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

The prayers every Catholic should know, in large type. Las oraciones que todo Católico debe saber, escritas en letras agrandadas.

Offers eighty thousand entries highlighting Latin American Spanish, tables of regular and irregular verbs, and sections on numbers and common abbreviations

With culturally thematic chapters and a traditionally organized grammar sequence, this is a solid and complete introductory course. It is ideal for instructors who want a balanced, contemporary course but not necessarily an innovative methodology. Although chapter changes in the new edition include an overall shortening, a trimming of grammar detail, and adding more visually-based activities, the basic methodology remains unchanged.

Julio Baena offers a new analysis of Cervantes's last and most controversial novel, Los trabajos de Persiles y Segismunda. Baena's particular focus on the first chapter of this allegorical text, which he sees as a microcosm of the entire novel, allows him to explore the correspondence between microcosm and macrocosm in Cervantes's allegorical text. Placing this work within the intellectual context of its era, Baena uses poststructuralist methodologies to develop the existential implications of Persiles's central cosmological metaphor.