La magia de las velas

Written entirely in Spanish, this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students. Using clear explanations, it covers all the basic concepts required to study the structural aspects of the Spanish language - phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax - as well as the history of Spanish, its dialects and linguistic variation. This second edition incorporates new features designed to enhance its usefulness for classroom teaching: chapters have been added on the sociolinguistics of Spanish in the USA, and on semantics and pragmatics. The chapter on syntax has been considerably ...

Spanish for Public Safety Personnel is a 2-book/3-audio tape set designed to teach Spanish to public safety personnel with Anticipatory Learning Language (A.L.L.), a copyrighted learning method created by the authors. The A.L.L. technique considers how an individual acquires a language. The first introduction to language is sound. A.L.L. is practical in that it emphasizes speaking and listening in identifiable real life situations instead of punctuation, complex grammatical structures and syntax as traditionally taught. Spanish for Public Safety Personnel is designed to provide security and...

Cuban intellectual Eliades Acosta examines the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe; the massive anti-fascist movements and cultural conferences organised to defeat it; and how the worldwide anti-fascist struggle has progressed and been set back through the 20th century.

La Revolución Cubana, como todo proceso histórico complejo, ha tenido consecuencias de la más variada índole. Con la instalación de la dictadura castrista, el exilio forzado de muchos y el aislamiento interior de aquellos disidentes que permanecieron en la isla ha dado fruto a una tradición literaria de notable valor. Este libro reúne obras de más de doscientos autores cubanos quienes, durante las tres últimas décadas han cultivado el oficio literario desafiando las burdas y brutales imposiciones que Castro ha impuesto de la manera más vergonzosa y reprochable a sus compatriotas....