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uneasy
28th September 2003, 05:04 PM
When I was a kid, I loved a series of books that I would check out from the library again and again. It was a series by Time magazine maybe.

Each covered a general subject of science like "life" or "time" or "energy".

It's funny. There was several of them, but the only one I remember any details on is the one about time. It explained features of the theory of relativity with a cartoon about a train moving near the speed of light.

They were large but thin, like a coffee table book. Does anyone know what series of books I'm talking about?

Quixote
28th September 2003, 06:57 PM
It was probably the Time-Life Science Series. I think I've still got the Mathematics volume around here somewhere.

Mercutio
28th September 2003, 07:12 PM
Definitely the Time-Life series...there were a number of different sets. We had the "science" library and the "nature" library...only just recently donated them to our schools...loved those books...