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Encourage readers to learn about the various animals that need help and what they can do to make a difference through volunteerism in this inspiring, Spanish-translated nonfiction title. Readers will discover different programs and organizations that work to protect animals, animal habitats, and endangered species through vibrant images and charts and informational text. Featuring a list of helpful and useful websites, this nonfiction title encourages readers to take part in animal activism in any way they can--from baking homemade dog biscuits to exploring careers that help sick or injured...

Theodor W. Adorno fue testigo de la relación amorosa entre Alban Berg, el más celebrado compositor de la segunda escuela vienesa, y Hanna Fuchs, hermana de Franz Werfel. Del legado de ésta provienen las 14 cartas «secretas» de Alban Berg a la «amada lejana» que, junto con otros documentos (incluidas dos cartas de Adorno a Helene Berg), conforman el escenario del nacimiento de la Suite Lírica del músico. Los comentarios y análisis biográficos y musicológicos que integran esta edición de las cartas permiten acceder, a partir de la experiencia personal, al proceso creativo de Berg y ...

This book describes the process of plant growth through vocabulary rich text and descriptive photographs. Readers will explore a plant as it grows from a seed to a tall plant in the sun.

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...