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En esta obra, el autor ha puesto gran empeño en aportar datos inéditos sobre la vida de Arthur Nicolaier, y ha tratado de rescatar, para los profesionales de la salud y para el público en general, la figura, casi desconocida, de este médico alemán, que, a los 22 años, pasó a la historia de la medicina por descubrir el agente productor del tétanos.

El maestro Yanguas (1682-1753) fue coetáneo de Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750) y Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757); Aragüés (1712 ca.?-1793) lo fue de Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) y Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779) y Bernardo del Manzano, que muere en 1805, de Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) y Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805). En España trabajan en este periodo Scarlatti, Farinelli, Corselli, Brunetti o Boccherini, pero también Francisco Valls, Pedro Rabassa, José de Nebra, Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Francisco Javier García Fajer, Francisco Manalt, Joseph Teixidor o Melchor López. Sólo este...

★“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...

Award-winning author Jorge Argueta treats young readers to a bilingual recipe/poem for the classic Latin American version of rice pudding with cinnamon. From sprinkling the rice into the pot to adding a waterfall of white milk followed by cinnamon sticks, salt stars, and sugar snow, Argueta’s recipe is both easy to follow and poetic. Lively illustrations by highly acclaimed Brazilian artist Fernando Vilela feature an enthusiastic young cook who finds no end of joy in making and then slurping up the rice pudding with his family. In Argueta’s world, cooking not only satisfies hunger with...