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This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

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.

Excerpt from Diccionario Mar-timo Espaol: Que Ademas de las Definiciones de las Voces Con Sus Equivalentes en Frances, Ingles e Italiano, Contiene Tres Vocabularios de Estos Idiomas Con las Correspondencias Castellanas Esta necesidad la han conocido desde tiempos muy anti gaos diverss escritores, y posterirmente muchos oficiales de la Real Armada que, instruids en la terica y prctica de su prfesin, se dedicarn privadamente suplir la falta que aun tenemos de un Diccionario de Marina mientras que tanto se han multiplicado en Inglaterra Francia Holanda, y en otras nacines mar-timas; per por una...

Por todos lados is a revolutionary approach to language learning! Emphasizing student involvement and interaction, these thematic books work hand-in-hand with your current textbook curriculum, leading students to exercise their new language skills and see them in action. Plus...Por todos lados helps students apply language learning to their own lives, discover new cultures, and see interdisciplinary connections.