Stephen F. Austin: El padre de Texas (The Father of Texas)

Stephen F. Austin grew up to become known as the Father of Texas. Readers can learn about his interesting and incredible life in this appealing biography that has been translated into Spanish and highlights both Austin's life and Texas history. Through vivid images and illustrations, supportive text, an accommodating glossary and index, and fascinating facts, readers will learn about Texas pioneers, the empresario system, Freemasons, and how Austin became such an important figure in Texas history.

En este breve libro, que no breviario, cabalgan hermanadas la poesía japonesa occidentalizada, vale decir el haiku y el senryu, que en apenas diecisiete silabas divididas en tres versos sin rima expresa diversos sentimientos; la glosa, el soneto, el madrigal y el poema libre, realengo, que no atiende las estrictas normas de la métrica. Cabalgan también cómodamente, en su carruaje poético, los recuerdos únicos de la tierra que me vio nacer, Marabal, donde quedó sembrado mi espíritu y que muchas veces visito en sueños, repetitivos, de añoranza, de arrepentimiento por el abandono, de...

Who were the earliest Americans? When, how, and from where did they enter and spread across the continent? And what is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover. Their theories—and the discoveries that prove and disprove them—are highlighted in this fascinating volume, full of awe-inspiring facts and incredible breakthroughs. Readers will feel like anthropologists and archaeologists themselves as they read about bones and artifacts, and what they reveal about the ancient cultures that roamed...

¡Conoce al iguanodon, un dinosaurio herbívoro que pesaba toneladas literalmente! Las imágenes coloridas ayudan a los lectores a aprender cómo era la vida para estos comedores de plantas de punta. Meet the iguanodon, an herbivore dinosaur who weighed tons—literally! Now in Spanish, carefully leveled text and colorful images help readers learn what life was like for these spiky-thumbed plant-eaters.

El maestro Yanguas (1682-1753) fue coetáneo de Johann Sebastian Bach (16851750) y Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757); Aragüés (1712 ca.?-1793) lo fue de Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) y Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779) y Bernardo del Manzano, que muere en 1805, de Carl Stamitz (1745-1801) y Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805). En España trabajan en este periodo Scarlatti, Farinelli, Corselli, Brunetti o Boccherini, pero también Francisco Valls, Pedro Rabassa, José de Nebra, Antonio Rodríguez de Hita, Francisco Javier García Fajer, Francisco Manalt, Joseph Teixidor o Melchor López. Sólo este...