The World Wide Web for Kids and Parents

IDG Books has discreetly minimized the Dummies logo on its new kids-and-parents computing series, packaging this set as “a cool reference for the whole family.” The three guides, covering software for kids aged 2-12, web ... Read More »

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Great Software for Kids and Parents

By Cathy Miranker and Alison Elliot

April 16, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

In Praise of Slow: How a Worldwide Movement Is Challenging the Cult of Speed

By Carl Honore

London-based Canadian journalist Carl Honoré has seen the evils of the fast-paced world. When he found himself trying to read his child one-minute bedtime stories, he decided enough was enough. Honoré serves up a neo-Zen, ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Chasing Clayoquot: A Wilderness Almanac

By David Pitt-Brooke

In Chasing Clayoquot, David Pitt-Brooke makes a distinctly poetic analysis of a place he clearly loves, an ecologically unique region that gained a precarious degree of government protection only after fierce environmental protests in the ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

★ Dancing at the Dead Sea: Tracking the World’s Environmental Hotspots

By Alanna Mitchell

Why do we assume that evolution ends with us? As Alanna Mitchell points out in Dancing at the Dead Sea, natural selection is always at work. Today, staggering numbers of species – 25% of all ... Read More »

April 8, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Java Sourcebook

By Ed Anuff

Back in the dark days of 1990, when the arrival of the push-button home seemed imminent, the folks at Sun Microsystems launched an ambitious project. They would develop a revolutionary computer programming language – one ... Read More »

April 6, 2004 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment