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Cesar the piglet and his siblings enter a contest and hope to win a very special prize. Contains facts about pigs.

"Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way." So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one...

Un casual cúmulo de fatalistas circunstancias arrastra a los protagonistas a tener que reabrir las puertas, mal cerradas, de un pasado ya remoto. Toledo, místico crisol en el que se amalgaman artes, historias y culturas, se convierte así en el campo de batalla de una incruenta guerra de amor que les aboca, sin remisión, hacia la tragedia. La gloria, no es sino un camino más, directo hacia el infierno. Aires de gloria evoca, con un lenguaje poético, un tanto existencialista, el fracaso de una generación de soñadores que despertaron a la libertad en una época un tanto oscura, pero...

Students will develop their math skills while engaged in reading about Yosemite National Park. This book seamlessly integrates the teaching of math and reading, and uses real-world examples to teach geometry concepts like calculating perimeter and area. Text features include a glossary, an index, captions, and a table of contents to increase students’ vocabulary and reading comprehension skills as they interact with the text. The rigorous practice problems, math charts and diagrams, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what...