Pickles + Ocho

A selection of children's poems by Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, José A. Goytisolo, Nicolás Guillén, and others.

Aunque los mayas desconocían las aplicaciones de la rueda y no utilizaban los animales ni para el trabajo ni para el transporte, lograron crear una de las civilizaciones más brillantes de la historia. A pesar de que dispusieron de una tecnología muy limitada, colonizaron una parte importante de América Central y construyeron impresionantes monumentos.

Students will develop their geometry skills as they study the geometric shapes of modern art and read about the innovative artists who turned the art world upside down. This Spanish book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach geometry concepts. Text features include a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to increase students' vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, math charts and diagrams, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice...

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...