Introducción a la lingüística española

La historia e historiografía del español, así como de sus variedades, suponen un ámbito de estudios vivo, que evoluciona, que siembra interés en el investigador desde múltiples perspectivas, y que denota, además, todo lo mucho que aun queda por hacer. Se recogen en este volumen, una buena muestra de las diferentes posibilidades de estudio del español, así como de las múltiples fuentes documentales y recursos para su investigación. Esta muestra da cuenta delas investigaciones más actuales del campo y abarcan diversas disciplinas y metodologías. Los veinte estudios escogidos se...

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...

A four-skills approach to learning a foreign language utilizes a wide variety of activities and materials, clear grammar presentations, and effective tutorials and exercises, all designed to promote listening comprehension. (Language)

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...