Ganado y petróleo (Cattle and Oil)

Which animals and plants can survive in a dry desert environment? Readers learn about the living things that make up desert food chains, including cacti, snakes, and scorpions. Colorful photographs of desert life make readers feel like they’re exploring new parts of this habitat with each turn of the page. Fact boxes provide additional information about the creatures that make up desert food chains, and a detailed food web shows how these food chains all come together. The desert is an extreme habitat, and readers will enjoy learning about the extreme plants and animals that live there.

A young girl explains how she and her diverse group of friends are all different from each other. In this first-person nonfiction narrative, vibrant photographs reinforce the idea of a community of students who respect each other and live in harmony. A picture-word glossary is included.

Many animals live in water, but only some can be defined as fish. Twenty-eight thousand species of fish exist, each with different characteristics. Readers from grades one through four will learn that fish have a distinct impact on their ecosystem and will see how fish survive when well-adapted to an uncompromised environment. Beautiful photographs demonstrate the great diversity of fish and accompany intellectually stimulating explanations of their varying roles and traits. From page to page, what a fish is unfolds in vocabulary call-outs, insightful questions, and relatable...

El autor aborda el papel del arte en nuestra sociedad, tratando de averiguar qué convierte algo en obra de arte, qué sentido tiene el compromiso artístico y cuáles son los problemas que hoy podría abordar. Analiza la revisión del compromiso artístico a partir de la década de 1970, cuando el arte asumió la defensa de reivindicaciones muy diversas -de ecologistas y de colectivos marginados (por género, cultura o enfermedad)-, y también la crítica de los medios de comunicación, del urbanismo y de los mecanismos de participación democrática, así como laa crítica de la propia...