El ferrocarril transcontinental (The Transcontinental Railroad)

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.

Los haikus son una de las formas poéticas más conocidas y más apreciadas en el mundo. Son tan sencillos que se pueden enseñar a los niños, aunque asimismo pueden ser fruto de una vida de estudio y de dedicación. En su exploración evocadora de la vida y de la naturaleza pueden manifestar también un delicioso sentido del humor y de lo lúdico. Estas poesías no solo son expresiones de la delicada sensibilidad japonesa, sino de las intemporales reacciones humanas ante el mundo que nos rodea.

The underlying theme of Three Centuries of Greek Culture under the Roman Empire is the idea that, under Roman rule, Greek culture was still alive and dynamic and continued to exert a degree of cultural domination, either real or apparent. So, we hope to analyse the meanings of concepts such as “Greek” or “Greece” in the Empire. Are we right to assume that there was a clear opposition between Greek and Roman? Or would it be more accurate to speak of a “Graeco-Roman world”? It would certainly be possible to make a list of “elements of identity”, on both sides —Greek and...

Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories—and the discoveries that prove and disprove them—are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed...

El libro se estructura en 6 bloques de contenido, cada uno de los cuales contiene varias Unidades hasta un total de 17. Cada Unidad se inicia con una página, que incluye:título de la unidad, foto motivadora, texto introductorio y contenidos que se desarrollarán en la unidad El desarrollo de cada Unidad se lleva a cabo dividiendo los contenidos en apartados y subapartados. Además, cada Unidad contiene otros elementos muy interesantes: actividades al final de los apartados, ejemplos resueltos al final de los apartados, curiosidades, datos, bibliografía y otros elementos que aparecen en los ...