Indígenas de California (California Indians)

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book focuses on the history of California’s Native American tribes: the Tongva, Yokuts, Yana, and Yahi. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade level. Packed with...

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source biography focuses on the life and times of Junípero Serra, the Franciscan missionary who created missions that stretched from San Francisco to San Diego. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need...

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...

The world's myths are filled with characters, creatures, and stories that have fascinated people for thousands of years. This series mixes dramatic retellings and non-fiction information to give a full picture of a culture's myths. This book explores the gods, goddesses, heroes, villains, tricksters, and quests that make Egyptian myths and legends so compelling. Fully translated Spanish text.

La figura de Federico García Lorca abarca, tanto en España como en el exterior, mucho más que su literatura. Su poesía, traducida a infinidad de lenguas, recorre paisajes, hurga en tradiciones y denuncia injusticias con la maestría de quien ha sabido utilizar la pluma como pocos, y sus libros continúan leyéndose sin atender al paso del tiempo ni a las arbitrariedades de la moda. En este libro, se ofrecen al lector clásicos lorquianos como el Romancero gitano o el Poema del cante jondo, junto con las dos conferencias pronunciadas por el poeta en la presentación de los mismos, además...

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.