La gente y la cultura (The People and Culture of Latin America)

Identify three-dimensional shapes all around the world in this Spanish-translated e-Book! Figuras en nuestro mundo (Shapes in Our World) gives readers practice identifying familiar shapes like cones, cylinders, pentagons, polygons, and prisms, while familiarizing them with STEM themes and more advanced geometry concepts. Children will learn more about vertices, symmetry, and bases. With each shape, this book gives readers information about an example of the shape, be it a building, a honeycomb, or a tree trunk! With an accessible glossary, clear mathematical diagrams, practical examples, and...

Esto no es un aguacero comœn y corriente. DespuŽs de los rayos, vienen los truenos. ÁEs una tormenta! Descubre m‡s sobre las luces gigantes que saltan en el cielo y quŽ produce los truenos en este libro sobre las tormentas.

«Vivimos en este planeta como si tuviéramos otro, y olvidamos que la tierra no nos pertenece: nosotros le pertenecemos a ella. Somos hijos de la tierra, y la tierra confía en nosotros.» Estamos en un momento único en la historia. Y este libro, cuyas palabras brotan de las voces de Jane Goodall, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, David Attenborough, Greta Thunberg o Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, nos recuerda que debemos cuidar y amar nuestro hogar, porque de esto depende nuestro futuro.

During the American Civil War, the United States was on the brink of falling apart irrevocably. As states seceded and brother turned against brother, hope for reconciliation was dim. This conflict, an essential topic of the social studies curriculum, is skillfully presented from its origins in the Southern slave-trade economy to bloody battles and, later, Reconstruction. Striking photographs and artwork of integral events and people will resonate with readers, while interesting sidebar information gives them more to reflect on about this terrible war and the lessons it taught us.