¿Qué Son Los Proveedores y Consumidores? (What Are Producers and Consumers?)

Having a job and earning money are a part of everyday life for most people, especially adults. The concept seems fairly straightforward: one works to earn. This volume discerns the difference between a job and a career, as well as how a job can develop into a career. Readers will learn why a community's economy needs jobs, how paying someone to do a job helps the person who is paying them, and even about job loss and its consequences. The text also explains different jobs and their effects on the economy, such as those of professional, production, arts, and government and military jobs.

Mama Tingo lived in the Dominican Republic. She was the leader of a group of farmers whose lands wanted to be taken from them. The inspiring story of this courageous peasant woman who didn't know how to read and write is meant to inspire children to be their own brave selves. Bilingual (Eng/Spa) non-fiction children's book for ages 8-12.

LA reflexión sobre la temporalidad y la memoria que caracteriza la poesía de Francisco Díaz de Castro sitúa a su personaje frente a una indagación del paso del tiempo como una dialéctica compleja entre la conciencia de la pérdida y la afirmación del instante. Como ha dicho Antonio Jiménez Millán, «a partir de una sensualidad que podríamos llamar materialista, la memoria personal, con sus asechanzas, se diluye en la memoria colectiva para dejar más nítido el perfil de un tiempo compartido». Los claroscuros del balance moral en presente y sin excusas recuperan signos, nombres,...

La enseñanza de la Historia Nacional en nuestro país se ha caracterizado siempre por hacernos ver a sus protagonistas como frías estatuas de bronce o piedra, seres inexpresivos e inhumanos que nos observan con Mirada ausente desde su pedestal. Es por ello que hemos decidido pedir a los propios protagonistas de la Independencia que nos cuenten vida y obra con aciertos y errores incluidos, desde que nacieron y hasta el momento previo a su muerte. Esto con el único propósito de quitarle a la historia patria esa fría y aburrida solemnidad con la que también se suelen presentar los...

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...