¡Trabajo salvaje! Entrenadores de animales (Wild Work! Animal Trainers) (Spanish Version)

Introduce readers to the various ways they can participate in volunteerism with this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers will discover many different charities and programs, including The Salvation Army, Feeding America, Habitat for Humanity, and Doctors Without Borders through vivid images, charts, and informational text. This nonfiction title aids in encouraging children to make a difference in their own communities by writing to newspapers or politicians or by participating in fund-raising and various programs or charities.

Readers learn about the various animals that need help and what they can do to make a difference through volunteerism in this engaging book. Discover different programs and organizations that work to protect animals, animal habitats, and endangered species through vibrant images and charts and informational text. Featuring a list of helpful and useful websites, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title encourages readers to take part in animal activism in any way they can--from baking homemade dog biscuits to exploring careers that help sick or injured animals.

Help readers make a difference by encouraging them to learn about the various ways the environment needs our help and the things they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Readers will learn about the effects of pollution, fossil fuels, renewable and non-renewable resources, deforestation, and recycling through interesting images and charts and informational text. This Spanish-translated nonfiction title features a glossary of terms and a list of helpful websites that encourages children to take part in helping the environment in many different ways.

Many people around the world live in the forest biome. That’s because temperate forests grow in places where winter isn’t too cold and summer isn’t too hot. Readers learn that we need to care for this biome that’s in so many backyards. Simple, accessible language describes common trees and characteristics of both evergreen and deciduous forests, and full-color photographs highlight their beauty. Animals and their adaptations to this biome are addressed in the main content as well.

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...

La presente obra pretende ser un acercamiento a la evolución histórica de uno de los pueblos más destacados y originales de la Antigüedad. Entre los griegos nacieron la filosofía, el teatro, la historia como ciencia, el sistema político que conocemos como democracia, el amor a la libertad individual, el placer por los deportes y muchos otros elementos que hoy son componentes básicos y cotidianos de nuestra vida. Se ha dicho, con razón, que analizando sus ideales, costumbres y gustos nos sentimos más cercanos a ellos que a otros pueblos u otras etapas más próximos en el tiempo....

Con el título común «Elementos de retórica» se reúnen las dos obras fundamentales que Giambattista Vico consagró a esta cuestión: la lección inaugural del curso académico de 1708 de la Universidad de Nápoles, publicada más tarde como «De nostri temporis studiorum ratione», y el manual de la materia, que Vico explicó en Nápoles entre 1698 y 1741, las «Institutiones oratoriae», y no llegó a editar en vida. Ambas constituyen un capítulo importante de la historia del humanismo y dan testimonio de la conexión entre éste y la retórica. Como ya advirtiera Hans-Georg Gadamer,...