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

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.

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.

This bestselling title in the highly acclaimed SeeMore Readers series is now available in Spanish. The same fascinating content as SUPER STORMS.

Exploración espacial is one book in the Spanish-language Gran Atlas de la Ciencia series that covers today's most popular science topics, from digital TV to microchips to touchscreens and beyond. Perennial subjects in earth science, life science, and physical science are all explored in detail. Amazing graphics--more than 1,000 per title--combined with concise summaries help students understand complex subjects. Correlated to the science curriculum in grades 5-9, each title also contains a glossary with full definitions for vocabulary.

Una obra poética basada en la metáfora de un pajarito que estuvo cautivo, que después de algunos años logra salir, y decide cantar una dulcísona tonada, al compás de tres notas en una; quizá alguien lo escuche, y tal vez disfrute de su canto...Mientras tanto, el pajarito solo espera... Descansa en un curioso columpio... Reposa a través del tiempo... Está es la historia de ese pajarito cautivo, que misteriosamente logró estar libre.¿Cuál es su nombre? ¿Cómo salió? ¿Alguien lo liberó? ¿Quien podría ser?Y lo más importante... Que sea quien sea, debió de tener la llave. Más...

Este libro ilustrado para niños y jóvenes trata de varios aspectos de la civilización antigua de Mesopotamia incluyendo los ríos el Tigris y el Éufrates, las ciudades, el monumento Zigurat, los inventos, la agricultura y la guerra, el estandarte de Ur, la escritura, el código de Hammurabi, el rey Assurbanipal, la ciudad de Babilonia, y la leyenda de Gilgamesh.