Time for Kids En Espanol - Level 3

This engaging, Spanish-translated nonfiction title allows readers to explore an exciting career as an animator.

Think you'd like to be a fire fighter? Learn about the special equipment fire fighters use, their role in community safety, and their lives at the station. This book features a comprehensive timeline of the history of firefighting from its origins in ancient Rome through firefighting practices of today plus vocabulary related to fire fighters and fire safety.

This nonfiction Spanish-translated reader gives children an in-depth look at what a career as a police officer is like. Readers will learn about various aspects of life as a police officer--from being accepted into the academy to keeping streets safe. Readers will learn what a typical day in the police academy is like as well as a day in the field as an officer. Through helpful charts and diagrams and colorful images in conjunction with informational text and stunning facts, readers discover important aspects of keeping communities safe, including what's inside the patrol car, K-9 units,...

The Underground Railroad was the massive effort by slaves and free people to secretly bring thousands of blacks to freedom in the North during the 19th century. This thought-provoking book will capture readers’ imaginations and fill them with awe for the brave “conductors” and “passengers” on the Railroad. They’ll learn about the many safe havens, called “depots,” that housed fugitives and the secret passages within them that hid slaves from their pursuers. Information about the American Civil War and the Fugitive Slave Act, biographies of figures vital to the Underground Railroad,...

¿Qué ver una vez dentro del museo? ¿Cómo aprovechar el tiempo en que se pueden recorrer sus salas? ¿Qué es lo más importante, lo más curioso, lo más original? ¿Cuáles son las joyas que alberga el museo?Noah Charney, un especialista en el mundo del arte y un experto en comunicar su sabiduría, guía a través de las obras del museo, comenta y analiza lo más importante de cada pieza y acompaña al lector en un inolvidable paseo por los museos de Barcelona: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Catedral de Santa Eulàlia, Museu d'Arqueologia, Museu Picasso, Fundació Joan Miró,...

A powerful and poetic play from the author of Death and the Maiden. A Man and a Woman in purgatory - a soul-less white room. Each is interrogated in turn by the other. Each is groping for forgiveness and contrition. But one of them has done something unforgiveable...

Como es sabido, el diseño surge como consecuencia lógica del desarrollo industrial de las sociedades tecnológicamente más avanzadas y puede explicarse, por tanto, en función de esa relación causa-efecto. Sin negar su obvia dependencia de tiempo y lugar, las razones del diseño, sus lecturas e interpretaciones, no se agotan en el exclusivo ejercicio metonímico, desde fuera, sino que invitan a ser entendidas también desde dentro, a partir de su propia realidad física y la reflexión que en ellas palpita. El libro adopta este criterio en su parte esencial: emparentar realizaciones...