Un Dia en la vida de un bombero / A Day in the Life of a Fire Fighter

Come find out what professional Crime Scene investigators do to solve a crime in this Spanish-translated nonfiction book! With detailed images and fascinating facts, readers learn about forensic science, criminal investigative evidence, and crime scene searches. This book includes an interview with a real-life CSI and a glossary, index, and list of useful sources. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

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,...

Integrate science, history, and math into literacy lessons with these high-interest, Spanish-translated books. Topics such as space exploration, endangered animals and money management are designed to engage and inform students. Sophisticated graphics, interactive text features promote critical thinking hand help students build vocabulary and increase visual literacy skills.

Martin Luther King, Jr. used peaceful protests to become one of the worlds greatest African-American Civil Rights leaders. Readers will learn all about his interesting and inspiring life in this engaging biographical reader that features informational, Spanish-translated text, vibrant images and a timeline of Kings life.

El deseo de escribir, nace ante la necesidad humana de compartir ideas, sentimientos, historias, vivencias, etc. Si usted lector, ha pensado en iniciar el oficio de la escritura y tiene dudas al respecto, permítame decir, que esta guía le despejará la mayoría y probablemente le mostrara otras que no había contemplado. Sólo necesita cumplir un sencillo requisito y cito al escritor Robert Penn Warren: “Los verdaderos escritores son aquellos que quieren escribir, necesitan escribir, tienen que escribir”. Ahora nombraremos algunas de las reglas a seguir para la escritura y en esta...

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

Ya situado en tiempos de la Gran Depresión o en los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ya en otros posteriores, marcados por el miedo al apocalipsis atómico o a la caza de brujas de la Guerra Fría, EL CINE NEGRO es sin discusión uno de los géneros mayores de la historia del cine. A su grandeza han contribuido directores Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh, Orson Welles, Samuel Fuller y John Huston , obras de culto El sueño eterno, La jungla de asfalto, La dama de Shanghai, Los sobornados, Laura, Callejón sin salida, Gilda e iconos incontestables, como Lauren Bacall, Marlene...