Mi Primer Larousse De Los Como Se Hace?/ My First Larousse of How Is It Made?

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.

Posing questions which range from the most unusual matters to the most elementary ones, Questions that make your hair stand on end 2 focuses on the Earth and the Sun. Readers will be able to entertain themselves with very illustrative experiments and will also get to know what is so special about the Eiffel Tower, who Diogenes was, why Magellan lost a day on his way, why we get goose bumps, how can temperature be measured with a cricket, among other curious facts. In addition to the recognition of critics and readers, Questions that Make Your Hair Stand on End 2 was awarded the Premio...

"Adivinancero dos, además del cúmulo de adivinanzas populares, contiene más de cien nuevas creaciones de los autores, quienes se dieron a la tarea de ocultar entre sus versos enigmas novedosos por descubrir. En este segundo tomo se han incluido textos de Sor Juana y Quevedo, quienes a través de juegos de palabras hacen referencia velada a personajes de la época. Una adivinanza siempre representa un desafío a la inteligencia de quienes participan en su solución."--gandhi.com.mx

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...