Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

"La autora de este libro nació en Barcelona y fue educado como católica en la apostólica y romana España de Franco. Muchos años después, tras la larga enfermedad y muerte de su madre, Dory Sontheimer descubre en el altillo de su casa, las siete cajas que le revelan una identidad y un pasado tan desconocido como dramático. Ordenando este emergente legado, compuesto por fotografías, cartas, pasaportes y otros documentos, Sontheimer reconstruye la crónica de su familia. Durante doce años, y movida por una mezcla de fascinación, curiosidad y sentido del deber, va completando una...

Hola, sol! proporciona una fantástica manera de conectar con el cuerpo y calmar los pensamientos antes de comenzar las aventuras del nuevo día. Con coloridas ilustraciones llenas de imágenes de la naturaleza y divertidos detalles en los que fijarse, ¡Hola, sol! incluye, además de la secuencia completa de posturas, una breve historia del Saludo al sol y una meditación especial que ayuda a prepararte para un día feliz y consciente. Hello, Sun! This is a wonderful book that connects us to our body and allows us to calm our own thoughts before starting on the adventures of a new day....

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...