Frente al Ángel

El libro es un intento naturalista por recuperar ademanes, silencios y conversaciones donde el miedo se vuelve delgado y todo parece distribuirse en emociones que se trasladan a la errancia de las cosas. Sin recurrir a historias ostentosas o fantásticas, el eco narrativo del corazón vacío surge bajo el efecto de las horas que delinean una tristeza sin color y una suerte de humor seco. Cuentos que, al evitar el dramatismo, la tensión y la truculencia, reflejan una tediosa cotidianidad donde la vida transcurre normalmente. En esta ciudad narrada se percibe el enfrentamiento entre el pulso...

Carmelio the kangaroo, about to leave his mother's pouch for the first time, has two special surprises waiting for him.

La obra 'Educación Física y Currículum. Introducción crítica' aparece dentro de la literatura hispana específica en un momento en que el estudio del currículum despierta un gran interés dentro del mundo de la educación fisica española. Sin embargo, debemos recordar que la preocupación por los temas del currículum en la educación fisica surge, desde sus inicios, en conexión con la génesis del currículum como campo de estudio alrededor de los años veinte del siglo XX.

This Spanish-translated biography introduces readers to Jackie Robinson, the first African American to play Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Featuring lively images and inspirational text in conjunction with a helpful glossary, index, and timeline of Robinson's life, this title will engage readers as they read about Jackie's life as a college athlete, his start in the Negro League, his stand against segregation, and how he became the first person to ever get named Rookie of the Year.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...