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Delve into a Cornucopia of Color: Your Guide to Fall Gardening Brilliance
Imagine stepping outside to a crisp, autumn breeze whispering through a lush canvas of ochre, ruby, and gold. "The First-Time Gardener: Autumn Edition" is your personal compass to transforming your garden into a fall paradise blooming with possibility.
As the leaves begin to turn, allow us to guide your journey through the season's unique gifts to gardeners. With our comprehensive...
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A lively collection of essays that re-examines the extraordinary legacies of the four Canadian women who dominated '90s music and changed the industry forever
Fully revised and updated, with a foreword by Vivek Shraya
"A fascinating, fun, and infuriating read." — Tegan Quin, Tegan and Sara
In this of-the-moment essay collection, celebrated music journalist Andrea Warner explores the ways in which
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Un joven científico, para asombro e incredulidad de sus colegas y otros expertos, ha desarrollado una máquina que le permite hacer realidad uno de los sueños más antiguos de la humanidad: vivir en una época distinta a la suya.
H. G. Wells logra con su libro La máquina del tiempo, el primer relato, y el más acabado, de viajes en el tiempo. En los momentos fundacionales de la ciencia ficción aborda con maestría uno de los temas más recurrentes...
4) El Príncipe
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"En 1513, después de haber perdido todos sus cargos y sufrir cárcel y tortura, Nicolás Maquiavelo escribió en su granja de Sant'Andrea in Percussina, a pocos kilómetros de Florencia, un pequeño libro que le daría la inmortalidad: El príncipe, el tratado político más polémico de todos los tiempos. Con él intentó ganar el favor de los Medici, la poderosa familia que dominaba la república florentina desde 1434 y acababa de recuperar su...
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El Gran Gatsby de F. Scott Fitzgerald es una poderosa exploración del sueño americano, la decadencia de la élite y la ilusión de la riqueza como sinónimo de felicidad. Ambientada en los años 20, la novela sigue la vida del enigmático Jay Gatsby, cuya obsesión por el amor perdido de Daisy Buchanan lo lleva a construir una existencia rodeada de lujo y fiestas deslumbrantes. A través de la mirada de Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald retrata un mundo...
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Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This original song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. Count along as the playful little ducks swim around the pond and find their friends! How many will they find? 'How many ducks are swimming in the pond? How many ducks are swimming in the pond? How many ducks are swimming in the pond? One, two, three, four,...
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Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This classic song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. Join the farmer in the dell as he takes his wife, and his wife takes the child and so on… until the cheese stands alone! Young readers will enjoy this classic rhyme, complete with repetitive text and adorable illustrations. The fun Sing A Story series includes:...
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Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting individuals of various nationalities are swept away by the collision. The tension builds as they struggle to understand what has happened and to cope with their new...
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Alicia en el País de las Maravillas es una exploración surrealista de la lógica, la imaginación y las complejidades del crecimiento personal. A través de las aventuras de Alicia en un mundo caótico y lleno de personajes excéntricos, Lewis Carroll invita al lector a cuestionar las normas sociales y la lógica cotidiana. La obra desafía las nociones convencionales de la realidad y la identidad, permitiendo que Alicia se enfrente a sus propias...
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Villancicos clásicos son perfectos para reflexionar sobre el verdadero significado de la temporada Navideña. Enséñale a los niños sobre los regalos que los tres reyes magos trajeron a Jesús. La estrella brillante era su guía al viajar sobre las montañas para ver el Salvador del mundo. "Nosotros somos los tres reyes magos de Oriente Atravesamos desde lejos con regalos. Campo y fuente, páramo y montaña, siguiendo a la estrella de allá. Belén,...
12) Down By the Bay
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Read the story. Then sing the story! It isn't a secret that using songs to teach children pre-reading skills is fun and successful. This classic song is featured as a read-along and a sing-along. And learning rhyming words has never been more fun! 'Have you ever seen a snake baking a cake down by the bay?' 'Have you ever seen a mouse painting his house down by the bay?' 'Have you ever seen a pig doing a jig down by the bay?' Fun illustrations, rhyming...
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Kids will love this sweet story/song combination as they listen to "Mary Had A Little Lamb," and follow along word-for-word in the adorably illustrated eBook. What will happen when Mary takes her little lamb to school? Will the teacher let the lamb stay and play with the other children? This adorable story/song encourages learning through music and introduces children to important early literacy skills they will need for the school years ahead. With...
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More comprehensive than ever, the Complete Guide to Florida Gardening explains in step-by-step fashion how to create one's own personal outdoor paradise. Addressing the needs of gardening notvices, seasoned hobbyists, and horitculture professionals alike, Stan DeFreitas has, once again, created a reference book that no Florida gardener should be without. Explains in step-by-step fashion how to create one's own personal outdoor paradise. Addressing...
15) Michelangelo
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Michelangelo war, genau wie Leonardo, ein "universeller" Künstler: Maler, Baumeister, Bildhauer und Dichter. Er war der Hauptmeister der italienischen Hochrenaissance und Wegbereiter des Manierismus. Seine Vorliebe galt der als Ausdruck der Leidenschaft angesehenen Skulptur. Nach Landschaften sucht man bei ihm vergeblich. Alles, was den Menschen ausmacht, seine Gefühle, Leidenschaften, seinen Intellekt, wollte Michelangelo durch den nackten Körper...
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The essential and bestselling guide to typography from beloved design educator Ellen Lupton-revised and expanded to include new and additional voices, examples, and principles, and a wider array of typefaces.
"Thinking with Type is to typography what Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time is to physics."-I Love Typography
The bestselling Thinking with Type in a revised and expanded third edition: This is the definitive guide to using typography...
17) Hokusai
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Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) ist mit seinen eleganten Gemälden und meisterhaften Holzschnitten der international renommierteste Künstler Japans. Als ein Meister der Ukiyo-e-Kunst transferierte er alleine diese Kunstform von einem einfachen, auf Abbildungen von Kurtisanen und berühmten Schauspielern fokussierten Stil zu einem gehobeneren Stil, der die Schönheit der Natur durch Landschaften und Tierwelten darstellt. Der Stil und die Gegenstände...
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Situados en la selva misionera, un ambiente exótico y peligroso, estos ocho cuentos narran curiosas historias protagonizadas por pintorescos personajes como flamencos, yacarés, tigres, tortugas y coatíes. Lectura ideal para niños y jóvenes, estos cuentos se encuentran narrados de manera impecable; usando un lenguaje preciso y claro, cada historia nos deja una enseñanza de vida para escuchar una y otra vez.
Cuentos como "La tortuga gigante",...
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"What Color Are You Wearing?" is an entertaining story/song combination perfect to teach young learners colors and color words. Bright photographs and adorable illustrations, coupled with an easy to follow "word-for-word" story, will entertain pre-readers and reinforce early literacy skills. Children and parents alike will enjoy reading and singing along to "What Color Are You Wearing?" over and over again!
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Listen to the story! Read the story! Sing the Story! "A is for Alligator," includes the Read-along version of the story followed by the same story sung in an adorable song. "A is for alligator. B is for ball. C is for caterpillar. D is for doll." From A to Z, young readers will learn different words that begin with each letter in this easy-to-read, alphabet rhyme. Each page includes capital and lowercase letters and delightful illustrations! The perfect...