Héroes y antihéroes en la literatura

Las personas adolescentes en su tránsito hacia la vida adulta atraviesan por una serie de dificultades y riesgos, unos comunes a todas y otros específicos de colectivos que están en una situación de mayor vulnerabilidad. Muchos de los factores que influyen sobre estas dificultades son comunes a todas ellas, pero las transformaciones sociales y los avances tecnológicos están haciendo que estas dificultades y estos riesgos cambien, que la intervención preventiva se enfrente constantemente a nuevos retos.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

A Spanish edition of a popular look-for book is filled with translated rhyming riddles in which readers are invited to find hidden objects in a complicated arrangement of colorful objects.

Mnemonics is an age-old technique for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. In Spanish Memory Book, Junior Edition, William Harrison and Dorothy Welker offer onginal mnemonic rimes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary. Included are mnemonic jingles for several hundred of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words. Each jingle contains both the sound of the Spanish word and its English meaning. The authors have also included a general pronunciation guide to Spanish vowels and...