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.

Drawing on authentic cultural materials ranging from thought-provoking artwork to classic literature and short contemporary films, Retratos: Arte y sociedad en Latinoamérica y España offers a fresh and inspired approach to the teaching of advanced Spanish Composition. In each of the eight thematically-organized chapters, these primary source materials are used to illustrate—to provide a “portrait” of—a historically or culturally important figure in the Hispanic world. These first-hand introductions to such personalities offer students rich opportunities to explore cultural...

A Spanish-English, English-Spanish dictionary containing over 600,000 entries, which provides usage examples, grammar sections, and conjugation tables for regular and irregular English verbs.

Presents English definitions of over four thousand Spanish language idioms and colloquialisms, grouped according to Spanish key word, and includes example sentences, matching English expressions, and a Spanish-English index.

Die Residencia por Zuazo stellt eine Amtsüberprüfung dar, die 1517 auf la Española, Santo Domingo, durchgeführt wurde. In den deposiciones, den Zeugenaussagen zu den 70 Fragen des interrogatorio, wird das Hispaniola zu Anfang des 16. Jahrhunderts in einer einmaligen Authentizität geschildert. Die linguistisch und enzyklopädisch kommentierte Edition steht neben einem fundierten rechtshistorischen Überblick über die Tradition der residencia sowie einer detaillierten Darstellung der gesellschaftlichen Situation auf der Insel. Die linguistischen Analysen erstrecken sich auf die...