Ingeniería asombrosa: Rascacielos notables: Área (Engineering Marvels: Stand-Out Skyscrapers: Area)

Un alegre recordatorio de que de que todos los niños son únicos y especiales de la mano del creador de El punto. Reynolds recuerda a los lectores que sean pacientes, tenaces y honestos. ¡Porque en todo el mundo solo hay un TÚ! Naciste para SER muchas cosas. Por dondequiera que te lleve la vida, recuerda... Ser curioso... Ser intrépida... Ser paciente... Ser valiente... Y, sobre todo, no te olvides de... ¡SER TÚ MISMO!

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...

Discusses the various features of Australia, including its climate, mountains, rivers, lakes, animals, vegetation, coral reefs, flightless birds, population, and cities, and history of the Aborigines.

Why did the Civil War begin? Which states were part of the Union and which were part of the Confederacy? Readers will learn the answers to these questions and more as they move through this fascinating nonfiction Spanish-translated title. The easy-to-read informational text, engaging facts, and vivid images and illustrations help highlight some of the aspects that led up to the Civil War, including slavery, the Underground Railroad, abolitionists, the Fugitive Slave Act, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Lincoln-Douglas debates. The accessible table of contents works in conjunction with the...