Manual para ser tú mismo

Los ríos son capaces de encumbrar o arruinar civilizaciones enteras, dividir culturas o unirlas, y proporcionan pistas decisivas sobre el origen del ser humano. Sumérgete en la apasionante historia de Egipto a través del NILO, conoce a los príncipes bandoleros del RIN, asómbrate con la rica diversidad del AMAZONAS o con las sagradas aguas del GANGES. Descubre qué secreto se esconde en el fondo del río AWASH, cómo el ZAMBEZE cambió África para siempre o por qué casi cualquier canción de éxito se remonta al MISISIPI. Averigua el papel crucial del TÁMESIS, el YANTSÉ y el TIGRIS y...

Una novela para sentirla y vivirla en imágenes, a modo de guión cinematográfico, listo para rodar. Una historia de máximo interés para los jóvenes de hoy.

Lara Finch lives a lie. Everyone thinks she is happily married to the faithful Sam. She is actually super bored and misses working. Behind Sam's back, she takes a job in London. Twice a week she takes the sleeper train, where she meets Ellen and Guy. One Friday, Lara disappears from the train without a trace. Her friend Iris does not believe the official story she is told about the disappearance and decides to start her own investigation. Iris cannot believe what she finds out.

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...