Cómo funcionan los juguetes (How Toys Work)

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: 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!

Readers may never expect that they might free fall to Earth, but if they have ever dived into a pool, that's exactly what they've done. This book shows readers how Newton's three laws of motion affect divers, skydivers, and mountain climbers' movements. Readers discover who uses gravity, and who works against it, and all other forces that contribute to a successful dive or climb. After reading this book, readers can decide if they will ever be interested in engaging in one of these extreme sports.

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

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

En un futuro próximo, los recursos energéticos de la Tierra han sufrido una radical transformación. Los suministros tradicionales casi se han agotado y el hombre se ha establecido en la Luna para extraer un combustible alternativo. Éste es el punto de partida de Límite, una novela dinámica, trepidante y cargada de suspense. Fruto de una rigurosa investigación científica, y con un marcado acento ecológico, Frank Schätzing invita al lector a derribar sus barreras mentales y a disfrutar sin límites de este thriller de rabiosa actualidad que no dejará a nadie indiferente.

Practice nonstandard measurement at the zoo! This exciting, Spanish-translated title encourages readers to practice measuring their favorite zoo animals, such as elephants, giraffes, pandas, and more. A gorilla weighs the same as three men! When a cheetah runs, its stride length is the length of three men! An elephant weighs the same as three pickup trucks! Vivid images, fun practice questions, early STEM themes, and helpful mathematical diagrams make nonstandard measurement entertaining and easy for children to understand.

Con el advenimiento del nuevo milenio, las históricas relaciones entre arte y naturaleza siguen más vivas que nunca. La noción de naturaleza se encuentra atravesada por múltiples vectores que llevan los límites de aquello que consideramos «natural» más allá de sus fronteras tradicionales. Y, por otro lado, la naturaleza se ha convertido en el ámbito de trabajo de muchas tendencias artísticas contemporáneas. De la mano de diez autores, esta publicación aborda las dimensiones simbólicas y políticas de las prácticas artísticas que parten de la naturaleza con la voluntad de...