Cómo promover el bien común (How to Promote the Common Good)

In the United States, the ability to take informed action is becoming increasingly necessary, and difficult. This book delves into the importance of being informed and explains how not all sources of information are equal. Readers are introduced to the scientific method as a way of testing information for credibility. Students will also learn how to turn credible information into action by forming groups, protesting, contacting elected representatives, and possibly even running for office themselves someday.

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.

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.

Featuring Time For Kids content, Siempre crece: La fruta (Always Growing: Fruit) will engage students in learning. Discover what happens when an apple seed is planted in the ground. Based on NGSS standards, this Spanish book teaches children about growth, and encourages young learners to use their own words to describe what is happening in the pictures.

Learn multiplication on a fun-filled trip to the supermarket! The displays, shelves, and layout of a local grocery store provide ample opportunities for students to learn multiplication as they are engaged in reading high-interest content. This Spanish book combines mathematics and literacy skills, and uses practical, real-world examples of problem solving to teach math and language arts content. The full-color images, math graphs and charts, and practice problems make learning math easy and fun. The table of contents, glossary, and index will further understanding of math and reading...

Presented in a large-size picture book format, this is the story of the Mars Rover Curiosity. It explains how it was built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, how it got its name, how it got to Mars, and what its mission hoped to accomplish. A timeline about the history of Mars exploration is provided at the end.

Love is in the App es una historia real, la de Angie, una conocida modelo española de los noventa, que nos relata en primera persona sus aventuras y desventuras en las redes de contactos. La protagonista, junto a su álter ego, un descarado diablillo gay, nos introduce de manera fresca y espontánea en el universo de las cibercitas, en el que no faltan los encuentros excitantes, las nuevas experiencias, el drama, la mentira, el humor y, por supuesto, el sexo. Una historia con la que más de uno podrá sentirse identificado, y con la que otros tendrán la oportunidad de conocer, de la mano de ...