Una docena de primos

The author/poet imagines all of the things a child can do, and then speculates on the many vocations the child has the option of choosing.

If we could take a trip to the center of the Earth, what would we find? In this amazing book readers can do just that with the help of a special ship that can handle the extreme heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s crust. Digging through a few miles of the crust is just the start of the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Earth’s core. Readers might be surprised to find that not all of the trip is through solid rock, as the intense heat does strange and amazing things to the material that makes up our planet!

An asteroid hitting Earth may sound like science fiction, but it is a real danger. This book explores what the different scenarios might be and how we can prepare ourselves in case such a disaster should occur.

La Ciencia nueva es una obra clave de la tradición cultural de Occidente. Su concepción es de tal riqueza que se ha considerado a su autor, Giambattista Vico (1688-1744), precursor de los románticos, de Hegel y de Marx; da origen a la Estética moderna, y crea el ámbito necesario para el surgimiento de las ciencias humanas, cimentando los fundamentos de la lingüística y de la antropología actuales. A través del novedoso empeño de una filosofía de la historia, su amplia y compleja visión del mundo ha seguido fascinando a pensadores y creadores contemporáneos tan dispersos como...