My World Learner's Dictionary

Gente que hay que conocer is a series of biographies designed for beginning readers. Each book introduces one of the most important individuals in recent times and explains what makes her or him so remarkable. People We Should Know, a companion English-language edition, is also available.

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 ...

What is work? You may think work is doing chores or going to a job, but you do work every time you move something from one place to another. With experiments that demonstrate these fundamental concepts, discover how you work, and how simple machines make doing work easier.

Follow a day in the life of two children from different cities! This entertaining title has been translated into Spanish and encourages young readers to practice time measurement skills and early STEM themes, like reading analog and digital clocks. Familiar images and fun practice problems will have young readers thinking about how they can measure time throughout a day in their own lives!