Eternas inquietudes

"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With black-and-white illustrations throughout and sixteen pages of photos, this turning point in history is brought vividly to life.

There is growing concern over how we behave and interact online, from fighting, incivility, rudeness, and even criminal behaviors like cyberbullying, to simply adapting old forms of etiquette to a new landscape. This book, updated from an earlier resource, provides younger readers an introduction to this timely topic, a subject that they are both engaged in forming themselves as "digital natives," and one they also often require guidance in. It informs readers about the polite and productive use of social media networks and mobile platforms and discusses pressing issues of etiquette within...

A charming picture book features a busy little bird flying back and forth, carrying twigs to the cherry tree.

El civismo es una obligación y una responsabilidad compartida, que no admite la separación entre la clase política y la sociedad civil. Unos tienen más obligaciones que otros porque ocupan cargos de mayor responsabilidad. Pero todos están igualmente llamados a sostener y mejorar el mundo con el que se han encontrado. Formar a las personas para ello es la tarea de la educación. Liderar dicha transformación es la tarea de la política, de la administración pública y de los dirigentes en general. Cooperar y coadyuvar al cambio es la tarea de todos.