¿Qué Son Los Recursos? (What Are Resources?)

Apartments, houses, log cabins, and houseboats are all kinds of homes, though they can look vastly different. Around the world, families settle into homes that can look quite different than these, yet serve the same purpose: to shelter. This volume will capture readers' imaginations, allowing them to view various types of homes, including the yaodongs of China and Queenslanders of Australia. Beautiful photographs serve to illustrate both architectural and cultural concepts.

El famoso escritor Cósimo Herrera, eterno candidato a un Nobel que no llega nunca, decide retirarse a Ribanova, una pequeña ciudad de provincias apartada y brumosa. Allí conocerá a Luisa, una muchacha veinte años más joven, y que desde el primer momento sentirá por el forastero un amor tan apasionado como imposible.

Mimoun y su hija nacen para cumplir los papeles que el patriarca les ha asignado, unos roles establecidos hace miles de años. Pero las circunstancias les llevan a cruzar el estrecho de Gibraltar y a entrar en contacto con las costumbres occidentales. La protagonista sin nombre tratará de comprender por qué su padre se ha convertido en una figura despótica, mientras inicia un camino sin retorno hacia su propia identidad y libertad.

If we could take a trip to the center of the Earth, what would we find? In this amazing book readers can do just that with the help of a special ship that can handle the extreme heat and pressure deep beneath Earth’s crust. Digging through a few miles of the crust is just the start of the nearly 4,000-mile journey to Earth’s core. Readers might be surprised to find that not all of the trip is through solid rock, as the intense heat does strange and amazing things to the material that makes up our planet!