El Primer Libro de Lectura en Ingles para Principiantes / The First Book of Reading in English for Beginners

This intermediate Spanish program emphasizes skill building through five coordinated components: grammar, literary readings, cultural readings, an activities manual, and a workbook/lab manual. The core text provides a comprehensive review of grammar and a communicative, interactive focus with realia, class polls, and storytelling activities. The literary reader contains essays, short stories, plays, and poetry from some of the major authors of the Hispanic world. The cultural reader provides students with a broad overview of Hispanic culture and society while helping them to develop reading...

Each book comes with a companion CD which includes (American) pronunciation of the most frequently used words and phrases from the text. Perfect as a classroom supplement or self-study tool. Appropriate for all ages and levels of study. Exercises at the end of each chapter. Many words are nearly the same as their English counterparts due to their common Latin origin. The only difference is the word ending. For example, you can translate most English words ending in 'ant' (such as 'arrogant').

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.

Über die reine Inspiration hinaus können Film und Literatur die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung in all ihren Grenzen aufzeigen und ausdrücken. Der vorliegende Band versammelt Beiträge, die dem deutschen Kino und der zeitgenössischen deutschen Literatur gewidmet sind. Untersucht werden darin die Serie Holocaust – Die Geschichte der Familie Weiss (1978), die Filme Der Wolfsmensch (1941) und Unter Verdacht (1944/1945) sowie Christa Wolfs Medea (1996), der Roman Las Casas vor Karl V. von Reinhold Schneider (1938), Eugen Ruges In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts (2011) und Uwe Tellkamps Der Turm ...