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Alongside considerable continuity, 20th-century diachronic linguistics has seen substantial shifts in outlook and procedure from the 19th-century paradigm. Our understanding of what is really new and what is recycled owes a great debt to E. F. K. Koerner's minutely researched interpretations of the work of the field's founders and key transitional figures. At the cusp of the 21st century, some of the best known scholars in the field explore how these methodological shifts have been and continue to be played out in historical Romance, Germanic and Indo-European linguistics, as well as in work...

Desde el oso del Paleolítico, al que se atribuían poderes mágicos, hasta nuestros osos de peluche, Pastoreau nos relata la historia de una relación pasional que se prolonga desde épocas remotas. Durante mucho tiempo, en Europa, el rey de los animales no fue el león, sino el oso, al que se admiraba y veneraba. Dejaron sus huellas en la mitología y el imaginario colectivo hasta bien entrada la Edad Media cristiana, pero muy pronto la Iglesia trató de borrarlas. Temían la fuerza brutal de la fiera, la fascinación que ejercía sobre reyes y cazadores y la creencia según la cual el oso...

Les And The City Relatos de una lesbiana en la ciudad. Las relaciones entre mujeres no son fáciles, quien piense eso debe leer este libro.

"Arreguín's palpitations of color and light and arrested movement awaken our sublimated vision. His paintings seem to force our entire being to experience its livingness as an insatiable yearning and questing of the eyes." - from the Foreword by Tess GallagherBorn in Mexico in 1935 and a resident of Washington State for nearly five decades, Alfredo Arreguín has long been recognized as a major force in pattern painting. His canvases are tapestries that mingle diverse and interpenetrating influences and images: the traditional crafts of his native Michoacán; the lush rainforests of his...