Escalar y saltar (Climbing and Diving)

How do architects and contractors use math and geometry to help build a house? Readers will find out in this engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction book that features bright images and charts, informational text, and intriguing facts that will familiarize children with construction, construction equipment and materials, and blueprints. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

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.

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.

Thomas Edison is considered by many to be one of the greatest inventors of all time. His creations changed the world, but there was more to his life than just his inventions. Readers of this engaging volume will learn all about the man behind the innovations. This fascinating biography introduces important subjects and encourages a further interest in history. Concise and accessible text paired with vibrant photographs is sure to captivate audiences of many ages and levels.

Al volver a Barcelona, tras un tiempo viviendo en el extranjero, Erik revive en parte el pasado. El regreso lo lleva a recordar el terrible ataque homofobo que sufrio su pareja, el valenciano e irresistible Alberto. Entonces, los fantasmas del pasado reaparecen. Enfrentar el miedo a la soledad y cerrar las heridas del pasado seran los grandes desafios de Erik. El regreso a Barcelona se vuelve especialmente emocionante cuando conoce a Alex. El guapo y rebelde chico ruso devuelve al catalan la esperanza en el amor. Un encuentro romantico e inesperado da paso a una pasion dificil de apagar. Pero ...

Provides a simple introduction to the work that teachers do and other aspects of a teacher's life through full-color photographs and straightforward, engaging text. Original.

El poeta Marcial, nacido en Bilbilis (cerca de Calatayud), dio al epigrama carta de ciudadania en la literatura latina como genero literario, incorporando en su escritura la tradicion literaria latina anterior, epigramatica y no epigramatica, configurandolo con la forma que entre nosotros ha quedado como definitiva: la de una composicion breve, incisiva, a menudo satirica y rematada con un rasgo inesperado.