Los ojos de una ciudad china

Este es un libro fácil de leer en inglés. La conocida historia de Hansel y Gretel es contada de nuevo en su totalidad usando un lenguaje moderno. Hemos eliminado las palabras difíciles. Más del 95% de las palabras están entre las 1000 palabras inglesas más utilizadas. Estas son palabras muy útiles, que verás y oirás muy a menudo. Si ya sabes algo de inglés entonces ya conocerás muchas de estas palabras, por lo que podrás concentrarte en cómo se usan. Esto hace un buen uso de tu tiempo. Después de la historia en inglés, ésta es repetida una frase cada vez. En inglés seguida de ...

LOVE In The Taming of the Shrew, Katharina learns to love Petruchio only after she has learnt to be an obedient wife. Romeo and Juliet’s love is destined to end in tragedy. In Twelfth Night, love is romantic but also painful, while in Othello love turns into jealousy. And in the final story, Antony and Cleopatra’s passionate love has tragic consequences. Dossiers: The Life of William Shakespeare Courtship and Marriage in Elizabethan Times

This Spanish edition of Becky and Her Friends, by Rolando Hinojosa, is the latest novel in Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series which follows generations of Anglos and Mexicans in the fictional Rio Grande Valley town of Klail City, Texas. In this novel, however, Hinojosa focuses on a character who has previously not taken the limelight: the strong-willed, upwardly mobile Becky Escobar. Following her story, Hinojosa explores the world of Latinas: women's culture, language and spirit in the world of the Valley. Delightfully playful in narrative perspective, this story gives the reader a...

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.