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Stephen F. Austin grew up to become known as the Father of Texas. Readers can learn about his interesting and incredible life in this appealing biography that has been translated into Spanish and highlights both Austin's life and Texas history. Through vivid images and illustrations, supportive text, an accommodating glossary and index, and fascinating facts, readers will learn about Texas pioneers, the empresario system, Freemasons, and how Austin became such an important figure in Texas history.

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.

Learn about the Victorian era while building your knowledge of equivalent fractions! Students will learn fractions while engaged in reading about the innovations of the Victorian era. This Spanish book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The glossary, index, and table of contents will further understanding of reading and math concepts, and the full-color images, practice problems, and math graphs and charts make learning math easy, practical, and fun. The Explore Math sidebars and Math...

Los temas de sus Odas son variadísimos, en ellas se exalta la amistad, el amor, la vida rústica o la grandeza de Roma. Sus motivos son también muy diferentes, en unas es un convite o un ánfora de vino o un pasaje de la mitología; en otras, lo será una reflexión moral, un suceso de la vida corriente o un elogio del emperador. En los Épodos predominan con más frecuencia los temas de tipo satírico aunque encontramos también temas amorosos o báquicos. Sin embargo, en la poesía de la Antigüedad los géneros vienen determinados por la métrica y no por la temática, así las Odas...