Todo sobre mi madre

Domingo García is a young security agent who is tired of being bored every Sunday evening. To add spice to his life, he becomes a private detective.

Este libro examina las estrategias de representación de las imágenes sobre la conquista de México y sus protagonistas creadas en el imaginario de la pintura novohispana (finales del siglo XVII). Pone énfasis en el papel significativo de los discursos visuales dirigidos a convencer a propios y extraños de que la Nueva España se había fundado sobre un antiguo imperio de grandes riquezas ganado gracias a la sagacidad de los ejércitos españoles comandados por Hernán Cortés, convirtiéndose inmediatamente en uno de los territorios cristianos más leales y fructíferos de la Corona...

Cristina Iglesias (b.1956, San Sebastian, Spain) belongs to a generation of artists who since the late 80s and early 90s have brought about the expansion of the sculptural object into the realm of installation. In contrast with her "modernist" predecessors, Iglesias often evokes the female body, establishing relationships between it and commonly used objects such as furniture, rooms and architectural constructions. She also challenges the idea of representation by means of an aesthetic vocabulary based on the use of varied materials, such as concrete, resin, iron, and glass, and techniques,...

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the pretérito perfecto compuesto, one of the Spanish verb forms displaying the greatest variation in use. The study discusses its temporal, aspectual and modal dimensions and argues that the perfect tense used in the Romance languages can be understood as a temporal category expressing both simultaneity and anteriority. Finally, the author analyzes the different dialectal forms used in today’s Spanish.