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Desde el Big Bang hasta tu cumpleaños, y (casi) todo lo demás, este divertido y revelador libro cuenta tu historia. Esta es tu biografía (aunque no lo sepas). Este libro te llevará por un increíble recorrido desde el Big Bang hasta tu nacimiento (¡y en menos de lo que tardas en ponerte los calcetines!). Sus páginas te ayudarán a atravesar océanos de tiempo para ir desde el espacio hasta la puerta de tu casa en una aventura que empieza con un gran BOOM. ¿Te apuntas al viaje de tu vida?

"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...

In an online world where the amount of information seems to increase exponentially even week to week, student researchers can find it an ever-greater challenge to distinguish credible, vetted content from hearsay and misinformation. This book on citing internet sources will help them determine which online sources are trustworthy and which are not. Its lively and engaging instructional tips will help readers successfully negotiate the vast landscape of information out there. They will produce quality research for papers now and beyond in their academic careers with skill and confidence.

Presents a line-by-line explanation of the entire United States Constitution, in English and Spanish. Provides a Spanish translation of the Constitution, historical context and student exercises that approximate the decisions made by the Constitution's authors. Written at the fifth grade level.