Vox Compact Spanish and English Dictionary, Third Edition (Paperback)

Revised and updated with sixty-four additional pages, the most readable and accessible compact Spanish and English Dictionary includes 15,000 headwords and more than 24,500 translations, including expanded coverage of technology words. Original. 50,000 first printing.

Vibrant and original, VISTAS takes a fresh, student-friendly approach to Introductory Spanish aimed at making students' learning and instructors' teaching easier, more enjoyable, and more successful. And, it works! Since its first publication in fall 2000, VISTAS has become the most widely adopted new Introductory Spanish program in a decade.

Los vocabularios de T&P Books buscan ayudar al aprendiz a aprender, memorizar y repasar palabras de idiomas extranjeros. El vocabulario contiene mas de 9000 palabras comunmente usadas y organizadas de manera tematica. Aspectos claves del vocabulario: Las palabras se organizan segun el significado, no el orden alfabetico Las palabras se presentan en tres columnas para facilitar los procesos de repaso y auto-evaluacion Los grupos de palabras se dividen en pequenas secciones para facilitar el proceso de aprendizaje El vocabulario ofrece una transcripcion sencilla y conveniente de cada palabra...

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...

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.