Años de prosperidad

Discusses the physical characteristics of great white sharks that combine to make them such able predators.

Cuarenta almas que nos hablan desde la muerte en primera persona. Todas narran su vida y su muerte, escribiendo su historia en el gran libro de la biblioteca de Demétere, ciudad donde recalan las almas antes de marchar a su siguiente destino: la brillante ciudad de la luz, Sulmina (paradigma del cielo), o la terrible ciudad de Hécate (el infierno).

Sofía and her friends accuse someone of theft based on his appearance, but when the truth comes out, they learn a lesson about passing judgment based on superficial traits.

"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...