La Campana de la Libertad (The Liberty Bell)

Do you know why there are thirteen stripes and fifty stars on the American flag? Or how the American flag inspired Francis Scott Key to write "The Star Spangled Banner?" Find out the answers to these questions and more in The American Flag.

This is a short fun book for children, showing them math simplified so they can learn it’s not hard and that it’s necessary to learn math in life. There are math questions and situations in this book showing that math can be applied in daily life. The book is also bilingual, meaning you can also introduce your child to Spanish or English. Math is a subject many children are scared of and tend to not embrace. This novel is made to break down some math, and the math problems are for children of a young age, for them to analyze and use critical thinking. The book features a nice math teacher ...

The American Southeast stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, including the states of Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama as well as parts of Virginia and Maryland. But before that region was divided into states, native groups lived there. From how they found food to what their spiritual beliefs were, the book’s main content presents the traditional lifestyles of the Seminole, Choctaw, and Creek peoples, and the other groups that lived in the southeast. Readers learn even more from fun fact boxes and the historical images and full-color photographs that show what...

Heredero de la gran tradición norteamericana en narrativa de terror, que nace con E.A. Poe y pasa por H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King ha logrado con sus obras una difusión jamás alcanzada por ningún otro autor en este género, dotándolo de una vitalidad envidiable. Danza Macabra (1981) es un lúcido y divertido ensayo, lleno de referencias a multitud de obras y jugosas anécdotas biográficas, que pretende dar respuesta a la paradoja esencial del aficionado a la ficción de terror: «¿Por qué hay personas dispuestas a pagar a cambio de sentirse extremadamente incómodas?» Y para abordar...

La historia del viaje oceánico renacentista está plagada de episodios de gran intensidad, pero pocos, como esta Carta del descubrimiento de Brasil, dirigida al rey Manuel I, son capaces de recoger, sin artificio ni metáfora, sin juicio cultural ni rígidos conceptos raciales, el momento privilegiado en que las naves europeas tomaron por primera vez contacto con las culturas de las costas meridionales de América. La Carta, por la que en el año 1500 el escribano Caminha informa al rey sobre las recién descubiertas tierras de la Vera Cruz, es un precoz, impresionista y riguroso tratado...