¡Que vivan los carteros! (Hooray for Mail Carriers!)

¡Estar atento! ¡Hay un tiburón! Aprenda todo sobre este famoso depredador y vea fotografías de color de la variedad de tipos, desde un pequeño cachorro (tiburón bebé) hasta un gran blanco. Los diagramas ayudarán a los lectores a identificar las partes del cuerpo de los tiburones, mientras que las preguntas de pensamiento crítico y otras grandes características ayudan a desarrollar habilidades de lectura de no ficción. Look out! There's a shark! Learn all about this famous predator and see full-color photographs of the variety of types, from a small pup (baby shark) to a Great...

¡Los doctores saben muchas cosas sobre la salud y el cuerpo humano! Al examinar a los pacientes y recetar medicamentos, los médicos pueden averiguar qué está enfermando a una persona y cómo hacer que se sienta mejor. Ahora en español, este título involucra a los lectores jóvenes para aprender cómo los médicos sirven a su comunidad. Las preguntas de pensamiento crítico apropiadas para la edad y un glosario de fotos ayudan a desarrollar habilidades de aprendizaje de no ficción. Doctors know many things about health and the human body! By examining patients and prescribing medicine,...

Snowy introduces emergent readers to snow and its associated weather conditions while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they arent facing too many challenges at once.

Una novela poderosa y sensorial, en la línea de El perfume de Patrick Süskind. Una lectura macabra, provocadora y compulsiva. Karl es un niño con un oído extraordinario que se siente abrumado por el ruido que tiene soportar al estar con más gente. Ya de bebé no soporta estar cerca del latido del corazón de su madre. Poco a poco, este niño peculiar que vive en el sótano y prácticamente no sale de casa, descubre que matar es la única manera de liberar a la gente de sus penas y preocupaciones. Matar se convierte en el mayor acto posible de amor y en la única manera de poder vivir en...

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...

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...

The greatest thinkers of humanity at your fingertips, in minutes! If you thought you would never be able to understand the essential classic authors, you were wrong! With our "Summarized Classics" collection, you will understand the main ideas of the most important thinkers in a very short time and with little effort. The present volume covers the central axes of this discipline. Among them, the reader will find an analysis of Treatise On Civil Government (1690), among others, and a glossary.