Ciencia para nios / Science for Kids

Como en el afamado cuento, Caperucita Roja y su abuela salen ilesas. Pero esta historia no termina bien... para el libro. Almas sensibles y amantes de los libros, ¡favor de abstenerse!

"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...

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

Los personajes de esta colección, un dragón, una momia y el capitán de la isla Calavera, han escondido sus tesoros. Llegar hasta el final de la aventura para encontrarlos no será nada fácil. Unas historias llenas de aventuras y criaturas espeluznantes. ¡Cuidado!, porque pueden asomar la cabeza entre las páginas.