Benjamin Franklin 6-Pack

What has a head, two tails, and shoots across the sky? A comet. Coming from the far edges of the solar system, most comets travel around the Sun, while meteors appear as flashing streaks of light in the night sky. Explore these amazing celestial wonders as they zip through space! This book looks at the difference between comets and meteors and their effects on Earth. The physical characteristics of each are identified in detail. This book won’t come crashing down! It’s filled with fun facts that give additional information on this exciting science topic. This book allows students to use...

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

La exposición La invención concreta centra su atención en el desarrollo de la abstracción geométrica en Latinoamérica, abarcando un marco cronológico que se inicia en los años treinta y concluye en la década de los setenta del siglo XX. Aunque este tipo de arte abstracto se desarrolló inicialmente en Europa, algunos artistas sudamericanos lo asumieron como lenguaje de un futuro cosmopolita y progresista desde las modernas ciudades de Montevideo, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Río de Janeiro y Caracas. La abstracción geométrica se convierte así en un vehículo de expresión de la...

An introduction to the life and accomplishments of the twentieth-century Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso, and describes his youth, artistic phases and periods, and more.