El tesoro de la isla de Ízaro

Set in Tibet, Lin Chu is an 11-year-old boy who has been training his horse to compete in the race presided over by the Dalai Lama, who, in this story, is also eleven. Lin Chu wins and the two boys begin a friendship that will profoundly affect their entire lives. This book comes with a separate workbook with fun activities to test reading comprehension.

En este libro, el autor aborda la problemática del ser humano en "su interior". Esa gran disyuntiva que existe prácticamente desde su nacimiento: La creación mental del "otro yo". Se lo conoce con otros nombres en la sociedad: ego, carne, concupiscencia, inconsciencia, pecado, espíritu de la mente, yo falso, etc. Según el autor, éste "otro yo", ha perjudicado desde siempre la relación del ser humano con Dios. Aún dentro de la "Iglesia Cristiana", por ignorar su naturaleza y esto provoca una interpretación errada no solo de la vida en general, sino de Dios mismo. Textuales palabras...

El presente libro, Creaciones audiovisuales actuales, tiene como objetivo mostrar ante la Academia investigaciones originales en el ámbito de la docencia, innovación e investigación, aplicado principalmente a los campos de: Comunicación, Sociología, Tecnologías Audiovisuales y de la Comunicación. A tal fin, tres editoriales, Visión Libros (España), Media XXI (Portugal) y Journal of alternative perspectives in the social sciences (Estados Unidos) han decidido aunar esfuerzos y editar en tres idiomas los capítulos que ayudan a entender el nuevo panorama de la Comunicación y de las...

This volume brings together a selection of contributions presented at the 15th European Symposium on Languages for Special Purposes, held at the University of Bergamo (Italy) from 29 August to 2 September 2005. The conference title, «New Trends in Specialized Discourse», reflects the emphasis given to recent orientations in research, coming from established as well as new authors in the field. As suggested by the title of this volume, the analysis of specialized discourse calls for a specialized discourse analysis. When applied linguists deal with vocational discourses, they are faced with...

The poetic birth of Cuba, and of the character of its culture, might be found in a phrase placed in the mouth of an aborigine of the island and included in a book by the Cuban writers Cintio Vitier and Fina Garcia Marruz, who traced and assembled such outbursts of inadvertent poetry. As is well known, the Spaniards arrived in America by way of the Antilles, which have always formed a sort of aquatic frontier of the continent. In addition to a thirst for gold, the peculiar geography of the area awakened another obsession in Christopher Columbus and his followers that was to last for years: to...