Grito De Guerra Por Una Generacion/battle Cry for a Generation

What has a striped tail, red fur, and long, white whiskers? If you guessed a red panda, you're right! This book introduces early readers to a mystery animal by describing its features, one by one, using short simple sentences and eye-popping full-color photos. At the end of the book, the secret animal is revealed across a colorful, two-page spread. Young children will love showing off their beginning reading skills as they learn about this dazzling collection of wild and wonderful zoo animals--one clue at a time! Fast facts and habitat maps at the end of the book provide children with key...

Through bright images, charts and graphs, and informational text, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title provides readers with enlightening facts about what it takes to work in this exciting and unique profession. Featuring a glossary of terms, an index, a list of helpful websites, and an interview with a real-life deep-sea fisher, children will be engaged from cover to cover!

Tras los últimos y sombríos años del reinado de Luis XIV las costumbres cambian por completo: la aristocracia se entrega al lujo, convierte el deseo en motor de su vida y hace del amor un juego presidido por una libertad absoluta que provoca unos excesos que los siglos siguientes no alcanzarán. La novela libertina da cuenta de esa realidad, con delicadeza unas veces, con crueldad otras, pero siempre con la mujer como centro de todas las pasiones, capaz de seguir el juego con delicadeza o dejarse arrastrar hasta los límites más arriesgados del deseo. Toda la sociedad del siglo se embarca ...

Manifest Destiny the name given in the 1840s to a belief that the coast-to-coast expansion of the United States was both inevitable and justified, regardless of the means. Standing in the way were not only the native populations, but also the descendants of Spanish settlers who had lived in the Southwest for centuries. The racist belief that white men rightfully should expand their institutions into the area brought the United States into conflict with Mexico. War was declared in 1846, and by the time the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in 1848, ending the war, the US had gained...