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.

Nueva traducción, acompañada de un completo estudio introductorio y un amplio cuerpo de notas, de esta obra de madurez en la que Cicerón analiza cuestiones de ética filosófica que, a juicio de su autor, pueden ayudar al lector a hacer más llevadera la tempestuosa travesía de la vida.

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

La Cuchimilda es una ladrona muy buscada por la policía que forma pareja en el delito con el Inglés, hombre casado, algo culto, y de buena familia, que desarrolla una doble personalidad y doble vida. Por un azar, la Cuchimilda roba la cartera a una señora que resulta ser la esposa del Presidente del Gobierno. En la cartera encuentra dinero, fotos y poemas amorosos dirigidos no precisamente a su esposo... La intriga, la aventura, y también el drama, nos llevan de la mano en este libro, que obtuvo el segundo premio de novela en el “X Certamen de novela corta Dulce Chacón 2014”.

The Underground Railroad was the massive effort by slaves and free people to secretly bring thousands of blacks to freedom in the North during the 19th century. This thought-provoking book will capture readers’ imaginations and fill them with awe for the brave “conductors” and “passengers” on the Railroad. They’ll learn about the many safe havens, called “depots,” that housed fugitives and the secret passages within them that hid slaves from their pursuers. Information about the American Civil War and the Fugitive Slave Act, biographies of figures vital to the Underground Railroad,...