physics.
New York: Basic Books, 1993.

Muller, Richard A.
Physics for Future Presidents.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.

Murphy, Pat, and Paul Doherty.
The Color of Nature.
San Francisco: Chronicle, 1996.

NASA. "The Electromagnetic Spectrum." November 4, 2005

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Nave, Rod. "Quarks"
Hyperphysics.
George State University. September 8, 2006

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"Observing Across the Spectrum."
Cool Cosmos: Multiwavelength Astronomy.
November 23, 2005

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Overbye, Dennis. "The Universe Seems So Simple, Until You Have to Explain It."
New York Times.
October 22, 2002

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Pollock, Steven.
Particle Physics for Non-Physicists.
Chantilly, Va.: The Teaching Company, 2003.

Rigden, John S.
Hydrogen: The Essential Element.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002.

Schneider, Eric D., and Dorion Sagan.
Into the Cool: Energy Flow, Thermodynamics and Life.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.

Senese, Fred. "Why Is Mercury a Liquid at STP?"
General Chemistry Online.
June 23, 2006

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Trefil, James, and Robert M. Hazen.
The Sciences: An Integrated Approach.
New York: Wiley, 2001.

Weinberg, Steven.
Dreams of a Final Theory.
New York: Vintage, 1993.

Whittle, Mark. "A Brief History of Matter"
Prof. Mark Whittle's Home Page.
University of Virginia Department of Astronomy. September 8, 2006

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5. Chemistry: Fire, Ice, Spies, and Life

Angier, Natalie. "Free Radicals: The Price We Pay for Breathing."
New York Times.
April 25, 1993.

———. "Nonfinicky Vulture Wears Its Toxic Feast All Over Its Face"
New York Times.
April 30, 2002, Section F: 3.

———. "Serenade of Color Woos Pollinators to Flowers."
New York Times.
November 26, 1991, Section C: 4.

———. "Some Blend In, Others Dazzle: The Mysteries of Animal Colors"
New York Times.
July 20, 2004.

Ash, Russell.
The Top Ten of Everything 2004.
New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2003.

Atkins, Peter.
Galileo's Finger.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Atkins, P. W.
The Periodic Kingdom.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Ball, Philip.
Life's Matrix.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

———.
Molecules: A Very Short Introduction.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Brain, Marshall. "How Food Works"
How Stuff Works.
June 23, 2006

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California Academy of Sciences. "Plants That Kill."
Science Now.
May 13, 2001. May 30, 2005

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"Chinese Characters"
China Online.
September 6, 2006

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Coenders, A.
The Chemistry of Cooking.
Park Ridge, N.J.: Parthenon, 1992.

De Duve, Christian.
Vital Dust.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Eisner, Thomas.
For Love of Insects.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Emsley, John.
Nature's Building Blocks.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Garfield, Simon.
Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color That Changed the World.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2000.

Hoffmann, Roald.
The Same and Not the Same.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Hoffmann, Roald, and Vivian Torrence.
Chemistry Imagined.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1993.

Horgan, John.
The End of Science.
Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996.

McGovern, Patrick E., Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang, et al. "Fermented Beverages of Pre- and Proto-Historic China"
PNAS
101 (2004): 17593–98.

"Molecular Structures."
Chemistry Guide.
April 6, 2005

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Moore, John T.
Chemistry for Dummies.
New York: Wiley, 2003.

"Online Etymology Dictionary." September 6, 2006

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Sacks, Oliver.
Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood.
New York: Knopf, 2001.

6. Evolutionary Biology: The Theory of Every Body

Brumfiel, Geoff. "Who Has Designs on Your Students' Minds?"
Nature
434 (2005): 1062–65.

Calder, Nigel.
TimeScale.
New York: Viking, 1983.

California Academy of Sciences. "Plants That Kill."
Science Now.
May 13, 2001. May 30, 2005

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Campbell, Neil A., Lawrence G. Mitchell, and Jane B. Reece.
Biology: Concepts and Connections.
3rd ed. San Francisco: Addison Wesley Longman, 2000.

Canadian Museum of Nature. "Star-Nosed Mole."
Nature.Ca.
April 29, 2005

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"Ceratobatrachus Guentheri; Solomons Leaf Frog"
Digital Library Project.
Berkeley: University of California. May 10, 2005

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Cornish, Jim. "Penguins: General Information"
General Resources.
Classroom Connect. May 18, 2006

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Cracid Specialist Group. "What Is a Cracid?" May 18, 2005

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Dean, Cornelia. "Challenged by Creationists, Museums Answer Back"
New York Times.
September 20, 2005.

De Duve, Christian.
Vital Dust.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.

Delacour, Jean.
Curassows and Related Birds.
New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1973.

Delong, Edward F. "A Plentitude of Ocean Life"
Natural History.
May 2003.

"The Duck-Billed Platypus"
The Duck-Billed Platypus.
April 29, 2005

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Ehrlich, Paul R.
Human Natures.
Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2000.

Eisner, Thomas.
For Love of Insects.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Fortey, Richard.
Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth.
New York: Vintage, 1997.

Fortey, Richard A.
Trilobite!
London: HarperCollins, 2000.

"General Characteristics of Primates"
The Primates: Overview.
April 1, 2005. May 19, 2005

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Gore, Pamela J. "The PreCambrian"
Georgia Perimeter College.
June 24, 2006

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"Hallucigenia."
Answers.Com.
September 6, 2006

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Harris, Paul. "Mixing Science with Creationism"
Salon.
May 24, 2005

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Keller, Bill. "God and George W. Bush"
New York Times.
May 17, 2003, Section A: 17.

Knoll, Andrew H.
Life on a Young Planet.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.

Knoll, Andrew H., and Sean B. Carroll. "Early Animal Evolution: Emerging Views from Comparative Biology and Geology."
Ecology
284 (1999): 2129–37. June 24, 2006

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Miller, Kenneth R.
Finding Darwin's God.
New York: Cliff Street Books, 1999.

Miller, Kenneth R., and Joseph S. Levine.
Biology: Discovering Life.
2nd ed. Lexington, Mass.: D. C. Heath, 1994.

Minkoff, Eli C., and Pamela J. Baker.
Biology Today.
2nd ed. New York: Garland, 2001.

Patuxent Bird Population Studies. "Painted Bunting Passerina Ciris"
Painted Bunting Identification Tips.
April 29, 2005

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Quammen, David. "Was Darwin Wrong?"
National Geographic.
November 2004: 4–31.

Raven, Peter, et al.
Biology.
7th ed. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2005.

Saletan, William. "Creationism Evolves"
Slate.
September 1, 1999. May 25, 2005

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———. "What Matters in Kansas"
Slate.
May 11, 2005. May 25, 2005

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Sever, Megan. "Creationism in a National Park"
Geotimes.
March 2004. May 5, 2005

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Smithsonian Institution. "Genus: Hallucigenia Sparsa."
National Museum of Natural History Department of Paleobiology.
September 6, 2006

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Southwood, Richard.
The Story of Life.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Sze, Emily Lei Pi. "Theodosius Dobzhansky." May 16, 2005

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"Tiger Swallow Butterfly."
Enchanted Learning.
September 6, 2006

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Tobin, Allan J., and Jennie Dusheck.
Asking About Life.
2nd ed. Orlando and Philadelphia: Harcourt, 2001.

University of Manitoba. "Star-Nosed Mole."
The Mole Tunnel.
April 29, 2005

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University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. "Family Hominidae."
Animal Diversity Web.
September 6, 2006

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Weinberg, Steven. "Can Science Explain Everything? Anything?"
New York Review of Books.
May 31, 2001. January 31, 2002

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7. Molecular Biology: Cells and Whistles

American Society for Microbiology. "Monsters Among the Microbes"
Microbes.
September 1, 2005

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Angier, Natalie. "Free Radicals: The Price We Pay for Breathing."
New York Times.
April 25, 1993.

Atkins, Peter.
Galileo's Finger.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Atkins, P. W.
The Periodic Kingdom.
New York: Basic Books, 1995.

"Bacteria in the Human Body."
Wikipedia.
August 24, 2005

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Ball, Philip.
Life's Matrix.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.

Carey, Bjorn. "Wild Things: The Most Extreme Creatures."
Live Science Animal World.
February 7, 2005. August 26, 2005

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