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[2013]
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English
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"Created in association with craft expert Guadalupe Rodríguez, this book includes [28] projects by children, for children. The projects have ... visual instructions and use household junk and recycled materials like cardboard boxes, pegs, wool, and scraps of fabric, or materials found in nature"--Page 4 of cover.
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Originally published in its original Spanish language in 1939 and first translated into English in 1956, this is an unforgettable biography of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (42 B.C.-37 A.D.), who succeeded Augustus as emperor, and his pathological resentment of one and all.
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Español
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Using a variety of styles and conventions, this book is an exciting and humorous way to expose young readers to poetry. All of the poems contain literary elements such as alliteration, imagery, and rhyming. Young readers will love the cartoon-style images coupled with fun original Spanish poems about trucks, trains, robots, and so much more.
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Includes 4 of the great Spanish composer's most admired and most performed suites for the piano, including his greatest work, Goyescas, the popular Spanish Dances, and the less-well-known but beautiful Escenas romanticas and Escenas poeticas, all reprinted from the original Spanish editions. Table of Contents.
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Exploring the conflict between free will and predestination, Calderon's most famous play tells of Segismundo, a Polish prince, imprisoned at birth by his father, the King, to thwart the predictions of astrologers. The dual-language edition features an excellent new literal translation on pages facing the original Spanish text. Introduction, Notes.
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Carefully selected passages from one of the great masterpieces of world literature feature the satiric adventures of a would-be knight and his faithful squire. Excellent new literal English translations on facing pages of the original Spanish text cover carefully selected passages that capture the wonderful flavor and romance of the complete work.
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A captivating 17th-century drama of peasants defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. This edition features an informative introduction with background on Spanish theater of the era as well as on the dramatist's career and on the play itself. Features an excellent English-prose version on the pages facing the original Spanish.
10) Santa Margarita
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Santa Margarita de Cortona was founded in 1775 as part of the original Spanish mission system. Its asistencia, in fact, has been considered a lost mission. Santa Margarita Ranch was later founded from a Mexican land grant. In 1889, the arrival of the Southern Pacific Railroad, with its terminus in Santa Margarita, created a boomtown with dance halls, blacksmiths, hotels, pool halls, saloons, and a jail. And with the popularity of auto travel half...
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Greatly influenced by Europe's nineteenth-century literary trends, Mexico's writers crafted some of the most phenomenal prose fiction in Spanish America. This collection offers a rich sampling of significant Mexican short stories published from 1843 to 1918. Nine different tales range from the realism of López Portillo's "Reloj sin dueño" and the modernismo saturating Gutiérrez Nájera's "La mañana de San Juan" to the historical accuracy of Riva...
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Maldonado traces the journey of his family from Scandinavia and the Holy Land to Spain and Portugal and finally to the Kingdom of New Mexico. Arriving in 1598 with the expedition of Juan de Oate, his ancestors were some of the first settlers of New Mexico. Of the 144 original Spanish/Portuguese colonial families from the 16th and 17th centuries listed by historian and cousin Fray Anglico Chvez, in his pioneering book Origins of New Mexico Families/A...
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Los Angeles was founded in 1781 as one of the two original Spanish pueblos in California. At the time of statehood in 1851, Los Angeles began to reconsider its "cow town" condition, and gradually transformed an American city into the magnificent metropolis we know today. Drawn from the collections of the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles Public Library, and the Los Angeles City Archives, Jeffrey Samudio and Portia Lee record the history...
14) Daly City
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Nestled in the shadow of San Bruno Mountain and known as "The Gateway City" for its proximity to San Francisco, Daly City is much more than a typical suburb. A thriving and diverse community built along El Camino Real (The King's Highway), the road that connected all of the Spanish Missions in California, the city has evolved from a quaint agricultural town to an important business, residential, and transit center. This new collection of images, mostly...
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How many times have you said or heard the following sentence? "What they actually speak in the country I visited is not what I learned in school." The reason for this is that most schools and language programs teach a rigid, nonauthentic form of Spanish that doesn't really help you communicate with native Spanish speakers. Real Spanish 101 teaches you beginning-level Spanish the way it's really spoken by native Spanish speakers every day throughout...
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Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas ... Population 2,453, not counting a fugitive former celebrity chef...Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths ... and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse.
Which was once meant to be a stop on the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad, but which was derailed by True Love ...Where half the townsfolk has the surname of Gonzalez or Gonzales,...
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This delightful and instructive program features Language Guy Mark Frobose talking you through the Spanish language in English while his trained native South American Spanish instructor, Viviana, teaches you her language the way it's really spoken. The program moves quickly and goes from rote beginning to intermediate level in five hours of instruction-packed fun-filled lessons. Here are just a few of the fabulous features you will enjoy while you...
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Planning a trip to a Spanish-speaking country? Like to eat out in Spanish and Mexican restaurants? Whether your travel or eating experience is personal or business related, Language Guy's Spanish Travel Magic is for you. With Spanish Travel Magic, you learn the practical basics of Spanish while you acquire specific travel-related vocabulary, which will prove priceless for any traveler in a Spanish-speaking country. Learn to buy tickets, ask and give...
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How many times have you said or heard the following sentence? "What they actually speak in the country I visited is not what I learned in school." The reason for this is that most schools and language programs teach a rigid non-authentic form of Spanish that doesn't really help you to communicate with native Spanish speakers. Real Spanish 102 teaches you intermediate level Spanish the way it's really spoken by native Spanish speakers every day throughout...
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This rich sampling of Spanish poetry, prose, and drama includes more than seventy selections from the works of more than forty writers, from the anonymous author of the great medieval epic The Poem of the Cid to such 20th-century masters as Miguel de Unamuno. The original Spanish text of each work appears with an excellent English translation on the facing page. The anthology begins with carefully selected passages from such medieval classics as The...
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