John Brown: El Ataque a Harpers Ferry/John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry

Modeled after the adult version of Oracional bilingüe: A Prayer Book for Spanish-English Communities, this volume for children encourages prayer across national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Oracional bilingüe para niños provides Spanish and English texts of the most loved and commonly used prayers in large, readable type and in an easy-to-follow, facing-page, parallel presentation. The English text appears on the left page, with the Spanish text directly across from it on the right. In addition, illustrations by well-known artist Gertrud Mueller Nelson complement each page and add to ...

Nicol�s Cabral's is one of the most singular voices in Latin American literature, and this book demonstrates his hypnotic and out of the ordinary style. The stories ebb from real to unreal, from earthly to fantastical. In addition, there's something rarely found in most contemporary writers: an aversion to the familiar and disdain for common places. La de Nicol�s Cabral es una de las voces m�s singulares de la nueva narrativa latinoamericana. Como en Cat�logo de formas, su primera novela, he aqu� una prosa construida mediante una inflexible depuraci�n y, al mismo tiempo, plural....

Muelle fue el primer grafitero de Madrid, una leyenda para todo el que pertenezca al mundillo del grafiti, que desafió a las autoridades atreviéndose a plasmar su inconfundible firma registrada incluso en la estatua del Oso y el Madroño. Spirit lo conoció. Por eso Luis, el protagonista de esta novela, le admira y quiere aprender de él. Aunque no pinte bien. Aunque a la chica que le gusta no le interesen los grafitis. Aunque al final la rivalidad entre pandas lo ensucie todo. Aunque el destino le tenga preparadas otras historias que ni se imagina.

Young readers may have heard about the benefits of using and making the most of their resources, but how does that factor into an economic discussion? This thorough discussion defines resources and describes the different types of resources and why some divide them into three categories and others choose four. The book also addresses the concept of scarcity, showing readers how, because all resources have their limits, it is important to use them responsibly and efficiently in a healthy economy.