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.

La cultura medieval islámica ha dado figuras espléndidas. Omar Jayyam, poeta y filósofo, algebrista y astrónomo, es sin duda la más fascinante de todas. Su pensamiento fue heterodoxo, su saber inmenso, su obra variadísima. De lo que nos ha llegado de su poesía no siempre es fácil distinguir lo auténtico de lo apócrifo, y de lo que sabemos de su vida, la historia de la leyenda. Su más importante aportación algebraica, la resolución sistemática de las ecuaciones cúbicas cortando cónicas, se procurará poner al alcance de un lector moderno sin alterar las ideas de fondo.

Discover the different ways that people spend, save, and budget their money. Readers are introduced to important personal financial aspects such as savings accounts, budgets, budget analysis, credit and debit cards, and taxes. Through Spanish-translated informational text, vivid photos, and helpful graphs and charts that assist in implementing mathematical skills such as percentages, readers will be encouraged to save and spend their money wisely and responsibly.

Readers will set their eyes to the night sky in this fascinating book about astronomers. This volume is a perfect combination between STEM and career guidance as it introduces readers to the different ways astronomers use science, technology, engineering, and math in their work every day. Readers will love learning about celestial bodies and space phenomena, as well as the different processes and equipment astronomers use to observe, collect, and analyze data. This book also covers the steps a person can take to become an astronomer. The curriculum-based information in this book is conveyed...

INTERVENTIONS WITH MINORS - Socio educative action - Most of the time, the irregular behaviour of young people is the outcome of what society has offered to them. This book studies the methodology, the levels of the intervention, preventive measures, assistance and rehabilitative intervention, in the work with families and minors in the network of primary attention. The situations of social risk, the necessities and the problems of minors are exposed making a special mention of the educational ones, and the professional figures that act in this field.