Estadounidenses asombrosos: Abraham Lincoln (Amazing Americans: Abraham Lincoln) (Spanish Version)

Teach young students about Susan B. Anthony and her advocacy for women's rights and equality for everyone. This Spanish-translated biography tells early readers about her inspiring life and how she became known as an amazing American. Engaging informational text, with primary source documents and images, keep students reading as they build their literacy skills and social studies content knowledge. Simple text features help students navigate the text.

Introduce students to one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln. In this engaging and informational Spanish-translated biography, readers will learn about the amazing things that Lincoln accomplished during his presidency, and why he is considered a hero today. Build reading skills and strengthen social studies knowledge with this engaging book!

Readers begin to explore the vastness of our universe in this engaging volume. They start with subjects such as comets, meteors, planets, and more. Vivid full-page photographs accompany accessible text in both English and standard Latin-American Spanish.

Young readers may have heard about the benefits of using and making the most of their resources, but how does that factor into an economic discussion? This thorough discussion defines resources and describes the different types of resources and why some divide them into three categories and others choose four. The book also addresses the concept of scarcity, showing readers how, because all resources have their limits, it is important to use them responsibly and efficiently in a healthy economy.

¿Qué es un “experimento mental”? Como nos dice Martin Cohen, «al igual que los que se realizan en el laboratorio, son pruebas que se conciben con el fin de explorar (o de destruir) las intuiciones que tenemos sobre el funcionamiento del mundo». Este libro imprescindible para todos los amantes del saber, desde los científicos a los filósofos, recopila los 26 experimentos de esta clase más interesantes realizados a lo largo de la historia. Y no es poca sorpresa, para empezar, enterarnos de que toda la ciencia moderna se sustenta sobre los modestos cimientos que establecieron media...

Combinando la filosofía y el arte de épocas y géneros diversos, Danto ofrece una panorámica de la universalidad de la producción estética, a medio camino entre la monografía filosófica y la meditación memorística, poniendo en tela de juicio la creencia popular según la cual el arte es un concepto indefinible. Danto sostiene que una obra de arte se define siempre por dos criterios esenciales, el significado y la materialización, a los que se les suma un tercer criterio, el de la interpretación que cada espectador aporta a esa obra.