In this handy guide you’ll find all you need to know to make a scientific expedition to the beach (or to a rocky shore, a salt marsh, and more). The author, science professor Elizabeth Lawlor, is completely practical: along with guidelines about what to take along in order to perform mini-scientific experiments right at the beach, she includes advice about how to dress and other ways you can be prepared for anything that might arise. read more

More needed than ever in these times of war and liberal self-doubt, Lynne Cheney's America: A Patriotic Primer is an alphabet primer in which A is for America and B is for "the Birthday of this country of ours"! Exuberantly illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, this book takes your kids on a whirlwind tour through the alphabet to teach them the history, values, tenacity, and faith of the American people. read more

. . . full of old-fashioned fun and friendship and virtue. No wonder that for 60 years young girls have been reading and rereading these four delightful Betsy-Tacy stories. Now your daughters can do the same. But don’t forget yourself. Did you miss these way back when? Is it time to revive some old memories? Reading these stories aloud to your girls could be the perfect way. In fact, that’s how the series got started. read more

Ever since Walter R. Brooks created Freddy back in 1927, this resourceful pig has been beloved by kids and parents alike. In Brooks' series of wry and winsome adventures, Freddy assumes an amazing number of vocations and avocations, leads his band of talking animals through marvelous adventures, and always provides hours of good fun for young readers read more

Stem cells. Cloning. The human genome project. Bioethics issues increasingly dominate the news. All too often, conservatives find themselves bewildered by the tangle of ethical issues involved and speechless before the media elite's pro-biotechnology onslaught. But now Leon Kass's Life, Liberty and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge for Bioethics gives you the information you need to fight back in defense of life. read more

Teach your children about God’s plan for America during its early years of independence. read more

Ten years ago, Darwinists could credibly boast that no "serious" scientist took issue with Darwin's theory of evolution. Then came biochemist Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box -- and everything changed. Drawing on cutting-edge discoveries in biochemistry, Dr. Behe revealed that life at the molecular level exhibits unmistakeable evidence of design, beyond Darwinian randomness. Using the examples of vision, bloodclotting, cellular transport, and more, he showed how the biochemical world comprises an arsenal of chemical machines with so many finely calibrated, interdependent parts as to be "irreducibly complex" -- meaning that they cannot have evolved by stages, because any precursor to an irreducibly complex system that is missing a part would be completely nonfunctional.

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Morning had fallen on a modest stable just outside Jerusalem, where Hannibal and his friends live. Suddenly, excitement fills the place as a kindly stranger arrives. read more

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In the 1925 Scopes trial, the American Civil Liberties Union sued to allow the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in public schools. Seventy-five years later, in Kitzmiller v. Dover, the ACLU sued to prevent the teaching of an alternative to Darwin's theory known as "Intelligent Design" -- and won. Why did the ACLU turn from defending the free-speech rights of Darwinists to silencing their opponents? In The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design, Jonathan Wells, Ph.D., reveals that, for today's Darwinists, there may be no other choice: unable to fend off growing challenges from scientists, or to compete with rival theories better adapted to the latest evidence, Darwinism - like Marxism and Freudianism before it -- is simply unfit to survive.

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Most scientists today would answer the latter. To them, physical reality is the only reality. Absolutely everything else -- including thought, feeling, mind, and will -- can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena, leaving no room for the possibility that religious and spiritual experiences are anything but illusions. But neuroscientist Mario Beauregard does not approach his work with such materialist presumptions. So when he first began studying the spiritual experiences of Carmelite nuns at the University of Montreal, he didn't doubt in principle that a contemplative might contact a reality outside herself during a mystical experience. Now, in The Spiritual Brain: How Neuroscience is Revealing the Existence of God, Beauregard (with co-author Denyse O'Leary) offers compelling evidence from his research that religious experiences have a nonmaterial origin -- and that may indeed be God who creates our spiritual experiences, not the brain. read more

Have your children ever wondered how the early settlers of America lived? Now they can discover what life was like before modern cities. 10 early settlements are highlighted with an in-depth look the lives of settlers. Each profile includes color photos, maps, and historical facts. read more

Distinguished historian Edward Larson deconstructs the popular historical myths surrounding the “Scopes Monkey Trial.” Learn what really happened in the summer of 1925 when the forces of creationism and evolutionism collided in the rural south. read more

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In science, dispassionate, objective inquiry reigns supreme, and researchers will readily give up their most cherished views if the evidence proves them wrong -- right? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Science, like virtually everything else these days, has become a highly politicized field in which the Left has worked energetically to present its pet theories and schemes -- all of which just happen to advance their case for the necessity for ever more government control over our lives. But in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Science, Tom Bethell, who has for several years been making the case for real science as opposed to its politically correct counterfeit in the pages of The American Spectator, sets the record straight about some of the most controversial and politicized issues of our time.

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"Laura Ingalls Wilder saved nearly every scrap of paper she ever wrote on," notes William Anderson. She was not a diary-keeper, but "from the little cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to her death at the age of ninety, there was seldom a time that Laura was not exploring the world around her through words." read more

Jam-packed with firsthand narratives, diary entries, personal letters, and patriotic songs and poems, the "Source-Readers in American History" series truly lives up to its ambitious title. Originally published at the turn of the century as a 4-volume set, here, back in print and available to Club members ONLY are volumes 3 & 4: How Our Grandfathers Lived and The Romance of the Civil War.

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To read Esther Forbes’ 1943 Newbery Award Winner is to live through two dramatic years of our country’s history—and to see great events from a new angle, through the eyes of an observant young boy. No wonder it is considered one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. read more

"The curtain rises, the orchestra plays, the stage glows, and the magic beings -- dolls come to life, sugarplums dance, swans pirouette, ballerinas glide in shimmering pink. Behind each of these enchanting visions is a wonderful story. Any child dazzled by dance will love this lavishly illustrated collection of nine of the most popular ballet stories."--Midwest Book Review read more

Born on Christmas day, Carol Bird is special from the start. Her especially sweet temper and invalid nature develop together in early childhood. As her health declines, her gracious spirit shines stronger and stronger and is shown not only in her sweetness to her parents, brothers, and uncle, but particularly in her concern for their poor neighbors, the Ruggleses. With their raucous, fun-loving escapades, the Ruggleses soften the sadness in the Birds' household. read more

Your children can construct 4 colorful characters (Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, and Tanglefoot) from sturdy punch out cardboard and have hours of fun with 20 stories for these cute characters. read more