Halloween

Our closest solar system is about 10 light years away. It has two main types of planets. Some are rocky and small, like planet Earth, while others are huge balls of gas, like Jupiter. Learn about how astronomers once thought our solar system was the one and only, to how they have now discovered hundreds of stars with planets orbiting them, which means there could be billions of solar systems in outer space! Just maybe, these alien worlds could host life, like our own amazing planet. This book allows students to use observations of the Sun, moon, and stars to describe patterns that can be...

Esta Antoloxía pretende ser unha panorámica do conto literario ao longo do século XX, desde a Xeración Nós aos escritores que comezaron a publicar durante os últimos anos do franquismo. Un período fundamental no que o conto galego acadou gran variedade de temas e unha extraordinaria e singular riqueza expresiva.

In 1991, preparation for the construction of a new federal office building led to a startling discovery: a skeleton. Further excavation exposed the bones of 420 men, women, and children. This area of New York had been a burial ground set aside for both free and enslaved Africans during the 1600s and 1700s. It’s thought to be one of the most important archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. This noteworthy book—which includes sidebars, fact boxes, a timeline, and maps—fills in the gaps of history books, exposing much about what life was like in colonial New York for Africans.

«De la claridad de sus desiertos, del rumor de sus aguas milenarias, de la hospitalidad de sus gentes, del descubrimiento de sus mundos recoletos, en una palabra, de lo que busqué, vi y encontré en Siria, trata este libro», dice Rosa Regàs en el preludio. En ese viaje de dos meses, la escritora reivindica la aventura que reside en una peculiar y personal forma de ver, de mirar y de descubrir que nada tiene que ver con el exotismo y el turismo cultural.