Biografía de un par de espectros

El narrador de esta novela, llamado, al igual que su autor, Juan Carlos Quezadas, se empeña en hacernos creer que lo que leemos no es una novela, sino una crónica, una relación de hechos verídicos. Todo comenzó cuando la editorial Jus le encargó que escribiera una novela de terror para incluirla en su catálogo. El problema fue que a Juan Carlos no se le ocurría nada. Nunca antes había escrito un libro de terror y no se sentía capaz de hacerlo. Por lo tanto, se presentó en la editorial para pedir una ampliación del plazo de entrega de su libro. No encontró a la editora y en vez de ...

A 2014 survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration showed that 8.7 million youths ages twelve to twenty reported drinking alcohol beyond “just a few sips” in the previous month. Those who start drinking before age fifteen are five times more likely to become dependent on alcohol than those who begin at twenty-one. This resource shows young people how to help a friend who is abusing alcohol. It arms them with facts about alcohol, how it affects the teen mind and body, how to look for signs of a problem, and how to bring others on board to help.

The reflection that is presented in this book is born of direct contact with schools that have a multicultural public, its dialogue with the faculty and pupils of these schools, and of the queries raised by its research in intercultural education.

Este libro perteneciente a la Colección "Niños Artesanos", invita a niños y niñas a conocer la cultura Atacameña o Lickan-Antay, a través de su cultura material, en específico, su artesanía, mostrando cada objeto y proponiendo su replicación con materiales de fácil acceso.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...