Un bosque para la mariposa monarca

Recounts the life of Cuban violinist Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas, a black child who was born free and began his career as a musical prodigy to become a noted concert musician in Paris, while slavery still existed on the island.

¡Aprende con nosotros sobre los animales de América que están en peligro de extinción! ¿Sabías que los flamencos pueden alcanzar velocidades hasta de sesenta kilómetros por hora?¿Y que las colonias de flamencos tienen nodrizas que cuidan a los pequeños mientras sus padres están lejos? Los flamencos viven aproximadamente veinte años, y sea cual sea su edad, no les gusta estar solos. ¡Algunos científicos piensan que en Yucatán viven alrededor de veinte mil flamencos! Estos son solo algunos de los datos increíbles que encontrarás en este libro sobre criaturas en peligro de...

A flexible suite of resources providing full coverage of the Cambridge IGCSE® Spanish as a Foreign Language syllabus (0530) for first examination in 2015. With a skills-based approach and an international focus, this coursebook with audio CD promotes a deeper understanding of the Spanish language and culture. Engaging texts, images and audio enhance the activities in the coursebook and help students develop language skills. Exam-style questions and clear learning objectives encourage self-assessment and support students through the Cambridge IGCSE® Spanish as a Foreign Language course.

Deserts are the driest places on Earth, but they’re full of life! Cacti, kangaroo rats, shrubs, foxes, and more have found ways to adapt to the extreme temperatures and dry conditions of deserts around the world. Readers learn about many of these adaptations as well as the major features of the desert biome. Simple maps highlight some of the biggest deserts, helping readers learn map skills. Full-color photographs reinforce accessible information about the desert ecosystem, including a concluding message of conservation.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...

¿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...