¿Por qué hibernan los animales? (Why Animals Hibernate)

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.

Hay aventuras que, por el sólo asunto que tratan, abarcan toda una vida e influencian a mucha generaciones o a una gran cantidad de personas de una misma época. Durante muchos años se había estado intentando, por parte de los europeos, llegar hasta el Asia y, principalmente, a China. Nadie había podido hacerlo, nadie había partido en este intento y regresado sano y salvo... Hasta que el personaje de este libro lo intentó. Este viajero universal nos relata el ambiente de la Venecia del siglo XIII, los preparativos del extraordinario periplo que emprendió hacia China, las aventuras que...

Comic-strip character Gaturro and his friends Gaturrin, Agatha, and Emilio come to life in this colorful book that follows their adventures. Fun storylines and vivid drawings bring Gaturro and his gang to life.

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...