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Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy" -- the Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--P. [4] of cover.

This volume sheds light upon one of the most emblematic constructions in Ibero-Romance: adverbial infinitives with specified subjects (e.g. al entrar Juan (Sp), para eles verem o resultado (Ptg)). The study attempts to fill an empirical gap and offers a cognitive-functional and comparative account on these constructions. The first part provides an overview of the notions of infinitive, subject and adverbial clauses. The second part consists of two empirical case studies. First, the use of the Portuguese inflected infinitive is shown to be sensitive to factors as the mental accessibility of...

This volume contains essays on modern and contrastive Romance lexicography as well as studies discussing lexicographical theories and methods and current research trends in the field. Different Romance languages and a number of traditions are taken into account, as well as a variety of both monolingual and comparative approaches.

Francisco Guerrero cuenta las peripecias de su peregrinacion a Tierra Santa, a finales del siglo XVI. A pesar de piratas, ladrones, turcos, guerras, jenizaros, privaciones, multitud de monedas de oro gastadas en exacciones abusivas y unas distancias de miles de leguas, este Maestro de Capilla de la Catedral de Sevilla consiguio llegar a Jerusalen, la Aciudad dichosaA, y visitar los lugares donde tuvieron lugar los principales Misterios de la fe cristiana. Este precioso librito nos permite compartir las emociones uno de los grandes autores de la musica espanola al pisar, como un simple...