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...

Se trata de un manual con el que los lectores aprenderán los principio básicos para dibujar manga shojo. El libro describe detalladamente cómo dibujar la cabeza, el cuerpo y los ojos de las shojos y de los bishies, rasgos generales como la ropa y toda una serie de personajes típicos como las chicas mágicas y los chicos querreros. El manual también incluye información sobre escenas, planos, encuadres, ángulos, perspectivas, onomatopeyas, bocadillos de texto y múltiples efectos especiales para diseñar una novela gráfica dentro del género manga shojo.

"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...

We have summarized the essential of the following texts: From POLITICAL ESSAYS, "The crisis of the Welfare State and the depletion of the utopian energies", from THEORY AND PRAXIS, "The classsical doctrine of politics and its relationships with philosophy", a small fragment of "Science and technique as ideology and the article "Modernity, an uncomplete project".

A bilingual collection of humorous and serious poems about family, nature, and celebrations by a renowned Mexican American poet.