How to make your science project scientific

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Shar Levine & Leslie Johnstone

Soap bubble activities for children which include recipes for bubbles, and the science, chemistry, and physics involved in each activity.

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Faith Hickman Brynie

Provides guidelines for preparing a science project, including choosing a topic, doing research, collecting and testing data, and presenting the final product.

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Robert Gardner

Explains how to perform a variety of magic tricks by using the laws of nature, including demonstrations of air pressure, optical illusions, chemical reactions, and more.

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Rein Taagepera

"In his challenging new book Rein Taagepera argues that society needs more from social sciences than they have delivered. One reason for falling short is that social sciences have depended excessively on regression and other statistical approaches, neglecting logical model building. Science is not only about the empirical 'What is?' but also very much about the conceptual 'How should it be on logical grounds?' Statistical approaches are essentially descriptive, while quantitatively formulated logical models are predictive in an explanatory way. Making Social Sciences More Scientific contrasts the predominance of statistics in today's social sciences and predominance of quantitatively predictive logical models in physics. It shows how to construct predictive models and gives social science examples. Making Social Sciences More Scientific is useful to students who wish to learn the basics of the scientific method and to all those researchers who look for ways to do better social science."--Jacket.