Martin Luther King, Jr. SP

The Mi Mini Biografia series are Spanish language biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills. Includes a timeline and other informative backmatter.

Nadar y leer son dos cosas muy difíciles de aprender. Da mucho miedo meterse en la piscina cuando no se hace pie o abrir un libro lleno de palabras incomprensibles. Óscar necesita ayuda para divertirse en el agua y para leer un libro de mayores, pero llegará un día en el que los brazos y las piernas se moverán al ritmo adecuado y las frases, por fin, tendrán sentido.

Students will learn all about geometric shapes while engaged in reading about Greek Gods and Goddesses, mythology, and the constellations. This Spanish book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, and incorporates nonfiction reading to increase vocabulary and comprehension skills. The practice problems, graphs, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what they've learned to their daily lives. Essential text features like a glossary, index, and table of contents will increase students' interest level and their...

Condensada y selectiva, esta historia de la filosofía moral permite al lector situar los textos de ética en una perspectiva histórica, desde la generación homérica hasta los debates anglosajones contemporáneos. De este modo, el libro se ocupa de la mayoría de tipos y escuelas de la ética occidental: de los sofistas, de Sócrates y Platón, a la moderna filosofía moral, pasando por la ética de Aristóteles y la ética griega en general; el cristianismo, Lutero, Maquiavelo, Hobbes y Spinoza; las ideas británicas y francesas del siglo XVIII; Kant, Hegel y Marx; Kierkegaard y...

Christopher Columbus most likely wasn’t the person to discover the Americas. He wasn’t even the first European to do so! Despite that, his three trips to the Western Hemisphere led to many more European explorers heading in that direction. In this volume, readers familiar with Columbus’s travels on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria can learn who Columbus was beyond his travels. Supported by full-color and historic images, interesting main content turns what readers think they know about the life of Columbus on its head while expounding on an important period in the history of the world.