La creación de Estados Unidos a partir de las trece colonias mediante las fuentes primarias (The Making of the United States from Thirteen Colonies Through Primary Sources)

Besides oil, Texas has long been associated with cattle and agriculture. Learning about these industries will allow readers understand how valuable their development is to the growth of the state of Texas, as well as America's economy.

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an...

¿Puede un día soleado convertirse en una noche estrellada? ¡Descúbrelo! Las cosas no siempre son lo que parecen...

En la voluminosa obra reunida bajo el sugerente título de las NOCHES ÁTICAS se recopilaron múltiples noticias y curiosidades de la cultura clásica: anécdotas de Alejandro Magno, vidas de filósofos, apuntes sobre literatura y lenguaje, antiguas costumbres, hechos portentosos... De la miscelánea casi inextricable que AULO GELIO (s. ii) fue elaborando por las noches durante su estancia en el Ática y que ha cautivado a lo largo de los siglos a autores como Castiglione, Diderot, Borges o Bioy Casares («es uno de los libros que estimulan nuestra inteligencia, nuestra imaginación o...