Salvar la cultura en una catástrofe

Nature is not always kind. Natural disasters like earthquakes and storms can wipe out cities. Entire cultures and their histories are at risk of being lost. When disaster strikes, some people work to save cultural items. They preserve culture for the future! Created in collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution, this Smithsonian Informational Text builds students' reading skills while engaging their curiosity about STEAM topics through real-world examples. It features a hands-on STEAM challenge that guides students through every step of the engineering design process and is perfect for...

Cañas y barro (1902) es una de las novelas fundamentales de Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, incluida entre las 100 mejores novelas del siglo XX. Magistral en la organización de la trama, en las descripciones y el peso de la narración, la obra emociona y conmociona al lector. Con unos personajes veraces y de gran fuerza, ambientada en la Albufera valenciana a finales del siglo XIX, la novela no se limita al cuadro de costumbres sino que presenta un drama humano con gran actualidad. Tomando como centro de la narración el devenir de una familia que habita El Palmar, los Paloma, la historia presenta ...

Is conversational Spanish turning a little too tricky for you? Do you have no idea on how to order a meal or book a room at a hotel? If your answer to any of the previous questions was ‘Yes’, then this book is for you! If there’s even been something tougher than learning the grammar rules of a new language, it’s finding the way to speak with other people in that tongue. Any student knows this – we can try our best at practicing, but you always want to avoid making embarrassing mistakes or not getting your message through correctly. ‘How do I get out of this situation?’ many...

Al afirmar que el arte es la actividad fundamental de la vida, Nietzsche pone la estética en el centro de su filosofía. Este lugar privilegiado de la estética se mantiene a lo largo de toda la meditación del filósofo. Así, en sus primeros escritos, el mundo es un dios que se redime de su dolor y contradicción creando el ámbito de la apariencia, de modo que la existencia es contemplada como la obra de arte surgida de la fuerza primordial: Dionisio habla el lenguaje de Apolo. En sus últimos escritos la realidad es concebida como una serie de fuerzas múltiples que, debido a su exceso...

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...