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Through a study of literature, the social and cultural issues that help form the identity of a people can be revealed and examined. The ten essays in Temas del comercio y la economia en la narrativa hispana investigate the relation between the Hispanic narrative and the economic and commercial concerns of Spanish-speaking peoples around the world from a variety of historical periods. Balancing a study of writers' perspectives on current economic conditions with a look at literary versions of economic events, this anthology provides a window into Hispanic culture for both the student...

Beyond the Biophysical provides a broad overview of agriculture and natural resource management (NRM) scholarship and practice that lies beyond the biophysical, emphasizing instead epistemological, cultural, and political foundations of NRM. The volume is oriented toward professionals with expertise in agriculture and natural resource management scholarship and practice, but who lack exposure to the conceptual and methodological underpinnings of critical theory, the anthropology of development, ecological anthropology, and other relevant scholarship. It therefore follows common...

Triumphe, Tore, Kapriolen - die unvergesslichsten Momente der deutschen Fußball-Nationalmannschaft

Pünktlich zur Fußball-Europameisterschaft in Deutschland nimmt uns der beliebte Zeichner German Aczel mit auf eine Zeitreise durch die goldenen Zeiten der deutschen Fußball-Nationalmannschaft. Ob das Wunder von Bern, das Wembley-Tor, die magische Nacht von Rio oder andere Highlights aus zahlreichen Welt- und Europameisterschaften - Aczel lässt uns auf seine lustig-informative Art die unvergesslichsten deutschen Fußballmomente noch einmal nacherleben. Ein...

Awarded "Best of 2011" in Arts & Letters by Kirkus Review

By special request, this BLACK-AND-WHITE "Classroom Edition" is now available. The cover is still COLOR.

KIRKUS REVIEW (posted in its entirety)

The English language gets pulled up by its roots for purposes of entertainment, enlightenment and vocabulary building in this sprightly linguistic romp.

The author, an English professor, introduces readers to some of the knottier words in the language through an approach that mixes analysis, history and lots of engaging anecdotes. His method is to seize on dusty old lexical...