Yo Manejo Un Quitanieves/I Drive a Snowplow

Presents a typical day of a bulldozer driver, with the safety equipment he puts on, the levers, beeper, and blades he uses in its operation, and what he does to get the bulldozer ready for the next day.

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.

Luna, una joven adolescente, pasa por unos acontecimientos que harán que su vida dé un giro, la muerte de su padre y la ruptura entre ella y su novio. Por ello, su madre decide enviarla con sus tíos a vivir una temporada, ya que no puede cuidar de ella por motivos de trabajo. Cuando llega al pueblo no sabe qué hacer pero un día se encuentra una vieja librería, en la cual conoce a un chico un poco extraño. Éste le cuenta una historia que la deja aturdida, ella intentará averiguar que secreto oculta el chico misterioso y sus amigos; tras varios días descubre que tiene un don, igual...

When President Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from cash-strapped France in 1803, he doubled the size of the United States without really knowing what he was getting. He dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and their Corps of Discovery to explore a territory that would include part or all of fifteen future states and to seek a water route to the West Coast. Westward expansion began immediately, all for the bargain price of 15 million dollars. This book richly explores this fascinating part of history.

Explore outer space and learn about stars, galaxies, planets, asteroids and how these bodies are all related to one another. Featured in this book are photographs from outer space and related vocabulary.