Guatemala

If asked to define a forest, readers might say, "It has a lot of trees." But many places have a lot of trees. So, what makes a forest a forest? Readers discover that a forest is unlike any other biome on Earth. And a temperate forest is even more specific. Readers learn the many life cycles found within a forest and how the energy pyramid explains the numbers of forest plants and animals. In addition, readers learn by examining how forces usually considered destructive work to help forests survive. 32pp.

A beautifully illustrated religious storybook captures favorite tales from the Bible for young readers.

¿Y si el universo no pesara nada y la materia no existiera realmente? Lo que parecería ser una duda legítima para un erudito místico de los Vedas Indios es, en cambio, un resultado embarazoso de la aplicación de la Relatividad Restringida a las observaciones obtenidas por un grupo de astrofísicos, que han medido la radiación cósmica de fondo de nuestro universo. En los albores del nuevo milenio, el satélite WMAP, más allá de proporcionarnos una medida del cosmos, nunca antes obtenida, ha creado bastantes quebraderos de cabeza respecto al concepto de universo, en el que todavía hoy ...

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...