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Educational, entertaining, and stimulating, these authoritative and handsome encyclopedias present each of their subjects in rich detail. Packed with information, photographs, and illustrations, each book is organized around themes specific to their subject matter. With today's hunter, skeet shooter, and gun collector in mind, this exhaustive encyclopedia of hunting firearms includes profiles, technical details, and photographs of every gun listed. Conteniendo información completa, estas hermosas enciclopedias también son educativas y entretenidas. Ya sea para satisfacer la curiosidad o...

"Un día conté tus dedos y los besé todos uno a uno'. Con esta frase abre Alison Mcghee el hermoso texto de este cuento que recuerda, uno a uno, los momentos importantes en la vida de la hija de la narradora. Ver la nieve como se deshace en la piel de su bebé, aprender a cruzar la calle, o andar en bicicleta son situaciones en la vida de todos los niños que poco a poco les ayudan a hacerse adultos. Y poco a poco es como este libro, sin ahorrar ninguna etapa, acumula las emociones de una vida hasta que la narradora, mucho mayor de lo que era al inicio del cuento, describe el futuro en el...

An effort to determine the origin of the African slaves brought to the central region of Cuba through a linguistic study that analyzes the speech of practitioners of the Palo Monte Afro-Cuban religion which contains remnants of Bantu languages.

The proceedings assemble some 240 papers covering eight sections: 1. phonetics and phonology, 2. morphology, 3. syntax, 4. lexical semantics, 5. editing and textual criticism, 6, rhetoric, poetics and literary theory, 7. applied linguistics, 8. history of linguistics. In addition, they include four plenary lectures and two round table discussions. The papers provide a panorama view of old and new concerns in Romance studies illustrated from various theoretical perspectives and providing an example of what this sector has to contribute to the development of linguistics and literary studies in...