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¡Estás a punto de descubrirlo! Abre este libro y explora el asombroso mundo de la biología: la ciencia que estudia a los seres vivos, desde las enormes ballenas azules hasta las microscópicas bacterias que viven en tu piel. En estas páginas conocerás de cerca plantas que comen carne, cerebros que te engañan, hongos cocineros y muchos otros seres extraordinarios. Sin perder el humor descubrirás que todo a tu alrededor... ¡está vivo!

"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...

"Discusses the role of the oceans on Earth and introduces waves, tides, and water pressure"--Provided by publisher.

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.