Las selvas (Forests)

Oceans cover 70 percent of the Earth's surface, providing students with a variety of plant and animal life to learn about. An ocean biome includes the saltwater below the waves and everything on, above, and near the surface. Students will also learn about the beach, tides, cliffs, bays, coastlines, coral reefs, and tide pools in this Spanish-translated title.

Una enciclopedia visual esencial para conocer el impresionante mundo de los minerales, las gemas, las rocas y los fósiles de nuestro planeta Más de 1.000 impresionantes fotografías muestran con gran detalle las maravillas naturales de la Tierra. Las propiedades únicas de los minerales se describen detalladamente, junto con sus usos en el arte, la industria, la arquitectura y la ciencia. Un viaje geológico extraordinario para descubrir las rocas arcoíris, los minerales fluorescentes, los diamantes de valor incalculable y las lluvias de meteoritos. Conoce a los dinosaurios para comprender ...

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.

Mandalas are a reflection of life and when we color mandalas, skills and talents we didn't think we had rise to the surface. We develop a special and unique sensitivity to Mother Nature. We perceive everything with a new and growing intensity. In short, the satisfaction we feel is enormous.

As they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and this book introduces readers to 14 women who invented very useful, helpful items. They include Chicago native Margaret Wilcox who invented the car heater, Indiana native Marion O'Brien Donovan who invented disposable diapers, Pennsylvania native Stephanie Kwolek who invented Kevlar, and Austria-born actress Hedy Lamar whose secret communications systems led to the creation of WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS.