REINO DE LA ARAUCANIA Y PATAGONIA

Spanning Cuban music from rumba to salsa, and graphic styles from socialist realist to geometric abstraction, this volume of Cuban record cover art traces a musical form in constant revolution. The first ever book about Cuban record sleeve design, compiled by Gilles Peterson and Stuart Baker, Cuba: Music and Revolutionfeatures hundreds of rarely seen vinyl records from the start of the Cuban Revolution at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985, when Cuba's Special Period, brought about by the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the withdrawal of Russia's financial support for the Cuban...

Estos textos fueron escritos durante una noche, sufragados bajo el ardor y la prisa del enamoramiento, ese estado extraño del ser humano. Luego de terminarlos pensé que al día siguiente sería interesante mandarlos de forma espaciada, durante la mañana, el mediodía, la tarde y noche. Así sucedió. Laura: oleaje y péndulo. Después de tantas vidas, otra vez estamos aquí. Este amor, entonces, desea sin desear, acompañarte en cada gesto, cada palabra y conocer tu cuerpo. No ese cuerpo de piel blanca, sonrisa lunática y cabello rebelde. Sino el otro. El cuerpo-piel de tus latidos....

This study focuses on the polyfunctionality of discourse markers derived from verbs of motion in Spanish. Based on an extensive corpus of spoken language it provides a detailed analysis of the association between their functional behavior and their concrete and formal expression (position, prosody, combinations). In line with the cognitive approach, the investigation also explores the link between the pragmatic uses of the markers and the conceptualization of their lexical bases (the verb forms). The findings stress the importance of an integrated approach to the description of markers.

This collection of eighteen papers delivered at the twelfth biennial British Judeo-Spanish Studies conference, held in London in 2001, offers a wide selection of world-wide current research into the language, literature, and history of the Sephardi Jews. With contributions by Rachel Amado Bortnick, Tracy K. Harris, Jill Kushner Bishop, Judith R. Cohen, Alexia Duchowny, Dora Mancheva, Aitor Garcia Moreno, Elaine R. Miller, Aldina Quintana, Samuel G. Armistead, Julia R. Lieberman, Ronnie Perelis, Angel Berenguer Amador, Messod Salama, Rena Molho, Rivka Havassy, Maria Esformes and Matilde...