Gente que hay que conocer / People We Should Know

For thousands of years, militaries around the world were limited to male soldiers. However, throughout history, brave women have stepped out of the background and onto the battlefield. This biographical text covers the important women who’ve broken ground in the military. Famous historical figures such as Joan of Arc, Clara Barton, and Florence Nightingale are covered in depth, while the stories of modern-day heroes are presented to show how women are still affecting change on the front lines. A comprehensive timeline, fact boxes, and historical and modern images complete this...

Durante toda su existencia, CORPUS BARGA (1887-1975) mantuvo una activa atención hacia Madrid, su ciudad natal. Al cuidado de Arturo Ramoneda, esta recopilación reúne, en primer lugar, artículos periodísticos de los años en que residió en París (entre 1914 y 1930) y viajaba a la capital, en los que describe, desde perspectivas inéditas, calles y plazas tantas veces recorridas, y va dejando constancia de los cambios que observa, sin dejar de criticar aspectos de sorprendente perennidad («Madrid es un campo de batalla: por todas partes hay barricadas, obras, derribos»). En sus PASEOS ...

The jaguar is a ferocious animal that roams in areas of dense vegetation. He is the keeper of the American forests. The jaguar is strong, beautiful, famous, vain and a lonely animal. Young readers will be delighted with the jaguar as they learn more about this cat and his habitat.

This Spanish language edition of Yuyi Morales's Pura Belpré Award winner and New York Times Bestseller Dreamers is now available in paperback! Caldecott Honor artist and six-time Pura Belpré winner Yuyi Morales's gorgeous book Dreamers, and its Spanish language version Soñadores, are about making a home in a new place. Yuyi and her son Kelly's passage was not easy, and Yuyi did not speak any English at the time. But together, they found an unexpected, unbelievable place: the public library. There, book by book, they untangled the language of this strange new land, and learned to make their ...