¿Cómo Es El Cielo, Mimi?

Seventy-two of the best-known stories about God and his people including creation, Noah's ark, Jonah and the big fish, Christmas, Easter, and Jesus' parables and miracles.

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.

Mimoun y su hija nacen para cumplir los papeles que el patriarca les ha asignado, unos roles establecidos hace miles de años. Pero las circunstancias les llevan a cruzar el estrecho de Gibraltar y a entrar en contacto con las costumbres occidentales. La protagonista sin nombre tratará de comprender por qué su padre se ha convertido en una figura despótica, mientras inicia un camino sin retorno hacia su propia identidad y libertad.

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...