Amor animal

María Sklodovska, conocida años más tarde como Marie Curie, nació en Varsovia en el seno de una familia de escasos medios. Mientras su infancia transcurrió en la Polonia ocupada por los rusos, de joven logró viajar a París para estudiar física y matemáticas, y allí conoció al físico Pierre Curie. Comienza entonces, en un pequeño cobertizo, una de las grandes aventuras científicas de todos los tiempos. Gracias al esfuerzo, la perseverancia y el compromiso con la ciencia, descubrirá el radio, que posee propiedades terribles, pero que, sabiamente dirigido, puede ayudar a curar el...

Little readers will learn the essentials of the United States Coast Guard (how the Coast Guard keeps us safe, various jobs, weapons and machinery, and more) through easy-to-read, simple text. Readers will love the exciting full-bleed photographs, bolded glossary terms, and More Facts section. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

In this illustrated book for children, readers will discover information about animals and can lift the flaps on the pages to find even more.