Amor animal

"La autora de este libro nació en Barcelona y fue educado como católica en la apostólica y romana España de Franco. Muchos años después, tras la larga enfermedad y muerte de su madre, Dory Sontheimer descubre en el altillo de su casa, las siete cajas que le revelan una identidad y un pasado tan desconocido como dramático. Ordenando este emergente legado, compuesto por fotografías, cartas, pasaportes y otros documentos, Sontheimer reconstruye la crónica de su familia. Durante doce años, y movida por una mezcla de fascinación, curiosidad y sentido del deber, va completando una...

Uncovers the secret codes that different animal species use to relate to each other, revealing that communication among certain animals is not different from human communication.

Presents the Egyptian story of how the god Osiris was treacherously slain by his brother Seth and restored to life by his wife Isis.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...