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"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...

This book introduces you to giraffes, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.

Accelerate through the pages of this book and introduce readers to physics and how it assists objects to move. This stimulating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title includes real-life examples and basic experiments to facilitate further understanding of physics. Readers will learn about velocity, Newton's Second Law of Motion, thrust, gravity, momentum, and g-force through vibrant and colorful images, fascinating facts in conjunction with informational text, accommodating graphs and diagrams.

Roma. Esta civilización sobresalió por la innovación de sus instituciones políticas y la expansión de sus grandes obras de ingeniería. Este volumen ofrece una cuidada visión general del concepto, seguida de una selección de temas, cada uno de ellos presentado mediante una espectacular ilustración a doble página, complementada con breves y precisos textos, así como con aproximaciones a ciertos aspectos de gran interés.