Paul Meisel

"Bird Friendly Nest Boxes & Feeders" offers ten simple and classic designs for building traditional birdhouses and feeders, plus valuable insights on creating the perfect backyard bird environment. More than just a set of plans, it covers how to attract the right kinds of birds and ensure that they will keep coming back. This book includes complete plans for making basic, practical bird welcoming structures, accompanied by patterns, illustrations and full colour photographs. Each project is perfect for individuals striving to create the most natural bird environment possible. Woodworkers from beginner to expert will find projects appropriate for their skill level. This book stands out from ordinary birdhouse titles with technical detail on subjects like cavity size, proper hole size and the ideal distance from hole to cavity floor.

Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science/Subaru Science Books & Films Prize for Outstanding Science Series Let's-Read-and-Find-Out about Garbage People in the United States make more trash per person every day than people in any other country. What do we throw away, and where does it go? How can we reduce, reuse, and recycle? Read and find out!

Make your backyard more exciting with a unique bird or squirrel feeder or a birdhouse that will be sure to attract the attention of backyard critters, not to mention that of your neighbors. In Wild and Wacky Bird Houses and Feeders, you'll find colorful and creative projects meant to bring out the fun in building birdhouses. Whether it's the birdhouse cleverly designed to look like a security camera, or the player piano squirrel feeder that will turn your resident animals into musicians, readers are sure to find a project that will delight and amuse. Complete with detailed patterns for each house and feeder, this book ensures that woodworkers of all levels will be able to create a backyard masterpiece. And if you're self-conscious about building a birdhouse with moose antlers, invite your kids or grandkids to join in the fun. Wild and Wacky Bird Houses and Feeders also includes helpful hints on squirrel control, bird seed, perches and sizing birdhouse holes, as well as fun facts and trivia that will turn each woodworking project into a uniquely enjoyable experience.

Clearly explains the different forms of energy and how they are transferred among people, machines, and the natural world, and includes activities that encourage budding scientists to make their own energy and see how it works. Simultaneous.