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Where is your brain exactly? What does it do? Use your brain to read this engaging, Spanish-translated title and learn all about it!

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

Readers won't have to disassemble their favorite toys to discover what makes them work. This book explores electric, magnetic, and motion-powered toys from design to function. It introduces readers to the six simple machines and explains how they use force and motion to do work. Not every toy is a technological marvel. Readers learn about time-honored favorites including the rocking horse, Slinky, and rattles.

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

In graphic novel format, follows the adventures of Max Axiom as he explains the science behind photosynthesis.

Cuando apareció por primera vez «El roedor de Fortimbrás», hace más de 30 años, Vicente Aleixandre dijo de ella que «es una novela tensa y extrema, que opera en claves del hombre hasta el anonadamiento. Es un libro patético, con un arte dificilísimo que en Suárez parece sumo y natural y que hunde al espectador al timpo que le ilumina. Nunca me he sentido tan en presencia de una vocación como en el caso de Gonzalo Suárez, solo y con todos, rodeado de las más adversas condiciones del medio, pero insobornable».

Examines aspects of painting, including its development through history, the way painters work, the materials they use, and ways of appreciating paintings, with movable flaps that reveal text and illustrations.

Juan y su pandilla de verano construyen una barca muy especial, con vida propia: La Gaviota. Los pescadores, llenos de envidia y maldad, intentarán acabar con la extraña barca, que sale a la mar sola, por las noches, y vuelve siempre a la playa al amanecer.