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Profundice en la búsqueda del Nuevo Mundo desde un punto de vista histórico y antropológico. Desde las primeras exploraciones, el contexto histórico de Colón y la España de los Reyes Católicos hasta los 4 viajes colombinos y el choque con las civilizaciones prehispánicas. Una visión completa y rigurosa basada en los últimos hallazgos arqueológicos. Asista al Descubrimiento de América de forma crítica, desde un punto de vista histórico...
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This is a story about the lust for gold and treasure," Fine writes. In the 1600s and 1700s, Spain dominated the oceans with its fleet of galleons. Coming to the New World, these ships filled their holds with gold and silver and treasures beyond imagining. The seaway between Spain and the New World was dubbed The Golden Highway. On their journeys back across the seas, many were wrecked on reefs or destroyed by hurricanes. The watery depths now hold...
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The Sacred AnimalIn a quite siren environment, beautified with green vegetations, lies a settlement whose people believes is the most peaceful Community. There also lies one unique ideology that even westernization and civilization could not take away, this creed amongst the people dates back centuries ago that even the advent of Christianity and westernization could not erase.
84) Amerigo Vespucci
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Cradled in the valley of the Arno, its noble architecture fitly supplementing its numerous natural charms, lies the Tuscan city of Florence, the birthplace of immortal Dante, the early home of Michael Angelo, the seat of the Florentine Medici, the scene of Savonarola's triumphs and his tragic end. Fame has come to many sons of Florence, as poets, statesmen, sculptors, painters, travellers; but perhaps none has achieved a distinction so unique, apart,...
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2012
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The first book in Boone and Crockett Club's new series of digitally remastered classics. Travel to British Columbia with William T. Hornaday and John M. Phillips as they travel by horseback on an expedition to collect museum specimens and all the while capturing their adventures with a HawkEye Stereo Camera.
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When Mary Anning uncovers an unusual fossilized skeleton in the cliffs near her home on the English coast, she sets the religious fathers on edge, the townspeople to vicious gossip, and the scientific world alight. Luckily, Mary finds an unlikely champion in prickly Elizabeth Philpot, and in the struggle to be recognized in the wider world, Mary and Elizabeth discover that friendship is their greatest ally.
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Some of the most powerful things in the world are so tiny they can't be seen with the naked eye! Readers will be amazed at what they see when they take a glance at the world of the mini but mighty through this captivating nonfiction title. With remarkable images and graphics, and informational text featuring Time For Kids© content, readers are able to explore and discover such micros as DNA, atoms, bacteria, phytoplankton, and nanotechnology items...
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Telescopes and high-tech equipment help astronomers explore deep space. This captivating title introduces readers to some of the most notable scientists who helped develop technology that allows for space exploration, such as Galileo Galilei, Edwin Hubble, Annie Cannon, George Ellery Hale, Lyman Spitzer, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. The vibrant, stunning images and easy-to-read text will have readers engaged and eager to learn more about such topics...
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In this stimulating nonfiction book, readers will discover the various types of friction--including rolling friction, sliding friction, fluid friction, and static friction--and the huge impacts it has on nature, machines, and our lives. In addition, readers are encouraged to perform basic experiments to assist in the understanding of friction, kinetic energy, and water resistance. With real-life examples, colorful images, accommodating graphs and...
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Boxcar children volume 59
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The Boxcar children investigate the disappearance of a student's research paper from an observatory, and the subsequent disappearance of another student.
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2017
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In the years following the Civil War, "Arctic fever" gripped the American public, fueled by myths of a fertile, tropical sea at the top of the world. Several explorers attempted to find a route to the North Pole, but none succeeded. Bound by Ice follows the journey of George Washington De Long and the crew of the USS Jeannette , who departed San Francisco in the summer of 1879 hoping to find a route to the North Pole. However, in mid-September the...
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Extrait : "Le scheick qui vous remettra cette lettre, citoyen général, me fait espérer qu'il pourra réunir assez de moyens de transport pour faire venir à Caïffa le riz et le biscuit qui doivent être arrivés à Césarée : concertez-vous avec lui et donnez-lui toute l'assistance don’t il peut avoir besoin. Nous sommes maîtres de Caïffa, o nous avons trouvé des magasins de coton et entre autres trois mille quintaux de blé."
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I Read! You Read! books are designed for shared reading between a young reader and an adult. Jump into orbit around one planet in our amazing solar system: Earth! Take a fact-filled flight to learn what makes our home planet so special. Explore its watery surface, its protective atmosphere, and more.
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Since Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to the South Pole in 1910-1912, controversy has raged about the correct interpretation of and explanation for the tragedy. Some writers have drawn a picture of Scott as a bumbling incompetent, whose lack of experience and preparation condemned his men to their deaths. Aspley Cherry-Garrard's account The Worst Journey in the World...
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James Fitzjames was a hero of the early nineteenth-century Royal Navy. A charismatic man with a wicked sense of humour, he pursued his naval career with wily determination. When he joined the Franklin Expedition at the age of 32 he thought he would make his name. But instead the expedition completely disappeared and he never returned. Its fate is one of history's last great unsolved mysteries, as were the origins and background of James Fitzjames...
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The third book in Boone and Crockett Club's series of digitally remastered classics. Join Charles Sheldon in this wonderful book recording two years of field experiences while engaged in studying wild sheep of Yukon Territory from 1904 to 1905. This detailed account is strictly from the point of view of a hunter interested in natural history. Sheldon travelled by steamboat, canoe, and pack horses and on foot as he was accompanied by other well-known...
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The Boone and Crockett Club has brought back to life Frederick Courteney Selous' epic African adventure in a meticulously remastered, high-quality paperback edition. Follow noted adventurer, Selous, as he spends nine years amongst the game of the far interior of South Africa as a professional hunter beginning in 1871, at the young age of 20. In his preface he notes, "... my pages are naturally chiefly devoted to the ferae naturae amongst, which I...
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Florida served as one of the great meeting grounds of the planet, a place where peoples from Indian America, Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and Europe converged. This book features essays in both Spanish and English on the influence of the Spanish in Florida from the first explorers to the latest Hispanic migrations into Miami.
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