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How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they’re much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. This primary source book explores California’s unique geography: the coastal region, the Central Valley, the mountain region, and the desert region. With a visually appealing layout, this book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help students grasp the essential concepts they need to know at their grade...

Learn how a designer's sketch becomes the fashion we wear and how a designer uses math and geometry to make their designs successful in this fashion-filled book! Including information about the fashion industry, clothing fabrics, patterns, and textures, readers learn all about the different aspects of the fashion industry. With a glossary, index, vivid images, informational text, and interesting facts, this Spanish-translated nonfiction book with engage students from beginning to end.

The need for speed is the motivating factor in this engaging, Spanish book. Readers learn the history of travel from the very slow to the supersonic and beyond, including everything in between. They learn and discover the factors that influence motion for all types of vehicles: land, air, and water alike. They also learn different ways to measure speed and read about energy uses for different vehicles. With greater speed comes greater risk. Readers learn how engineers are always seeking new and better ways to keep people safe as they travel faster and go farther.

This Spanish-translated book will be a hit with both thrill seekers and with those who prefer to stay safely on the ground. After an introduction to Newton's three laws of motion, readers learn the mechanics of various amusement park rides including roller coasters, Ferris wheels, merry-go-rounds, and gravity rides. They learn how to measure motion, and how kinetic and potential energy apply to their favorite rides. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.

Navarra, situada al norte de la Península Ibérica, cuenta con una extensa y fecunda historia, repleta de personajes memorables y acontecimientos que han dejado honda huella en el curso de las generaciones. La presente edición pone ese vasto legado al alcance de los más pequeños de la casa, que tienen así la ocasión de adentrarse en la riqueza de su patrimonio cultural de un modo ameno y divertido, exento de solemnidad. A ello contribuyen las ilustraciones de Ernesto Lovera y el tono lúdico y amable, al tiempo que riguroso, del texto escrito para ellos por María Begoña Pro Uriarte....

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong made history by becoming the first man to ever walk on the moon! Readers will be engaged from cover to cover as they learn about Armstrong's inspirational career as an astronaut in this biography that features additional information on gravity, NASA, and the moon landing. The vivid images work in conjunction with the supportive text, timeline, glossary, and index to allow for better understanding of the content. This book has been translated into Spanish.

Mientras se acerca la confrontación final entre la Nueva República y el Imperio, todos los ojos se posan sobre un planeta remoto: Jakku. La batalla de Endor destrozó el Imperio, dispersando así sus fuerzas por toda la galaxia. Pero los meses posteriores a la victoria no han sido fáciles. La Nueva República ha sufrido un ataque devastador por parte de lo que queda del Imperio y esto ha forzado a la nueva democracia a intensificar su búsqueda del enemigo oculto. Por su desempeño en la emboscada mortal, la Gran Almirante Rae Sloane es la criminal más buscada de la Guerra Imperial; la...

El objetivo de este estudio es mostrar los posibles orígenes e influencia para la formulación del concepto de zombi anglo-americano, a través del análisis de distintas criaturas como el golem, el autómata, el lich, el ghoul o el zombi haitiano, entre otras, que aparecen tanto en la historia como en distintas religiones y partes del mundo. El estudio también muestra como la serie American Horror Story consigue crear una hibridación entre el zombi moderno y el zombi vudú haitiano que nos sorprende dando lugar a una nueva versión del monstruo de Frankenstein.