Changing Tides

We have been working our way through an excellent introduction to chemistry - Mastering Chemistry by Peter Riley. It is very clearly presented and has questions in each section to check that you have understood the topic being covered.
We got ours from the Mornington Peninsula Library. It is also available from Amazon:

Mastering Chemistry by Peter Riley. (the cover is from an earlier edition).

I’m currently enjoying "Fermat’s Last Theorem" by Simon Singh. He has used the thread of the solving of Fermat’s last theorem to tell the history of mathematics. The maths in the main text is kept as simple as possible, so that you can follow the story even if you don’t understand the maths. More complete examples of the maths are given in the appendices.

The American edition is called "Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem".

We found this book an interesting introduction to Philosophy terminology and ideas.

How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development)

How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)

Learning All the Time

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

The complete text of The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto is available on his website.

There is a lot of other interesting material about education on the main section of his site: http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/

Other books by him are available from Amazon:

The Fabric of the Cosmos : Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
ASIN: 0375727205

Having read and enjoyed Brian Greene’s previous book - The Elegant Universe, I’ve bought The Fabric of the Cosmos and have it on my reading list.

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory