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"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...

Esta nueva y adorable Biblia para bebés presenta el mensaje de la Biblia en forma de verso (o sea, breve y concisa). Este libro es una gran introducción a la Biblia para los más pequeños. El texto, agradable y con rimas, está escrito con continuidad escritural y atrae a la audiencia más pequeña hacia los elementos clave del Antiguo y Nuevo Testamento.

Un día un conejo hambriento salió a buscar algo que comer. Todo estaba cubierto de nieve, y no encontraba nada. Finalmente vio una manzana roja que colgaba de un árbol. Pero no podía alcanzarla. Y fue a buscar ayuda... Un precioso álbum sobre la cooperació

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...