Escalar y saltar (Climbing and Diving)

Readers will be amazed to discover that every time they climb onto bicycles and ride like the wind, they are defying gravity! This book explains the physics and history behind bicycles, skateboards, and surfboards. Readers learn what happens from the simplest movement of rolling forward to more complex tricks and stunts of jumping and spinning. Readers will never look at bikes, skateboards or surfboards the same way again.

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.

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.

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!

¿Te atreves a entrar en el Laboratorio de Plagas de este libro? Aquí estudiamos la historia de las enfermedades más terribles. Si te contagias de alguna, te pondrás enfermo. O peor aún. Muchas de esas enfermedades peligrosas se propagan rápidamente, y entonces miles de personas enferman y mueren: es lo que llamamos una epidemia o plaga. Pero... ¡no te asustes! También estudiamos las soluciones para erradicarlas y te presentamos los tres tipos de gérmenes (los protistas, las bacterias y los virus) y cómo combatirlos. La repugnante historia de enfermedades mortales, explicada por las...

En este libro ilustrado para niños, se presentan 7 oraciones en rima, una para cada día de la semana.

Describes what early planes and air travel were like, how planes were developed to travel faster, and presents some pioneers of aviation.

Cuando apareció por primera vez «El roedor de Fortimbrás», hace más de 30 años, Vicente Aleixandre dijo de ella que «es una novela tensa y extrema, que opera en claves del hombre hasta el anonadamiento. Es un libro patético, con un arte dificilísimo que en Suárez parece sumo y natural y que hunde al espectador al timpo que le ilumina. Nunca me he sentido tan en presencia de una vocación como en el caso de Gonzalo Suárez, solo y con todos, rodeado de las más adversas condiciones del medio, pero insobornable».