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

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.

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.

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...

l volumen incluye íntegros los poemas Canto heroico y fúnebre por el subteniente caído en Albania (1945), Sol soliarca y Monograma (ambos de 1971), además de Dignum est (1960), el gran poema del que Theodorakis realizó un extraordinario Oratorio. Completa

Charles Darwin es ya un hombre mundialmente famoso y polémico por su teoría sobre la evolución de las especies cuando, en 1865, decide escribir para sus hijos el relato del viaje que, con 23 años de edad, realizó alrededor del mundo a bordo del Beagle. Un viaje que cambiará su visión de la naturaleza y le hará comprender que todas las especies de plantas y animales están relacionadas y tienen un origen común. Durante cinco años, Darwin recorrió lugares llenos de contrastes, como la selva tropical de Brasil y la cordillera de los Andes, la Tierra del Fuego, las islas Galápagos......

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...

The pursuit and apprehension of art thieves in this activity book introduces young readers to the greatest artists and paintings of the 20th century. A hungry, art-devouring gang of mice is ruining the collection of paintings at the Museum of Contemporary Art—and they must be captured. Having only small shreds of paintings that he has found scattered through the galleries, the director enlists the readers to help him identify the ruined works and track down the culprits. La búsqueda y la aprensión de criminales de arte introducen a jóvenes lectores a los grandes artistas y pinturas del...