Una mano a la pata: Protegiendo los animales (Hand to Paw: Protecting Animals) 6-Pack

Help readers make a difference by encouraging them to learn about the various ways the environment needs our help and the things they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Readers will learn about the effects of pollution, fossil fuels, renewable and non-renewable resources, deforestation, and recycling through interesting images and charts and informational text. This Spanish-translated nonfiction title features a glossary of terms and a list of helpful websites that encourages children to take part in helping the environment in many different ways.

Animal trainers care for many different types of animals! Children will explore some of the methods that trainers use, such as affection bonding and classical and operant conditioning, while simultaneously gaining an understanding of animal instincts and animal rehabilitation. Readers are invited to learn about the variety of animals that trainers work with and are encouraged to find an area of study to focus on if they want to become an animal trainer. With stunning images, interesting facts, a glossary of useful terms, informational text, and an interview with a real-life animal trainer,...

..".Tantos pensamientos la hicieron sentir extraña ¿Y si estoy loca? Bueno, estar loca no era tan malo, porque legalmente ello supondría el desconocimiento total de todas sus obligaciones. Pero si quería tomar esa premisa o afirmación como cierta (como su principio de vida), según su ex profesor de matemáticas, tendría entonces que demostrarla y para ello... "Antes de demostrar una teoría, primero debes delimitar y definir, el universo que va a ser puesto en estudio...." Visto así, ¿qué sería estar loca? Estar loca..." En una ciudad y un trabajo donde nada parece cambiar, Sandra, ...

A Swedish engineer arrives in Tenerife on a business trip. But it is Carnival time. Ullman soon learns that, during Carnival, one had better join the celebration.

"Four score and seven years ago..." begins Abraham Lincoln's beautiful speech commemorating the three-day battle that turned the tide of the Civil War. The South had been winning up to this point. So how did Union troops stop General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North? With black-and-white illustrations throughout and sixteen pages of photos, this turning point in history is brought vividly to life.

En El vuelo de la razón (Goya, pintor de la libertad), Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) repasa su existencia al hilo de tres momentos de su vida (mientras pinta tres de sus cuadros más emblemáticos). En 1800, realiza La familia de Carlos IV, obra realista y nada complaciente con los personajes retratados. En 1814, tras la Guerra de la Independencia y el final de la ocupación francesa, pinta Los fusilamientos del 3 de mayo de 1808, cuadro donde aspira a hacer oír, «por medio del pincel», el grito de la humanidad oprimida. Ese mismo año, el nuevo rey Fernando VII, entra en Madrid, disuelve ...