Inefable

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

Storms are a fascinating topic and a great way to get young readers interested in science. This series uses simple text and dramatic, full-color photos to take students inside nature's powerful and deadly storms. Each book explains one kind of storm- what it looks like, how it forms, the damage it can do, and how people can protect themselves from danger.

Un canto a la libertad, el amor y la amistad. Este libro recrea la vida de Hipatia de Alejandría, una figura capital de la antigüedad y protagonista del filme Ágora, de Alejandro Amenábar. Estuvo versada en filosofía, matemáticas y astronomía, pero su clase magistral para la historia fueron su sed de vida y de conocimiento, así como el valor y la entereza para defender sus ideales de convivencia y tolerancia. Hipatia fue un espíritu libre, una voz incómoda a causa de la férrea voluntad de llevar una vida plena como mujer sin pedir perdón por ello, aunque debiera pagar por ello el...