Pútrida patria

The second edition of Cinema for Spanish Conversation includes the same stimulating exercises and conversation materials that have made the first edition a success among students and instructors alike. The text is designed to be used in courses in which outstanding films from the Spanish-speaking world are used as springboards for classroom Spanish-language discussion. Using high-interest feature films, students hear Spanish as it is spoken in different countries and in a wide variety of situations and are encouraged to listen to and converse about the social and cultural aspects of...

Juro lealtad a la bandera (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag) teaches students about the Pledge of Allegiance. This book uses intriguing primary source images and documents and simple sentences to engage students in reading as they build their social studies content knowledge. For use in the classroom or at home, this Spanish book includes a simple glossary, captions and an index to introduce informational text features to young readers and provide additional reading support.

Just for girls in your life, ages 8 and up, this collection of 100 extraordinary stories of women of faith--from the Bible, history, and today--will empower them to know and understand how women have made a difference in the world and how much smaller our faith (and the biblical record) would be without them. Exclusivamente para niñas de ocho años en adelante, esta recopilación de 100 historias extraordinarias de mujeres de fe --de la Biblia, de la historia y de hoy-- las empoderará para que sepan y entiendan cómo las mujeres han marcado la diferencia en el mundo y lo pequeña que sería ...

A la poesía taurina, dice Carlos Marzal, le conviene ser menos taurina que poética. La propia riqueza ritual de la fiesta, en efecto, representa uno de sus mayores riesgos literarios, porque pone a disposición de los poetas un atrezo, un repertorio de elementos adjetivos que tienden al tremendismo o los oropeles gremiales, el costumbrismo circunstancial o la grandilocuencia funeraria. Buscando la sutileza, la levedad, y al mismo tiempo el núcleo esencial de la tauromaquia, esta antología personal prescinde de los clásicos más obvios -Manuel Machado, Gerardo Diego, Lorca, Alberti o...