Helen Keller

Uncover some of the most infamous disasters in the world including the Hindenburg, the sinking of the Titanic, the Dust Bowl, BP oil spill, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs, and the Chernobyl disaster in this shocking book. With its intriguing facts, vivid images, helpful graphs and maps, and informational text, this fascinating, Spanish-translated nonfiction title will keep readers informed, engaged, and interested from cover to cover.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to ever walk on the moon! Readers will be engaged from cover to cover as they learn about Armstrong's inspirational career as an astronaut in this biography that features additional information on gravity, NASA, and the moon landing. The vivid images work in conjunction with the supportive text, timeline, glossary, and index to allow for better understanding of the content. This book has been translated into Spanish.

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.

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.

In life there are lots of things that come and go, transform, or get left behind. It happens to everything . . . except this. This book deals with life changes and the passage of time with a great deal of sensitivity. To reinforce the message, each scene includes a page with special paper that invites us to witness the transformation.

Llega la última entrega de la trilogía sobre el asesinato de Olof Palme El jefe de la Policía Nacional sueca, Lars Martin Johansson, un hombre criado en el Norte, agradable y simpático, está a punto de jubilarse. No obstante, antes de abandonar su cargo toma una decisión que tendrá graves repercusiones: revisar los archivos del asesinato, aún no resuelto, de Olof Palme, una herida todavía abierta de la sociedad sueca. Lars Martin Johansson decide formar un nuevo grupo de policías para reanudar la investigación y consigue abrir una vía entre los miles de archivos que esconden la...

A lo largo de la historia se han escrito innumerables textos sobre el deseo y especialmente sobre el deseo en la relación sexual. En todos ellos aparece el juego, que muchas veces tiene que ver con la relación espectral, la de verte en el otro y la de verte a tí mismo y al otro como un espectro. James Lasdun, en plena vivencia de acoso por parte de una de sus alumnas de Escritura Creativa en Princeton, decide viajar a lugares de culto creados bajo la fuerza del deseo y recordar leyendas, novelas o dramas que sostienen nuestra cultura para entender el mecanismo del deseo no cumplido que nos ...