General Science

Robert Gardner

Carolyn Sheets Brockway

Samuel F. Howe

Children's Books

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Dust jacket notes: "The Dugum Dani, on whose culture this extraordinary book is the first full photographic record, are a Stone Age tribe of neolithic warrior farmers who live in the Grand Valley of Baliem in the Central Highlands of western New Guinea. At the time these photographs were taken, the Dugum Dani were almost unique, for they still not only practised ritual warfare but were virtually untouched by any forms of modern civilization. In 1961 the Film Study Center of Harvard University's Peabody Museum mounted an expedition to record this pristine world. Robert Gardner had organized the Center for anthropological film research because, as he says, 'By the year 2000 human society promises to vary little from continent to continent. Transportation and communication will link the remotest valley and farthest plateau with centers of technology. Deserts will be watered, marshes drained, and the cultures that developed in response to isolation or hardship will have disappeared...." Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.25 inches, xx+184 pages, illustrated with 337 photographs in color and black and white, Index.

Gardens of War: Life and Death in the New Guinea Stone Age

Karl G. Heider

Random House]

Deals with objects and phenomena that are created from or use shadows, from sun dials to silhouettes to shadow plays.

Shadow Science

David, Webster

DOUBLEDAY

This work provides ideas for science projects. Moving away from traditional science experiments, it presents a hands-on try-out methodology.

Make an Interactive Science Museum: Hands-On Exhibits

Sagebrush Education Resources

Kitchen Chemistry: Science Experiments to Do at Home

Silver Burdett Press

Forces and Machines

Julian Messner

Poet Seamus Heaney wrote of the "deep and literate gaze" Robert Gardner transmits "with an intensity that passes from the documentary into the visionary" in his film Forest of Bliss. A decade and a half after its making, it is recognized as a contemporary classic of nonfiction cinema.   Making Forest of Bliss, the first in Harvard Film Archive's series "Voices and Visions in Film," presents a dialogue between Gardner and his colleague anthropologist Akos Östör, illustrated with more than 150 images captured from the film. Recalling the conditions of its filming in Benares, India, in 1985, and presenting their moment-by-moment impressions upon watching it several years later, Gardner and Östör probe questions of what it means to capture life and death on film and ponder how the filmmaker's intentions, choices necessitated by circumstance, and the serendipity of chance contribute to this endeavor. The resulting conversation is a lively exploration of issues philosophical, anthropological, and—above all—artistic.   The volume contains an introduction by philosopher Stanley Cavell and includes a newly mastered DVD of the complete film.

Making Forest of Bliss: Intention, Circumstance, and Chance in Nonfiction Film

Humor & Entertainment

Akos Ostor

Movies

Harvard Film Archive

<p>Great ideas for unique science fair projects are included in an age-appropriate title that looks at the physical characteristics of different forms of matter and how matter can be changed.</p>

Melting, Freezing, And Boiling Science Projects With Matter (Fantastic Physical Science Experiments)

Science, Nature & How It Works

Enslow Elementary

<p>Hands-on activities and projects, including the building of a simple generator, reveal the underlying scientific principles of magnetism, electricity, and various energy technologies.</p>

Electricity and Magnetism (Yesterday's Science, Today's Technology Science Activities)

Twenty-First Century Books

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Books by Robert Gardner