Haciendo Formas

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...

Colorful photographs and English and Spanish text teach children some of the many things different animals can do, from fly and swim to eat and do tricks. On board pages.

«Ahora que las mujeres participan en la literatura en pie de igualdad, va siendo hora de que nos digan cómo ven lo real, nos den esa mitad que falta para ver cabalmente lo que existe. En esta su primera novela, Alicia Giménez Bartlett va por ese camino y va pisando bien.» GONZALO TORRENTE BALLESTER, 1984 A la bella Pamela y la frágil Clarisa, al financiero Finn, a madame Tevener, a Octosílabo el ferroviario y al poeta Léonard no les une nada... salvo EXIT, la peculiar salida de emergencia que han escogido para sus vidas. Tras pagar los correspondientes honorarios a la organización,...

Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.