Hipatia de Alejandría

Apasionante novela para todos los amantes del género histórico. Tras el Motín de Aranjuez, Godoy está preso. Napoleón y el Servicio Secreto Británico deciden a la vez secuestrarlo para que sirva a sus fines. Se inicia una carrera para rescatarlo entre las dos potencias, mientras que Fernando VII quiere eliminarlo. Francia avisa al coronel Truffaut, jefe de una red de espías en Madrid. Inglaterra envía a su agente, James Moon, que contactará con el capitán Cuesta quien vive afligido porque cree que su esposa es amante de Truffaut. Juntos, ayudados por el pintor Goya, una sociedad...

Este práctico libro recoge muchas de esas preguntas que los pequeños de la casa (y a veces no tan pequeños) se pasan la vida haciendo a los mayores, y las contesta de un modo sencillo y muy divertido. Van acompañadas por unas simpáticas y originales ilust

If we could take a trip to the center of the Earth, what would we find? In this amazing book readers can do just that with the help of a special ship that can handle the extreme heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s crust. Digging through a few miles of the crust is just the start of the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Earth’s core. Readers might be surprised to find that not all of the trip is through solid rock, as the intense heat does strange and amazing things to the material that makes up our planet!

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...

Life on Earth depends on carbon. In fact, about 18.5 percent of a human body's mass is carbon. How carbon is taking in and given off through animals' breathing, the burning of fossil fuels, and more can be shown in the model known as the carbon cycle. Though this concept can be confusing, all readers have a chance to understand this concept through the text and simple diagrams in this book. Both struggling readers and those looking for review can find the most important components and vocabulary of the carbon cycle in low-level, accessible text.