Dinámicas familiares en el desuso y posible extinción del totonaco de Misantla, Veracruz

If being in the minority in a particular demographic isn't demanding enough, Yamila discovers a family secret that threatens to derail the success she has encountered thus far at her competitive high school, even given the economic challenges confronted by her and her family. Experience the trials that Yamila faces in contrast to the seemingly carefree life of her best friend, Ashley, as the two characters illustrate their differences all while maintaining their relationship. La niñera is a common story, but one rarely told in accessible Spanish. In this reader, students of Spanish have...

El objetivo de esta obra, clara, explícita y fácil de consultar, es limitar el número de errores que se cometen habitualmente al hablar o escribir en lengua italiana: faltas de pronunciación y de conjugación, falsos amigos, etc. No se trata de un libro de gramá-tica tradicional, sino de un diccionario que ordena alfabéticamente los temas que suelen plantear problemas, en el que encontrará las claves para evitar los errores más habituales. Con su ayuda, será capaz de efectuar la traducción más adecuada en cada contexto y en cada situación. Una obra, en definitiva, que resultará...

Written by renowned experts in the field, this book provides a systematic survey of the current research situation and the need for further research on the place names of the different regions of Spain. The bilingual autonomous regions Galicia, Asturias, the Basque Country and Navarra, Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands are equally covered in the book, making it an indispensable reference not only for scholars of the Romance languages and of Basque but also for specialists in other disciplines such as cartographers, geographers, historians, archeologists, etc.

This book offers an in-depth study of the internal structures of Popol Vuh, the Sacred Book of the Maya-Quiche people of Guatemala, and of the ways in which the main characters of this text are configured. This is accompanied by a similar, comparative analysis of the three novels widely known in the Hispanic world as the Banana Trilogy, written betweem 1950 and 1960 by the winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature, Miguel Angel Asturias. By showing a direct relationship between the macro-structure of Popol Vuh and its literary devices (including character configuration) and those of the...