Los 100 animales más famosos de la historia

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...

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

Impulsado por la nostalgia, Oki Toshio, un escritor casado, decide viajar a Kioto para oír las campanas del templo en el Año Nuevo. Pero además quiere ver a Otoko, antigua amante a la que había humillado. Todavía hermosa, Otoko, ahora pintora, vive con su protegida Keiko, una joven amoral, sensual y apasionada de apenas veinte años. Y lo que comienza como un reencuentro sentimental entre el maduro Oki y la discreta Otoko se convertirá. Por voluntad de Keiko, decidida a vengar a su mentora, en un cruel drama de amor y destrucción.

In graphic novel format, the story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the events leading up to the shooting, and what happened after.