¿A que no sabes ...? : curso de perfeccionamiento de español para extranjeros. [Hauptband]

"Destinado a estudiantes que, partiendo de un nivel inicial, aspiran a un dominio practico del espanol comunicativo y a un acercamiento a la cultura de los paises hispanos. En dos niveles, describe el funcionamiento de la lengua y practica cuestiones morfosintacticas atendiendo a la realidad de su uso."

Growing up Latino in America means speaking two languages, living two lives, learning the rules of two cultures. Cool Salsa celebrates the tones, rhythms, sounds, and experiences of that double life. Here are poems about families and parties, insults and sad memories, hot dogs and mangos, the sweet syllables of Spanish and the snag-toothed traps of English. Here is the glory, and pain, of being Latino American. Latino Americans hail from Cuba and California, Mexico and Michigan, Nicaragua and New York, and editor Lori M. Carlson has made sure to capture all of those accents. With poets such...

California became a territory in the United States when the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848. That treaty ended the Mexican War. Several days before its signing, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill in what is now Sacramento. The non-Native population of the territory was less than one thousand in 1848, but the gold rush increased that number to one hundred thousand by the end of 1849. The gold rush not only made many people wealthy, it brought ecologic devastation while speeding up California’s statehood. This book richly explores this interesting history.

La Geología es una ciencia sumamente atractiva ya que abarca cuestiones trascendentales relacionadas con nuestro planeta: su origen, su formación, la vida en tiempos pasados y los procesos actuales de evolución, en la que los seres humanos intervenimos de manera activa. En este volumen se analiza, además de su origen y formación, la estructura de la Tierra, la composición de la atmósfera, la deriva de los continentes, los volcanes, la formación del relieve, los glaciares, el mar, el ciclo geológico y los mapas.

Young readers will enjoy and relate to these charming, vibrantly illustrated stories as Barney and his friends teach them a thing or two about visiting the doctor, getting along with others, behaving, and more. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.