Piero Della Francesca

This is the first book-length study of Carmen Miranda in English. It traces her origins as a radio singer, recording artist and film star in Brazil in the 1930s, before exploring in depth her Hollywood screen roles and the construction of her long-lasting star persona in the USA.

"Rida Eder introduces this fascinating compilation of 39 papers presented at the 20th Coloquio International de Historia del Arte, celebrated at the Univ. of Puebla in 1996. Themes are divided into three areas: patronage, collecting, and circulation of the work of art. The extraordinary variety of presentations centered around three activities inherent to the role of the arts, rarely the subject of any analysis in Latin America, makes this work particularly enlightening. Themes range from role of religious orders in the colonial Americas to censorship at the 1963 and 1964 Säao Paulo...

Spanish Grammar in Context, Second Edition, presents an exciting and unique approach to learning grammar. This new edition has been updated with new exercises and a variety of fascinating texts from around the Spanish-speaking world.

Internet, sin duda alguna, ha supuesto una revolución lingüística y cultural. La Red tiene su propia jerga, palabras y abreviaturas maduradas a lo largo de los años como producto de la influencia del inglés, por exigencia –a veces– del espacio, con la limitación del número de caracteres, y de la velocidad con que se mantienen ahora las comunicaciones a través de esta autopista de la Información. La Investigación que hemos realizado ha tratado de analizar el uso del español estándar en la Red, la cercanía o lejanía de la Norma que la RAE apoya como buen uso de ese español,...