Spiders Up Close / Las aranas

Explores Chinese culture from ancient times to the present, providing information about food, fashion, law, art, and religion.

Essays by well-known climbers accompany a range of superb color landscape photographs that echo the great traditions of the Ansel Adams and the Sierra Club large format books of the 1970s.

Albores del año 1875. Las familias de Luigi y Luigia dejan su caserío alpino y se unen a la marea emigratoria. ¡Les sobraban razones para arriesgarlo todo! En realidad era muy poco lo que dejaban atrás. Sus brazos y sus sueños eran sus mayores y únicos tesoros. Lo demás se daría por añadidura, o no... Junto a Giovanni Battista y Angela se unen a la reciente fundación de la colonia Villa Libertad, en el noreste entrerriano. ¡Todo está por hacerse! El lector está invitado a recorrer el desafiante y apasionante itinerario histórico y biográfico de estas dos familias vénetas en...

Animal trainers care for many different types of animals! Children will explore some of the methods that trainers use, such as affection bonding and classical and operant conditioning, while simultaneously gaining an understanding of animal instincts and animal rehabilitation. Readers are invited to learn about the variety of animals that trainers work with and are encouraged to find an area of study to focus on if they want to become an animal trainer. With stunning images, interesting facts, a glossary of useful terms, informational text, and an interview with a real-life animal trainer,...