1 A French Boy's Adventure in Canada 1
2 The Whale 5
4 How Well Do You See? 13
5 A Roof Over Our Heads 17
3 Entineers of the Woods 19
6 Ozone:Thinning of the Ozone Layer 21
7 Telling the Time 24
8 Walking in Space 28
9 Life on Mars? 32
10 Artificial Waterways 36
11 Beauty on the Wing 40
12 The Secluded Life 44
13 Magic 48
14 Is Modern Art a Load of Rubbish? 52
15 Paper and Green Consumerisn 57
16 Laser;Different Types 59
17 The First Nuclear Reactor 63
18 Political Power 67
19 Diet:Its Contribut on to Good Health 71
20 The "Unsinkable"Titanic 75
21 Electron Microscopy via the Internet 79
22 Moral Evil and Human Nature 82
23 Mind-Body Problem 86
24 Psychology:Experiments on Perception 91
25 Neutron:Life Span 95
26 Geology and the South American Civilizations 98
27 Dinosaur:Coloning form Preserved DNA 102
28 Pigeon and Dove 107
29 Oil:Are We Looking in the Right Place? 112
30 Euthanasia 116
31 Love 120
32 Charles Darwin 124
33 Extinction:A Race Against Time 130
34 Energy Resources 134
35 Civeil Rights 138
36 Discorery of X-Rays 142
37 American Civil War:Causes 146
38 Gun-Control in the UKand US 150
39 Post-Modernist Design and Architecture 156
40 Exploration;the Age of Discovery 160
41 Upgrading 166
42 Science and Religion 170
43 Business Cycle 174
44 Abraham Lincoln 179
45 Habit and Addiction 182
46 Measuting the Speed of Light 186
47 DNA:Discovery of the Structure of DNA 190
48 Thomas Alva Edison 194
49 Fishing:Declining Stocks 198
50 Artificial Blood:Risky Blood 201
51 Mathematics and Computing 205
52 Forests: the Hunt for Sustainability 209
53 ChaosTheory:the Mathematics of Chaos 213
54 Frech Revolution 216
55 Middle East Peace Process 221
56 Gandhi and Indian Nationalism 225
57 Penlcillin:Discovery 229
58 Whaling 233
59 Air Transpory and the Environment 237
60 Digital Future 241
61 World Trade Organization 244
62 Causes of Great Depression 247
63 Urban Design in the 20th Century 251
64 Madness 255
65 European Union:A Single Currency 260
66 Happiness 263
Key to the Exercises 268
Appendix 274