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Think you'd like to be a fire fighter? Learn about the special equipment fire fighters use, their role in community safety, and their lives at the station. This book features a comprehensive timeline of the history of firefighting from its origins in ancient Rome through firefighting practices of today plus vocabulary related to fire fighters and fire safety.

"Tras recibir la noticia de la muerte de su hermana, un hombre comienza una huida que lo lleva del centro congestionado de una ciudad latinoamericana a sus arrabales, por cuyo dominio pelea la selva. Todo en el viaje, de este hombre se convierte en deriva. Vive, junto a los compañeros que se le van uniendo, en el aturdido presente de los supervivientes de una catástrofe, que solo pueden alimentar la estrategia de una fuga incesante: continuar, avanzar, seguir adelante."--Page 4 of cover.

Healthy Habits is a collection of four stories featuring the Chiminis, fictitious characters that live in the forest and are as small as pine cones. In each story, one of the Chiminis has an adventure that highlights the importance of hygiene, a good diet, and exercise, and offers general health advice.

Trained originally in the French classical manner, Matisse was inspired by the Impressionists and Cezanne to create a style that brought out the beauty of color, form and line by reducing them to the bare essentials. While considered a leader of the Fauves and an inspiration to most of the great figures in modern art, he wasn't interested in being associated with any school or trend. A family man who worked 'office hours' in his studio, he defies the image of the artist as a tortured soul. In a career spanning six decades, he produced masterpiece after masterpiece that constantly challenge...