GILLES LIPOVETSKY SELECTED SUMMARIES

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: In addition to a summary of the essentials of the classic work Leviathan (1651), we offer the reader a description of the historical context in which...

Germiniano González Diez nos devuelve una imagen, un trazo, una emoción. A partir de un rastro de milenios nos muestra los rasgos de la vida de nuestros antepasados más remotos, y nos la ofrece en esta obra para que disfrutemos y reflexionemos. Divulgación y emoción recorren a partes iguales las páginas de este magnífico libro escrito por un estudioso apasionado. En su búsqueda, tan personal, Germiniano González no se dedica a catalogar y "reproducir" las pinturas de hace seis mil años, sino que las "reconstruye" a partir de vestigios, las interpreta cuidadosamente; y convierte...

Learn all about scaly and cold-blooded alligators! Complete with a More Facts section and bolded glossary terms. Young readers will gather basic information about alligators through easy-to-read, simple text alongside colorful full-bleed photographs. Translated by native Spanish speakers. Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

En 1605 Miguel de Cervantes concluía su historia de El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha aventurando una posible continuación y abriendo, al mismo tiempo, la puerta a que otros pudiesen cantar «con mejor pluma» las andanzas de su héroe. Lo que no se imaginaba es que, casi diez años después y a la vista de que no salía la esperada segunda parte de su novela, un lector impaciente y tan entusiasta de su libro como hostil a su persona iba a arrebatarle el testigo para sacar de su retiro aldeano a don Quijote y a Sancho. Así, a finales del verano de 1614, este misterioso lector,...

We use machines every day, but most of us don't understand how they work. When they break down, most of us have no idea how to fix them. Mechanics are the masters of machines. Readers learn that mechanics work on vehicles, including cars, boats, and buses. They use special tools to take them apart and fix what's wrong, and they use their experience and technology to diagnose problems. They often work long hours, sometimes in bad weather, to get us where we need to go. Your readers will see that mechanics keep our world moving and growing.