Traduttore - tradittore say the Italians and "I plead guilty as charged." While I guarantee you will enjoy these stories in translation, I admit they can not live up to the originals. Every work of literature is an expression of the culture that produced it and presupposes a bit of insider knowledge. These stories are no exception. They all share references to shuco, which is consumed by millions of Salvadorans everyday and which is reputed to have miraculous qualities to raise the dead, or at least to abate hangovers. Shuco, or atol shuco, is a completely alien concept to the middle-class...

THIS BOOK is ideal for anyone interested in resolving the contemporary crisis in education. Thanks to its introduction to problems of evaluation, it updates and offers updated solutions for professors, investigators, administrators, bureaucrats, politicians and the general public in their search for better results in the classroom and how to form students better prepared for the twenty first century. Although it is focused on the teaching of languages, it is applicable to all educational domains rooted in experiential learning, such se mathematics, computer science, sports, and fine arts....