La búsqueda de la velocidad: Los vehículos (The Quest for Speed: Vehicles) (Spanish Version)

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

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. This 6-Pack includes six...

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...

El autor se adentra en el ámbito de lo visible y lo legible, defendiendo que no debemos considerar las imágenes sólo como objetos inertes que transmiten significado, sino como entes animados con deseos, necesidades, anhelos, exigencias e instintos propios. Remitiendo a numerosos ejemplos que atraviesan las distintas artes visuales, la literatura y los medios de comunicación, Mitchell analiza tanto iconos bizantinos como películas ciberpunk, estereotipos raciales y monumentos públicos, ídolos antiguos y clones modernos, imágenes ofensivas y pinturas aborígenes.

La neurocientífica, Nazareth Castellanos, explica a los más pequeños en este maravilloso cuento ilustrado cómo funciona el cerebro y cómo cuidarlo para hacerlo crecer. Todos sabemos dónde está el cerebro, pero ¿para qué sirve? ¿Sabías que está formado por un bosque? Sí, sí, ¡por un bosque de neuronas! ¿Y sabías que esas neuronas se envían cartas entre sí para dar instrucciones al resto del cuerpo? ¡Todo esto y mucho más lo aprenderás junto a Alicia y la coneja Cajal! A través de coloridas ilustraciones, sencillas metáforas y pequeñas cajitas de información, los más...

There is growing concern over how we behave and interact online, from fighting, incivility, rudeness, and even criminal behaviors like cyberbullying, to simply adapting old forms of etiquette to a new landscape. This book, updated from an earlier resource, provides younger readers an introduction to this timely topic, a subject that they are both engaged in forming themselves as "digital natives," and one they also often require guidance in. It informs readers about the polite and productive use of social media networks and mobile platforms and discusses pressing issues of etiquette within...

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. This 6-Pack includes six...