Historias

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...

Hi, my name is Bertha Estela and my passion is teaching languages. In fact, I have taught English as a foreign language for over forty years, all the way through grade school up to university level. One day, twenty years ago during Summer school, due to an emergency, the university where I was teaching English requested me to help them out the next day - substituting a teacher of Spanish who had fallen sick. I didn ́t give it a second thought ...¡¡¡¡ piece of cake!!!. Next morning , there I am, standing in front of a group of 20 enthusiastic and eager American teachers full of questions...

Cuento para dormir para niños a partir de dos años. Edición bilingüe (español y japonés), con audiolibros y videos en línea en español (castellano y columbiano) y japonés. Lulu no puede dormir. Todos sus peluches ya están durmiendo – el tiburón, el elefante, el ratoncito, el dragón, el canguro, y el pequeño leoncito. Al oso también se le cierran casi los ojos ... Hola osito, ¿me llevas contigo a tu sueño? Así empieza para Lulu un viaje que la llevará a través de los sueños de sus peluches – y acabará en su sueño más bonito. ♫ ¡Escucha la historia leída por...

The contributions gathered in this volume take a fresh look at the medieval history of women, revealing the many faces of female reality during an extremely dynamic period—while individuality was on the rise, new linguistic codes (vernacular languages) and innovative literary genres were emerging, and the political situation was undergoing deep changes. The book is structured in three interrelated sections: The first is dedicated to "Historical femininity" and documents the cultural and literary activities carried out by women from the nobility. The second is about "Authorial femininity"...