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Cinema for Spanish Conversation, Fifth Edition, draws on sixteen high-interest films (and related readings) to introduce students to the authentic language and cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. Each chapter offers a wide variety of activities designed to improve students’ conversational skills as well as opportunities for reading and writing practice. For a guide to accessing the films—and for supplementary instructor materials—visit www.hackettpublishing.com/cinema-for-spanish-films. New to the Fifth Edition: Three new critically acclaimed films, including Yuli (set in Cuba), El...

Patients are dying mysteriously and an innocent doctor is accused of the unthinkable. Dr. Harry Corbett discovers that evil is lurking in the city's hospitals in the guise of a doctor who has a special practice--murder. From the author of "Natural Causes" and "Extreme Measures."

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...

Seminar paper del año 2012 en eltema Romanística - Español, literatura, cultura general, Nota: 1,0, Universität Konstanz, Materia: Spanish Literature/ Landeskunde, Idioma: Español, Resumen: This paper shows how famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reflects her Mexican roots, the Mexican culture and the Mexican tradition in her famous paintings, e.g. 'The broken Column'.