Largo y corto (Long and Short)

Little readers will learn the essentials of the United States Coast Guard (how the Coast Guard keeps us safe, various jobs, weapons and machinery, and more) through easy-to-read, simple text. Readers will love the exciting full-bleed photographs, bolded glossary terms, and More Facts section. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

Readers will learn about one of their favorite farm animals--horses! This title is informative--telling readers what horses eat, what they look like, and how horses help us every day. The text is very simple, which will reinforce early reading skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.Abdo Kids is a division of ABDO.

This title looks at one of the tiniest and cutest species of fox. Readers will learn more about the fennec fox's size, where it lives, what it likes to eat, and even compare it to regular-sized fox species. Complete with adorable and colorful photographs that support the simple text. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators.

Thomas Edison is considered by many to be one of the greatest inventors of all time. His creations changed the world, but there was more to his life than just his inventions. Readers of this engaging volume will learn all about the man behind the innovations. This fascinating biography introduces important subjects and encourages a further interest in history. Concise and accessible text paired with vibrant photographs is sure to captivate audiences of many ages and levels.

Learn all about the National Hockey League. Discover fascinating facts, from record-breaking stars to winning teams and important positions.

Written with sympathetic humor and compassion, this masterful portrait of upper-class decline made Ivan Goncharov famous throughout Russia on its publication in 1859. Ilya Ilyich Oblomov is a member of Russias dying aristocracya man so lazy that he has given up his job in the Civil Service, neglected his books, insulted his friends, and found himself in debt. Too apathetic to do anything about his problems, he lives in a grubby, crumbling apartment, waited on by Zakhar, his equally idle servant. Terrified by the activity necessary to participate in the real world, Oblomov manages to avoid...

Combinando la filosofía y el arte de épocas y géneros diversos, Danto ofrece una panorámica de la universalidad de la producción estética, a medio camino entre la monografía filosófica y la meditación memorística, poniendo en tela de juicio la creencia popular según la cual el arte es un concepto indefinible. Danto sostiene que una obra de arte se define siempre por dos criterios esenciales, el significado y la materialización, a los que se les suma un tercer criterio, el de la interpretación que cada espectador aporta a esa obra.