El ferrocarril transcontinental (The Transcontinental Railroad)

Lo que más conocemos de la historia de pueblos y naciones son las grandes hazañas y los personajes, héroes o villanos, que las protagonizaron. Pero la vida no sólo bulle en las grandes ciudades y en los centros de poder; también en minúsculas aldeas hay gentes que se convierten en héroes de lo cotidiano, que únicamente realizan la hazaña de sobrevivir en un ambiente a menudo rudo y hostil. La breve e intensa historia, cargada de anécdotas y de situaciones, a veces esperpénticas, que vivieron padres y abuelos durante los todavía duros años 1958-59 y 60, dicen mucho de las penurias ...

From Basic Information About Air Pressure To Cloud Formations, This Book Goes On To Explain Violent Weather Conditions And How To Prepare For Them. Also Talks About The Earth's Changing Weather Patterns And Climates And What Role We Play In Those Changes.

With life-like illustrations and simple text, books in this series introduce children to different dinosaurs and the unique characteristics. Children learn the features of each dinosaur, what they ate, and whether they were predator or prey to other dinosaurs. The books also introduce fossils and how they play a role in our knowledge of dinosaurs' existence.

The American Southeast stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, including the states of Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama as well as parts of Virginia and Maryland. But before that region was divided into states, native groups lived there. From how they found food to what their spiritual beliefs were, the book’s main content presents the traditional lifestyles of the Seminole, Choctaw, and Creek peoples, and the other groups that lived in the southeast. Readers learn even more from fun fact boxes and the historical images and full-color photographs that show what...