Escalar y saltar (Climbing and Diving)

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!

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 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.

From Mexico to the tip of South America, Latin America features varied scenery, including deserts, grasslands, plains, and mountains. Some are extreme: The Andes is the world's longest mountain range, and the Atacama Desert has not had rain for over 400 years! Latin America's remarkable landscape is an essential factor in its surprisingly different climatic zones. This insightful volume offers a comprehensive tour of the many vibrant countries of this fascinating region, highlighting its most striking areas in vivid photographs. It is also an inviting exploration of geography, natural...

El libro recoge diversos aspectos relacionados con la figura y la obra de la fundadora de las Escolapias, una congregación religiosa que cuenta con centros en Córdoba y en varios paises del mundo . La autora analiza el perfil humano de Montal y cómo va desarrollando su personalidad para, enseguida, dedicar buena parte de su estudio a su faceta espiritual y finalizar abordando los criterios metodológicos y docentes de su obra; de modo especial cuanto ésta supone en materia de promoción de la mujer y de impulso hacia la igualdad con el hombre dentro de un sentido religioso de la vida....

This beginner biography takes a look into the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and his leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. Complete with full-bleed relevant and historical photographs, timeline, glossary, and index. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Por las viejas calles y por los tranquilos canales de Venecia, se mueven unos curiosos seres envueltos en aires de misterio. Adoptan la forma de gatos, pero hay quien dice que en realidad son leones. Todos tienen un secreto que contar, una historia que puede llegar, enviada por el mar, a cualquiera de nuestras playas dentro de una botella de cristal.