¡Es Hanukkah! (It's Hanukkah!)

Meaning "River of the Colorful Birds," Uruguay is a small country in South America that is covered by crisscrossing rivers and lush hills. Home to approximately 3.5 million people, the country is often regarded as the most stable and prosperous country in Central and South America. Uruguay produces 95 percent of its electricity from renewable energy and is known as one of the most socially progressive nations in the world. Allow your readers to learn more about Uruguay's unique culture through this informative book, which features engaging sidebars and vibrant photographs.

The Flame is Cohens powerful goodbye to this world: a compilation of lyrics, selections of his many notebooks which he kept for years, new poems, illustrations and self-portraits. These pages are the works of a poet and lyricist who has plunged into the depths and come up with the truth in his hands.

Goya, el más fiel cronista de su tiempo, cede a los apasionados caprichos de tres de sus musas sin medir las consecuencias que estos desatinos le pueden deparar. La condesa-duquesa de Benavente, la duquesa de Alba y la condesa de Chinchón, como el reflejo de la sabiduría, la seducción y la dulzura, tres de los atributos que el pintor más admira en la mujer, resucitan en esta novela para guiar al lector por el languidecer del siglo xviii y el convulso nacimiento del xix. Bajo su mecenazgo paseará por los teatros, plazas, conventos y palacios para profundizar en aquella acomodaticia...

Beautiful illustrations translate into suggestive images the two faces of the sea?the calm and the wind?enabling children to understand the meaning of the words themselves.