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When winter hits, many people in colder climates spend most of their time indoors. But what do wild animals do? Some animals spend winters hibernating. Beginning readers will learn what hibernation is, why some animals hibernate and others don't, and how hibernating animals prepare for their long sleep. Full-color photographs grab readers' attention and allow them to draw connections to the narrative. Readers will love learning about this mysterious, restful time in some animals' lives.

Presents the Egyptian story of how the god Osiris was treacherously slain by his brother Seth and restored to life by his wife Isis.

We often don´t stop to think about the origin of certain foods, but many of the foods we consume today only reached us as a result of great discoveries and the subsequent international commerce between east and west. This book brings us closer to the complex relations between different cultures and shows us the importance of ocean voyages in the development of international commerce.

Entre las criaturas fantásticas del Bosco y las intervenciones en el territorio de Robert Smithson median cinco siglos y una idea: la naturaleza como motor de la práctica artística, un hilo conductor filtrado por la sensibilidad de artistas de la talla de Leonardo, El Greco, Klimt o Dalí, entre otros tantos que el lector encontrará en este libro. Y es que la naturaleza es una y muchas, un concepto viajero que ha mutado en múltiples existencias, al ritmo de cada época histórica: desde la imagen del cuerpo renacentista a los imaginarios surrealistas, pasando por los géneros del...