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Composición: Proceso y síntesis is designed for use in the advanced Spanish composition course to help students develop the ability to perform the writing tasks that are generally expected of Spanish majors and minors. Since the publication of the first edition, instructors in this course have conveyed an increased interest in the development of functional, purposeful language skills, and the authors factored this into their revision. This fifth edition also takes into account recent findings in writing research, and owes many of its improvements to the helpful feedback from those who have...

La autora nos ha donado una impresionante investigación sobre Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. La biografía abarca un detallado análisis de su obra y de su entorno social e histórico. El texto se compone de cuatro partes: Ansias de infinito, Dos amores: Cuba y España, Tula a la vanguardia de su tiempo y Dimensión religiosa de la Avellaneda. Pieza importante para los estudiosos y amantes de la literatura cubana; devela sin alardes de erudición la personalidad de una artista que se adelantó a su época y que representó, con sus limitaciones, a una de las primeras feministas...

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.

Manual-guía de la principal y actual fraseología tópica castellana, con lugares comunes, locuciones inertes, símiles manidos, metáforas muertas, modismos trillados, bordones conversacionales, colocaciones hueras y partículas expletivas; cómo identificarlos, evitarlos y, quizá, erradicarlos; documentados históricamente con citas históricas y periodísticas.