Fish / Peces

Whether you call your January 6th celebration El Dia de los Reyes or the Feast of the Epiphany, you're celebrating a day dedicated to the three kings. Sometimes called the three wise men or the magi, these figures are part of the Christmas story and often appear in nativity scenes during this time of year. In some places, they're more important than Santa Claus. In this volume, readers discover the history of the three kings' story as well as how they are celebrated in cultures around the world today.

Tres años después de sus andanzas en Quinteto de Buenos Aires, vuelve Carvalho. Y también vuelve Charo con la intención de orientar el futuro del detective. A pocos meses del final del milenio, Carvalho vive una historia de amor, sectas, espionaje y muerte. Convocado para seguir un curso de espía y reclamado por una extraña mujer que le envía faxes, primero enigmáticos, luego enamorados, Carvalho convive con la sospecha de que ha sido elegido para una finalidad que no puede controlar. Bajo el peso del eterno diseñador del mundo, el poder del dinero, el detective hace suya la ansiedad ...

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Este libro explica a los más pequeños los fundamentos del arte rupestre, centrándose en las pinturas prehistóricas de la cueva de Altamira, en Cantabria, con un espléndido texto del divulgador científico Jorge Wagensberg y las ilustraciones de Munn.