Award-winning author Robert Gardner comes to the rescue of busy students everywhere. Each experiment follows the scientific method, and is designed to be completed in under an hour. Readers will discover how to weigh air, estimate the volume of matter, and the science of why water holds together. There are also ideas for more science experiments if readers have extra time.

People who have never had to worry about water coming out of the sink might not think much about it. But wasting water causes great problems for the environment and for people who don't have easy access to clean water. This inviting volume is a call to climate change heroes to use water more wisely in their everyday lives. They'll learn how to stop bad habits and how to nurture new ones for themselves and their friends. Important information and relatable...

"From the Latin aqua (water) and faba (beans), aquafaba is the cooking liquid found in tinned beans and other legumes like chickpeas or the liquid left over from cooking your own. It can be used to replace egg whites in many sweet and savoury recipes. Its unique mix of starches, proteins, fibre and sugars, which are left in the water after cooking, gives aquafaba a wide range of emulsifying, foaming, binding and thickening properties, making it the...

Scrying is the practice of looking into crystal balls, mirrors, water, fire, clouds and many other things to see visions, find messages and gain knowledge. It can be done for personal guidance, for inspiration, to find the answers to questions, to look at distant places or other realms, or for fortune-telling and prophecy. It is a form of divination that taps into our psychic senses and powers of intuition. Pagan Portals - Scrying shows how anyone...

Artist Frank Clarke teaches the fundamentals in still life painting with a watercolor palette.

Water is essential to life. Some parts of the world have too little water, while floods happen in other places. Fresh water for drinking is being threatened by pollution and disease. Find out why water is so important, how it can be used to make energy, how we can keep it clean, and simple steps readers can take to conserve and recycle water.

"Aquafaba is the miraculous bean water with amazing egg-replacement abilities. The bean liquid we used to throw away is one of the most astonishing culinary discoveries of the decade. It can be used as an egg-replacer in everything from French toast to lemon meringue pie. It can be used to make both sweet and savory recipes previously made with eggs, including: - waffles - crepes - quiche - burgers - macarons - marshmallows Aquafaba can even be used...