National Geographic Readers: Los Pandas

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.

Readers will be amazed to discover that every time they climb onto bicycles and ride like the wind, they are defying gravity! This book explains the physics and history behind bicycles, skateboards, and surfboards. Readers learn what happens from the simplest movement of rolling forward to more complex tricks and stunts of jumping and spinning. Readers will never look at bikes, skateboards or surfboards the same way again.

Cuando Aicher antepone lo analogico y concreto a lo digital y abstracto, lo hace con intencion filosofica. Relativiza el papel de la razon pura y critica el racionalismo de la modernidad como fruto del predominio de un mero pensar abstracto. A juicio de Aicher, anteponer lo abstracto a lo concreto crea una falsa jerarquia, un orden, que es fatal para la cultura. Lo digital, abstracto, no es mas elevado, mayor o mas importante que lo analogico, concreto. Otl Aicher, co-fundador de la ya legendaria escuela de Ulm, es uno de los representantes sobresalientes del diseno moderno. Entre sus...

Describes the life and times of the well-known hero of the American Revolution, Paul Revere, a patriot and silversmith whose midnight ride was made famous in a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.