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Evelyn Thomas had great plans for her 21st birthday celebration in Vegas, but waking up on a bathroom floor with the worst hangover ever next to an attractive, tattooed stranger was not one of them. Why is there a giant diamond on her ring finger? If she could only remember something. One thing is for sure; getting up one morning married to a rock star is sure to bring trouble.

Though few may know his name, his achievement as the first European to discover San Diego Bay and many other areas on the California coast enshrines his name in the annals of American history. This exciting volume tells Cabrillo's story from an unknown soldier to the intrepid conquistador, crossbowman, landowner, shipbuilder, and explorer he became. As one of Hernan Cortes' soldiers during the conquest of Mexico and a founder of Guatemala, his actions loomed large in the future of both South America and North America. By both educating and entertaining, this biography illuminates a...

The nineteenth century was a time of huge growth and prosperity for California. Although the Gold Rush lasted only seven years, California provided other opportunities for those who emigrated there in search of a better life. This Interactiv-eBook focuses on the history of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Fresno, and the people and events that influenced their transformations from small towns to booming cities. This nonfiction text builds literacy and social studies content knowledge through the use of intriguing primary source documents like maps, letters, images, articles, and...

Entre las criaturas fantásticas del Bosco y las intervenciones en el territorio de Robert Smithson median cinco siglos y una idea: la naturaleza como motor de la práctica artística, un hilo conductor filtrado por la sensibilidad de artistas de la talla de Leonardo, El Greco, Klimt o Dalí, entre otros tantos que el lector encontrará en este libro. Y es que la naturaleza es una y muchas, un concepto viajero que ha mutado en múltiples existencias, al ritmo de cada época histórica: desde la imagen del cuerpo renacentista a los imaginarios surrealistas, pasando por los géneros del...