Cómo funcionan los juguetes (How Toys Work)

There is an amazing muscle inside your body. It pumps blood and keeps you healthy. What is it? Your heart! Read all about it in this colorful, Spanish-translated title.

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.

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!

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Mysterious events occur all over the world. It rains fish every year in Honduras, rocks in Pennsylvania make music, and large drawings can be found on the desert floors in Peru! In this Spanish-translated nonfiction book, readers will learn about these strange phenomena and more curiosities like ESP and crop circles in this baffling and fascinating nonfiction title. Vibrant images and intriguing facts in conjunction with a glossary of terms, informational text, and an index keep readers captivated from cover to cover!

Este volumen es la edición española de la conocida obra Faceţi cunoştinţă cu limba română, material de referencia para la enseñanza de la lengua rumana dentro y fuera de Rumanía. A lo largo de sus cuatro secciones, el libro recorre de forma documentada y amena: las señas de identidad de la lengua rumana (ubicación, número de hablantes, dialectos, proceso de estandarización…), su pasado (el fondo latín, los contactos con otras lenguas, su evolución, la escritura y la aparición del rumano literario) y su presente (fonética, morfo-sintaxis, léxico…). La última parte del...

La primera obra de Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange y el señor Norrell —sin duda una de las novelas más brillantes y originales de los últimos años—, se tradujo a treinta y dos idiomas y se convirtió en un éxito de alcance internacional. Premiada, y generosamente elogiada por los críticos, supuso la creación de un mundo fantástico, coherente hasta los mínimos detalles, donde la magia y la historia se entrelazaban de manera prodigiosa. Tres años después, sin apartarse de ese universo imaginario que se ha convertido en su sello de identidad, los ocho relatos que componen este...

This title authoritatively recounts the main events in the history of Latin America and highlights the men and women who played key roles in the establishment and growth of the region. Though long inhabited only by various Amerindian tribes, Latin America was transformed by the arrival of Europeans, who built colonial empires across the region beginning in the sixteenth century. Much of Latin America secured its independence in the early nineteenth century, but the new countries were plagued by political and economic instability, some of which continues today. Readers will get a full picture...

Presents information about Martin Luther King Jr. Day, including its significance, origins, and how it is celebrated.