El Alfabeto/the Alphabet

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

El famoso escritor Cósimo Herrera, eterno candidato a un Nobel que no llega nunca, decide retirarse a Ribanova, una pequeña ciudad de provincias apartada y brumosa. Allí conocerá a Luisa, una muchacha veinte años más joven, y que desde el primer momento sentirá por el forastero un amor tan apasionado como imposible.

For most of history, women have been confined to their households, and to lives without equal rights or equal opportunities. This volume introduces readers to the women of the suffrage movement, the defining movement for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. Primary sources and photographs will show readers firsthand how the challenges and successes of this movement shaped the lives of women across the United States. Readers will also learn about the inequality that still exists for women, and how they can change this injustice in the future.

En este libro, Dolores Guerra canta lo que une al ser con los demás, sin negar aquello que lo separa y lo hace único e irrepetible. Versos desordenados rigurosamente encierra, como toda poesía, un diálogo perpetuo entre el yo profundo y la circunstancia vital en la que la autora se desenvuelve. Aprendamos de este diálogo que se puede crear un mundo donde la palabra tenga su fuerza para comunicar el amor y otras cosas sutiles que llenan la existencia del ser en cada instante.