Technology Fiction

La vie d'Albert Einstein, racontée par un ado d'aujourd'hui ! Pour Lucas, il n'y a pas photo : le plus grand scientifique DE TOUS LES TEMPS, c'est Albert Einstein, et il est bien décidé à vous en convaincre aussi ! Vous pensez qu'Einstein, c'était un vieil érudit bizarre avec un cerveau énorme et des cheveux en pétard ? Heureusement que Lucas est là pour rétablir la vérité : Einstein, c'était un immense scientifique, mais aussi un humaniste, un grand curieux et même un vrai cancre quand il était enfant.

You’ve heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story? The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War - Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country - and your textbooks probably never told you. From Amy Cherrix comes the extraordinary hidden story of the space race and the bitter rivalry that launched humankind to the moon.

Lakes, trees, and birds are all part of nature. Early listeners can explore ways to care for nature in this easily accessible text. Pairs with the fiction book Nature Walk.

At the edge of desperation, King Gregorio entrusts his life and the fate of the planet in the hands of a cryptic rogue named Steel Reign to rally the rest of the Inner and Outer Planets to his cause of freedom. But when the evil Space Pirate Forge captures William and forces him to compete in the deadly Gauntlet of Sport, Sydney faces her challenges back on Earth as she is captured by a secret society who has been tracking alien life for years.

Ruby Brookes and her best friend Deva have won free places at the Ash Tree Foundation Performing Arts Camp over the summer, but only if their school grades seriously improve. So when Deva suddenly starts getting high marks in all their subjects, leaving Ruby behind, she is confused and jealous. Until she finds out Deva's success is down to EchoStar, a new app that's helping her get ahead. Ruby is desperate to start using it too, but there is much more to BrightStar than she has imagined. Because EchoStar is always watching and listening.

Cuento popular de un niño valiente que consigue habichuelas mágicas y vence al gigante antipático.

La travesía de un chico que va a buscar su suerte. Su madre le da un valioso consejo antes de partir: “Haz bien sin mirar a quién.” Ese consejo le sirve mucho en su viaje impredecible.

Cuento de hadas sobre una princesa que no cumple su promesa con la rana que recuperó su bola de oro, extraviada en una fuente. La rana milagrosamente se convierte en un príncipe.

Cuento de hadas de los hermanos Grimm sobre un pez encantado, un pescador y su mujer insaciable que eventualmente tiene su merecido por su codicia.

Today is a very exciting day for Emma's kindergarten class. Emma, Robert, and the rest of the students don't understand how they can all look so different on the outside, but look very similar on the inside. So Dr. Shaw is coming to visit, and she's bringing Mr. Bones, who is a real life-size skeleton. Mr. Bones is going to help Dr. Shaw teach her lesson about the human body. Dr. Shaw has also brought a cool body screening machine with her so the children can see what their insides look like.

Welcome to the United States of America! The USA is the third largest country in the world and also, one of the most beautiful. It is full of lakes and rivers, mountains and canyons, beaches and deserts. It has many different trees and flowers and all sorts of different crops grown for use as food. And, of course, America has birds and animals of all kinds. Last, but not least, the United States has about 300 million people from many different backgrounds and cultures.

Amateurs and professionals studying birds at the end of the 19th century were a contentious, passionate group with goals that intersected, collided, and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Driven by a desire to advance science, as well as by ego, pride, honor, insecurity, religion and other clashing sensibilities, they struggled to absorb the implications of evolution after Darwin. In the process, they dramatically reshaped the study of birds. Daniel Lewis here explores the professionalization of ornithology through one of its key figures: Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institution’s first curator of birds.

Encontrarse cara a cara con la vida salvaje es emocionante, pero esto, no es fácil. Cuando Camilo viene a visitar a su amiga Malena, él no puede esperar a ver toda la vida salvaje que el bosque tiene que ofrecerle - y está decepcionado cuando todo lo que ve, son unas cuantas aves. Juntos, los chicos salen de viaje en una caminata y encuentran abundantes señales de animales a lo largo del camino.

‘It didn’t matter that they were now three miles beyond their target site, that communications were dropping out and that they were running low on fuel. All that mattered to Neil as he searched for a safe spot to land was that boulders littered the surface below. “Thirty seconds,” called mission control. In truth, the flight controllers were now no more than spectators, just like everybody else. No more needed to be said. It was down to Armstrong

Une petite fille, Christina est fascinée par un perroquet appelé Caoutchouc ! Elle se demande ce que signifie ce mot... Alors son oncle Robert va répondre à toutes ses questions ! Une petite leçon d'histoire passionnante, notamment grâce à un dialogue très vivant entre les deux personnages, pour revivre plus intensément ces avancées historiques.

A former top-level National Security Agency insider goes behind the headlines to explore America's next great battleground: digital security. An urgent wake-up call that identifies our foes; unveils their methods; and charts the dire consequences for government, business, and individuals.

We all know the mysterious and evil character Herobrine, but did you know he wasn't always that way? In Herobrine - Birth of a Monster, you are about to discover the real story behind the legend of Herobrine. What happened to make him the monster he is, and why he's forever seeking justice in the Minecraft world.

Swift Walker loved to walk fast. His sister warned him, "One day you'll walk so fast, you won't be able to stop!" Sure enough, his speedy legs took him on adventures through outer space and exploring the oceans and continents right here on planet Earth. These delightful books introduce kids to space and geography facts with a fun character they can relate to. Perfect for home or the classroom.

Books are one of humankind's greatest forms of expression, and now Book, in a witty, idiosyncratic voice, tells us the inside story. A wonderfully eccentric character with strong opinions and a poetic turn of phrase, Book tells of a journey from papyrus scrolls to medieval manuscripts to printed paper and beyond - pondering, along the way, many bookish things, including the evolution of the alphabet, the library (known to Egyptians as "the healing place of the soul"), and even book burning.

Sept petites histoires, qui mettent en scène des animaux, des objets, des enfants, et même une fée...