Thomas Edison

The Industrial Revolution was one of the most dramatic eras of all time, filled with fascinating people, strange events, and incredible stories. This period of great change comes into sharp focus through each spread with detailed, accessible language. Each fact is complemented with vivid, carefully-chosen historical images and illustrations, and a caption that adds just a touch more history. Readers are drawn deep into the facts not covered in history textbooks, like working conditions, inventions, failures, and characters, to make this important history lesson fun and engaging.

Explore the lifecycle of a butterfly and learn about the transformation of caterpillars into beautiful butterflies. The connection to language arts is the rich vocabulary related to butterflies, caterpillars, and their transformations.

Our closest solar system is about 10 light years away. It has two main types of planets. Some are rocky and small, like planet Earth, while others are huge balls of gas, like Jupiter. Learn about how astronomers once thought our solar system was the one and only, to how they have now discovered hundreds of stars with planets orbiting them, which means there could be billions of solar systems in outer space! Just maybe, these alien worlds could host life, like our own amazing planet. This book allows students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be...

Frente al espejo es una conversación íntima entre amigos. Una confesión con el ánimo de agradecer a la vida. Un repaso en un momento crucial. Un poner por escrito lo que nunca se ha dicho. Una forma de sincerarse frente al espejo.

En la voluminosa obra reunida bajo el sugerente título de las NOCHES ÁTICAS se recopilaron múltiples noticias y curiosidades de la cultura clásica: anécdotas de Alejandro Magno, vidas de filósofos, apuntes sobre literatura y lenguaje, antiguas costumbres, hechos portentosos... De la miscelánea casi inextricable que AULO GELIO (s. ii) fue elaborando por las noches durante su estancia en el Ática y que ha cautivado a lo largo de los siglos a autores como Castiglione, Diderot, Borges o Bioy Casares («es uno de los libros que estimulan nuestra inteligencia, nuestra imaginación o...