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Describes the physical characteristics, habitats, life cycle, and behavior of different kinds of reptiles, including alligators, turtles, snakes, and lizards.

El conocimiento de la espiritualidad oriental y de las formas más arcaicas de enfrentamiento humano con lo sagrado, que ha permitido ampliar considerablemente el campo de investigación de las religiones comparadas, debe a Mircea Eliade contribuciones fundamentales. " El mito del eterno retorno " es una original introducción a la Filosofía de la Historia cuyo objeto de estudio son los mitos y creencias de las sociedades tradicionales, movidas por la nostalgia del regreso a los orígenes y rebeldes contra el tiempo concreto. Las categorías en que se expresa esa negación de la historia son ...

Profiles a Mexican woman who saved more than twenty Texan rebels taken prisoner during the Texas Revolution from being shot under General Santa Anna's orders.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...