La Jirafa

This book introduces you to hippopotamuses, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.

Can you find these in the book? robin, tulip. What is your favorite season? Books in the Seasons series explore seasonal changes from a child's point of view. Fin out about the sights, sounds, tastes, and smells that each season brings.

Get a close-up look at animals in the zoo, from appearance to behavior to babies. This series uses vivid photos to compare life in the wild and life in captivity in terms of habitat, activity, and diet.

En una carta a Jo Bousquet, Simone Weil confesaba su deseo de ser considerada una poetisa antes que una filsofa. Su obra potica, sin embargo, se reduce a un puado de poemas, reunidos en esta edicin. Los primeros, poemas de juventud, son ante todo un ejercicio formal donde prima la intencin esttica sobre los contenidos, aunque ya revelen las inquietudes sociales y polticas de su autora, y muestren su tendencia a trasladar una realidad liberada de toda fantasa. Los poemas ltimos (Los astros, El mar, Necesidad y La puerta), escritos en Marsella entre 1941 y 1942, elaboran las ideas que ms...

Accelerate through the pages of this book and introduce readers to physics and how it assists objects to move. This stimulating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title includes real-life examples and basic experiments to facilitate further understanding of physics. Readers will learn about velocity, Newton's Second Law of Motion, thrust, gravity, momentum, and g-force through vibrant and colorful images, fascinating facts in conjunction with informational text, accommodating graphs and diagrams.

Hay dos cosas que son ciertas aquí, ahora y siempre. La primera es que la historia la oficial, la de mayúsculas reverenciales la escriben los ganadores. La segunda es que esa historia no soporta el sentido del humor ni las paradojas, es decir las verdades a secas. Basta con que brinque un dato ignorado por los redactores de turno, las palabras inocentes de alguien que recuerde su infancia, un recorte amarillento, para que la Historia se convierta en caricatura de sí misma y los próceres, mártires y grandes gestas sean materia de guiñol. La consecuencia de aplicar el humor a la historia...

Children will love the books in this witty, comic-like series on fine arts. With such subjects as awful art, these books succeed in capturing young readers' attention and sustain their interest through engaging illustrations and clever humor. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.