La búsqueda de la velocidad: Los vehículos (The Quest for Speed: Vehicles) 6-Pack

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book focuses on the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade level. Packed with information and primary source maps, images, and...

This Spanish-translated book will be a hit with both thrill seekers and with those who prefer to stay safely on the ground. After an introduction to Newton's three laws of motion, readers learn the mechanics of various amusement park rides including roller coasters, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and gravity rides. They learn how to measure motion, and how kinetic and potential energy apply to their favorite rides. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

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.

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

Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Arizona, the Grand Canyon State.

Follows the life and career of the French scientist who proved the existence of germs and their connection with diseases.

Algunos lectores de poesía han visto a Manuel Ruiz Amezcua como un poeta distinto, y lo han escrito. Pero el acceso a esos escritos no es fácil, por haberse publicado en revistas y lugares dispersos. Este libro pretende cubrir ese hueco y reunir una serie de comentarios en torno a una poesía singular. Desde figuras muy reconocidas, como el Premio Nobel José Saramago o el actual director de la Real Academia Española de la Lengua o los también académicos Fernando Fernán Gómez y Antonio Muñoz Molina, hasta hispanistas como Gabriele Morelli, Juan López Morillas o Gaetano Chiappini,...

En palabras del Ignacio Solares, se desentierran las preguntas y motivaciones de la profesión como psicólogo. ¿Por qué divierte la Psicología? El autor parte de esta pregunta para realizar un recorrido por la historia de esta disciplina. Describe desde las principales corrientes psicológicas y sus promotores, Pavlov, Charcot, Freud, Jung y Skinner, y otros más.