Las Misiones de California

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book explores California’s unique geography: the coastal region, the Central Valley, the mountain region, and the desert region. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade...

How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book focuses on the creation of the Transcontinental Railroad. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade level. Packed with information and primary source maps, images, and...

From the water they drink to the trees they climb, kids are connected to the natural world in big and surprising ways. With simple, poetic text and exquisite artwork, this book does more than introduce kids to these connections. It sparks their imagination. It starts conversations, and it delights all ages. Combining the ideas of environmental author Elin Kelsey with the inventive three-dimensional dioramas of artist Soyeon Kim, this remarkable picture book reveals ties that are often sensed yet seldom explained. And in a world dominated by technology, never have these incredible connections...

A koala rests comfortably in an Australian eucalyptus forest, penguin families gather on icebergs of Antarctica, an alligator protects her young in its mouth, a hippopotamus teaches her baby the art of bathing, and an elf owl peeks out of its cactus nest. These captivating images, taken by some of the world's leading wildlife photographers, introduce young children to similarities that exist between the animal world and their own. Photographs of animal habitats from all over the world teach young readers that all living creatures live in special places they call home. And by seeing animals...

El proposito de este estudio es destacar algunos aspectos historicos sobresalientes de la condicion de la mujer en las sociedades islamicas. No se intenta discernir de modo estricto el trazado evolutivo de su desarrollo historico, sino presentar una imagen razonablemente inteligible que acomode sus particularidades mas preocupantes. Se puntualiza la ambiguedad de algunos pasajes de la sunna y se los contrasta con el texto coranico. Se identifican algunos de los supuestos conceptuales de la ley islamica, sharia, que contribuyeron a su decadencia y desprestigio. Se destacan algunos rasgos...

Ramiro Villaseca es un chico de procedencia humilde. Su madre trabaja en una vaquería y el padre desapareció antes de que él naciera. Un amigo de la madre se ha encargado de la educación del niño y una de los valores que con mayor interés le ha inculcado es la ambición: “abandona este mundo de pobreza, hijo mío, e intenta buscar una vida mejor”. Ramiro sigue los preceptos de Isidro y a la primera oportunidad que tiene, se casa con Julia, la hija de un posadero. El matrimonio no resulta como él había pensado, y un día en el que se encuentra sólo en la taberna, un viajero que...