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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...

Este Fabuleario de Lear recoge un conjunto de obras del gran maestro inglés del nonsense. Se inicia el libro con una selección de limericks, poemas de cinco versos de origen irlandés de tema satírico y con elementos absurdos, denominados Limelearicks.

Un libro pionero que explica a los niños y no tan niños todos aquellas cuestiones relativas al cuerpo que suelen pasar desapercibidas en los libros de anatomía o fisiología: cirugía plástica, género, cyborgs, racismo, fecundación artifical y otros temas que articulan lo social y lo corporal son presentados aquí de forma directa y sin prejuicios a lectores de nueve años en adelante.

Reader beware! The biography of R. L. Stine, author of the hugely popular Goosebumps series, is a scary-good time! R. L. Stine began writing stories at the age of nine, after finding a typewriter in his family's attic. (Was it a haunted typewriter? Who can be sure?) Often referred to as the "Stephen King of children's literature," R.L. has created some of the scariest books to have ever been passed around a campfire, leaving readers wide awake at night. With over 400 million copies of his horror fiction novels sold across the world, R.L. Stine is one of the best-selling authors in history.