Betsy Ross

In graphic novel format, the story of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, the events leading up to the shooting, and what happened after.

Durante décadas, los toques y chirridos de la guitarra eléctrica han sido algunos de los sonidos que definen la música popular. Pero tuvo que pasar más de un siglo de esfuerzo e innovación antes de que este instrumento fuera eléctrico. For decades, the blasts and howls of the electric guitar have been some of the defining sounds of popular music. But more than a century of effort and innovation had to happen before this instrument went electric. Learn about the master craftspeople who created the guitar as we know it, the inventors who figured out how to send guitar notes through...

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.

Un libro escrito pensando en el profesor y en las tradicionales dificultades que el tema de la educación sexual encuentra en el medio escolar. La obra ofrece un instrumento metodológico para iniciar la programación de la educación sexual en la escuela y su adecuada integración en el currículum escolar. Apunta sugerencias concretas en la formulación de objetivos, selección de contenidos, diseño de actividades y evaluación. El programa abarca los diferentes ciclos escolares, desde la educación infantil a la secundaria. De interés para profesores, tutores, orientadores y psicólogos.

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.