La secta del Ave Fenix

A police officer has been killed, and with him, a member of the local mafia, setting off acts of revenge, and a settling of scores that, together, create an explosive mix of elements for the CSU team to handle. PP.

This study focuses on the formalization of a fundamental experience of human existence: the act of perception. Unlike most other linguistic research dealing with the "prototypical" verbs of visual and auditory perception, it concentrates on the complicated polysemy of the multimodal verb sentir. The findings provide important new insight into the linguistic expression of perception in general.

Eva Peron (1919-1952) was the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Often referred to as "Evita," she was never an officially elected political figure, but by her husband's second term as President, she had become the most powerful woman in the history of her nation. By the 1960s, Evita was an international pop-culture icon; in the 1970s, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice wrote the blockbuster musical Evita about her; and in the mid-90s, the musical was adapted to a movie starring Madonna. This small, chunky paperback features all manner of vintage graphic treatments from...

Son muy contadas las obras en castellano dedicadas a ofrecer panoramas de la ling ̧ística. Ninguna tan actual y completa como ésta, que aun ha merecido ser traducida a idiomas que disponen de rica bibliografía sobre el tema. Bertil Malmberg es uno de los ling ̧istas más sobresalientes de la actualidad, y su competencia como romancista le ha permitido ilustrar con frecuencia su exposición con ejemplos tomados de la lengua española.

En 1901, deprimido por el suicidio de su intimo amigo, Carles Casagemas, Picasso se sumerge en los lienzos austeros y melancolicos del Periodo Azul. Con solo veintidos anos de edad y desesperadamente pobre, decide restringir su paleta a colores predominantemente frios, sugerentes de la nocturnidad, el misterio y la muerte. Su creciente obsesion con estos temas alcanza su punto culminante con <I>La vie, un lienzo emblematico de la relacion del pintor con la muerte, considerada una fuerza malefica con la que uno debe enfrentarse mediante el poder del exorcismo que le ha sido otorgado como...