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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"A lo largo de la historia, a las mujeres les hand dicho que la ciencia no es parar ellas porque no son suficientemente inteligentes, o porque sus cerebros simplemente no son capaces de ese tipo de estudio. En este libro, Chelsea Clinton nos presenta a varias mujeres científicas que no prestaron atención a los que les dijeron que no y optaron por utilizar su ingenio, sus hablidades y su persistencia para descubrir, inventar, crear y explicar."--
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Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Mantenerse en lo alto es mucho más difícil que llegar. Julia está en la cúspide de su poder, pero la traición y la división familiar amenazan con echarlo todo a perder. Para colmo de males, el médico Galeno diagnostica que la emperatriz padece lo que él, en griego, llama karkinos, y que los romanos, en latín, denominan cancer. El enfrentamiento brutal entre sus dos hijos aboca la dinastía de Julia al colapso. En medio del dolor...
464) X-men: first class
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
466) 300
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes waited many days for King Leonidas to surrender or withdraw....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The British Empire is in decline, the political world is in disarray, and a young woman takes the throne ... a new era is dawning. Queen Elizabeth II is a 25-year-old newlywed faced with the daunting prospect of leading the world's most famous monarchy while forging a relationship with legendary Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
c2023.
Lexile measure
790L
Language
Español
Description
Cuando una estudiante es asignada el trabajo de completar un árbol familiar y solo puede contar tres generaciones atrás, Abuela junta a toda la familia, y la estudiante aprende que hace 400 años, en 1619, sus antepasados fueron robados y traídos a los Estados Unidos por esclavizadores europeos. Pero antes de eso, ellos tenían un hogar, una tierra, un idioma. La estudiante aprende cómo la gente que dice haber nacido sobre el agua sobrevivió....
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 21
Publisher
Lectorum
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
Español
Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
Annie y Jack viajan en la casa del aarbol a la aepoca de la Guerra Civil norteamericana. Allai conocen a una destacada enfermera llama Clara Barton, a quien ayudan con todo empeano a socorrer a los soldados heridos en combate. Annie y Jack viven el viaje maas dificil hasta el presente, el que marcaraa sus vidas para siempre.
471) Before night falls
Series
Publisher
Fine Line Features
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"A look at the life of Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas, from childhood in Cuba to his death in New York City. His writings and homosexuality get him in trouble with Castro's Cuba and he spends two years in prison before leaving for the United States. Victimized by a government that banned his books and jailed him for a crime he didn't commit, [poet] Reinaldo [Arenas] endured unspeakable persecution in a courageous stand against censorship and oppression....
473) Abaelards "Historia calamitatum": Text - Übersetzung - literaturwissenschaftliche Modellanalysen
Author
Publisher
de Gruyter
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Deutsch
474) Too big to fail
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Offers an intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. Centering on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, the film goes behind closed doors to examine the symbiotic relationship between Wall Street and Washington.
Author
Publisher
B
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"La embriagadora historia de una joven que aspira a convertirse en artista y del hombre que, obsesionado con ella, amenaza con destruir su mundo para siempre. Londres, 1850. La hermosa Iris trabaja, junto a su hermana, como aprendiz en el famoso taller de muñecas de la déspota señora Salter, pero su pasión es el arte. Cuando el pintor Louis Frost le pide que pose para él como modelo, ante ella se abre un mundo nuevo en el que, quizás,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
On April 19, 1943, thousands of Nazi troops were given the order to remove all Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a few square blocks sheltering the remnants of the half million or more Jewish citizens of Poland's capital, to the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz. They were to kill those who resisted. A few hundred of the trapped Jews, mostly teenagers, armed only with pistols, Molotov cocktails, and a few light machine guns, vowed to fight back. Resistance...
478) Butterfly
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
Español
Description
A shy young boy is brought out of his cocoon by a wise teacher who shows him the wonder of the natural world around him, amidst the growing tensions and chaos of the Spanish Civil War in Galicia.
479) Red tails
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
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Italy, 1944. As the war takes its toll on Allied forces in Europe, a squadron of black pilots known as the Tuskegee Airmen are finally given the chance to prove themselves in the sky, even as they battle discrimination on the ground. Featuring jaw-dropping aerial action and thrilling special effects, Red Tails is a breathtaking tribute to the unsung heroes who rose above extraordinary challenges and ultimately soared into history.
480) Rewriting Roman history in the Middle Ages: the 'Historia Romana' and the Manuscript Bamberg, Hist.3
Author
Series
Mittellateinische Studien und Texte volume Bd. 36
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English