El secreto de Diana

Las culturas y civilizaciones latinoamericanas has been updated. This textbook not only describes the history of Latin America, but it sets a mood that allows the reader to get a genuine sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations of this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of how Columbus's voyages gave rise to utopian dreams, the ramifications of which led to a brilliant display of hybrid cultures, changed the ethnic composition of two continents, accelerated lines of commerce, and refashioned the Western World's diet. The textbook takes the reader through the...

En este libro se trata de ofrecer una explicación unitaria de cuatro grupos de combinaciones verbonominales del español contemporáneo como resultado de un proceso de lexicalización. Se presenta en primer lugar un estado de la cuestión. En segundo lugar, se examinan algunas características morfosintácticas que permiten delimitar los cuatro grupos. En tercer lugar, se presentan los argumentos que invitan a considerar estas combinaciones como resultado de la lexicalización. Por último, se comparan combinaciones verbonominales y verbos correspondientes.

FACETAS is a brief and multi-faceted intermediate Spanish program ideal for use in one-semester courses. It incorporates relevant literary and cultural readings and integrates two kinds of video. The first is a specially-shot sitcom featured in every lesson. The second showcases three original short films by contemporary Hispanic filmmakers. FACETAS' interactive, student-friendly approach focuses on real communication in meaningful contexts, giving students a rewarding learning experience as they strengthen their language skills and develop cultural competency.

An easy-to-use, thoroughly updated bilingual resource features more than 115,000 entries and 160,000 translations of modern terminology, idiomatic expressions, and slang in both Spanish and English, along with quick reference tables of irregular verbs and coverage of Latin-American Spanish. Original.