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.

Biografía de Azucena Villaflor es un material indispensable para quien quiera conocer detalles del origen de Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Del origen contado por sus propias protagonistas. Y para conocer a Azucena desde tres generaciones anteriores. Pero sobre todo, para recorrer al lado de ella los días tremendos desde el 30 de noviembre de 1976 cuando la dictadura secuestra a su hijo Néstor, hasta que es arrojada desde un avión de la Marina, con vida, al mar.

Have you ever thought about how a soccer field is different from a football field? Or how a tennis court is different from a basketball court? Each sport has a surface with a purpose! Explore partitioned shapes with this Spanish math book that seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach math concepts. Text features include images, a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to build students' vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, sidebars, and math diagrams...

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.

Los medios de comunicación audiovisuales y escritos, además de reflejar, en gran parte, la lengua utilizada en la vida cotidiana, sirven de vehículo a las innovaciones lingüísticas. Susana Guerrero, profesora de Lengua en la Universidad de Málaga, muestra en este libro la influencia que estos medios ejercen, concretamente en tres aspectos del nivel léxico: la creación neológica y la incorporación de extranjerismos, el asentamiento de impropiedades, y la fijación de redundancias. Cada uno de estos aspectos conforman un capítulo del libro, en el que se explican los términos...