Our Dynamic Earth Guía Didáctica

An ideal book for young Spanish students; proposes a new progression that promotes language acquisition and consolidation of contents, offers numerous grammatical and lexical and formal practice aid activities within the unit and contains a competency evaluation at the end of each chapter.

When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from cash-strapped France in 1803, he doubled the size of the United States without really knowing what he was getting. He dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore a territory that would include part or all of fifteen future states and to seek a water route to the West Coast. Westward expansion began immediately, all for the bargain price of 15 million dollars. This book richly explores this fascinating part of history.

Esta obra es una aproximación crítica al estudio de las relaciones de Manolo Millares Sall (1926-1972) con la historia de su convulso tiempo y la influencia de éste en la pintura, en su creación en general. Partiendo de una imagen guardada por Millares en su álbum personal de recuerdos, la fotografía de 1945 de los Mussolini colgados en la plaza Loreto de Milán, el autor revisa la conmoción que los tiempos en los que vivió, y el conocimiento de ciertos hechos trágicos de los mismos, derivaron hacia su sentido artístico. La destrucción y el amor corrían parejos por páramos...

Readers will love this exciting biography about the famous cowgirl, Annie Oakley! Through colorful images, helpful text, an accessible glossary and index, and timeline of Annie's life, readers will discover the amazing things that Annie could do with a gun, how she earned the nickname Little Sure Shot, and how she became one of the stars of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show! This book has been translated into Spanish.