Forty-seven popular science experiments of the past, all of which can be performed with household materials, and dealing with such principles as air pressure, buoyancy, gravity, inertia, and sound.[...]
Instructions, over 300 illustrations for creating boards and playing pieces for 39 games -- many over 5,000 years old. Directions for Pachisi, Alquerque, Solitaire, Queen's Guard, 35 others. Lexicon of game terminology, rules of gamesmanship, suggested strategies, list of tools and supplies, more.[...]
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." This quote is among the most prophetic in American history. It was written by W. E. B. DuBois for the Exhibition of American Negroes displayed at the 1900 Paris Exposition. They are words whose force echoed throughout the Twent[...]