Enciclopedia infantil: Tú puedes descubrir la tierra extrema


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¿Estás listo para descubrir la tierra extrema? "Tú puedes descubrir la tierra extrema" es un fascinante libro infantil diseñado para niños mayores de 6 años que los llevará en un emocionante viaje a través de los poderosos eventos naturales que moldean nuestro increíble planeta. Este libro interactivo permite a los jóvenes exploradores transformar imágenes al pasar las páginas, revelando el impresionante poder de la naturaleza en acción. Los niños aprenderán sobre volcanes, terremotos, tsunamis y otros fenómenos geológicos que impactan la tierra, y cómo estos eventos han dado forma a nuestro mundo a lo largo de millones de años. Inspirado por científicos de la vida real y sus asombrosos descubrimientos, "Tú puedes descubrir la tierra extrema" presenta historias de geólogos, vulcanólogos y sismólogos que dedican sus vidas a estudiar y comprender estos fenómenos naturales. Los niños conocerán a figuras destacadas como Alfred Wegener, quien propuso la teoría de la deriva continental, y Marie Tharp, que ayudó a mapear el fondo oceánico. El libro también incluye un cuestionario de la tierra que desafía a los niños a poner a prueba sus conocimientos sobre geología y eventos naturales. Este cuestionario interactivo mantiene a los niños comprometidos y les permite medir lo que han aprendido a lo largo de su emocionante aventura a través de la tierra extrema. Además, "Tú puedes descubrir la tierra extrema" ofrece un experimento científico práctico y divertido: crear un volcán en erupción en casa. Este experimento no solo es entretenido, sino que también enseña principios básicos de la geología y la química, fomentando el amor por el aprendizaje práctico y la exploración científica. Los jóvenes lectores descubrirán cómo se forman los volcanes, cómo se miden los terremotos y cómo los científicos estudian y predicen estos poderosos eventos naturales. Con su diseño atractivo y contenido educativo, este libro es la herramienta perfecta para despertar la curiosidad de los niños sobre la geología y la ciencia, combinando el aprendizaje con la diversión e inspirando a la próxima generación de exploradores de la tierra.




Overcoming Autism


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There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.




A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish


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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.




Joseph Albers: To Open Eyes


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This volume provides a fascinating study of the revolutionary painter and teacher, Josef Albers (1888-1976). Albers began his teaching career in 1923, when Walter Gropius invited him to join the faculty of the Bauhaus in Germany, where he quickly replaced the school's standard course curriculum with his own innovative methods. After moving to the United States, he taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut until he retired in 1954. Overall, Albers's passionate commitment to teaching was matched only by his devotion to his own artistic development. While he is widely perceived as a strong-minded theoretician, he was, in fact, as this volume reveals, against rigid dogma and he encouraged his students to develop lively and original solutions to his many and varied design exercises. On their first day in his classroom, Albers's students were informed that his goal was to educate their eyes and that he was going to teach them how to think and to see, an agenda belied by the somewhat prosaic course names "Basic Drawing" and "Basic Design." Overall, as a thinker, writer (Albers's important volume The Interaction of Colorwas published in 1963 by Yale) and educator he has directly and indirectly influenced generations of established artists, including Robert Mangold, Robert Rauschenberg, and Donald Judd, among many others. This book provides not only a compelling study of a key figure of 20th century art, but also ponders what constitutes art and how it is made.




The Forbidden Religion


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Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows. Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again. Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.




That was Loneliness


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Elena seemingly has everything - money, a successful husband, an attractive daughter. Despite this, she is bored with her life, filling her days with whisky and cannabis. When her mother dies, Elena is stirred into action and hires a private detective to follow her husband, with surprising results.




Paradigms, Poetics, and Politics of Conversion


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In the terms of Durheimian sociology, conversion is a fait social. Although they are rarely treated as a cultural phenomenon, conversions can obviously be examined for the norms, values and presuppositions of the cultures in which they take place. Thus conversion can help us to shed light on a particular culture. At the same time, the term evokes a dramatic appeal that suggests a kind of suddenness, although in most cases conversion implies a more gradual process of establishing and defining a new - religious - identity. From 21-24 May 2003, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'Cultures of Conversion'. The contributions have been edited in two volumes, which pay special attention to the modes of language and idiom in conversion literature, the meaning and sense of religious-ideological discourse, the variety of rhetorical tropes, and the effects of the conversion narrative with allusions to religious or political conventions and idealizations. The present volume contains theoretical contributions on the theory of conversion, with special attention to the rational choice theory, and on the history of research into conversion. It also offers stimulating case studies, ranging from the late Middle Ages to present times and taken from Germany, Great Britain and The Netherlands. The other volume, Cultures of Conversion, offers in-depth studies of conversion that are mainly taken from the history of India, Islam and Judaism, ranging from the Byzantine period to the new Muslimas of the West.




Leopard in the Sun


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In Laura Restrepo's stunning novel, a feud between two Colombian drug families escalates into a bloody, high-stakes war that will leave no one in its path untouched. The Barragáns and the Monsalves are rival clans, each steeped in wealth and power, each subject only to laws of their own making. The similarities end there. While the Barragáns, headed by the brutal Nando, remain tied to the ancient traditions, the Monsalves grapple with whether or not to follow Mani, their charismatic and conflicted leader, into a modern age in which even fewer rules apply. As both clans ponder the profits they might reap from an expanding global cocaine trade, Nando and Mani are faced with the consequences of their violent pasts--and forced, by their disillusioned women and the prices on their heads, to reckon with the possibility that nothing will be left once all their bullets have found their targets. Rife with sensual detail, this epic story of lust, betrayal, and revenge is as timeless as interfamily conflict and as immediate as today's news.




Literacy Education


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The Cipher of Roger Bacon


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