Investigador forense (CSI)

"Describes living on a ranch including information about corrals, rodeos and roundups."--From source other than the Library of Congress

"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...

La de Luis Perozo Cervantes es una lírica de sucesivos y densos estados de conciencia. Su hilo conductor lo constituye la descripción de momentos privilegiados o cotidianos del desarrollo de su vida mental. En ese sentido, puede y debe ser leída como autobiografía espiritual. En ella percibimos la evolución psíquica del poeta: es una verdadera fenomenologia de su interioridad. La poesía de Luis Perozo ostenta una singularisima radicalidad metafórica. Pletórica de imágenes abigarradas, es pensamiento analógico químicamente puro. Dentro de la lírica venezolana, esa asombrosa...

Three Puerto Rican stories include the title story, which represents the land's indigenous Tainos; the tale of la Guinea, which is rooted in the nation's African culture; and la Mula's tale, a story of Spanish origin.