El caso del parque infantil (The Jungle Park Case) (Spanish Version)

Young detectives will learn data analysis and probability while they are engaged in reading about crime scene investigations. Used in the classroom or at home, this nonfiction Spanish text includes mathematical charts to help students practice calculations and become more confident in their data analysis skills. With a glossary, an index, dynamic images, age-appropriate content, and easy-to-read text, students will build their math and reading skills while they are engaged in reading high-interest topics.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Weather is an important science concept at the early elementary level. Recognizing and identifying kinds of weather requires observational skills and certain vocabulary terms. This bright volume allows young meteorologists to correlate weather in carefully selected photographs with descriptive weather vocabulary, such as rainy, sunny, and foggy. It's never too early to tackle this essential STEM theme!

DESNUDOS Y ACUARELAS como indica su título es un libro que articula su discurso sobre dos ejes: el de las instancias plásticas de cuerpos recordados y el de la melodía de distintos instantes que en la memoria llegan a confluir. Concebido como una exposición, los poemas funcionan como cuadros en los que se anula o se refleja la evanescente percepción de un cada vez más borrado yo, que ve la realidad desde una lágrima. Jaime Siles (Valencia, 1951) es Catedrático de Filología Latina en la Universidad de Valencia. Premio Teresa de Ávila 2003 y Premio de las Letras Valencianas 2004,...

El anciano conde Olivier de Salvadrés ha vivido casi toda su vida fingiendo ser mujer. Arrepentido, hace confesión escrita de su pasado y de las circunstancias que lo abocaron a esa impostura, como penitencia ordenada por el abad Bonafides. La condena eclesiástica se cumplirá sobre el manuscrito, que será quemado públicamente en lugar del conde cuando éste ya haya muerto. Sabiendo que no se expone a la hoguera ni a la vergüenza, y sin hijos ni familiares que hayan de soportarla tampoco, el antiguo travestido no nos ocultará ningún detalle de su agitada existencia ni de sus...