La Jirafa

These titles look at many of the animals typically found in zoos, covering such topics as appearance, behavior, and babies. Vivid photographs compare the habitat and diet of each animal, both in the wild and the zoo.

This title in the Que esta Despierto? (What's Awake?) series explores the behavior of this backyard nocturnal animal. Photographs enhance the text which explains why the animal is out at night and what it does in the day. (Text in Spanish.).

An introduction to ostriches, including their size, diet, and everyday behavior and highlighting differences between those in the wild and those living in zoos.

MANUAL FOR COMMUNITARIAN SOCIAL WORK - This book is a basic document for students and professionals of the different disciplines of Social Sciences related to community action: social workers, socio-cultural animators, social educators, psychologists, etc., who want to develop their professional activity in this collective ambience, professionals who believe in what they do and why they do it, and who are willing to accompany the community and its members in a process of change and growth.

A little girl, found at sea, is taken to a strange country where no one knows her name, her language, or her people.

Enseña a los jóvenes a través de los mensajes que los hombres más sabios del mundo han dedicado a la juventud a disfrutar plena y responsablemente de lo que otorga la naturaleza.

Born in Warsaw, Poland, on November 7, 1867, Marie Curie was forbidden to attend the male-only University of Warsaw, so she enrolled at the Sorbonne in Paris to study physics and mathematics. There she met a professor named Pierre Curie, and the two soon married, forming one of the most famous scientific partnerships in history. Together they discovered two elements and won a Nobel Prize in 1903. (Later Marie won another Nobel award for chemistry in 1911.) She died in Savoy, France, on July 4, 1934, a victim of many years of exposure to toxic radiation.