El dinero y el comercio en nuestro país: Read-Along eBook

Introduce students to the structure of the United States government. With this nonfiction Spanish-translated resource, readers will learn about the three branches of government, and the purpose of this separation of powers. Primary source images and supporting text engage readers and help them better understand the content.

In the last one hundred years, Earth’s average temperature has risen one full degree. That might not sound like much, but it affects Earth’s oceans, land, plants, and animals. Learn all about global warming, the carbon cycle, the greenhouse effect, and weather and climate with this Spanish science reader that brings the power of science and informational text to students at a level they can understand. This nonfiction book introduces students to new concepts, vocabulary terms, and STEM topics. With detailed images and fascinating sidebars, the leveled text supports students reading at...

Una novela histórica para entender las causas y las consecuencias de la Revolución francesa. María Antonieta, princesa de Austria, llega al palacio de Versalles con tan solo catorce años para casarse con el futuro rey de Francia. Esta unión servirá para que Francia y Austria neutralicen el ascenso de la vecina Prusia y la expansión de Inglaterra. Mientras tanto, Batián y Lucile, de clase social baja, luchan cada día para sobrevivir con escasos recursos en el París del siglo XVIII de grandes desigualdades sociales. La Revolución francesa se está fraguando y el Antiguo Régimen...

Del bullir y la sed (Prólogo) Como lector y escritor de versos, no como crítico, que no lo soy, es que me atrevo a hablar de Semántica de un tornillo enamorado, de Luis Perozo Cervantes, libro armado con tres en cierto modo plaquettes relacionadas entre sí (situaciones, se advierte, teórica, metafórica y poemática), donde el joven autor, de carácter a mi ver ciertamente expansivo, da suficiente muestra de a la vez sentido de contención, humor, retórico y, con su indispensable ironía, dados los tiempos, de lo romántico –o del romanticismo en sus varias acepciones. Para una...

Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...