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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...

Este libro propone una mirada al mundo de la ciencia desde el cinematógrafo y, al mismo tiempo, un repaso por la historia de un arte con más de 120 años de existencia. Historias sobre personalidades únicas que trabajaron para favorecer el progreso de la humanidad, narraciones que buscan estimular el conocimiento del organismo humano o de los mundos animal y vegetal, ejercicios especulativos fundamentados en principios científicos que predicen qué futuro espera a nuestra especie... El lector encontrará en este libro un repaso a producciones cuyo punto de partida es la glosa de la obra...

El debate sobre el proceso creativo ha ocupado la mente de muchos artistas y estudiosos. Este libro, de la aclamada cr tica de arte Dore Ashton, es una original manera de analizar este asunto y el papel que alrededor de este tema han desempe ado ilustres artistas, creadores, y cr ticos. Bajo el pretexto de averiguar qui n es Frenhofer, el protagonista de la obra maestra desconocida, de Balzac, Ashton nos lleva de la mano a un ameno viaje a trav s de la historia del arte del siglo XX.

Since the Foundation of The Hispanic Society of America in 1904 by Archer M. Huntington (1870-1955), there has never been an artist so closely related to his famous art collection as Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923). The doors of the Hispanic society had only been open for only a few months when Huntington discovered the work of Sorolla, who at the time was exhibiting at Grafton Galleries. Huntington had found in Sorolla an artist that shared the same love for Spain, its villages and habits; that is why he began organizing the exhibition that would take place a year later. They worked...