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When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from cash-strapped France in 1803, he doubled the size of the United States without really knowing what he was getting. He dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore a territory that would include part or all of fifteen future states and to seek a water route to the West Coast. Westward expansion began immediately, all for the bargain price of 15 million dollars. This book richly explores this fascinating part of history.

¿Por qué se ve el cielo? ¿De qué está hecho el arcoíris? ¿El Sol es amarillo? ¿Qué hacen los pintores cuando pintan? Además de datos curiosos, humoradas y un blog asociado, con interesantes propuestas para seguir indagando en el espacio digital.

En esta antología realizada por Andrés Sánchez Robayna, la más completa que se conoce hasta la fecha, queda bien acotado el espacio poético que José μngel Valente ha sabido crear en más de cuarenta años de oficio: tras cada pieza escogida, desde el primer poema hasta la última de sus composiciones, late esa percepción de la poesía como conocimiento en la cual el poeta es el mago que hace aparecer la realidad mediante el mismo acto de la escritura. La palabra en sí es la travesía reveladora, no el medio de comunicarla. La selección de Andrés Sánchez Robayna contiene poemas...

Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a neurological disease at age 21, Stephen did not let the illness define his life. Known for his groundbreaking work in physics, and identified by his wheelchair and computerized voice system, Stephen continued...