Benjamin Franklin 6-Pack

Huracanes y tornados is one book in the Spanish-language Gran Atlas de la Ciencia series that covers today's most popular science topics, from digital TV to microchips to touchscreens and beyond. Perennial subjects in earth science, life science, and physical science are all explored in detail. Amazing graphics--more than 1,000 per title--combined with concise summaries help students understand complex subjects. Correlated to the science curriculum in grades 5-9, each title also contains a glossary with full definitions for vocabulary.

As a land that’s constantly in flux, Earth sometimes reveals clues about the plants, animals, and other organisms that lived long ago. Fossils teach us much about what life was like millions of years ago, answering the questions of how Earth changed and maybe even why it changed. This essential Earth science topic is thoroughly explained through manageable text, fact boxes, informational charts and diagrams, and a glossary and index. Readers will become young Earth detectives by the time they’re through with this text!

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English soldier, Ulysses Temper, finds himself in the wine cellar of a deserted villa. There, he has a chance encounter with Evelyn Skinner, a middle-aged art historian who has come to Italy to salvage paintings from the ruins and recall long-forgotten memories of her own youth. In each other, Ulysses and Evelyn find a kindred spirit amidst the rubble of war-torn Italy, and set off on a course of events that will shape Ulysses' life for the next four decades. As Ulysses returns home to London,...

El autor de este ensayo ha experimentado con el Teatro Nō. El libro supone un acercamiento apasionado a un género exótico y también como manual de aproximación a uno de los valores artísticos del acervo cultural de Japón. A ser el Teatro Nō un arte clásico del Japón que basa sus temas en leyendas e historias más antiguas que él, algunas de procedencia china, puede parecernos un arte exótico o poco familiar si lo comparamos con nuestra tradicional forma de escenificar. Introducido a modo de breves narraciones puede sernos más fácil adentrarnos en su mundo profundo, acervo...