Crisis energética: El futuro de los combustibles fósiles (Energy Crisis: The Future of Fossil Fuels)

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Lin invites her friends to her Japanese teahouse. They have rice, fish, and tea. Lin thanks them for coming and her friends thank her for the tea ceremony.

Con el título común «Elementos de retórica» se reúnen las dos obras fundamentales que Giambattista Vico consagró a esta cuestión: la lección inaugural del curso académico de 1708 de la Universidad de Nápoles, publicada más tarde como «De nostri temporis studiorum ratione», y el manual de la materia, que Vico explicó en Nápoles entre 1698 y 1741, las «Institutiones oratoriae», y no llegó a editar en vida. Ambas constituyen un capítulo importante de la historia del humanismo y dan testimonio de la conexión entre éste y la retórica. Como ya advirtiera Hans-Georg Gadamer,...

Youngsters will smell the burning rubber as they discover the unique features of powerful vehicles, learning how they race, spin, bounce, jump, and sometimes even crash.

What has hairy paws, a fluffy tail, and huge and fuzzy ears? If you guessed a fennec fox, you're right! This book introduces early readers to a mystery animal by describing its features, one by one, using short simple sentences and eye-popping full-color photos. At the end of the book, the secret animal is revealed across a colorful, two-page spread. Young children will love showing off their beginning reading skills as they learn about this dazzling collection of wild and wonderful zoo animals--one clue at a time! Fast facts and habitat maps at the end of the book provide children with key...