Vistazos: Un curso breve

This highly innovative beginning Spanish text is both task-based (requiring students to use Spanish to complete specific goals or tasks) and content-based, including readings from a variety of disciplines. ¿Sabías que...? represents the practical application of the theories and research presented in Lee and VanPatten's methods text, Making Communicative Language Teaching Happen (a natural companion volume for instructors using this text). The new edition is accompanied by a new CD-ROM, a new Online Learning Center, and more!

Un buen astrólogo le puede decir cosas sobre usted que ni su propia familia conoce. Con millones de lectores, Sydney Omarr es uno de los mejores astrólogos en el mundo --y ahora él comparte su experiencia con usted a través de Revelaciones Astrológicas--.

Este volumen se ocupa de cuestiones de linguistica teorica y aplicada. Entre las primeras se aborda un rasgo universal de la mente y el lenguaje humanos: la necesidad de clasificar el mundo que nos rodea. Sirven aqui de ejemplo las categorias gramaticales de dos lenguas muy alejadas de las indoeuropeas: las clases nominales del mancana (una lengua de Senegal) y los clasificadores nominales del chino. Ademas, se trata tambien de la composicion de palabras en espanol mediante prefijos y de los gentilicios. De las segundas dan cuenta estudios sobre dialectologia canaria, traduccion, literatura...

Play therapists often use props (which may include a sandtray, miniature characters, bubbles, balloons, dolls, etc.) to help children work through or resolve difficult traumatic experiences (such as sexual or physical abuse, domestic violence, death of a loved one, divorce, natural disasters, or violent crimes). This new book, written by an emerging leader in the field of play therapy, will combine a flexible theoretical model with a step-by-step treatment plan for using these evidence-informed interventions in practice with traumatized children.

Images of Latin America offers a historical and cultural overview of Hispanic America: from pre-Columbian cultures to the contemporary cultures of each country. This work-a wealth of information, to analyze in depth the processes that occurred after the arrival of the Spanish to America, and devotes special attention to the events occurred in the twentieth century, country by country.