La fábula de la montaña mágica

Explore the various islands that make up the Caribbean including the different plants and animals that inhabit this tropical paradise. Bright, dazzling photographs bring the Caribbean to life as readers are exposed to vocabulary related to the unique activities and customs of the Caribbean.

These biographies introduce young readers to important figures in American history. Ideal for reports and correlated to the social studies curriculum, the series presents a straightforward account of each individual's life and times and describes how each person contributed to the shaping of our nation.

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and this book introduces readers to 14 women who invented very useful, helpful items. They include Chicago native Margaret Wilcox who invented the car heater, Indiana native Marion O'Brien Donovan who invented disposable diapers, Pennsylvania native Stephanie Kwolek who invented Kevlar, and Austria-born actress Hedy Lamar whose secret communications systems led to the creation of WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

James Lovelock —autor de la La venganza de la Tierra, Planeta, 2007— pone sobre la mesa las pruebas de un futuro poco esperanzador para nuestro planeta. El polémico científi co creador de la teoría de Gaia —que considera la Tierra como organismo vivo que se autorregula en pos de su supervivencia— presenta aquí una verdad aún más incómoda que la de Al Gore. Ninguna acción humana tiene la capacidad de reducir las consecuencias con la rapidez suficiente, ni siquiera para frenar el cambio climático. Sin embargo, la civilización tiene el deber de sobrevivir en los pocos refugios...