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.

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.

¡Tu primer libro para pensar en grande! Es importante decir siempre la verdad, aunque sea difícil. ¿Sabes que decía Sócrates sobre la verdad? A menudo, los más pequeños son quienes primero formulan las grandes preguntas de la humanidad. La serie Grandes ideas para pequeños filósofos toma prestadas las ideas de importantes pensadores para dar respuestas muy sencillas a preguntas muy complicadas.

Enamorado de la vida y de las causas de los oprimidos, Neruda, poeta del amor y la libertad (premio Nobel de Literatura 1971), representa y sintetiza todo el vigor y contradicciones de un mundo a la vez muy reciente y antiguo: América del Sur.

It doesn't take a lot to conserve electricity. Taking action can be as simple as turning off the lights when you leave a room or using "people power" instead of cars to get around. Kids learn this and more about what they can do to help in 10 Things I Can Do to Save Electricity. Now in Spanish.

The values and traditions of Mexicans at home, school, and work are explored as well as how life differs in urban and rural settings.