Pueblos y ciudades (Towns and Cities)

Take a trip to the fire station to learn how firefighters use measurement to put out fires! Full of facts, practice problems, and mathematical charts, this Spanish-translated title teaches children more about measurements like volume and perimeter!

Students will learn about the history of hot air balloons and they will also discover the importance of volume when calculating hot air balloon flight. Used in the classroom or at home, this nonfiction Spanish text includes mathematical charts to help students practice calculations. With a glossary, an index, dynamic images, and easy-to-read text, students will build their math and reading skills while they are engaged in reading high-interest content.

This beginner biography takes a look into the life and career of Jackie Robinson and how he broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. Complete with full-bleed relevant and historical photographs, timeline, glossary, and index. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...

A partir de la aparición de Pedro Páramo , en marzo de 1955, Rulfo escribe su segunda novela, El gallo de oro. Ambientada en el mundo de las peleas de gallos y concebida como proyecto cinematográfico, probablemente se trate de la obra menos conocida del autor mexicano. No obstante ese desconocimiento, la valoración literaria está al mismo nivel que Pedro Páramo y Llano en Llamas .RM publica esta edición especial de El gallo de oro con dos textos críticos de José Carlos González Boixo y Douglas J. Weatherford, sobre la naturaleza literaria de esta narración, a la que se incorporan...

¡Hola! Soy Franco Masini y estoy fe-liz de poder contarles aquí, en este libro, mi historia. Si bien sé que me queda mucho por vivir, quiero compar-tir con ustedes este momento único y especial para todos los que estuvieron a mi lado desde el principio.Les voy a contar mis vivencias y gus-tos, cómo son mis días, mis personas queridas y mis objetos y lugares preferidos.