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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.

Readers are given helpful information about the dangers of drugs and alcohol, including narcotics, hallucinogens, and prescription medications in this Spanish-translated nonfiction book. Through detailed images, diagrams, informational text, an index, a glossary of terms, and a list of websites that provide additional information, readers are given the tools and information they need to educate themselves about addiction, drug abuse, the health and social issues that drugs and alcohol can cause, and how to say no to peer pressure.

Entre las criaturas fantásticas del Bosco y las intervenciones en el territorio de Robert Smithson median cinco siglos y una idea: la naturaleza como motor de la práctica artística, un hilo conductor filtrado por la sensibilidad de artistas de la talla de Leonardo, El Greco, Klimt o Dalí, entre otros tantos que el lector encontrará en este libro. Y es que la naturaleza es una y muchas, un concepto viajero que ha mutado en múltiples existencias, al ritmo de cada época histórica: desde la imagen del cuerpo renacentista a los imaginarios surrealistas, pasando por los géneros del...

People today refer to the Midwestern and prairie states as flyover country. During the Civil War, crossing those areas was the biggest obstacle in uniting the East and West Coasts of our divided nation. An act of Congress in 1862 authorized the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific railroad companies to build a railroad that would link the coasts. Seven years later, on May 10, 1869, an overwhelmingly immigrant labor force completed the task when a rail line was join in Promontory, Utah. The states had become united at last.