Sciences et technologies

Young listeners will learn how colors are made in this accessible book. Simple text explains why people see different colors and how materials reflect light to make the colors....

Discover the wonder of Quantum Physics and its application in technology, science, and human consciousness even if science has never been your strength.

Did you know that a hippogriff is supposedly the offspring of a horse and a griffin....

In 1884, Sarah Winchester began building a large mansion in Santa Clara County, California. Under Sarah's direction, the house rose to be seven stories high and filled with mysterious features, including stairs that lead to nowhere and windows that look into other interior rooms....

La scienza prenderà sempre delle cantonate. Potranno volerci anni, addirittura secoli o millenni, ma alla fine gli errori verranno trovati...

Wie ist unser Universum entstanden? Und wie unser Planet Erde? Gibt es da draußen in fernen Galaxien Lebewesen? Sind Zeitreisen möglich...

Pino Omino, per gli amici Mino, per i nemici Vino, ha combinato un bel casino alla ditta di balocchi Oplallà e ora suda come una lumaca di fronte...

Learn all about Earth's satellite in this book about the moon....

Entrando nel crepuscolo della propria vita, un astrofisico di fama mondiale si pone una domanda: cosa vorrei che sapessero i miei nipoti dell'Universo...

Wissensvermittlung mit Witz und Charme von Erfolgsautor Bill Bryson. Wie war das eigentlich mit dem Urknall? Warum starben die Dinosaurier aus...

This collection of 18 of Beatrix Potter's charming stories about Peter Rabbit, Tom Kitten, Squirrel Nutkin, Mrs. Tittlemouse, and the others have enchanted children for over a hundred years and will surely do so well into the future. Beatrix Potter's tales were often connected with real places, people, or animals, so each story also includes a brief introductory note about its history.

An ancient malevolence that will threaten the very existence of the Great Ga’Hoole Tree has been loosed from the past. With his dying breath, Ezylryb tells Soren and Coryn to read the legends of Ga’Hoole hidden in his private library. There they find a world of treachery and magic in which a young king and queen struggle to keep peace while Grank, their most loyal friend and supporter, studies embers and flames in a distant land. Then a desperate plea comes from the king, and Grank rushes to the aid of his noble friends.

Join in and sing along with a host of much-loved holiday songs. The Wheels on the Bus Holiday Songs includes: "We Three Kings", "Deck the Halls", "Up On the Housetop", "I Saw Three Ships", "Jingle Bells", "Joy to the World", "Away in a Manager", "The First Noel", "Over the River and Through the Woods", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Oh, Christmas Tree", "'Twas the Night Before Christmas", and "Jolly Old St. Nicholas".

Coke and Pepsi McDonald never asked to be geniuses. They never asked to get lowered into a basket of boiling french fries, either. And they certainly never asked to be frozen in soft-serve ice cream, stampeded in a wild stadium riot, or kidnapped on a high-speed roller coaster. But that's what happens when a red-haired villain named Archie Clone is chasing you across America. This just might be the most dangerous road trip in history - and the most awesome!

Little Red Riding Hood is a young girl, so called because of the red cloak she wears. One day her mother asks her to take some food to her sick grandmother, who lives in a clearing in the nearby forest. On the way to her grandmother, she meets an apparently friendly wolf, and since she had many friends in the animal kingdom, sees no harm in stopping to talk with him. But the wolf is not as he appears to be!

A modern fable in humorous verse.