Que Es Un Acuerdo? (What Is Compromise?)

In the United States, the ability to take informed action is becoming increasingly necessary, and difficult. This book delves into the importance of being informed and explains how not all sources of information are equal. Readers are introduced to the scientific method as a way of testing information for credibility. Students will also learn how to turn credible information into action by forming groups, protesting, contacting elected representatives, and possibly even running for office themselves someday.

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

Mi Primer Larousse (My First Larousse) is a vibrantly illustrated series of full-color visual reference books written in Spanish for school age children. This series has fun interactive die-cut closures that protect the book when not being used. From how candy is made to digging big tunnels to how pencils are created this book looks at more than 60 day to day objects that children ask where do they come from or how they are made. Simple text and amusing illustrations describe the process for children.

The scientific charge of The Hot Zone and the epic thrill of Jurassic Park converge in this exhilarating new eco-thriller about a team of scientists and Navy SEALs stranded on an island in the Galápagos, fighting to survive an evolutionary catastrophe. The year is 2007. Through widening holes of ozone depletion, the tropical sun burns human skin to a crisp. Powerful earthquakes and monstrous hurricanes wrack South America, exploding Ecuador's already anarchic instability.

El siglo XVII constituye un periodo clave en la historia de España, de Europa y del mundo. El monarca Felipe IV se inclina con mayor facilidad a los juegos y entretenimientos de toda ralea, mientras que el reino desfallece en malogradas batallas contra los ingleses y los franceses en lidia para arrebatar las riquezas del Nuevo Mundo. La historia de España se nos desvela bajo un prisma original, que gira alrededor de los personajes retratados por el gran pintor don DiegoVelázquez. En medio de la vida disoluta del Alcázar, la infantita Margarita recorre salas y corredores protegida con el...

Por primera vez en español se presenta una amplia muestra de la poesía coreana contemporánea. Un cuerpo poético íntimamente vinculado a la naturaleza, cuyo predominio temático con la soledad, la meditación, la contemplación de los misterios de lo cotidiano y del mundo. Han Yung Un (1879-1944) es uno de los poetas más apreciados de la literatura moderna coreana. En él se funden el renovador del espíritu poético de una época y el apasionado independentista opuesto a la dominación japonesa.