En clase con Jesús

Love story set in Madrid during the last days of the reign of Alfonso XIII. Isabel, an educated young woman from a pro-monarchy family meets Joaquín, whose background is very different. The author means to offer a complete and accurate picture of the ten turbulent years that determined the history of Spain in the twentieth century.

When many think of the Constitution, they think of the Founding Fathers: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin...but neither Jefferson nor Adams even signed it. Facts like this will surprise readers, while further information will enlighten them about both the crucial document called the U.S. Constitution as well as about its creation and ratification. This essential volume is a significant addition to any elementary social studies collection.

In this imaginative novel, Philip Roth converts the status of baseball from a national myth and pastime into the basis for biting satire, replete with heroism and treachery, wordplay, and an unforgettable cast of characters. Locked away in an asylum, once-famous sports journalist Word Smith attempts to write the great American novel through the story of one of the United States most celebrated baseball teams. The team s epic feats in the now-defunct Patriot League were soon forgotten after when, in the mid-1940s, Communist conspiracy infiltrated the heart of the United States in an effort to...

«En un mundo violento, erizado de muros y excavado con fosos, el universo de Francisco de Asís carecía de torreones y murallas. Pobre de bienes y de poder, estaba en paz con todos, vivía como hermano de los seres, y a todos ellos dirigía una mirada llena de respeto... Sus ojos habían llegado a ser maravillosamente humanos... Su horizonte no era la cristiandad de su tiempo, con sus fronteras que defender, sino Jesucristo, a quien amar, y el ser humano a quien salvar». Eso fue lo que llevó a Francisco más allá de las fronteras de la cristiandad. En plena cruzada, partió hacia Oriente ...