Minicuentos

This systemic-functional account of Spanish, analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast with those of English.

The main objective of this work was to obtain an overview of the Roman monetary circulation in Gallaecia following the road network that crossed this territory in Roman times. With a historical and economic emphasis, this volume aims to understand the process of monetization within the economy of the Galicians and Asturians and the ways in which the phenomenon occurs. Of particular importance is the fact that these people were never minting currency so the monetization process was not provoked by civic institutions but through contact with people and goods coming from outside the territory....

Desde sus mismos orígenes, el cine ha estado fuertemente vinculado con el mundo de la magia escénica y el ilusionismo. Pioneros como Georges Méliès fueron, antes que cineastas, prestidigitadores, así que no es extraño que las trayectorias de ambas artes hayan estado siempre estrechamente entrelazadas. De esos vínculos, precisamente, trata este libro. Como en aquellas casetas que poblaban las antiguas ferias ambulantes, esperan al curioso en estas páginas cincuenta historias plagadas de misterios, trucos y prodigios. Descubrirá aquí el lector el doble vínculo —con el cine y la...

Table of contents: I. Tintoretto and the Venetian Culture and Religious Environment Paul Hills, Tintoretto and Venetian Gothic - Augusto Gentili, Tintoretto in contesto tra politica e religion - Benjamin Paul, Archaism and Pauline Spirituality in Jacopo Tintoretto's Crucifixion for SS. Cosma e Damiano - Tom Nichols, False Gods: Tintoretto's Mythologies as Anti-poesie - Bernard Aikema, La casta Susanna II. Tintoretto and the Art of his Time Philip Cottrell, Painters in Practice: Tintoretto, Bassano and the Studio of Bonifacio de' Pitati - Roland Krischel, Jacopo Tintoretto and Giulio Romano -...