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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.

Segunda novela de Riikka Pulkkinen, este relato profundamente sutil e intenso sobre un secreto de familia fue finalista del prestigioso Premio Finlandia, se mantuvo en las listas de los libros más vendidos durante meses y consolidó a su joven autora como la nueva revelación de las letras finlandesas. Para mitigar el sufrimiento de su abuela Elsa, una reconocida psicóloga infantil que padece una enfermedad incurable, Anna Ahlqvist le ofrece compartir los pequeños placeres que ambas adoran: hornear pasteles, disfrazarse juntas o improvisar un picnic en el parque. Durante uno de esos...

Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.

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.