Anatosaurio

Defines pulleys, explains their functions, and suggests simple experiments to demonstrate how they work.

A playful picture-book biography of the father of space-age bachelor-pad lounge music. Gorgeously illustrated by Duncan Tonatiuh, this lively biography follows Juan Garcia Esquivel from Mexico to New York City. Juan grew up to the sounds of mariachi bands; he loved music and became a musical explorer. Defying convention, he created music that made people laugh and planted images in their minds. His musical dreams brought him from Mexico to America and gained him worldwide renown. Juan’s space-age lounge music—popular in the fifties and sixties—has found a new generation of listeners....

Una maravillosa historia de amor. La vida de Frank Bradley es simple y tranquila. Cinco años después de haber abandonado su trabajo como corredor de bolsa en la Gran Manzana, no se arrepiente de haber elegido comprar un edificio de apartamentos en ese pequeño pueblo costero ni tampoco haber decidido ser el casero del lugar. Aliena Ruslan es una resuelta veterinaria que, a base de esfuerzo y amor por su profesión, y por sus pacientes, ha logrado establecer una clínica de bastante éxito junto con sus socios y mejores amigos. Un vivaz perro callejero hace que los caminos de Frank y Ali se...

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...