Darwin y el gran cuento de los animales

Colorful illustrations help children to learn words that might be used when going to the movie theater.

Following the stock market crash of 1929, the United States plummeted into the Great Depression and unemployment soared. But when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office the following year, he enacted federal programs, financial regulations, and public works projects to boost the economy and put America back together. In this instructive volume, students will discover fascinating facts and little-known details about this series of reforms, called the New Deal. They'll also be able to choose from a variety of hands-on projects, from map-making to writing and performing a speech to designing and...

The plot of The Empty Region takes the reader from the military camps of holy warriors in Pakistan, to the security corridors of the CIA and the FBI. It’s a fascinating puzzle inhabited by historical characters, including Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush, as well as officials aware of the tragedy´s secrets. Szichman leads us along the terminals where the air pirates of al-Qaida consummated their tragic ritual, makes us travel on the airplanes, turned into guided missiles, and recreates the 102 minutes when the burning towers of the World Trade Center became hell on earth. Although...

Envuelta en escándalo en el momento de su aparición (la primera edición, en 1857, padeció la supresión de los seis célebres poemas condenados por el Tribunal Correccional de París), «Las flores del mal» inauguró una poética innovadora que se traduce en la búsqueda de la musicalidad del poema, en la audacia de la imagen y en el famoso sistema de «correspondencias» que habría de dar origen al movimiento simbolista. Desgarrada entre la sensualidad y el espiritualismo, entre la atracción de la belleza y el poder del mal, la poesía de Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) trasladada de...