Sabias Que

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.

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 dictionary for English speakers who are learning Spanish that includes a grammar summary, examples, and English and Spanish translations for 100,000 terms and expressions, idiomatic expressions, nouns, and phrasal verbs.

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

Sujetos del deseo propone que todo traductor literario es un amateur, en el sentido que ama y desea un texto, un autor, una voz, una cultura, y que movido por su deseo y a pesar de las condiciones precarias de su labor se convierte en pieza clave de la circulación de productos culturales. Además, es un libro sobre los éxitos y fracasos del traductor amateur como agente político-cultural en las zonas que definen las relaciones culturales entre Estados Unidos y América Latina entre finales del siglo XIX y mediados del siglo XX. En este contexto, el libro se enfoca en el trabajo y las redes ...