Words Are Not for Hurting / Las palabras no son para lastimar

This book introduces you to hippopotamuses, including their size, diet and everyday behavior, which highlights differences between those in the wild and those living in a zoo habitat.

Do you have something to celebrate? You can celebrate by making papel picado! Featuring vibrant step-by-step photo instructions, this Spanish-translated, nonfiction book helps introduce children to another culture through craft-making and designs.

Mientras los misiles alemanes V-1 llueven sobre la campiña inglesa, el personal del hospital militar de Herons Park lucha por mantener la normalidad. La mañana siguiente a un ataque aéreo, el doctor Barnes se prepara para una intervención rutinaria: recomponer la pierna rota de un cartero. Pero antes de hacer siquiera la primera incisión, el paciente fallece a causa de la anestesia. Cuando el forense solicita una investigación, será el inspector Cockrill quien, abriéndose paso entre en una maraña de envidias y resentimientos, se enfrente a seis posibles culpables: tres médicos y...

Politicians today in both Europe and the United States have succeeded in casting government spending as reckless wastefulness that has made the economy worse. In contrast, they have advanced a policy of draconian budget cuts--austerity--to solve the financial crisis. We are told that we have all lived beyond our means and now need to tighten our belts. This view conveniently forgets where all that debt came from. Not from an orgy of government spending, but as the direct result of bailing out, recapitalizing, and adding liquidity to the broken banking system. Through these actions private...