La era del Jazz y la Gran Depresión (The Jazz Age and the Great Depression)

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, it prompted the United States to enter World War II on multiple fronts. From Africa to Europe, the Pacific to the home front, explore the American experience of World War II through the first-hand documents of the war.

In AD 79, the residents of the booming Roman city of Pompeii were shocked when a nearby mountain exploded, releasing superhot ash, rock, and gas on the surrounding areas. What happens next is the extraordinary account of a volcano in action. Though the people who didn't flee Pompeii were doomed, the volcano preserved their remains, allowing us to better understand a fascinating time in the Roman Empire. Astonishing photographs of Pompeii, primary source records of the occurrence, and riveting text are just some highlights of this high-interest volume.

Todos filosofamos, pero no siempre sabemos que lo hacemos. Los libros de filosofía suelen desanimar a muchos lectores por su carácter abstracto e incomprensible. Sin embargo, sus temas centrales apenas han cambiado desde los tiempos de Platón y Aristóteles. La colaboración entre KATHERINE C. EVANS y JENNY TEICHMAN para explicar cuáles son esos temas básicos a quienes nunca han leído nada de filosofía ha dado como resultado la presente obra. FILOSOFÍA: UNA GUÍA PARA PRINCIPIANTES está dividida en seis apartados (metafísica, ética, política, ciencia, lógica, el sentido de la...

La autora es una periodista de Madrid (1977) y en esta novela presenta el shogo de la sociedad cubana de los 90' por un regimen sin sentido.

INTERVENTIONS WITH MINORS - Socio educative action - Most of the time, the irregular behaviour of young people is the outcome of what society has offered to them. This book studies the methodology, the levels of the intervention, preventive measures, assistance and rehabilitative intervention, in the work with families and minors in the network of primary attention. The situations of social risk, the necessities and the problems of minors are exposed making a special mention of the educational ones, and the professional figures that act in this field.