Anne Frank

Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world. Readers will learn about Anne's life as she went into hiding from the Nazi Party in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through vibrant images, informational text, timelines, and a glossary of terms, readers will discover the hardships Anne and her family went through in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. This inspiring biography enables children to look up to Anne and find hope in every situation, just as she did. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through informational text, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters such as The Great Potato Famine, Hurricane Katrina, Mount St. Helens, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as well as epidemics and pandemics such as the bubonic plague and swine flu.

Young readers will be inspired by this biography about the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. The appealing images, helpful text, and supportive timeline, glossary, table of contents, and index combine to create an engaging experience as readers learn about one of the greatest female pilots of all time. This book has been translated into Spanish.

En las palabras quirúrgicas que Cristóbal Pera tan magistralmente define, describe, analiza y valora, nos adentramos por un territorio nuevo, por una cálida geografía donde se enraíza todo conocimiento y todo saber. Por eso, la lectura de tan luminoso libro es una continua incitación al pensamiento-por algo brota del originario saber de las manos-, a la reflexión sobre la vida y la muerte, sobre el dolor y la felicidad, sobre la angustia y la esperanza. Emilio Lledó

Few natural forces seem as much like magic as magnets. Perhaps that’s why magnets are so fun! Young scientists will love learning about amazing magnets, both natural and man-made. They’ll discover how magnetism is harnessed to help us in many ways. This STEM-supportive volume contains comprehensible text and photographs of students and scientists utilizing magnets. It also includes a simple, fun concluding activity to encourage readers to use this super science tool themselves.

Leonard B. Meyer explica en este libro como funcionan los mecanismos de la mente para percibir y entender la musica. Sus paginas constituyen un lucido estudio de la psicologia de la percepcion musical que ha sido profusamente citado por musicologos, compositores y filosofos desde su primera edicion de 1956. Entre sus admiradores figuran Umberto Eco y Enrico Fubini, cuyos comentarios aparecen recogidos en el amplio prologo escrito por el prestigioso compositor Jose Luis Turina, autor tambien de la traduccion. &la" El objeto principal de este ensayo --senala Turina-- es doble: de un lado,...

Voces ancestrales, campesinas, cefeticultoras, constructoras de identidad colectiva transgeneracional en Veracruz hablan de su combativa vida común en torno a agrupaciones políticas, instituciones extintas del Estado mexicano (INMECAFE), movilizaciones sociales de los ochenta del pasado siglo XX, el desarrollo comunitario, el aprendizaje y reforzamiento de conocimientos locales diversos. Episodios de tres municipios narrados históricamente en colectividad subjetiva: Ixhuatlán del Café, Cosautlán de Carvajal y Amatlán de los Reyes. Relatos micro y macro de VIDA A.C. y su transformar las ...