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What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

One of the core authors of the '60s boom in Latin American fiction, Julio Cortázar made a contribution of international importance to the development of the short story as a literary form. This collection spans his writing career and includes La Noche Boca Arriba and Final del Juego (1956), Las Babas del Diablo (1959), La Isla a Mediodia (1966), Recortes de Prensa and Queremos Tanto a Glenda (1981) and Botella al Mar (1982). Of the seven stories, some are famous examples of his contribution to the genre of 'fantastic' literature, while others demonstrate his social and political concerns....

Este libro re ne cuatro trabajos de don Silvio Zavala, que giran en torno a uno de los temas m s controvertidos y particulares de la historia de M xico: la castellanizaci n de los ind genas, que a su vez, incide en otro tema no menos controvertido, el de las pol ticas del lenguaje. Con agudeza y meticulosidad, el autor traspasa el tiempo y observa que desde el siglo XVI existe un problema que a n hoy en d a no parece encontrar salida coherente para una naci n unificada. La unidad, la identidad, la nacionalidad, el pluriling ismo son los finos hilos que se entretejen en una compleja red de...

Escrito especialmente para aparelhos eletrônicos, o livro Verbos Italianos apresenta uma introdução à formação de todos os tempos verbais em Italiano, assim como 100 verbos conjugados e com seus significados. Este livro permite ao leitor uma pesquisa fácil através do texto, já que não há imagens, nem texto ilegível.