Un día de trabajo: Médico de emergencias (All in a Day's Work: ER Doctor)

Think you'd like to be a fire fighter? Learn about the special equipment fire fighters use, their role in community safety, and their lives at the station. This book features a comprehensive timeline of the history of firefighting from its origins in ancient Rome through firefighting practices of today plus vocabulary related to fire fighters and fire safety.

El libro consta de 11 unidades. Cada unidad comienza con una doble página de presentación. Los contenidos se organizan en apartados y subapartados. Los márgenes van adornados con diferentes elementos como curiosidades, contenidos para saber más, actividades experimentales y para investigar, etc. Hay ejemplos y problemas resueltos. En algunas de las unidades se ofrece una página con experiencias para realizar en el laboratorio. Una vez desarrollados todos los contenidos se ofrece una página con las ideas fundamentales de la unidad. La página titulada "La ciencia del siglo XXI" contiene...

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.

Describes the ancient giant kangaroo of Australia's distant past that was five times the size of today's largest kangaroos. Discusses how the animal lived and how it became extinct.

Students will develop their geometry skills as they study the geometric shapes of modern art and read about the innovative artists who turned the art world upside down. This Spanish book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach geometry concepts. Text features include a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to increase students' vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, math charts and diagrams, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice...