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Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
Essays on Spanish poets whose works reflected a great revitalization of the verse forms and of the Spanish language itself, but also was inspired or influenced by the events surrounding the Spanish Civil War and the post-war authoritarian traditionalism of the Franco dictatorship.
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Essays on Spanish poets whose works reflected a great revitalization of the verse forms and of the Spanish language itself, but also was inspired or influenced by the events surrounding the Spanish Civil War and the post-war authoritarian traditionalism of the Franco dictatorship.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When Aurora came to America, she learned to speak English. But not her spaniel, Nena. As Aurora explains to her friends she meets along the way, her dog just knows Spanish. Nena doesn't know "sit," but she knows "sientate." And she doesn't know "wait," but she know "espera." And a "treat" might not mean anything to Nena, but she sure can sniff out a "postre"!
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Representative collection of playwrights from the sixteenth century to the present, serving as a summary introduction to the range of work carried out in Latin American drama. The dramatists selected have been limited to those from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean and Central and South America.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Essays on a variety of Spanish authors who shaped the development of Spanish fiction in the twentieth century. Entries focus on the interconnections between life and writing and trace the writers' personal response to the cultural, intellectual and political concerns of the day, as well as to the traditions and literary styles that shaped their imagination. Provides a condensed assessment of the authors' aesthetic and personal preferences as shown...
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Essays on Spanish writers of the sixteenth-century, a period of territorial expansion, political hegemony and cultural prosperity in the face of ideological repression. Discusses the Hapsburg dynasty, the impact of the Counter-Reformation and the Inquisition had on censorship and literary production, and the Spanish passion for the theater that increased during the 1600s, during the pinnacle of the Golden Age of drama.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Essays on authors considered to be among the most representative writers of each of the eighteen Spanish-speaking American countries, including the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Within this context "modern" refers to those poets writing from the 1880s to the early 21st century.
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Essays on authors considered to be among the most representative writers of each of the eighteen Spanish-speaking American countries, including the commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Within this context "modern" refers to those poets writing from the 1880s to the early 21st century.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hoy día, saber inglés es más importante que nunca. Todos los latinos que desean tener éxito en los Estados Unidos necesitan aprender a comunicarse con los estadounidenses. El autor, William Harvey, enseña que se puede aprender el inglés mas fácilmente cuando se pone atención al "mensaje" en lugar de memorizar las reglas de pronunciación y gramática. Este método práctico e informal es para usted si no tiene la paciencia para...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Vuelve a contar la historia del nacimiento de Jesús desde la aparición de un ángel antes de María hasta la visita de los Reyes Magos.
Retells the story of Jesus' birth from the appearance of an angel before Mary to the visit of the Three Wise Men.
Author
Language
English
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"In 1981, a young father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travels to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront the horrific legacy she has bequeathed. For the woman they are grieving came from a family like no other--a centuries-old secret society called the Order that pursues eternal life through ghastly rituals....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In 1492, Christopher Columbus sailed across the ocean and discovered America. Right? Wrong! Columbus never actually set foot in what is now the United States. His voyages took him to islands in the Caribbean and along the coast of South America. The truth is, when Columbus first arrived, Indigenous peoples, including the Taino, had been living there for thousands of years, raising their families, running their societies, and trading with their neighbors....
Author
Language
Español
Description
¿A tus hijos les gusta jugar deportes de equipo?¿Alguna vez sienten que los dejan fuera?
Al Mapache Wally le encanta jugar deportes de equipo, especialmente en los Juegos Olímpicos de la Granja.
Sigue a Wally y sus aventuras durante el primer día de los Juegos Olímpicos de la granja. Aunque experimenta el rechazo de los otros animales y la desilusión de que no le permitan unirse a sus equipos, finalmente el Mapache Wally encuentra a un amigo...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"El libro definitivo para dejar de ser esclavo del dinero y mejorar tu vida. Hazte las siguientes preguntas:¿Tienes bastante dinero? ¿Pasas suficiente tiempo con tu familia y amigos?¿Vuelves a casa del trabajo lleno de energía? ¿Tienes una vida completa y estás satisfecho? Si has respondido que no a alguna de estas preguntas, este libro es para ti. Vicki Robin ofrece en La bolsa o la vida un programa de nueve pasos con el que descubrirás...
18) Spanish 3
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet Anna and Ben, the main characters of BILINGY, encounter their friends and follow them through their life, their careers and their little arguments, sometimes quirky, sometimes lazy and sometimes controversial, just like all of us. BILINGY always has texts side by side in both languages, so you never have to puzzle about the meaning of a sentence, it's right there. New words are highlighted so you can identify them quickly and they are built up...
19) Spanish 2
Author
Language
English
Description
Meet Anna and Ben, the main characters of BILINGY, encounter their friends and follow them through their life, their careers and their little arguments, sometimes quirky, sometimes lazy and sometimes controversial, just like all of us. BILINGY always has texts side by side in both languages, so you never have to puzzle about the meaning of a sentence, it's right there. New words are highlighted so you can identify them quickly and they are built up...
Author
Language
Español
Description
La Gramática de Antonio Nebrija dio entidad a la lengua de la Conquista y apareció en los albores del imperio español. Asimismo, la Gramática de la lengua castellana destinada al uso de los americanos de Andrés Bello (1781-1865) sentó las leyes del castellano en América. Así se convirtió en un elemento de identidad que, en pleno siglo XIX, marcó distancias con la lengua hablada en la Península Ibérica.
Lo primero que a cualquier lector...
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