Mujeres en las ciencias (Women in Science)

For thousands of years, militaries around the world were limited to male soldiers. However, throughout history, brave women have stepped out of the background and onto the battlefield. This biographical text covers the important women who’ve broken ground in the military. Famous historical figures such as Joan of Arc, Clara Barton, and Florence Nightingale are covered in depth, while the stories of modern-day heroes are presented to show how women are still affecting change on the front lines. A comprehensive timeline, fact boxes, and historical and modern images complete this...

Martina es una mujer como cualquier otra. En el camino de la treintena, comienza a preguntarse cómo lograr ese amor del que todos hablan y solo unos pocos consiguen. Su hermana Amélie, una chica divertida y apasionada por las nuevas tecnologías, será su cicerone en la búsqueda del hombre perfecto. El amor ya no está en el aire, como decía la canción: ahora está en la red.

This Spanish language edition of Yuyi Morales's Pura Belpré Award winner and New York Times Bestseller Dreamers is now available in paperback! Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous book Dreamers, and its Spanish language version Soñadores, are about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi did not speak any English at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their ...

El maestro Yanguas (1682-1753) fue coetáneo de Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750) y Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757); Aragüés (1712 ca.?-1793) lo fue de Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) y Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779) y Bernardo del Manzano, que muere en 1805, de Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) y Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805). En España trabajan en este periodo Scarlatti, Farinelli, Corselli, Brunetti o Boccherini, pero también Francisco Valls, Pedro Rabassa, José de Nebra, Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Francisco Javier García Fajer, Francisco Manalt, Joseph Teixidor o Melchor López. Sólo este...

Students will gain a deeper understanding of the Cold War by delving into major social studies topics in this project-based examination. The volume presents a series of broad questions touching on major themes in the social studies curriculum. Each question is accompanied by several paragraphs examining that question in the context of the Cold War, as well as a detailed project that prompts readers to think critically and present their findings or opinions in a particular format, such as a poster with side-by-side comparisons, a persuasive essay, or a class presentation.