Mercados del mundo (World Markets) (Spanish Version)

"Simple text and color photographs describe the units and tools used to measure time--in both English and Spanish"--

In one of his works, Barthes wrote; "If I was a writer and I was dead, I would like that my life be reduced through the care of a friendly and confident biographer, to some details ... whose distinction and mobility could be translated out of any destiny."And Calvet has made it.

Descubre a 25 supercient�ficas que cambiaron el mundo y demostraron que �las chicas son de ciencias! #ChicasDeCiencias �Sabes cu�ntos descubrimientos cient�ficos debemos a las mujeres? Aunque en los libros de historia parezca que las ciencias son cosa de hombres, de eso nada: desde Agnodice, la primera m�dica conocida de la historia, hasta Rosalind Franklin, la qu�mica que descubri� la estructura del ADN, pasando por Vera Rubin, la astr�noma que vio lo que nadie ve�a, las mujeres han sido pioneras en ciencias desde el inicio de los tiempos. Y aun as�, �podr�as...

When we look up at the night sky you can see millions of stars, but what do you think we could see in space if we left Earth? If we could hop into a special ship and blast off, traveling billions of miles away from Earth, we’d see the Milky Way galaxy. In this book, readers take an incredible journey through that galaxy, exploring the universe and learning how it was formed and what will one day happen to these enormous groups of stars. From mysterious dark matter to the black holes at the center of galaxies, readers will also dive into the mysteries of the universe scientists have spent...