¡Fsst! Fricción y resistencia (Drag! Friction and Resistance) (Spanish Version)

Engineers have built some incredible things. But with every new feat, there is failure. Readers will learn about engineering feats like the Titanic, the Hindenburg, the Hoover Dam, and more in this engaging nonfiction title that has been translated into Spanish. This title features brilliant images, charts, and intriguing facts in conjunction with informational text and mathematic skills to keep readers active and engaged.

What does swimming in a pool, drinking through a straw, breathing in air, and circulating blood all have in common? They all require a form of air or water pressure! Readers will discover the variety of ways that air and water pressure make an impact on our lives and the things in them. This fact-filled, Spanish-translated nonfiction title includes real-life examples and basic experiments to aid in the development of understanding physic and scientific concepts. Readers will be introduced to and learn about Archimedes Principle, atmospheric pressure, vacuums, water density, and hydraulics...

Inform readers of the dangers of smoking. Through helpful diagrams, detailed images, and truthful facts, readers are given the tools and information to educate themselves about smoking, tobacco, addiction, and the health problems that smoking can cause. With informational text, an index, glossary of terms, and list of websites, this text encourages children to say no to smoking and peer pressure and to learn what steps they can take to help prevent others from starting. This book has been translated into Spanish.

The author describes a variety of strange animals including an African antelope, the sloth, and the angler fish.

La configuración de las mercancías en unidades de carga es un factor clave para asegurar la calidad en el transporte y la manipulación de las mercancías. Este manual reúne los conceptos fundamentales acerca de la formación de las unidades de carga para su traslado en todos los modos de transporte, con el fin de garantizar que alcancen su destino en el momento previsto, en óptimas condiciones y con el mínimo costo. Se definen los elementos que otorgan seguridad y estabilidad a la unidad de carga, los envases y embalajes, las tipologías de las cargas y los tipos de unidades de carga,...

Measuring cups are essential in the kitchen, but they’re also crucial in the science lab. Scientists need to be precise in their experiments to test their hypotheses, and science tools such as cylinders for measuring volume aid them in their important research. This appealing book shows that young scientists, too, can use measuring containers for their own science experiments. Important STEM concepts such as volume and units of measurement are explained in a comprehensible manner.

Del recodo del camino es un conjunto de cincuenta mini textos trabajados sobre bases simblicas como caminos, viajes, recodos, que aluden al proceso de vida, porque qu otra cosa es la vida sino un viaje que se transita por un camino de muchos recodos que empieza con el nacimiento y termina ineludiblemente con la muerte? Pero ms que uno lineal y pasivo, este viaje es especial, es dinmico, brusco, cambiante, a veces sinuoso, a veces en espiral, y aun as, aunque cada uno de nosotros viaje por su propio camino, todos avanzamos hacia una sola meta. Siempre hacia adelante. No hay forma de evitarlo....