Goats / Las cabras


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Weekly Reader books introduce beginning readers to key concepts in the early elementary curriculum. In Animals That Live on the Farm, young learners explore this remarkable habitat from top to bottom and come face-to-face with its fascinating creatures. Simple text pairs with vibrant color photos to make this series a fun reading adventure! This special English-Spanish bilingual edition enables children to work on their second-language skills as they develop strengths in their primary language.




Las cabras / Goats


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Why do farmers raise goats? What kinds of goats are there? This bilingual book answers these questions and more as it introduces readers to fun facts about goats that will ignite their interest and encourage their reading growth. Supplemented by a colorful picture glossary, index, table of contents, and websites for further research, this high-interest book will teach kids all about these woolly, grass-grazing farmyard friends.




Goats on the Farm / Cabras de granja?


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Goats are smart animals, and English language learners discover many fun facts about them with the help of easy-to-follow, bilingual text—presented in both English and standard Latin American Spanish. Readers learn what farmers get from goats, such as milk to make cheese and wool to make clothing. A helpful picture glossary reinforces the meanings of new words that are introduced in the text, and vibrant photographs make beginning readers feel as if they are on the farm alongside these amazing animals.




Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos


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This is the first study of a transhumant cattle-raising community in Spain. Transhumance is the seasonal moving of livestock to another region. This book shows the social and economic factors upon which the continued vitality of this mountain village is based: the use of communal summer pastures; the transhumant groups which walk the cattle to the winter pastures over the mountains; and the system of taking turns for many tasks within the village. The book analyses the sharp divisions between the more rigid organization of life within the village, and the organization of life outside the village in the transhumant group which goes to the winter pastures in Extramadura.




Goat Science


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Goat science covers quite a wide range and varieties of topics, from genetics and breeding, via nutrition, production systems, reproduction, milk and meat production, animal health and parasitism, etc., up to the effects of goat products on human health. In this book, several parts of them are presented within 18 different chapters. Molecular genetics and genetic improvement of goats are the new approaches of goat development. Several factors affect the passage rate of digesta in goats, but for diet properties, goats are similar to other ruminants. Iodine deficiency in goats could be dangerous. Assisted reproduction techniques have similar importance in goats like in other ruminants. Milk and meat production traits of goats are almost equally important and have significant positive impacts on human health. Many factors affect the health of goats, heat stress being of increasing importance. Production systems could modify all of the abovementioned characteristics of goats.




CRM


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Microbiología


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Native Texan


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Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holley is widely loved for his popular “Native Texan” column, which appears in the Houston Chronicle. In thirty stories curated from column archives, Holley introduces readers to his favorite people and places across the state. From interviews on the “weird” streets of Austin and his search for ghosts in Bigfoot to a decades-long love affair with everything about Marathon and hikes on the back trails of the Big Bend, Holley is a masterful storyteller. His instincts are backed by a seasoned journalist’s passion to measure legends and tall tales against investigations into what really happened. He reveals small-town Texas, and some small towns within the largest cities, with a style that has proven popular with readers and a keen eye for a unique spin on an old story. The result is an entertaining and certainly surprising view of the Lone Star state.







The Wrong Hill to Die On


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1916: Alafair Tucker had not wanted to come to Arizona, but because of her young daughter Blanche's lung ailment, she and her husband Shaw bundled Blanche onto the train and made the nightmare trip from Oklahoma to Alafair's sister in Tempe, Arizona, hoping the dry desert air would help their daughter. As soon as they arrive, Blanche begins to improve, and Alafair is overjoyed to see her witty, beautiful sister Elizabeth again. For added excitement, a Hollywood motion picture company is shooting their movie right in Tempe. But Alafair and Shaw soon discover that all is not well. Elizabeth's marriage is in tatters; tensions are high between the Anglo and Latino communities following Pancho Villa's murderous raid on Columbus, New Mexico; and Alafair suspects her sister is involved in an illegal operation to smuggle war refugees out of Mexico and into the U.S. And now here there's Bernie Arruda, dead on his back in a ditch. The night before he had been singing Mexican love songs at the party in Elizabeth's backyard. Can Alafair connect all the pieces and discover a murderer before it is too late?