Construir, deconstruir y reconstruir

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

Thinking about the limitations, the conditions for possibility, the obstacles and the need for a therapeutic dialogue is one of the key necessities in the field of family therapy. This collection of essays presents their authorsb particular perspective to create a dance of ideas about the clinic of couples, family and destructive divorce from the central axis of a conceptual framework.

This book introduces students to literature through a collection of twelve short stories and related exercises designed to improve the reader's ability to speak and write in Spanish. Activities that build reading comprehension and grammar reviews are built into the context of each story to help eliminate any fear of reading in a foreign language. Interesting topics of current issues —such as child abuse, ecological catastrophe, homosexuality, migration, and aging—are written by a balanced selection of male and female new authors. For those familiar enough with the Spanish language to want ...

Los cuentos incluidos en este libro se caracterizan por los temas centrales que se mezclan de forma natural y coherente. Entre esos temas resaltan la trágica inocencia juvenil, sueños que no se cumplen y la desesperante dicotomía de identidad de una persona que ha sido arrancada de sus raíces. Cada una de estas situaciones es proporcionada por el estado psicosomático de su personaje. Por los acontecimientos de la vida, forjados por fuerzas externas, algunos de estos personajes son llevados a su autodestrucción y otros a vivir sus vidas bajo una perpetua contaminación mental. En el...