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En una palabra is a unique interactive tool to help students learn about Spanish culture while increasing vocabulary and listening skills. Students experience the program through a series of video segments in which fifteen residents of Sevilla--of varying ages and sociocultural backgrounds--define the same ten concepts:

amigos (friends)familia (family)trabajo (work)pais (country)libertad (freedom)exito (success)orgullo (pride)individualismo (individualism)ambicion (ambition)felicidad (happiness)

While these words are easily translatable into any language, the...

Integrating grammar and composition, this comprehensive new edition guides the advanced student through progressively more complex types of writing by organizing the grammar lessons on a functionalist basis around the needs of composition. This innovative approach to teaching Spanish grammar and composition promotes systematic language development and enables students to strengthen their expressive and editing skills in the language in order to write more effectively and more confidently. Refined by years of classroom testing and analysis of the problems students encounter, this...

En una palabra is a unique interactive tool to help students learn about Spanish culture while increasing vocabulary and listening skills. Students experience the program through a series of video segments in which fifteen residents of Cordoba--of varying ages and sociocultural backgrounds--define the same ten concepts:

amigos (friends)familia (family)trabajo (work)pais (country)libertad (freedom)exito (success)orgullo (pride)individualismo (individualism)ambicion (ambition)felicidad (happiness)

While these words are easily translatable into any language, the...

From ordering dinner and asking for directions to working and...

Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Buero Vallejo's play "El Tragaluz." The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context. Set in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, this play occupies an important place in Buero Vallejo's theatre incorporating earlier metaphysical preoccupations with a later historical and...

This is the text of Moratin's "El Si de las Ninas," in Spanish with an English introduction and notes.

The Spanish ballad is well documented from the 16th to the 20th century in substantial, though declining, oral sources, chiefly in Castilian but also in Judeo-Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese. The 70 ballads in this volume are taken from 16th-century printed sources, from the period when the ballad of tradition, sung and orally transmitted, was polished for printing by poets, musicians and editors to meet the taste of the times. There is a general introduction, notes prefacing each group, and others about origins, background, variants, modern oral version, English translations, following...

Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this book looks at the Spanish-American "modernista" poets. The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context.

A thoroughly edited text of one of 20th-century Spain's most famous volumes of poetry. An introduction offers an in-depth commentary on Machado's themes, techniques and metaphysical manner. In addition to examining the various influences on his work - Krausism, Bergsonism and the '98 Generation's concern for "el problema de Espana" - the introduction looks at Machado's life, especially the years of composition, 1907-17, and it traces the critical phases in his poetic development: the discovery of the Castilian landscape in Soria, his growing political consciousness, his personal tragedy as...

Jorge Guillen belongs to a brilliant cluster of Spanish poets, a generation once defined by Salinas, one of its members, as "born under a lyrical star." Towards the end of his life Guillen's most famous work "Cantico" - the fruit of some 30 years of labour - was recognized as a masterpiece and stands alongside the poetical works of Lorca, Alberti and Cernuda. Most usefully translated as a hymn or song of praise, "Cantico" is an antidote to today's world of doubts, fears, conflicts and seductive philosophies of despair. The attitude to life it holds out to its readers is summed up in the...

This edition of Maeterlinck's "Peleas et Melisande" includes English language introduction and notes, and is designed to make accessible a classic text which heralded the ethos of modernism of the late 20th century.

This edition of the poetry of Cesar Vallejo (1892-1938) includes an introduction which takes into account the most recent criticism written on the Peruvian poet, an annotated bibiography, and a glossary which explains some of the more difficult and technical terms used by Vallejo. Each of the thirty-eight poems selected is followed by a short commentary in plain English.

"Barbarroja" was a figure of great mystery for decades, overseeing Cuba's operations in Latin America and Africa and working closely with Che Guevara. Here he reveals Cuba's continental strategy for revolution in the 1960s and offers some fascinating insights into Che's life and legacy.

An analysis of the political thought of Che Guevara, this book shows Che, best known as a guerrilla fighter, as a profound thinker, incisive political and economic strategist, and a creative, distinctly Latin American Marxist. The book explains Che's internationalism and motivation to participate, and ultimately offer his life, in the struggle to create a better world.