La tierra de las almas perdidas

La mujer del porvenir es un vibrante y lucido ensayo sobre la independencia de la mujer y su futuro en la sociedad moderna. Escrito en la Espana del siglo XIX, este texto destaca por espiritu vanguardista.

★“Fascinating...An appealing resource sure to spark an interest in biomimicry, from casual readers to budding scientists. Recommended for all libraries.”—School Library Journal, starred review Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such...

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

¿Sabrías qué alimentos elegir? ¿Cómo hacer fuego con un paquete de chicles? ¿Cocinar una pizza con una caja de zapatos? ¿Convertir un clip en una auténtica brújula? ¿Usar tu propia orina para hacer una pila? ¿Calcular la hora con un simple palo? En esta guía encontrarás los trucos más locos de supervivencia: cocinar en un vaso de cartón, vivir en una casa flotante e incluso fabricar tu propia lavadora portátil... ¡No hay límites! Aunque si lo que buscas es divertirte, también te enseñamos un montón de gamberradas que hacer con los zombis, como ponerles una cabeza de...