Frente al espejo

Find out about the different types of winds, including global winds, trade winds, local winds, and breezes. Learn about extreme wind weather like hurricanes and tornadoes. Translated title: Gusts and Gales: A Book About Wind

For most of history, women have been confined to their households, and to lives without equal rights or equal opportunities. This volume introduces readers to the women of the suffrage movement, the defining movement for women’s rights, especially the right to vote. Primary sources and photographs will show readers firsthand how the challenges and successes of this movement shaped the lives of women across the United States. Readers will also learn about the inequality that still exists for women, and how they can change this injustice in the future.

*Indie Next List Pick* *Junior Library Guild Selection* “An appealing tribute and successful remedy to the lack of titles about the groundbreaking librarian…a must-have for all libraries.” –School Library Journal (starred review) The Spanish language edition of Planting Stories—an inspiring picture book biography of storyteller, puppeteer, and New York City’s first Puerto Rican librarian, who championed bilingual literature. When she came to America in 1921, Pura Belpré carried the cuentos folklóricos of her Puerto Rican homeland. Finding a new home at the New York Public...

¿Qué es una forma en música? ¿Es indispensable que una obra musical tenga una forma y una estructura? ¿Qué son el aire cortesano, el anthem, el aria, la balada, el ballet, la canción polifónca, el coro o el concierto? Esta guía cubre la ausencia que ha habido durante varias décadas del siglo XX de una síntesis de las formas de la música. Permite adquirir un conocimiento básico sobre una forma y su evolución, sin necesidad de dedicarse a la compilación de obras muy dispares, historias de la música, tratados sobre composición, etc. Asimismo, el autor analiza de forma...