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This guide gathers a selection of more than 500 species of vertebrate animals cataloged and arranged in colored illustration. It is an exhaustive and complete guide that provides precise information about each species, and that captures all the beauty and diversity of the vertebrate world in spectacular design and with enthralling visuals.

This magnificent book uses beautiful photography to help young children understand why some oceans are warm and some are cold, which kinds of plants and animals live in oceans, and how the bodies of ocean animals are built to help them glide through water. Children will be delighted by the images of seals, penguins, polar bears, dolphins, and more.

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

¿Qué es un “experimento mental”? Como nos dice Martin Cohen, «al igual que los que se realizan en el laboratorio, son pruebas que se conciben con el fin de explorar (o de destruir) las intuiciones que tenemos sobre el funcionamiento del mundo». Este libro imprescindible para todos los amantes del saber, desde los científicos a los filósofos, recopila los 26 experimentos de esta clase más interesantes realizados a lo largo de la historia. Y no es poca sorpresa, para empezar, enterarnos de que toda la ciencia moderna se sustenta sobre los modestos cimientos que establecieron media...