Expansión Universal I

La Venganza será Terrible cumplió treinta años. Este libro recorre esa historia mediante anécdotas y reflexiones en la voz de su protagonista principal y en las voces de aquellos que orbitaron en el universo humorístico, filosófico y musical de su creador. Testimonios de oyentes célebres, confesiones de los que participaron, datos y sucesos insólitos, transcripciones de los mejores momentos de la historia del programa. Todo este material se completa con un prólogo de Gabriel Rolón y un archivo fotográfico inédito que llega hasta hoy, con el programa ya convertido en un...

NON DISPONIBILE PER KINDLE E-INK, PAPERWHITE, OASIS. La nascita, lo sviluppo del più grande impero della Mesoamerica e la sua tragica fine per mano degli spagnoli nel XVI secolo. La storia di una civiltà vissuta più di duemila anni, complessa e ancora oggi misteriosa per il suo sistema sociale, la sua lingua e la sua cultura. Le vicende di un popolo antichissimo che ha immaginato forme artistiche e tecniche che hanno influenzato profondamente anche l’Occidente. Questo dossier racconta l’arte degli Aztechi dall’architettura dei grandi templi piramidali alla ceramica e...

This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive Linguistics. With this purpose in mind, a number of papers have been selected from some of the most representative areas in the cognitive linguistics arena: mental imagery, metaphor and metonymy, cognitive grammar and construction grammar, the pragmatic and discourse background of language use and linguistic relativism. Some of the contributions presented herein propose new ways to refine existing theoretical frameworks: others apply some of those...

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...