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Los medios de comunicación audiovisuales y escritos, además de reflejar, en gran parte, la lengua utilizada en la vida cotidiana, sirven de vehículo a las innovaciones lingüísticas. Susana Guerrero, profesora de Lengua en la Universidad de Málaga, muestra en este libro la influencia que estos medios ejercen, concretamente en tres aspectos del nivel léxico: la creación neológica y la incorporación de extranjerismos, el asentamiento de impropiedades, y la fijación de redundancias. Cada uno de estos aspectos conforman un capítulo del libro, en el que se explican los términos...

A lot of what many people know about the native groups in the northeastern part of North America comes from colonial history. The Wampanoag met the Puritans as they made their home at Plymouth. The Powhatan group of the Algonquin people had a large role in the history of the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia. However, the history of the native groups living in modern New York, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maine, and northern Virginia began long before European settlement! Readers meet several individual groups of native peoples and explore the distinguishing features of northeastern...

Students will learn area and perimeter while engaged in reading about a day in the life of a contractor! This Spanish engaging book uses real-world examples to teach math concepts, and incorporates nonfiction reading to increase vocabulary and comprehension skills. The challenging practice problems, graphs, and sidebars provide many opportunities for students to practice their developing math skills, and apply what they've learned to their daily lives. Essential text features like a glossary, index, and table of contents will increase students' interest level and their interaction with the...

Did you know that the president doesn't just work in the White House, he also lives there? Or that the first White House was burned down by the British in the War of 1812? Take a tour through this beautiful house and discover how it has changed over the past two hundred years in The White House.