El Nuevo Sampler Quilt

Did you know that, according to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so much during the filming of Mrs. Doubtfire that the studio had enough footage to release PG, PG-13, R, and NC-17 versions of the movie? Or that Robin ad-libbed all his lines in Good Morning, Vietnam because the DJ the movie was based on didn’t really do comedy during his shows? Robin Williams, American Master looks at Robin’s seventy movies, from his earliest appearance in Can I Do It…’Til I Need Glasses? to his final posthumous voice-only appearance in Absolutely Anything. Each film is discussed...

En el aprendizaje de lenguas en tándem dos personas con lenguas maternas diferentes colaboran para mejorar sus destrezas comunicativas y ampliar sus conocimientos socioculturales. Este libro recoge las principales claves teóricas de dicho modelo de aprendizaje, incluyendo consideraciones sobre los principios que lo rigen, las estrategias que le son de aplicación y la eficacia de su uso. Los artículos aquí recopilados proporcionan, además, consejos prácticos que pueden servir de ayuda a los interesados en acercarse a las características de este método, ya sea desde una perspectiva...

Picasso se inspira en el arte negro; la etnografía nos descubre la maravilla del arte tribal; el arte primitivo se vende bien; contrabandistas venden en Occidente el arte de los países “atrasados”; la civilización nos aburre; hay otras culturas. En esa tesitura, Sally Price despliega, entre divertida y enfurecida, un análisis particularmente incisivo contra la arrogancia estética occidental y por la hermandad de los pueblos.

BILINGUAL ENGLISH/SPANISH EDITION This charming, gift-worthy 6 x 6-inch paperback presents a wide selection of beautifully tinted photographic postcards of and by Argentine cowboys, or gauchos, in the early 1900s. Often reproduced with stamps, postmarks and handwriting perfectly preserved, these fascinating relics depict life on the Argentine prairie with documentary candor as well as romantic aplomb. Here we find many photographs of the gauchos with their horses, at their ranches, playing their guitars and courting their wives. Cows are quartered, houses are raised, rivers forged and duels...