- Learning Studio - week of May 13

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From: Gilles Poitras (gilles@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri May 18 2001 - 13:12:47 PDT 

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From: Gilles Poitras <gilles@exploratorium.edu>
Subject:  - Learning Studio - week of May 13

This week everything is in printed format, after all there really isn't
that much online stuff.

As always you can find out more in our catalog.

        http://library.exploratorium.edu/

Printed, new acquisitions:

1. The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History / David A. Kirsch.
General collection circ.
TL 220 .K57 2000

 - What, You Thought that Electric Cars Were a New Thing? In the 1890s they
existed and were serious competition for other kinds of engines.

2. Catching the light : the entwined history of light and mind / Arthur
Zajonc.
General collection circ.
QC 352 .Z35 1995

 - Light has fascinated people from ancient times, this book takes a look
at the history of this fascination.

3. Creating 3-D animation : the Aardman book of filmmaking / Peter Lord &
Brian Sibley ; foreword by Nick Park.
General collection circ. & General collection non-circ.
TR 897.5 .L67 1998

 - Want to build your own Chicken Run? Or just appreciative of the
adventures of Wallace and Gromit? This is a book you don't want to miss.

Printed, not new but cool:

4. Natural History of Vacant Lots / Matthew F. Vessel and Herbert H. Wong ;
drawings by Pamela Vesterby.
Berkeley : University of California Press, c1987.
General collection circ.
QH 541.5 .V27 V47 1987

 - There is science out in those little empty spots in the city. This guide
to urban nature takes Bay Area lots and explains what the plants and
animals are that you would notice if you stop to take a look.

Gilles Poitras gilles@exploratorium.edu
Learning Studio, Exploratorium Museum

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