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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...

Introduccion a la linguistica hispanica actual: teoria y practica has been specially designed for students of Spanish with little or no linguistic background, who need to understand the key concepts and constructs of Hispanic Linguistics. The book has been carefully crafted to introduce the reader to the main areas of linguistics, both theoretical and applied. General Linguistics, Phonology and Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics, History of the Spanish Language, Language Variation, and Second Language Acquisition are concisely and accurately outlined, providing a...

Wallace Stevens, hombre de la generación de Ortega y Azaña, o Musil y Apollinaire, y uno de los más destacados poetas del siglo, apenas publicó más ensayos teóricos que los aquí recogidos, escritos entre 1942 y 1951. No se trata de piezas menores y de circunstancias, sino de "páginas que tienen que ver con uno de los modos de ensanchar la vida". Para este poeta singularmente reflexivo, "la realidad moderna es una realidad de descreación", de paso "de lo creado a lo no creado" por otra de la imaginación. Esta facultad es el tema central del libro y la gran repercusión que este ha...

In 1313, a boy named Grimpow discovers the frozen body of a man carrying an enigmatic stone that will lead him on a quest that will change his life forever.