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Mujeres de hoy: textos, voces e imagenes is a content-based collection of works by Spanish, Spanish American, and Latina women designed for upper-level literature courses. Each chapter, which includes two literary selections by women writers, examines different sides of the same topic under exploration. These topics explore contemporary issues that challenge current thinking such as immigration, minority groups, race, religion, social status, and ecology. Yet Mujeres de hoy also speaks to the issues that affect the human experience - such as procreation and the construction of a gendered...

Épocas y avances offers a communicative-humanistic approach to second language acquisition. It emphasizes particular aspects of the history, literature, art, society, geography, language, and culture of Spain and Latin America through a series of readings and related activities specifically designed to enhance linguistic proficiency. The cuaderno de trabajo is designed to: Reinforce and enhance the vocabulary and grammatical structures learned in the principal text Provide an additional review of fundamental concepts Offer oral comprehension practice with an original audio program for each...

This is a great book to read and enhance language skills. It will also be great to get a preliminary acquaintance with Spanish folklore. Although aimed for the teenagers, it will be great for students of language of any age, as the stories are interesting and full of humor.

El español y su estructura, Segunda edición, es un repaso íntegro del español para estudiantes bilingües a nivel universitario. Ha sido concebida para hispanohablantes que han vivido en contacto con el idioma pero que no han recibido instrucción formal en la adquisición de la escritura estandarizada del idioma. Este texto puede usarse en un nivel básico como a nivel intermedio, sin embargo rinde mejores resultados cuando se emplea en cursos secuenciales a nivel de universidad.Sus 15 capítulos han sido corregidos y modificados con vistas hacia un mejor y más fácil entendimiento del...