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Living Books, Nature Studies

The Mary Frances Garden Book, PART THREE

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The Mary Frances Garden Book, or Adventures Among the Garden People (PDF ebooks) PART THREE

Have you checked this great book out yet? Don’t let its age fool you. This is great fun and very educational gardening instruction for anyone who is young at heart!

Today we have Part Three of this great gardening / story book. Part One from Monday and Part Two from Tuessday are still available too, so if you haven’t gotten them already, you can still get them now. This is delightful, fun, educational stuff — don’t miss it!

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” the file to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key, then click on the link and save it to your mac. (Note: This is a scanned ebook, photographed from the original vintage book, so it may not be viewable on portable devices such as a kindle, ipad or phone.)

Living Books, Nature Studies

The Mary Frances Garden Book, PART TWO

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The Mary Frances Garden Book, or Adventures Among the Garden People (PDF ebooks) PART TWO

One of our all-time favorite literary characters, Mary Frances, is back again in this delightfully illustrated story book adventure in the garden!

Today we have Part Two of this great gardening / story book. Part One from yesterday is still available too, if you haven’t gotten it already. Part Three comes tomorrow! This is delightful, fun, educational stuff — and full of great illustrations. Don’t miss it!

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” the file to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key, then click on the link and save it to your mac. (Note: This is a scanned ebook, photographed from the original vintage book, so it may not be viewable on portable devices such as a kindle, ipad or phone.)

Living Books, Nature Studies

The Mary Frances Garden Book, PART ONE

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The Mary Frances Garden Book, or Adventures Among the Garden People (PDF ebooks)

One of our all-time favorite literary characters, Mary Frances, is back again in this delightfully illustrated story book adventure in the garden!

Mary Frances and Billy have been growing up, and with their growing, they have learned to love the great out-of-doors. In this great book, they meet all sorts of fanciful characters, and learn a lot of very real garden lore & “how to” information especially for young gardeners. Highly recommended!

This is such a large ebook file, we’ve broken it down into three parts to make it downloadable for all, and will be serializing this book over three days. This is delightful, fun, educational stuff — don’t miss it!

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save” the file to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key, then click on the link and save it to your mac. (Note: This is a scanned ebook, photographed from the original vintage book, so it may not be viewable on portable devices such as a kindle, ipad or phone.)

Electronics

Electric Circuits Curriculum – Volumes 5 and 6

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This week we have been featuring this excellent series of SIX ebooks all about electricity and electric circuits, which together comprise a complete course in electronics for jr. high – college age students. Well done lessons, starting with very basic and simple electronics concepts and developing them through advanced electronics applications, with lots of hands-on activities along the way… including a full volume of experiments! If you have an older student who is interested in electronics, this is an amazing resource you’ll want to have. All are downloadable in PDF format!

Today’s final two volumes are:

Reference Resources,  which includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1: USEFUL EQUATIONS AND CONVERSION FACTORS
Chapter 2: COLOR CODES
Chapter 3: CONDUCTOR AND INSULATOR TABLES
Chapter 4: ALGEBRA REFERENCE
Chapter 5: TRIGONOMETRY REFERENCE
Chapter 6: CALCULUS REFERENCE
Chapter 7: USING THE SPICE CIRCUIT SIMULATION PROGRAM
Chapter 8: TROUBLESHOOTING — THEORY AND PRACTICE
Chapter 9: CIRCUIT SCHEMATIC SYMBOLS
Chapter 10: PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS

To download this PDF ebook on a PC, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.


and Experiments, which includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2: BASIC CONCEPTS AND TEST EQUIPMENT
Chapter 3: DC CIRCUITS
Chapter 4: AC CIRCUITS
Chapter 5: DISCRETE SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUITS
Chapter 6: ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Chapter 7: DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
Chapter 8: 555 TIMER CIRCUITS

To download this PDF ebook on a PC, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.

Electronics

Electric Circuits Curriculum – Volume 4

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This week we feature this excellent series of SIX ebooks all about electricity and electric circuits, which together comprise a complete course in electronics for jr. high – college age students. Well done lessons, starting with very basic and simple electronics concepts and developing them through advanced electronics applications, with lots of hands-on activities along the way… including a full volume of experiments! If you have an older student who is interested in electronics, this is an amazing resource you’ll want to have. All are downloadable in PDF format!

Today’s volume covers all the basics – both beginner and advanced – of Digital Circuits and includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1: NUMERATION SYSTEMS
Chapter 2: BINARY ARITHMETIC
Chapter 3: LOGIC GATES
Chapter 4: SWITCHES
Chapter 5: ELECTROMECHANICAL RELAYS
Chapter 6: LADDER LOGIC
Chapter 7: BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
Chapter 8: KARNAUGH MAPPING
Chapter 9: COMBINATIONAL LOGIC FUNCTIONS
Chapter 10: MULTIVIBRATORS
Chapter 11: SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 12: SHIFT REGISTERS
Chapter 13: DIGITAL-ANALOG CONVERSION
Chapter 14: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION
Chapter 15: DIGITAL STORAGE (MEMORY)
Chapter 16: PRINCIPLES OF DIGITAL COMPUTING

To download this PDF ebook on a PC, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.

Electronics

Electric Circuits Curriculum – Volume Three

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This week we feature this excellent series of SIX ebooks all about electricity and electric circuits, which together comprise a complete course in electronics for jr. high – college age students. Well done lessons, starting with very basic and simple electronics concepts and developing them through advanced electronics applications, with lots of hands-on activities along the way… including a full volume of experiments! If you have an older student who is interested in electronics, this is an amazing resource you’ll want to have. All are downloadable in PDF format!

Today’s volume covers all the basics – both beginner and advanced – of Semiconductors and includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1: AMPLIFIERS AND ACTIVE DEVICES
Chapter 2: SOLID-STATE DEVICE THEORY
Chapter 3: DIODES AND RECTIFIERS
Chapter 4: BIPOLAR JUNCTION TRANSISTORS
Chapter 5: JUNCTION FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 6: INSULATED-GATE FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 7: THYRISTORS
Chapter 8: OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS
Chapter 9: PRACTICAL ANALOG SEMICONDUCTOR CIRCUITS ***INCOMPLETE***
Chapter 10: ACTIVE FILTERS ***PENDING***
Chapter 11: DC MOTOR DRIVES ***PENDING***
Chapter 12: INVERTERS AND AC MOTOR DRIVES ***PENDING***
Chapter 13: ELECTRON TUBES

To download this PDF ebook on a PC, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.

Electronics

Electric Circuits Curriculum – Volume Two

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This week we feature this excellent series of SIX ebooks all about electricity and electric circuits, which together comprise a complete course in electronics for jr. high – college age students. Well done lessons, starting with very basic and simple electronics concepts and developing them through advanced electronics applications, with lots of hands-on activities along the way… including a full volume of experiments! If you have an older student who is interested in electronics, this is an amazing resource you’ll want to have. All are downloadable in PDF format!

Today’s volume covers all the basics – both beginner and advanced – of Alternating Current (AC) and includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1: BASIC AC THEORY
Chapter 2: COMPLEX NUMBERS
Chapter 3: REACTANCE AND IMPEDANCE — INDUCTIVE
Chapter 4: REACTANCE AND IMPEDANCE — CAPACITIVE
Chapter 5: REACTANCE AND IMPEDANCE — R, L, AND C
Chapter 6: RESONANCE
Chapter 7: MIXED-FREQUENCY AC SIGNALS
Chapter 8: FILTERS
Chapter 9: TRANSFORMERS
Chapter 10: POLYPHASE AC CIRCUITS
Chapter 11: POWER FACTOR
Chapter 12: AC METERING CIRCUITS
Chapter 13: AC MOTORS
Chapter 14: TRANSMISSION LINES

To download this PDF ebook on a PC, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.

Electronics

A Complete Electronics Curriculum – Volume One

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This week we feature this excellent series of SIX ebooks all about electricity and electric circuits, which together comprise a complete course in electronics for jr. high – college age students. Well done lessons, starting with very basic and simple electronics concepts and developing them through advanced electronics applications, with lots of hands-on activities along the way… including a full volume of experiments! If you have an older student who is interested in electronics, this is an amazing resource you’ll want to have. All are downloadable in PDF format!

Today’s volume covers all the basics – both beginner and advanced – of Direct Current (DC) and includes the following chapters:

Chapter 1: BASIC CONCEPTS OF ELECTRICITY
Chapter 2: OHM’S LAW
Chapter 3: ELECTRICAL SAFETY
Chapter 4: SCIENTIFIC NOTATION AND METRIC PREFIXES
Chapter 5: SERIES AND PARALLEL CIRCUITS
Chapter 6: DIVIDER CIRCUITS AND KIRCHHOFF’S LAWS
Chapter 7: SERIES-PARALLEL COMBINATION CIRCUITS
Chapter 8: DC METERING CIRCUITS
Chapter 9: ELECTRICAL INSTRUMENTATION SIGNALS
Chapter 10: DC NETWORK ANALYSIS
Chapter 11: BATTERIES AND POWER SYSTEMS
Chapter 12: THE PHYSICS OF CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS
Chapter 13: CAPACITORS
Chapter 14: MAGNETISM AND ELECTROMAGNETISM
Chapter 15: INDUCTORS
Chapter 16: RC AND L/R TIME CONSTANTS

To download this PDF ebook on a PC, RIGHT CLICK HERE and “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.

History

Children of Ancient Rome

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Here’s a classic story/history book set in the early years of ancient Rome, providing a fascinating view of that civilization’s early history, through the eyes of children growing up in that historic era. A fascinating mix of Roman history, legends and lore… it really makes ancient Roman history come alive – especially from a young person’s perspective.

This PDF is a scanned copy of the original book, and so is best viewed on a computer.

To download this PDF ebook, RIGHT CLICK HERE then “save link” to your computer. Mac users, press the “control” key then click the link and save to your mac.

History

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

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Paul Revere, famous American revolution patriot, is most remembered today for his night-time ride before the battles of Lexington and Concord. His famous “Midnight ride” took place on the night of April 18, 1775 – exactly 244 years ago next Thursday. William Dawes and Revere were instructed by Dr. Joseph Warren to ride from Boston to Lexington to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams of the movements of the British Army. Today’s  resources celebrate both the man and the events of that night.

Listen My Children (MP3 audio) – FIRST UP up this a great half hour audio story about Revere’s life and influence,including the events of that fateful night, as originally dramatized on the radio program “Cavalcade of America”, in December, 1952.

CLICK HERE to listen to this MP3 audio program!

“Listen My Children” Listening Guide (PDF ebooklet) -NEXT you’ll want to use our PDF “Listening Guide” that accompanies the audio program.

CLICK HERE to read or download the PDF listening guide.

Paul Revere’s Ride (MP3 audio) – Finally, we have a SECOND classic audio for you… a great dramatic reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s classic poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride” as performed by Frederic March. This is an excellent dramatic reading of this classic American poem and runs about 10 minutes.

CLICK HERE to listen to “Paul Revere’s Ride”!