Lectura y educación para la paz

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.

Ensayo del año 2010 en eltema Latín, Nota: 8, , Materia: Máster, Idioma: Español, Resumen: La historiografía en la Antigüedad es un género literario en prosa cuyo objetivo no es otro que narrar los acontecimientos más importantes de un determinado pueblo. Los romanos comenzaron pronto a escribir los hechos más destacables de su pasado, hazañas político-militares y celebraciones religiosas fundamentalmente. Entre estos documentos encontramos listas de magistrados por años, anales pontificales y actas senatoriales, que sirven de germen para la historiografía posterior pero que aún ...

This best-selling intermediate Spanish conversational reader encourages student discussions and presents a broad variety of thought-provoking Hispanic themes.

One year just after Christmas when Ximena is thirteen, she overhears her parents talking - a conversation she is not supposed to hear. She catches the word, "father," but wonders why they are whispering? Federico is the only father Ximena has ever known since he and her mom married six years ago. Of course, she knows she has a biological father, but her mom never talks about him - and Ximena never asks. All she knows is that he is "away" and doesn't live near them. But after overhearing her parents' discussion, she starts to wonder why she has no contact with him. At the same time, too, life...