La lectura de los mapas / Reading Maps

Simple text and full-color photos illustrate facts about the rules, equipment, and records of basketball.

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...

Esta es la primera novela larga del gran escritor ruso despues de su retorno de Siberia, donde estuvo deportado varios anos. El heroe de la obra, un personaje inquietante y complejo, Vanja, cuenta su propia historia. El nucleo argumental se teje en torno a la pugna de Vanja con el hijo del principe Valkorskij por el amor de una misma mujer. Y tambien a partir del proceso de que ha sido victima el administrador de dicho principe. Las reacciones vitales y morales de los personajes de Humillados y ofendidos responden a la gran preocupacion de hondura psicologica y de plasmacion de caracteres que ...

Describes the ancient giant kangaroo of Australia's distant past that was five times the size of today's largest kangaroos. Discusses how the animal lived and how it became extinct.