Cómo actuar de manera informada (How to Take Informed Action)

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

What is the common good and how does it benefit society? This book looks at the history behind the notion of the common good, touching on ideas from several famous philosophers. Readers will then learn how the common good can be promoted through education and community. Full-color photographs and accessible language help students connect with the text and develop reading comprehension skills. Important elementary subjects from the C3 Framework for Social Studies are discussed in detail throughout this informative book.

In order for any democracy to function well, understanding how and when to compromise is a necessity. This book introduces students to how compromise makes governing possible. Using examples of how compromise works in their own lives, students will gain a better understanding of how compromise work on a larger level. Conversely, readers will also learn that compromise may be the wrong course of action in some situations and that some issues are of such critical importance or high moral worth that standing firm is appropriate.

Bécquer, Machado, Juan Ramón son algunos de los poetas que han seguido la estela de Ferrán. Las coplas populares, los cantares que son poesía breve, seca, natural, fueron recogidos, y creados, por un poeta del que escribió su amigo G.A. Bécquer: ''en la obra de Ferrán, la poesía popular, sin perder su carácter, comienza a elevar su vuelo'';

Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories—and the discoveries that prove and disprove them—are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed...

Pido disculpas a la lectoría, si es que acaso la tengo, por el atrevimiento del título, ya que debe ser ella, y no yo, quien califique la buena o mala calidad de mis poemas. He sido juez y parte en esta selección. Cada vez que escribo poesía, o mejor dicho, sirvo de vehículo para que ésta cabalgue cual brioso potro por los prados de los cuatro puntos cardinales, mi memoria, añeja ya de tantos años encima, se siente aliviada de su peso, pues se ha librado de un huésped que reclamaba su libertad. No creo que como poeta haya creado nada, sólo he liberado poemas en prosa y verso que...

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.