Que Es Un Acuerdo? (What Is Compromise?)

What is the common good and how does it benefit society? This book looks at the history behind the notion of the common good, touching on ideas from several famous philosophers. Readers will then learn how the common good can be promoted through education and community. Full-color photographs and accessible language help students connect with the text and develop reading comprehension skills. Important elementary subjects from the C3 Framework for Social Studies are discussed in detail throughout this informative book.

Equality is a contentious issue in our society today. This is why it's important for students to be given information related to equality so they can come to reasonable conclusions of their own. Using age-appropriate language, this book discusses equality in a number of different forms and touches upon why equality is so important in a democracy. The text also explores how extreme equality, like most extremes, could be a bad and unrealistic idea. Readers will gain enough information to understand and think about this complex idea for themselves.

In the United States, the ability to take informed action is becoming increasingly necessary, and difficult. This book delves into the importance of being informed and explains how not all sources of information are equal. Readers are introduced to the scientific method as a way of testing information for credibility. Students will also learn how to turn credible information into action by forming groups, protesting, contacting elected representatives, and possibly even running for office themselves someday.

Alguien está dando muerte a los Cazadores de Sombras del círculo de Valentine, y esas muertes enemistan de nuevo a los Cazadores de Sombras con los subterráneos. Sólo Simon, ahora convertido en vampiro, podrá evitar el enfrentamiento. Mientras, Clary y Jace descubrirán un misterio que les llevará a fortalecer su relación o... a destruirla para siempre.

This book uses intriguing primary sources to teach students about rules and why following them is important. The primary source images and simple sentences will engage students in reading and build their social studies content knowledge. For use in the classroom or at home, this Spanish book includes a simple glossary and index to introduce informational text features to young readers and provide additional reading support.

Antonio Machado es uno de los poetas más importantes que ha tenido nuestro país. Leonor, su esposa y su musa, era para él al alegría, la vida, la felicidad. Pero también la sabiduría. No la de los libros o las escuelas, sino la de las cosas pequeñas, esas cosas que Antonio convirtió en poemas. Poemas tan hermosos que hoy en día, verso a verso, seguimos recordando. Carmen Posadas nos acerca a Machado en el setenta aniversario de la muerte del poeta, con un texto emotivo que nos muestra que sin amor no hay vida, y tampoco poesía.

Entre las criaturas fantásticas del Bosco y las intervenciones en el territorio de Robert Smithson median cinco siglos y una idea: la naturaleza como motor de la práctica artística, un hilo conductor filtrado por la sensibilidad de artistas de la talla de Leonardo, El Greco, Klimt o Dalí, entre otros tantos que el lector encontrará en este libro. Y es que la naturaleza es una y muchas, un concepto viajero que ha mutado en múltiples existencias, al ritmo de cada época histórica: desde la imagen del cuerpo renacentista a los imaginarios surrealistas, pasando por los géneros del...