Our Dynamic Earth Guía Didáctica

Love story set in Madrid during the last days of the reign of Alfonso XIII. Isabel, an educated young woman from a pro-monarchy family meets Joaquín, whose background is very different. The author means to offer a complete and accurate picture of the ten turbulent years that determined the history of Spain in the twentieth century.

El Rocío era, hasta ahora, una fiesta muy vivida, muy glosada y muy cantada. Sin embargo, o tal vez por eso mismo, El Rocío era, hasta ahora, una fiesta que no había sido escrita. El polvo del camino, sin embargo, entra de lleno en ese espacio húmedo, cenagoso, a veces fétido y a veces aromático, de la romería de todas las romerías. Su autora, Eva Díaz Pérez, hace el camino del edén rociero, y descubre una inmensa y genial representación, un teatro del mundo que a veces suena a tragedia griega, y que la mayor parte del tiempo está metido en las arenas movedizas de la farsa, del...

It s fiesta time! Cinco de Mayo is a fiesta day in Mexico and the United States. It s celebrated on the fifth of May. This colorful holiday honors Mexico s victory over the French army at the Battle of Pueblo in 1862. People march in parades, dance, and set off fireworks. Families enjoy traditional Mexican food and drink. Then they watch people act out the famous battle. Find out more about this joyful celebration of Mexican culture.

★“Fascinating...An appealing resource sure to spark an interest in biomimicry, from casual readers to budding scientists. Recommended for all libraries.”—School Library Journal, starred review Did you know that lamps can be powered by glowing bacteria instead of electricity? That gloves designed like gecko feet let people climb straight up glass walls? Or that kids are finding ways to make compostable plastic out of banana peels? Biomimicry, the scientific term for when we learn from and copy nature, is a revolutionary way to look to nature for answers to environmental problems such...