Universo Hawking

The jaguar is a ferocious animal that roams in areas of dense vegetation. He is the keeper of the American forests. The jaguar is strong, beautiful, famous, vain and a lonely animal. Young readers will be delighted with the jaguar as they learn more about this cat and his habitat.

Las obras de Arte Antiguo de los grandes museos del mundo tienen una historia que se cuenta y otra que se oculta. Sharon Waxman ha investigado esta última: la historia de cómo fueron saqueadas de sus países de origen. Una historia turbia de expolio, sobornos, tráfico, subastas y, en numerosas ocasiones, daño o destrucción. La autora realiza un apasionante recorrido tanto por los principales museos occidentales (el Louvre, el British Museum, el Metropolitan de Nueva York...), como por los lugares de procedencia de las antigüedades (Egipto, Turquía, Grecia, Italia...), evocando los...

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Lyndon B. Johnson was born in Texas in the early 1900s. This appealing biography has been translated into Spanish and highlights Johnson's life as he represented Texas in the United States Congress for 24 years and became the 36th President of the United States. Through engaging images, intriguing sidebars and facts, easy to read text, and a supportive glossary and index, readers will learn about interesting topics such as the Higher Education Act, Voting Rights Act, Minority Whip, and the Vietnam War. Readers will be eager to learn more about Johnson's fascinating life as they move from...