Los huesos de Descartes

In a landmark work of history, Russell Shorto presents astonishing information on the founding of our nation and reveals in riveting detail the crucial role of the Dutch in making America what it is today. In the late 1960s, an archivist in the New York State Library made an astounding discovery: 12,000 pages of centuries-old correspondence, court cases, legal contracts, and reports from a forgotten society: the Dutch colony centered on Manhattan, which predated the thirteen "original" American colonies. For the past thirty years scholar Charles Gehring has been translating this trove, which...

Describes the different types of octopuses and how they search for food and defend themselves against predators.

This book looks at the numbers in Spanish. Main text on each page is provided only in Spanish, with simple, labeled photographs providing support. A "dictionary" spread at the end of the book features all the vocabulary words in both Spanish and English, and also includes a pronunciation guide.

Build early literacy skills, and develop oral and written language skills in emerging Spanish readers with this leveled fiction reader.

¿Alguna vez te han sucedido cosas que no tienen una explicación lógica? ¿Cajones que se abren solos, cosas que se pierden misteriosamente, risitas que no se sabe de dónde vienen? A Víctor le acaban de poner gafas y desde el momento en el que sale de la óptica se da cuenta de que ve demasiado bien. ¿Por qué demasiado bien? Pues porque ahora ve unos bichos que antes le resultaban invisibles, los Krippys, que conviven con los humanos y que son responsables de muchas cosas que antes no entendía. Pronto aprende que hay Krippys de mil formas, pero Víctor les ve a todos algo en común y...