En manos de las furias

Cuando la naturaleza se vuelve loca, el corazón también. Ganadora del Story Prize, finalista del National Book Award y uno de los Mejores Libros del Año según The New Yorker y Time Magazine. En un mundo en el que el clima se ha vuelto impredecible, un lugar a la vez domesticado y salvaje en el que acechan los peligros feroces de la naturaleza, las mayores amenazas siguen siendo emocionales y psicológicas. Un refugio familiar puede ser destruido por una pantera que merodea o por un secreto sexual. Dos hermanas abandonadas, un hombre que crece rodeado de serpientes cazadas por su padre,...

An introduction to ostriches, including their size, diet, and everyday behavior and highlighting differences between those in the wild and those living in zoos.

Correlated to the science curriculum, our Spanish-language series describes how the types of homes that different animals build reflect adaptations to their environments. Through simple, easy-to-follow text, each volume looks at each type of home as a shelter from predators and weather and a place to store food and raise young. Young readers also learn how animal homes and human homes fulfill similar needs and functions.

Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories—and the discoveries that prove and disprove them—are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed...

Resum: Les dones de Tunísia manifesten la lluita que s'esdevé en elles per aconseguir la llibertat i la igualtat respecte l'home. La dona se sent en els límits de la desil·lusió i, és per això, que opta per oposar-se a les tradicions i als tabús.