La hora del té (Time for Tea)

Een vrouwelijke detective van midden dertig verkeert in geldnood. Onverwacht krijgt ze een lucratieve opdracht: het opsporen van een verdwenen lid van een oude Ierse boyband.

It was September 14, 1814, and America and Great Britain were at war. Frances Scott Key watched from the deck of a British ship, where he was being held captive, as cannons exploded around them. After 25 hours, the fighting ceased and Key peered through the clearing smoke, looking for some sign as to the outcome of the battle. Was the American flag still flying? His wartime experience inspired Key to write a poem, which was later set to music and became America’s national anthem. This book tells the story of the inspiration behind our national anthem, which helped transform the flag into a...

Imprudentes, atrevidas, luchadoras. Éstas son sólo algunas de las categorías a través de las cuales Berta Vías estudia la imagen de la mujer en el marco de la narrativa occidental. Desde la parábola de la emancipación que representa la caída de Eva o la de la liberación del espíritu por parte de Pandora, algo que según los mitos de la antigüedad el hombre debe a la curiosidad insaciable de la mujer, pasando por la fiebre que el teatro del Siglo de Oro español sufrió respecto al tema de la mujer disfrazada de hombre, hasta llegar a un nuevo tipo femenino, que de convertirse en la ...

Our closest solar system is about 10 light years away. It has two main types of planets. Some are rocky and small, like planet Earth, while others are huge balls of gas, like Jupiter. Learn about how astronomers once thought our solar system was the one and only, to how they have now discovered hundreds of stars with planets orbiting them, which means there could be billions of solar systems in outer space! Just maybe, these alien worlds could host life, like our own amazing planet. This book allows students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be...