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Three Quarters Of Our Earth Is Blanketed By Water. How This Water Is Used, From Bathing To Irrigating Crops Is Addressed. That Water Travels In A Never-Ending Pattern Called The Water Cycle. Tips On How To Conserve Our Most Important Natural Resource Are Included.

This book looks at natural structures such as plants, animal bodies, mountains, caves, rock formations, and icebergs, the materials from which they are made, and their colors, shapes, and textures. It shows structures made by animals, such as beehives and bird nests. This wonderful book with amazing photos will encourage young readers to notice colors and shapes in nature and how they relate to the purpose of structures.

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an...

Bajo este nombre escondió su prueba de amor a la belleza de la poesía esta chilena, ciudadana del mundo y amante de suprimir fronteras. Su inspirada lírica de sentimientos intensos la ha convertido en un símbolo para los anhelos ideales de todo el mundo latinoamericano. Premio Nobel 1945.

Científico, pintor, médico y naturalista, las "Cartas sobre la pintura de paisaje" de Carus desbordan los límites de una canónica artística al uso y nos sitúan en el centro de la concepción románica de la naturaleza. No sólo porque exponen con precisión -no exenta de los recursos retóricos de época- las ideas centrales del paisajismo romántico de la primera mitad del siglo XVIII, también porque establecen con nitidez la relación entre arte, estética y ciencia, y , en todos los casos, la relación del hombre con la naturaleza. En palabras de Carus: =por ellas y mediante ellas...