Civismo

Este es un libro para nios, sobre un oso que...¡sólo comía chocolate! No comía vegetales ni ninguna fruta. Sólo comía chocolate. El oso no comía arroz. Tampoco comía cereales. Nunca nadie podría llegar a verlo comiendo yogur o algo, que todos podríamos llamar...saludable. Sólo le gustaba el chocolate. Por supuesto, mucha cantidad de algo "bueno" a menudo es malo, y llevar una dieta no balanceada no ayudaría al oso a crecer y ser fuerte y grande. Mucho amor por el chocolate inclusive podría hacer que el oso se metiera en problemas. Cuando se le termina el chocolate y a sus amigos...

Discusses the origins of corn, its use in Latin America, its spread throughout the world, different kinds of corn, and other uses for corn products.

For most of history, women have been confined to their households, and to lives without equal rights or equal opportunities. This volume introduces readers to the women of the suffrage movement, the defining movement for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. Primary sources and photographs will show readers firsthand how the challenges and successes of this movement shaped the lives of women across the United States. Readers will also learn about the inequality that still exists for women, and how they can change this injustice in the future.

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...