El cerebro (Brain)

Learn the secrets to artful cupcakes, oven-fresh bread, and other delicious baked goods in this delightful nonfiction title. Readers will learn how mathematics helps bakers measure their ingredients to make tasteful treats. Featuring vibrant images and charts, informative text, and fun, intriguing facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book will leave children fascinated by all the details that go into baking their favorite treats--like doughnuts and cookies! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

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.

Do you want to set your imagination free? Do you want to dream up amazing ideas and incredible inventions? You can! This book is all about getting creative. Anyone can do it. So get ready to start thinking outside the box! This full-color nonfiction reader will engage students in reading while introducing them to new vocabulary terms and concepts. Important text features include a glossary and a table of contents to develop students' comprehension and literacy skills. This Spanish book aligns with national and state standards and features exciting TIME For Kids content to keep English...

Ante la importancia de la educación como base de la competitividad en una economía basada en el conocimiento, las universidades han incrementado su atención en la calidad de sus programas de doctorado. Sin embargo, se aprecia que aún son escasas las instituciones educativas que tienen en su programa, una asignatura destinada a cómo escribir y publicar una tesis doctoral. Este libro es el resultado de varios años de experiencia en supervisión de tesis doctorales en programas de diversas universidades. Los contenidos y la estructuración de los mismos han sido contrastados con alumnos y...

Este es un libro cercano, una conversación íntima con Edurne, que quiere ofrecer al lector la posibilidad de conocer mejor a una de las jóvenes artistas con más proyección en el panorama musical español de nuestros días. Al mismo tiempo, pretende servir de guía para sus lectores, a partir de las experiencias de superación de la autora y de su filosofía de vida, cuyas claves principales son: la actitud positiva siempre, no ponerse límites, aprender de los errores, levantarse después de cada caída y, de manera muy especial, el afán por aprender y el valor del esfuerzo.

In this bilingual picture book, astronaut José M. Hernández recounts his childhood as the son of Mexican migrant workers and his life-long dream to travel to the stars.