Mi Mamá y Yo

When Maldonado, the journalist, refuses to stop publishing editorial against the dictator who rules his country, he is taken prisoner.

Discusses the physical characteristics of great white sharks that combine to make them such able predators.

Lakshmi se ha separado de su familia y camina hacia la ciudad. Aún desconoce que allí no trabajará de criada en una casa rica para enviar dinero a su familia. Aún desconoce que tendrá que hacer cosas horribles con hombres horribles para poder sobrevivir. Lakshmi imagina leche y azúcar para su familia. Aún desconoce que las cosas no son siempre como se imaginan.

"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...