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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Este libro de inglés es la herramienta perfecta para aquellos que buscan aprender el idioma de una manera efectiva y sencilla. Con su enfoque en tres pasos educativos, el libro guía al estudiante en un proceso de aprendizaje progresivo que aborda las necesidades específicas del estudiante.El libro incluyen:Una introducción básica al idiomaTodo le vocabulario esencial para hablar con fluidezEjercicios interactivos para practicar el vocabulario...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Este libro está diseñado para ti que hablas español y deseas aprender inglés de manera fácil y efectiva. Éste incluye un número de lugares exclusivos dentro de Estados Unidos seleccionados para facilitar el aprendizaje del idioma inglés y mejorar la comprensión cultural. Además, la pronunciación en el libro está escrita sin símbolos extraños para facilitar su lectura y la traducción también está disponible para ayudar en el proceso...
Author
Publisher
Running Press Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Birthday flowers. Valentine's Day flowers. Sympathy flowers. Red vs. yellow roses. Carnations. Orchids. We give/receive flowers for all sorts of reasons, but have you ever wondered what these beautiful flowers are REALLY trying to say? In this fully illustrated book, young readers will learn how everything from the color to the genus of a flower can communicate the simplest message. This is not your typical gardening book with step-by-steps to prepping...
Author
Series
Memorias de Idhún volume 1
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Jack and Victoria learn that the resistance movement in the world of Idhún, which is ruled by a necromancer and his flying serpent allies, still has a long way to go to reach its goals, and that the enigmatic Kirtash continues to seek them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Sister Carrie, by Theodore Dreiser, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
"When it comes to walking the mean streets, Dickens could give modern genre authors the tour of their lives." -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times
When a corpse is found in the Thames River and identified as John Harmon, many lives will be forever changed. John, who had been abroad and estranged from his miserly father for years, will no longer collect his inheritance. It will instead go to the miser's employees, Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, transforming...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies...
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Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Excerpt: "American tourists, sure appreciators of all that is ancient and picturesque in England, invariably come to a halt, holding their breath in a sudden catch of wonder, as they pass through the half-ruinous gateway which admits to the Close of Wrychester. Nowhere else in England is there a fairer prospect of old-world peace. There before their eyes, set in the center of a great green sward, fringed by tall elms and giant beeches, rises the vast...
10) Amor
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestría, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilación de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitación a sumergirse en la lectura, soñar y sonreír. La gran narradora chilena escribe abiertamente, haciendo un guiño a sus lectores, sobre sus experiencias en el sexo y el amor.
The noted Chilean author presents excerpts from her fiction...
11) Inglés
Author
Series
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Ingles Para Dummies está repleto de explicaciones claras de la gramática, el uso, la jerga y más en inglés, todo en un formato fácil de seguir. Estudia a su propio ritmo, en la comodidad de su hogar, con esta guía imprescindible para cualquier persona que quiera aprender inglés. Le encantará el útil mini diccionario inglés-español mientras aprende la jerga para saludos personales, conversaciones telefónicas, compras, viajes, cenas y otras...
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Publisher
Dorling Kindersley Limited, parte de Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Cómo medimos el universo? ¿Dónde se halla el horizonte de sucesos? ¿Qué es la materia oscura? Desde los inicios de la humanidad, la gente ha alzado la vista al cielo con el afán de entenderlo. Así, a lo largo de los siglos, la ciencia astronómica ha ensanchado las fronteras del conocimiento humano en el intento de comprender el universo y nuestro lugar en él. Con un lenguaje claro, [esta libro] proporciona breves y sencillas explicaciones...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' most visionary novels. It recounts the harrowing ordeal of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rescued by a man named Montgomery, Prendick finds himself on an island belonging to Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London who was expelled from his homeland for his cruel vivisection experiments.
Prendick...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
La mujer Pajarita comienza una estirpe indómita e independiente, tres generaciones de mujeres que lucharán por crearse una vida en su querida Uruguay, una patria que nutre sus almas a la vez que pone a prueba sus espíritus.
An exploration of the search for love and authenticity in the lives of three women, and a penetrating portrait of the small, tenacious nation of Uruguay, shaken by the gales of the twentieth century.
15) Hermanas
Author
Series
Publisher
Maeva Ediciones
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Formats
Description
In a semi-autobiographical graphic novel, Raina's disappointing bond with a cranky, independent younger sister is further challenged by the arrival of a baby brother and an estrangement in their parents' marriage.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Since its first publication in 1678, The Pilgrim's Progress has never been out of print -- and that fact reflects the timeless relevance and wisdom of this long-form Christian allegory. The text follows the journey of the title character, Christian, as he makes his way from the earthly sphere represented by the "City of Destruction" to the "Celestial Sphere," which represents Heaven, battling sin, temptation, and every other conceivable
...20) Main Street
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
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