Books with author Robert Gardner

Waited until the last minute to get started? No problem! Each experiment in GRASSLANDS EXPERIMENTS: 11 SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS IN ONE HOUR OR LESS follows the scientific method and can be completed in an hour or less. Make a climatogram for a city in the grasslands, experiment to find out why grasslands in the United States have seasons and find out how a prairie wind affects the evaporation of water. Experiments also include ideas for science fair projects in case you have extra time.

Award-winning author Robert Gardner comes to the rescue of busy students everywhere. Each experiment in TUNDRA EXPERIMENTS: 14 EXPERIMENTS follows the scientific method, and is designed to be completed in under an hour. Discover why a tundra stays wet when it receives little rain, finding the energy (heat) is needed to melt one gram of ice, build a model of the permafrost, and the science of solar heat and leaf color. There are also ideas for more science experiments if you have extra time.

The hands-on experiments in this book, illustrated in color, will unlock the secrets of rocks and minerals, including how sedimentary rock is different from metamorphic rock, what is in soil, and what minerals can be found at home. Some will even give readers ideas for their own science fair project. All they need are some simple materials, most of which can be found around the home, school, or neighborhood.

The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. Here is the perfect joining of subject and writer: Johnson, the man of awesome complexity, energy, ambition, and power—obsessed with secrecy, obscuring (often “rewriting”) the facts of his personal and political life; Caro, his biographer, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his life of Robert Moses, The Power Broker—and everywhere acclaimed for the brilliance, tenacity, and integrity of his research, for his grasp of character and of the workings of power. The conjunction has produced a monumental and galvanizing book that is a landmark in American biography. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facts of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak.The Path to Power—the first book of The Years of Lyndon Johnson—reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas Hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered.We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be.We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Rayburn (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life—the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters....We see Johnson at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ.In preparation for this audiobook, Caro has—through some seven years—immersed himself in Johnson’s life and world; has lived in Johnson’s Hill Country, has crisscrossed the United States, finding and talking to hundreds of men and women—his boyhood friends and sweethearts, his college classmates and rivals, the men who politicked with him in congressional cloakrooms, the young New Deal aides (among them Corcoran, Cohen, Fortas, Rowe) who helped him rise and rose with him.Here as never before is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in an audiobook that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.

Have you waited until the last minute to start your science project? Don't worry, award-winning author Robert Gardner has you covered! Each experiment in SIMPLE MACHING EXPERIMENTS USING SEESAWS, WHEELS, PULLEYS, AND MORE follows the scientific method, and can be completed in an hour or less. Explore using levers to control motion and lift, and how the steepness of inclined planes affects the force needed to move something. Most experiments also include ideas for science fair projects, in case you have more time than you originally thought!

Through clear instructions and scientific illustrations, students can conduct easy yet engaging experiments to examine the principles of electricity and magnetism. Using easy-to-obtain household materials, readers will make a battery from electric cells, test objects to see if they are conductors or insulators, and build a simple electric motor. Readers are guided through applying the scientific method to gain a better understanding of the basic concepts demonstrated by each experiment. Safety tips educate students on the code of conduct expected when conducting experiments.

Award-winning author Robert Gardner comes to the rescue of busy students everywhere. Each experiment in TUNDRA EXPERIMENTS: 14 EXPERIMENTS follows the scientific method, and is designed to be completed in under an hour. Discover why a tundra stays wet when it receives little rain, finding the energy (heat) is needed to melt one gram of ice, build a model of the permafrost, and the science of solar heat and leaf color. There are also ideas for more science experiments if you have extra time.