Una habitación para abuelita (Nana's New Room)

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

Our solar system is made up of the millions of objects in the sky above us, including the Sun, moon, stars, and planets. This book examines the four planets closest to the Sun, known as the rocky planets. All four planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are described with information about their atmosphere, landscape, orbits, and Fun Facts that give additional information about each of these rocky planets! This book will allow students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be predicted.

La célebre trilogía de Corfú compuesta por «Mi familia y otros animales» (BA 0501), «Bichos y demás parientes» (BA 0502) y «El jardín de los dioses» (BA 0503) muestra el inimitable talento de Gerald Durrell para dibujar personajes, contar anécdotas, describir paisajes y analizar las peculiaridades de la vida animal. ENCUENTROS CON ANIMALES reúne las charlas dadas en la BBC por el gran naturalista «en intervalos entre encabezar expediciones a diversas partes del mundo, capturar una multitud de animales raros, casarme, tener el paludismo y escribir varios libros». Con la misma...

¿Sabías que James Madison ayudó a escribir la Constitución de Estados Unidos de América? Fue también el cuarto presidente de los Estados Unidos. Podrás encontrar estos y muchos otros datos interesantes en James Madison, uno de los libros de Padres Fundadores. Did you know that James Madison helped write the U.S. Constitution? He was also the fourth president of the United States. These interesting facts and more can be found in James Madison, a Founding Fathers book.