Los sólidos (Solids)

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!

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.

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.

In this Spanish title, learn about what makes endangered jungle animals so unique and why they need to be protected.

Culmina con este volumen la trilogía de poesía religiosa «Hombre y Dios». Para esta última antología se ha elegido Europa, incluyendo la del Este, aunque el «telón» impidió, durante un largo tiempo, la publicación de este tipo de poesía en algunos países. La selección de poemas aquí recogidos se-rá, quizá, para algunos lectores el único medio de otear las intuiciones poéticas de la Europa del siglo XX. Hay textos fragmentarios, hecho que responde al deseo de ajustarse a la elección inicial de la obra, y se ha optado por presentar en forma bilingüe los poemas escritos en...

Lentas aguas estivales pasan ante los ojos de quien la tímida orilla pasea. Entretanto, barcas, hojas tiernas, alguna flor, la mano abandonada de un navegante, surcan el río. Efímeras ondas aparecen. Y así, el Támesis, en la plácida tarde, sostiene sin descanso la esperanza.

Enrique Barrios decide en esta obra hablarnos en primera persona, convirtiéndose así en protagonista de su relato y creando de este modo una fascinante realidad novelada que atrapará al lector irremediablemente. Tras las vicisitudes de su emocionante re