Amelia Earhart 6-Pack

The world around us is more powerful than we know. Discover how earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, and more have affected people and places around the world in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through informational text, vivid images, and stunning facts and charts, readers will learn about disasters such as The Great Potato Famine, Hurricane Katrina, Mount St. Helens, the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, as well as epidemics and pandemics such as the bubonic plague and swine flu.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to ever walk on the moon! Readers will be engaged from cover to cover as they learn about Armstrong's inspirational career as an astronaut in this biography that features additional information on gravity, NASA, and the moon landing. The vivid images work in conjunction with the supportive text, timeline, glossary, and index to allow for better understanding of the content. This book has been translated into Spanish.

Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most widely read books in the world. Readers will learn about Anne as she went into hiding from the Nazi Party in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Through vibrant images, informational text, timelines, and a glossary of terms, readers will discover the hardships Anne and her family went through in order to avoid being sent to a concentration camp. This inspiring biography enables children to look up to Anne and find hope in every situation, just as she did.

In this inspiring biography, readers will learn about the incredible journey of Helen Keller. Using informational, Spanish-translated text and expressive images and photos, readers will discover the undeniable determination that Keller had as a young deaf and blind girl and how her teacher, Anne Sullivan, helped her to read, write, speak, and graduate from college. With a timeline, a bibliography, and a glossary of terms, children are given the tools they need to expand their knowledge about this fascinating and inspiring woman.

Ser cortés, tener buenos modales, y mostrar bondad a los demás es el tema de este libro. Da a diferentes situaciones y circunstancias en las que la cortesía es importante.

¿Te apuntas a conocer el lado más animal de la historia? ¿Sabías que uno de los actores más famosos fue un perro? ¿O que las composiciones más populares de Mozart las inspiró un pajarito? ¿Y que hay un coronel en el ejército noruego que es, en realidad, un pingüino? En este libro descubrirás las historias reales de un montón de criaturas, peludas, de plumas y con escamas, que nos sorprendieron salvando vidas, creando obras de arte o porque cambiaron el rumbo de la humanidad. En definitiva, nos ayudaron a hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.

Introducción de Alberto Cardín. Grabados extraídos de la edición Imprenta del Guardia Nacional, Barcelona 1839. Poco conocidas dentro del conjunto de la obra de Valera, estas cartas forman un conjunto coherente, tanto en lo temporal como en lo espacial, que las convierte en el más interesante epistolario de viaje del siglo XIX español, por encima incluso de las Cartas Finlandesas de Ganivet, mucho menos vivas, personales y penetrantes. Epistolista por necesidad, debido a sus múltiples cargos diplomáticos, pero aficionado también al género epistolar por puro gusto literario, Valera...

Gender studies of Spain has thus far focused almost exclusively on women, leaving the social and political history of male homosexuality virtually untouched. "'Los Invisibles'" fills this significant gap in the study of Spanish culture by analyzing the effects of medical and legal regulation on male homosexuals. Drawing from the discourse of medical history, Richard Cleminson and Francisco Vazquez Garcia evaluate the impact of psychiatry, education, race, and the growth of gay subcultures on cultural representations of homosexuality in this pioneering study.