La búsqueda de la velocidad: Los vehículos (The Quest for Speed: Vehicles) (Spanish Version)

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.

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.

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!

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.

A magnificent graphic novel in which Alfonso Casas parks the irony and offers us all his tenderness. Often the past leaves loose ends, issues to solve, questions that pursue our future. This is what happens to the protagonist of this book, Dani. Just before getting married, under the pretext of a photographic project about the passage of time, he travels to the coastal town where he used to spend his summer during his childhood. A place that he has not stepped on for twenty years and that, as the story progresses, reveals the importance he acquired in his life, because there he discovered,...

¿Qué tienen en común un tiburón, un caballito de mar y una raya? ¡Son todos peces! Conozca las características que comparten todos los peces. What do a shark, a seahorse, and a ray have in common? They're all fish! Learn about the characteristics that all fish share.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Este libro es producto de la ambición del reportero que no se conformó con la labor de consignar las noticias del día a día y comenzó a unir piezas para darle un sentido a esa realidad veracruzana que horroriza, impide mirarla de frente y pareciera escapar de toda lógica. Es un esfuerzo por mostrar el paisaje oculto de un hermoso estado que, de ser considerado un paraíso terrenal, se convirtió en sucursal del infierno. El libro está formado por un caleidoscopio de historias que echan lupa a los momentos considerados puntos de quiebre del sexenio duartista, aunque, en esa montaña...