Rascacielos (Skyscrapers)

Bridges are a big part of how people get from place to place. But how do they work and how are they built? In this engaging text, readers will explore these important engineering marvels that link places divided by water. Along the way they’ll learn how to build their own model bridge with a step-by-step guide accompanied by full-color photographs of each step. Accessible text illuminates the science behind every span we drive over—and sometimes under!

This book introduces readers to different methods of transportation in their communities. Whether one is taking a school bus or riding a horse, there are many different ways to get around. Readers will have opportunities to practice vocabulary terms related to transportation.

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) nació en Manchester, y desde muy joven se introdujo en los círculos literarios londinenses de la mano del editor John Ebers, con cuya hija se casó. En 1834 publicó una novela, Rookwood, que le reportó un enorme éxito y dio origen a la leyenda popular del salteador justiciero Dick Turpin. Ya dedicado de lleno a la literatura, Ainsworth escribió en los siguientes cuarenta años cerca de cuarenta novelas, entre las que destacan Jack Sheppard (1839), The Tower of London (1840), Windsor Castle (1843), The Lancashire Witches (1849) y Auriol (1850)....

The greatest thinkers of humanity at your fingertips, in minutes! If you thought you would never be able to understand the essential classic authors, you were wrong! With our "Summarized Classics" collection, you will understand the main ideas of the most important thinkers in a very short time and with little effort. The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline. Among them, the reader will find an analysis of the following Genetic Psychology Studies (1973) and Structuralism (1968), among others. It includes a glossary.