Part craft book, part activity book, Rubber Band Mania offers hours of creative fun for boys and girls of all ages! Now you can make more than just a simple bracelet! This book is packed with ways to use rubber bands to make bracelets, belts, desk organizers, toys, musical instruments, art projects, and much more. Peppered through the pages are fun and interesting facts and trivia about rubber bands.

The author describes his longtime battle with ills of manic depression, his desperate search for the ultimate high, the art-forgery scandal that confined him to jail and to house arrest, and his decision to opt for the controversial treatment of electroconvulsive therapy to preserve his sanity. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Chapters: The Harvard Calculating Savant (fiction), Iterating Summation of Digits of Divisors to Reach 15, '60000006' in the Decimal Expansion of Pi^e, Primes Made from Powers of Ten and Fibonacci Numbers, 1729 and Brilliant Numbers as Sums of Two Cubes, On Factorials and Squares, The Famous Frank Cole Factorization and Repunits Squared Factorizations, Ten's Complements of Brilliant Numbers, Fractal Art, The 379009 Upside Down Calculator-Word Prime, Palindrome*2+1 To Get Another Palindrome, A Cautionary Tale On Collaboration, Smarandache Car Prime, The Sopfr(n) Earls Conjecture, A Challenge for Mrs. Thornburgette (fiction) Jason Earls is a guitarist, computational number theorist, and concrete poet. He is the author of the Underground Guitar Handbook, Numbers for Wittgenstein, Red Zen, Math Freak, How to Become a Guitar Player from Hell, and other books.

Discover how to turn buttons, bottle caps, and more into hours of fun! This next book in the Mania series is packed with creative crafts, fast projects, fun facts, and many more surprises. Projects include simple crafts that can be done with one button that might be found in a dresser drawer, and more elaborate crafts that might require a trip to the craft store, but either way hours and hours of fun is guaranteed!

Get ready to be grossed out! Try not to panic, but a million creatures are crawling all over your skin--wriggling on your legs, your neck, your scalp...everywhere! And that's only on the outside of our bodies. Trillions more of these itty-bitty things are thriving INSIDE! Here's a big treat for every kid who loves the squirmy, icky, buggy, and the generally gross. Sensationally designed, with eye-opening, jaw-dropping photography, MICRO MANIA takes a close-up look at a world that's mostly invisible to us. It's an amazing universe that comes into astonishingly large-scale focus on these spectacular pages--which showcase everything from luminescent, furry-green bacteria and flowerlike virus cells to maggots, mold, and more. But this is more than just a collection of mind-blowing images; it's solid science that encourages children's natural curiosity. They'll find out about the great scientists who discovered the existence of microbes; see how bacteria travel and reproduce; peek at some of the insects that make themselves at home in our kitchens, bathrooms, and bodies; and learn why some germs are good and others make us ill--and what we can do to stay healthy. By the time they've finished taking this voyage through nature's miniature universe, kids will fully understand why even the tiniest of creatures--from foot fungus and salmonella to blood-sucking bugs and organisms squiggling in a pond near you--can have a really big impact on our lives.

Now you can make more than just a simple bracelet! This book is packed with ways to use rubber bands to make bracelets, belts, desk organizers, toys, musical instruments, art projects, and much more. Peppered through the pages are fun and interesting