Cuando Alguien Muy Especial Muere

The values and traditions of Mexicans at home, school, and work are explored as well as how life differs in urban and rural settings.

This book offers a fun way to learn about 16 of the Prado's most important paintings. Each two-page spread teaches about the artist and the painting and asks readers to locate five objects in the artwork.

During the American Civil War, the United States was on the brink of falling apart irrevocably. As states seceded and brother turned against brother, hope for reconciliation was dim. This conflict, an essential topic of the social studies curriculum, is skillfully presented from its origins in the Southern slave-trade economy to bloody battles and, later, Reconstruction. Striking photographs and artwork of integral events and people will resonate with readers, while interesting sidebar information gives them more to reflect on about this terrible war and the lessons it taught us.

Regina Salcedo presenta en Protagonistas una fauna del caos, una fauna de fuego que bulle entre las cáscaras y nos invita a descubrir su paisaje interior a pesar de los ruidos que nos acechan, alejan y engañan a diario. Por ello, escuchar los poemas de Protagonistas en su formato sonoro supone también un reto en el sentido de que los sonidos de fondo despistan al oyente a propósito, en un intento por simular el propio transcurrir de la vida y de un sujeto que se sitúa en medio de. Palpitando. Del mismo modo, también puede uno dejarse llevar por lo superfluo, como quien se olvida del...