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 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.

Libro de gran formato con rimas y textos sencillos, colores vivos y texturas variadas que invitan a los más pequeños a experimentar a través del tacto y la vista. ¿Quién se esconde tras las solapas?

La cultura japonesa está llena de historias y leyendas. Mitos así como cuentos populares de héroes, monstruos y fantasmas, animan sus narraciones. La presente antología selecciona los relatos más conocidos del Kojiki (El libro antiguo de las cosas escritas) y del Nihonshoki (Anales de Japón), y los adapta a los niños, niñas y adolescentes. También se incluyen figuras folclóricas como el glotón kappa-maki (literalmente, «sushi con pepinos»), así como las leyendas populares de los tres taro, los héroes-niños cuyas historias son muy queridas en el país del Sol Naciente. Un...

The Mapuches established themselves in the eleventh century in what is now Argentina and Chile. Their literature is very rich and oral in nature, which highlights the legends that speak of their Gods, beliefs, customs, and stories of their encounters with enemies.

Defender la Luz Mientras el mundo occidental caía en la oscuridad, ella se atrevió a defender la luz. Hipatia de Alejandría, nacida en el año 355, tras el reinado de Constantino, vivió en un Imperio Romano que se derrumbaba, un mundo en el que la obediencia a las autoridades religiosas triunfaba sobre la ciencia, en el que la razón y la lógica amenazaban el nuevo orden mundial. Era un mundo al borde de la Edad Media, un mundo que decidía la cuestión de la ciencia versus la religión, la libertad versus la ortodoxia, la tolerancia versus el odio. Durante más de 40 años, Hipatia se...