El agujero negro

María Sklodovska, conocida años más tarde como Marie Curie, nació en Varsovia en el seno de una familia de escasos medios. Mientras su infancia transcurrió en la Polonia ocupada por los rusos, de joven logró viajar a París para estudiar física y matemáticas, y allí conoció al físico Pierre Curie. Comienza entonces, en un pequeño cobertizo, una de las grandes aventuras científicas de todos los tiempos. Gracias al esfuerzo, la perseverancia y el compromiso con la ciencia, descubrirá el radio, que posee propiedades terribles, pero que, sabiamente dirigido, puede ayudar a curar el...

Spanish/English edition of a classic tale. One day Tortoise overhears Hare boasting, 'I can run so fast I leave the wind behind.' 'What nonsense,' says Tortoise to Hare. 'I'll give you a race.' Hare falls about laughing, but all the same he accepts the challenge. As they set off, Hare bounds down the lane, with Tortoise creeping along behind. Hare obviously has the natural advantage, so he stops for an elevenses of carrots, is overcome by sleepiness and takes a long nap. Soon Tortoise has crept slowly but surely past him and wins the race - just! Aesop's most well-known fable - pitting...

Perro Viejo was taken away from his mother at birth and has known no other life than that of servitude on a sugar plantation. His name, which means "Old Dog," was given to him by the plantation master because, like the bloodhounds that chased fugitive slaves, Perro Viejo is always searching for the scent of his long lost mother. The only thing that keeps him alive is the memory of Asuncion, a beautiful girl he once met while washing his master's horses at a river. Never to see her again, he closes his heart to all forms of love. Nearing the end of his life, Perro Viejo meets Beira, an old...

Mary Shelley empezó a gestar esta novela en el verano de 1816, un verano lluvioso y sin apenas sol. Tal vez estas circunstancias extraordinarias propiciaran este relato de terror, en el que no solo se cuenta la historia del joven científico Victor Frankenstein y su " demoníaca criatura " , sino que se abordan temas fundamentales de la naturaleza humana plenamente vigentes en la sociedad actual.