Clara Barton

In this inspiring Spanish-translated biography, readers will learn about the life of Wilma Rudolph, the first American woman to win three gold medals at one Olympics. Readers will feel engaged and inspired as they read about Rudolph's incredible journey from a young girl with polio, to her first encounter with track and field, to becoming one of the best Olympic athletes of her time! A timeline of Rudolph's life, a glossary, and index are provided for further understanding of the content and improvement in vocabulary.

África tiene muchas caras: exótica y misteriosa, peligrosa y cruel, triste y explorada. Pero es mucho más que eso, es el lugar del origen del hombre, una tierra llena de historia y cultura. Es un continente con una geografía variada: 54 países donde conviven hombres y mujeres de culturas diferentes, que se expresan en más de mil lenguas. En África hay muchos países, todos ellos muy diversos, muchas religiones, ciudades populosas, aldeas, grandes líderes, mitos y colores. Estas son las otras Áfricas que se muestran en este libro.

The underlying theme of Three Centuries of Greek Culture under the Roman Empire is the idea that, under Roman rule, Greek culture was still alive and dynamic and continued to exert a degree of cultural domination, either real or apparent. So, we hope to analyse the meanings of concepts such as “Greek” or “Greece” in the Empire. Are we right to assume that there was a clear opposition between Greek and Roman? Or would it be more accurate to speak of a “Graeco-Roman world”? It would certainly be possible to make a list of “elements of identity”, on both sides —Greek and...

For use in schools and libraries only. Malala Yousafzai was a girl who loved to learn but was told that girls would no longer be allowed to go to school. She wrote a blog that called attention to what was happening in her beautiful corner of Pakistan and realized that words can bring about change. She has continued to speak out for the right of all children to have an education. In 2014 she won the Nobel Peace Prize.