El duque de Lerma

¿Por qué la España de los Austrias se convirtió en la mayor potencia en ambos hemisferios durante los siglos XVI y XVII?¿Cómo pudo mantenerse durante tanto tiempo?¿Cómo funcionaba toda aquella maquinaria?La robustez del gobierno de los Austrias fue esencial para que las políticas imperiales triunfaran y se expandieran por todo el orbe. La lealtad y la religión fueron los dos pilares en las que se cimentó. Alfredo Alvar, una de las máximas autoridades en la materia, se adentra en el complejo entramado político, social y económico que sustentó el imperio para responder a todas...

Esta obra es un nuevo enfoque sobre la economía española durante los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII que recoge, por mano de especialistas de varias generaciones científicas, los últimos avances en este campo y, en definitiva, una suerte de «lo que hay que saber» sobre el tema. El libro, por otro lado, no está cerrado en sí, sino que propone nuevas vías de investigación, si el lector así lo requiere, o también las lecturas imprescindibles para ampliar el conocimiento sobre los temas que se necesite. Dividido según el tradicional esquema de sectores primario, secundario y terciario, se...

Describes the impact of the Ford Model T automobile and the assembly line that built it on the automotive industry and American society, and recounts the life and career of their inventor, Henry Ford.

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Each player has his or her own job in soccer and baseball. They each do their part to contribute to the team. Teamwork is also important outside of sports. We use teamwork in our classroom, in our community, and at home with our family. Readers are presented with different scenarios in which young people use teamwork to achieve a certain goal, like when Nicole's neighbor becomes ill, everyone in the neighborhood takes on a job with the goal of helping the sick neighbor. Each spread contains a color photograph that imparts the importance and rewards of working as a team.

Helps parents mitigate the drastic and often traumatic effects a divorce or parental separation has on children, from preschool age through the teens, by helping them open up frank and honest dialog geared to the child's specific age level, so that each child can cope with the natural feelings of loss, sadness, rejection, and abandonment that occur with such life-changing events.