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Louis Pasteur, Carlos Juan Finlay, Lynn Margulis, Margarita Salas, Jean-Jacques Muyembe, Francis Mojica, Katalin Karikó... Científicos y científicas que han cambiado nuestra vida son los protagonistas de este emocionante recorrido por la historia de la ciencia. Hoy todos conocemos la vacuna contra la covid-19, pero nadie se tomaba en serio a Katalin Karikó, la científica que la hizo posible, cuando empezó sus investigaciones. Igual que ella, los cazadores de microbios a lo largo de la historia se han enfrentado a menudo a la incomprensión y la indiferencia. Armados tan solo de...

In Bosques, carefully leveled text and vibrant, full-color photographs take beginning readers on a tour of a temperate forest. Readers learn about this important ecosystem and the variety of living things adapted to live there.

Simple text and photographs describe dragonflies, including their physical characteristics, behavior, and life cycle.

"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...