Diccionario de los nombres de persona

Complements advanced level Spanish course books by providing practice in reading and understanding longer texts. Students will also develop the vocabulary needed to understand and talk about important issues in modern Hispanic society. It encourages an analytical method of study, and the eight photocopiable self-study units are based on authentic texts dealing with topics such as 'Estereotipos culturales' and 'La biodiversidad'. Lively, interesting and carefully graded, the exercises begin with identification of key words and comprehension questions followed by detailed and precisely focused...

Cuban intellectual Eliades Acosta examines the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe; the massive anti-fascist movements and cultural conferences organised to defeat it; and how the worldwide anti-fascist struggle has progressed and been set back through the 20th century.

Conformada por pequeños cuentos, fragmentos y pensamientos, La Feria tiene un referente histórico y cultural, ya que cuenta como personaje principal Zapotlán el Grande, hoy Ciudad Guzmán, donde nació el autor en 1918.

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...