Trampas mentales

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,...

Al lado del mundo de la Belle Époque, ese fin del siglo XIX produjo una literatura que tenía en la belleza de la palabra y en un mundo de vaguedades y personajes etéreos sus mejores logros. El joven Marcel Proust se incorpora a la literatura precisamente en ese momento y acoge ese afán sutil por la belleza en Los placeres y los días, su primer libro, en el que, por debajo del «cestillo de flores» que quiere ser, aparecen soterrados los temas que iban a convertir su narración mayor, A la busca del tiempo perdido, en la gran novela del siglo XX. En los relatos, poemas y prosas poéticas ...

Explore the various islands that make up the Caribbean including the different plants and animals that inhabit this tropical paradise. Bright, dazzling photographs bring the Caribbean to life as readers are exposed to vocabulary related to the unique activities and customs of the Caribbean.

Very young children can get to know garden animals with this velvet-covered cloth book with interior flaps. The little fish and the frog from the bond, the bee in search of flowers, and little birds will join them in their first discoveries.