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

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.

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.

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.

Ants are so important to our ecology that some scientist fell that if ants ever disappear so might humans! SOY UNA SEMILLA es un libro de la serie Hola, lector! que muestra la diferencia entre dos semillas, asi como su evolucion hasta llegar a convertirse en plantas. Los ninos disfrutaran del texto dinamico con el que esta escrito este libro.

Tres pequeños libros con solapas gigantes para jugar a adivinar qué animal se esconde detrás de cada solapa. El texto rimado y el dibujo de cada página les darán una pista y cuando abran la solapa, el animal les dirá si lo han adivinado.

Texas has had some extraordinary people. This book covers some of them, such as Melinda Gates, astronaut Shannon Walker, and Bessie Coleman, the first African American female pilot. Age-appropriate text teaches readers about Texas's most important movers and shakers, while historical and contemporary images reinforce the book's key concepts.

Alice va al último curso en el instituto. Sólo le quedan unos exámenes y podrá presentarse a la selectividad. Mientras, a su alrededor ocurren cosas nuevas, excitantes y desconocidas: el primer amor, la primera vez... Es difícil ser adulto y aprender a ser uno mismo... Además, en su casa las cosas no van muy bien, su padre viaja constantemente por motivos de trabajo, aunque Alice sospecha que hay algo más. El mundo de los adultos es un caos y el suyo también, y encima no parece haber nadie que la ayude a contar las estrellas. Carlo es de los que se sienta siempre en la última fila,...