El Caribe (The Caribbean): Early Fluent (Nonfiction Readers)

Let's explore the diverse biomes and geography that covers the vast expanse of Canada! This book also highlights the different animals that inhabit this country as well as Canada's most popular sports. Language arts connection is vocabulary related to Canada, its varied landforms, and inhabitants.

Welcome to the Caribbean! Readers are invited along to learn about a tropical paradise in this Spanish-translated nonfiction title that features vibrant, colorful photos, informational text, charts, and maps. From the delicious fruit to the exotic animals, children will be engaged from beginning to end.

El Pseudo Dionisio Areopagita, tres heroísmos en conjunción: Biblia, Filosofía y Religión. Tres dimensiones entrelazadas, elevadas seguro hasta las cumbres de santidad y ecumenismo universal Rudolf Otto, Thomas Merton, los jesuitas, H. de Lubac, Lasalle, W. Johnston... han puesto de relieve la relación entre la más profunda religiosidad del Oriente y Occidente. Como fuente de inspiración les han servido las obras del Pseudo Areopagita, cuya conclusión más gloriosa viene a ser la “Subida del Monte Carmelo y las Noches” de San Juan de la Cruz. Esta edición de sus Obras completas...

Learn about the rich history of Mission Santa Cruz: how it started, the people who ran it, the indigenous population, and its legacy today.

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...

John Paul Jones is remembered as the first hero of the young American navy who raided the British coast during the American Revolution, capturing or sinking more than forty enemy ships. As Commander of the Bonhomme Richard, his ship was heavily damaged and sinking. His surrender was sought by the British commander of the attacking ship. Joness famous reply was "I have not yet begun to fight." He would board and capture that enemy ship, even as his Bonhomme Richard was sinking.