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The books in this series put within the reach of young adult readers the lives of individuals--scientists, explorers, humanists--who distinguished themselves by their contributions to history and progress. They are written in an engaging style and contain an abundance of information that brings each individual's achievements to life. Charlemagne, also known as Charles the Great, was king of France and emperor of the West. Since the beginning of his reign in 768, he sought to unite Western Europe by expanding into what became the Carolingian Empire. This biography explains how, thanks to his...

Para Jorge Luis Borges, que no dejó nunca de leerlo y admirarlo, Chesterton fue un incomparable inventor de cuentos fantásticos: «Pienso que Chesterton es uno de los primeros escritores de nuestro tiempo y ello no sólo por su venturosa invención, por su imaginación visual y por la felicidad pueril o divina que traslucen todas sus páginas, sino por sus virtudes retóricas, por sus puros méritos de destreza.» Fiel exponente de estas aseveraciones es el ciclo de relatos agrupados bajo el título de El hombre que sabía demasiado, una de las obras predilectas de Borges, en la que el...

To educate in an integral manner implies not just attending to the logical and rational aspects of the mind, but also to intuition and creativity, to fantasy and irrational aspects. Basing on the more recent contributions on creativity, the authors of this book propose activities that develop intuition, imagination and fantasy; they defend creative use of language through metaphors and symbols; they teach how it is possible to develop the capacity "to think with images" among the pupils and to promote in them a playful attitude that, while at the same time extending the limits of freedom in...

Recopilación de 150 juegos concebidos para complementar y favorecer el desarrollo integral de los pequeños (psicomotricidad, capacidad de observación, etc.), así como para facilitar la comunicación y la relación entre padres e hijos.