David y la gran victoria de Dios / David and God's Giant Victory

With every new feat, there is at least one big failure. Learn about some of the biggest technological feats and failures in human history in this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title that allows readers to discover some of the technological innovations that have made life easier. Featuring detailed images, charts, and graphs, informational text, and intriguing facts, children will be engaged and captivated from cover to cover!

Did you know that liquids take the shape of their containers? If liquids get hot, they can become gases. Discover more interesting facts in Liquids, part of the States of Matter series of EYEDISCOVER books.

When people think of soft things, they immediately conjure up images of furry bunnies and similarly textured animals and objects. This inviting book helps young readers to do the same, as learning about textures is an important tenet of the early elementary curriculum. Carefully selected photographs of soft objects make the concept of texture clear to the reader as well as aid in vocabulary acquisition.

Partiendo de las similitudes entre el pasado remoto y el futuro imaginable, Perniola sostiene que nuestra sociedad postmoderna vive un "momento egipcio", una era marcada por la reificación en la que, al mismo tiempo que los productos de alta tecnología asumen propiedades orgánicas, la humanidad se convierte a sí misma en "cosa", no en el sentido de alienación inconsciente, sino en el de un cínico y deliberado tratamiento del ser en tanto que objeto, llegando incluso a un proceso de "auto-momificación". Perniola mezcla estética y filosofía para analizar "la belleza estratégica" en el ...