El mundo de la pintura

Take a trip to New Orleans with a young girl and her family as they attend one of the world's biggest parties: Mardi Gras! Learn all about the history of this fascinating festival as you practice subtraction strategies. This fiction math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, engaging sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning subtraction strategies relevant and fun. Text features include a table of contents, glossary, and index to increase understanding of math and reading...

Don Quijote se sintió presa del terror cuando supo que su «verdadera historia» era producto de la imaginación febril de un historiador árabe, Cide Hamete Benengeli. Su miedo estaba justificado, dada la proclividad de la literatura árabe a los elementos maravillosos, los mismos que Ramón Menéndez Pidal consideró foráneos a la narrativa española cuando se refirió al «invencible desvío que la inventiva ibérica siente por las quimeras fantásticas». La presente edición de la leyenda morisca de Buluqiya constituye una excepción a las teorías del ilustre maestro, y a la vez...

Defines pulleys, explains their functions, and suggests simple experiments to demonstrate how they work.

Readers learn about the various animals that need help and what they can do to make a difference through volunteerism in this engaging book. Discover different programs and organizations that work to protect animals, animal habitats, and endangered species through vibrant images and charts and informational text. Featuring a list of helpful and useful websites, this Spanish-translated nonfiction title encourages readers to take part in animal activism in any way they can--from baking homemade dog biscuits to exploring careers that help sick or injured animals.