El Dia de Muertos / The Day of the Dead

A la casa de Carlos ha llegado un bebé, su primer hermano. Carlos pregunta cuánto más tendrá que soportarlo. Su padre contesta que tendrá que ser para siempre.

"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...

Where did the sunflower come from? How does it grow so tall? How can its thin stalk support such a large and heavy head? These and many other questions are answered in this dazzling book. Using lushly detailed illustrations and photographs, the book takes us inside the sunflower to examine its stem, root system, leaves, and flowering heads, proving an understanding of this unique plant's structure, growth, flowering, reproduction, and cultivation.

Where Do You Come From? Learn About Heritage And How To Build Your Own Family Tree. Social Studies Based Leveled Readers For Use In Guided Reading And Social Studies Instruction.

Esta obra, recoge once ensayos cuyo denominador común es el abordaje de pasajes de la historia intelectual del siglo XX mexicano. Por sus páginas, el lector verá transitar a multitud de intelectuales, desde Justo Sierra y Ezequiel Chávez hasta José Emilio Pacheco, pasando por Félix Palavicini, José Vasconcelos, Martín Luis Guzmán, Daniel Cosío Villegas y Carlos Fuentes, entre muchos más, con una atención especial en Alfonso Reyes y en la presencia de los intelectuales españoles exiliados en nuestro país a partir de finales de los años treinta. Su lectura llevará también al...