Sabias Que

This new Beginning Spanish text is a brief version of the successful ¿Sabías que…?, perfectly designed for those programs that are interested in an innovative task-based approach but whose curriculum necessitates a briefer text.

A multi-part telenovela which presents the vocabulary, grammatical structures and functions of Spanish in a natural, conversational way, emphasizing comprehension through context and actions. Tells the story of Raquel Rodriguez, an attorney from Los Angeles, who is hired by an aging Mexican industrialist to investigate a long-buried secret about his past. Her quest takes her to Spain, Argentina and Puerto Rico.

Kein Blatt vor den Mund nehmen – no tener pelos en la lengua ist ein zweisprachiges phraseologisches Wörterbuch Deutsch-Spanisch mit synchronem Ansatz. In allgemeinen Wörterbüchern werden idiomatische Einheiten meist nur unvollständig und unsystematisch behandelt bzw. es werden wesentliche Aspekte nicht berücksichtigt. Diese Lücke schließt das neue Wörterbuch, das von einem Team aus drei spanisch- und zwei deutschsprachigen Forscherinnen mit langjähriger Erfahrung im Bereich der kontrastiven Linguistik erstellt wurde. Das Wörterbuch enthält mehr als 4.000 idiomatische Wendungen...

Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

This new edition of the Modern Spanish Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Spanish, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume.

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.