Enseñar una lengua extranjera es siempre un desafío. Es mucho más fácil cuando a los estudiantes les encantan los materiales que se utilizan para enseñarles. No muchos libros están escritos por lectores jóvenes de secundaria. Esperamos que a sus estudiantes les guste aprender con estos libros bilingües.
El inglés es difícil y el español es difícil. A veces la clave para aprender es diversión e interés. Estas historias son divertidas e interesantes. Fueron traducidos principalmente por Inteligencia Artificial, por lo que pueden necesitar un poco de retoque. Pero las ideas están ahí y puedes aprender inglés con las historias originales en inglés.
Actas del XIII Congreso de Antropología de la FAAEE realizado en Tarragona del 2 al 5 de septiembre de 2014, que reúne los textos presentdos en los veintiún simposios celebrados y muestran la amplitud y riqueza de los debates y los retos que caracterizan la Antropología del siglo XXI.
The reality of what’s happening in Haight-Ashbury in 1968 hits Spracklin as he tracks the killer of artist John Blakely. Heroin has become the dominant drug in the hippie enclave, and the carnival atmosphere of the Summer of Love has given way to a wave of violence. Most worrying to Spracklin is the knowledge that Marie is hiding somewhere in The Haight. “The Haight is a fabulous book!” – Pamela Callow, author of the Kate Lange Thriller Series “Highly recommended.” – Ken McGoogan, author and adventurer
This exciting new anthology gathers together Puerto Rican folktales that were passed down orally for generations before finally being transcribed beginning in 1914 by the team of famous anthropologist Franz Boas. These charming tales give readers a window into the imaginations and aspirations of Puerto Rico’s peasants, the Jíbaro. Some stories provide a distinctive Caribbean twist on classic tales including “Snow White” and “Cinderella.” Others fictionalize the lives of local historical figures, such as infamous pirate Roberto Cofresí, rendered here as a Robin Hood figure who subverts the colonial social order. The collection also introduces such beloved local characters as Cucarachita Martina, the kind cockroach who falls in love with Ratoncito Pérez, her devoted mouse husband who brings her delicious food. Including a fresh English translation of each folktale as well as the original Spanish version, the collection also contains an introduction from literary historian Rafael Ocasio that highlights the historical importance of these tales and the Jíbaro cultural values they impart. These vibrant, funny, and poignant stories will give readers unique insights into...
¡Con brío! 4e gives students in the introductory Spanish sequence the opportunity to use their Spanish immediately with each other, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and Spanish speakers around the world. ¡Con brío! addresses the needs and life circumstances of a broad audience through a highly practical approach and focuses on useful vocabulary, functional grammar of high-frequency usage, and cultural content relevant to everyday interactions. Con brío 4e retains the strengths of the previous edition – efficient grammar approach, good culture, many instructors’ resources, and robust media – designed to help students gain the confidence and skills they need to use Spanish in class, in their communities, and in their lives. The program highlights useful high-interest cultural information about Latino culture in the United States as well as the strong connections between the U.S. and Hispanic countries.
Teresa Jones’s dreams of flying contrast sharply with her dreary, earthbound life working as a filing-clerk in a CD store, and suffering the constant nagging of her academic parents, who are outraged at her stubborn refusal to go to college. Her best friend – the popular, successful and apparently happy college freshman Elena Kravchuk – has the perfect prescription for Teresa’s depression: she needs to get laid. When the two girls meet Miguel Angel Ramirez, a misfit Mexican immigrant who builds and flies kites for a living, Elena goes to work as match-maker to bring him together for a casual fling with her socially awkward, chronically depressed best friend. But rather than providing a one night stand, this papalotero will transform the lives of both girls in ways that neither one bargained for: Elena will confront the truth that her life is not as perfect as she so desperately wants people to believe it is, while Teresa will be challenged to give up her low self-esteem and Life Sucks t-shirts, and discover that the happiness she thinks is out of her reach might actually be just one small leap of faith away.
Originally published in 1981 as En breve cárcel, Certificate of Absence is the first novel of the Argentinian scholar-critic Sylvia Molloy. Innovative in its treatment of women's relationships and in its assertion of woman's right to author her own text, the novel has won wide approval in Latin America and the United States. The novel centers around a woman writing in a small room. As she writes, remembering a past relationship and anticipating a future one, the room becomes a repository for nostalgia, violence, and desire, a space in which writing and remembering become life-sustaining ceremonies. The narrator reflects on the power of love to both shelter and destroy. She meditates on the act of writing, specifically on writing as a woman, in a voice that goes against the grain of established, canonical voices. Latin American male writers are prone to self-portrayal in their texts. Certifcate of Absence is one of the few novels by Latin American women that successfully use this technique to open new windows on women's experiences.
From the colonial period through the mid-twentieth century, haciendas dominated the Latin American countryside. In the Ecuadorian Andes, Runa—Quichua-speaking indigenous people—worked on these large agrarian estates as virtual serfs. In Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador, Barry Lyons probes the workings of power on haciendas and explores the hacienda's contemporary legacy. Lyons lived for three years in a Runa village and conducted in-depth interviews with elderly former hacienda laborers. He combines their wrenching accounts with archival evidence to paint an astonishing portrait of daily life on haciendas. Lyons also develops an innovative analysis of hacienda discipline and authority relations. Remembering the Hacienda explains the role of religion as well as the reshaping of Runa culture and identity under the impact of land reform and liberation theology. This beautifully written book is a major contribution to the understanding of social control and domination. It will be valuable reading for a broad audience in anthropology, history, Latin American studies, and religious studies.
A professional hunter returns to Johannesburg from a safari in Tanzania, to find that his wife has started a relationship with another man. She wants a divorce. Still reeling under the impact, he receives a phone call from his brother, a missionary pilot in Colombia, whose daughter was abducted by FARC guerillas. He catches a flight to South America the next morning.The two brothers track the kidnappers down to a remote jungle camp, where a Canadian medical doctor, kidnapped a month earlier, is also held captive. In the events that follow, both pilot and hunter are confronted by life-challenging decisions. Glimpses of life in a Marxist guerilla camp also reveal the harsh consequences of human errors, wrong choices and the lust for power.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) creó el modelo más acabado de detective: Sherlock Holmes y su inseparable amigo y ayudante, el Dr. Watson. Su método deductivo para resolver cualquier enigma por difícil que se presentara, sobre un asesinato, robo o secuestro, se reveló infalible, quedando como modelo a seguir. Siempre con su lupa, su espectacular gorra y su capa de lana escocesa, sobresale entre la pléyade de grandes investigadores: Dupin, Hercules Poirot y el inspector Maigret, y una infinidad de personajes literarios. Contienen actividades de compresión lectora al final del libro. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.1px Verdana}
La obra constituye una magnífica obra de referencia para el hablante de raíces anglófonas que estudia español como lengua extranjera porque en él se aborda, desde una óptica contrastiva español-inglés y con gran sencillez y claridad expositiva, un área de la gramática española cuya adquisición y aprendizaje suele resultarle bastante problemática al estudiante extranjero: el paradigma de los verbos atributivos que denotan cambio de estado.
1a parte: Aspectos metodológicos, con nuevos acercamientos a la teoría de la traducción, características de la traducción literaria, análisis textual y efectos estilísticos; 2a Estudios descriptivos de la traducción, con ejemplos de análisis contrastivos; 3a Textos bilingües comentados de relatos norteamericanos como Kate Chopin, James, Fitzgerald, E.A. Poe, Sara Jewett, Irving, Anderson, Hawthorne, Charlote Gilman.
Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in the fields of south Texas. Returning home to Mexico, his pockets full of dollars, he spent evenings drinking and womanizing. When Méndez-Negrete was eleven, her father moved the family to the United States, where they eventually settled in California’s Santa Clara Valley. There her father began molesting his daughters, viciously beating them and their mother. Within the impoverished immigrant family, the abuse continued for years, until a family friend brought it to the attention of child welfare authorities. Méndez-Negrete’s father was tried, convicted, and imprisoned. Las hijas de...
Tag along with Rosita the Roadrunner on her journey to learn about the Land of Enchantment. On the trail, meet Roja & Verde (the Chile Twins), Biscochita (a Smart Cookie), Pinon Jay, Dusty the Tumbleweed, and a town full of prairie dogs who love to read. READiscover New Mexico, a recent theme for the Statewide Summer Reading Program sponsored by the New Mexico State Library, encourages the discovery of the vast cultural, natural, historical, and literary treasures found in our beautiful state. Children, adults and families experience some of these for the very first time by visiting Rosita's ultimate source for information: the library. Featured is a literal example of "poetic license," with an introduction by "Tag" the license plate. Join the fun! Children will love coloring the cast of characters and sharing the adventure with their families. Among many classroom uses, teachers can present the fun story as a bi- or tri-lingual playlet. Enrichment material includes a compilation of the programs, activities, crafts, song parodies, celebrations, and bibliographies devised by the children's librarians who brought READiscover New Mexico to life in public libraries throughout the...
Esta obra desgarradora profundiza el problema étnico de las drogas en la ciudad de New York. Lleva al lector a un viaje concienzudo que lo enfrenta ante un monstruo vestido de blanco con ojos brillantes que aparece a finales del siglo veinte; pare arrastrar la sociedad —en especial la juventud—, hacia un mundo de sombras, en el cual, a través de deseos banales e ilusiones locas son transformados en Zombis que cambian con destino a un infierno de penurias y perdición. Es así, como el autor lleno de valentía nos enfrenta a hechos conmovedores, que nos permitiría vivir en carne propia la cotidianidad de personajes reales de las calles de New York. Seres que son solo una muestra de una alarmante problemática mundial. En esta obra el autor logra realizar su gran sueño, cuando después de abandonar su carrera de Química en la Universidad de Antioquia, decide dedicarse a escribir una variedad de novelas y crónicas. Su crianza en la ciudad de Medellín, su largo recorrido de veinte años por las principales ciudades de Estados Unidos, le posibilitaron la creación de New York. Hundido en el Crack. El autor narra la vivencia del abuso de drogas, exponiendo la historia del...
After years of traveling the world, searching for all life has to offer, Toni Martí realizes that his youthful curiosity has soured into stagnation, depression, and drug addiction. While stumbling through what remains of his life, he commits a crime and is sentenced to community service at a nursing home. Forced to comply, he forms a grudging relationship with Juan, an octogenarian whose family long ago abandoned him, and whose day-to-day life seems undisturbed by change. He also encounters Lucía, who runs the nursing home, but not her life; too fearful to follow the lure of her dreams or rebel against her parents, she has grown dull and unhappy. “Beyond Intensity” captures the story of three characters trapped in lives that bring them only loneliness and despair. Soon, they will be forced to discover what is beyond the pursuit of momentary pleasure, beyond routine, beyond conformity. Against the backdrop of a dehumanized society, these three characters’ lives give us the opportunity to reflect on the culture of immediacy and the search for instant gratification—to ask ourselves, what lies beyond intensity?
Children with disabilities just want to be treated as kids, they don’t need people feeling sorry for them. They want to have friends, to be accepted, to be invited to other kid’s birthdays, to feel included not to be discriminated against. Inclusive education is a great first step and an indispensable tool to achieve this goal. The children who decided to change it all is a book which, more than tolerance, celebrates the acceptance of disabilities, without concessions, ifs or buts.
I was born in a small town that at that time had about 300 inhabitants between children and adults ... I am a simple person, not very happy but not bitter. I am always willing to help those who need it; I do not wait for me to go begging, I offer help. I do not have much education I went to school for a short time. I finished sixth grade until I had 15 years old, but I remember that since I was young I liked to write stories, although I had never had the opportunity to publish them. I hope these stories reach your hearts and I also hope they like you. I want you enjoy them so much that you want to read them all... and other stories more. Remember that reading gives you education and culture. A part of these stories is true. A common occurrence for some people, whether by nature or custom, is to criticize or judge others and, often we do not realize that we make that person, or their family feel bad. Sometimes we can even physically or mentally harm them. Among the stories written here, one is true. It speaks of a little girl who has been criticized since her birth but has had the intelligence to turn criticism into positive energy. She has not stopped to listen to mediocre...
Since its original publication in 1996, The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy has been the definitive guide for couple therapists, supervisors, and students wishing to practice emotionally focused therapy. This cutting-edge third edition addresses recent changes in the field of couple therapy, including updated research results relating to clinical interventions, expanded understandings of emotion regulation, adult attachment and neuroscience, and dynamic EFT applications for a range of issues such as depression, anxiety, sexual disorders, and PTSD. Chapters introduce micro-interventions for use in EFT couple sessions, as well as a systematic presentation of a macro set of interventions called the EFT Tango. Clinical examples are included throughout, bringing the in-session process of change alive, and two case chapters offer in-depth commentaries of Stage 1 and Stage 2 EFT sessions. Written by the leading authority on emotionally focused therapy, this third edition is an essential reference on all aspects of EFT and its uses for mental health professionals in the field of couple and marital therapy.
“THE WRONG HOUSE” (Marielito; Exodus of Cubans in 1980) By Esteban Burier For all opponents of the Castro regime who went to comply with arbitrary sanctions; for those who were executed by the Castro regime; deprived of any defense, innocent of cases imposed by improvised courts; for those who were under the inclemency of the murderer Ernesto (Che) Guevara and so many other lap dogs of the dictator Fidel Castro; They are my deepest respect and admiration. They gave their lives with a shout of; Live Christ the King! Long live free Cuba! “THE WRONG HOUSE” Narrates the childhood of a boy that never thought twice to make a decision, committing many errors which took him, as consequence of punishment, to many juvenile reformatories and at last to jail, where he spent part of his life. The good education from his family did not influence on the boy, who does not divert from his delinquent path. A supernatural strength pushed him to these twisted paths to destroy and incarcerate him to where the stubborn are taken, to where you are subject to many tests and you can lose your dignity and also your manhood, depending on how weak or strong your personality is or if you allow to be...
Érase una vez, un momento en que no sabía lo que quería... Luego conocí a Mary, la joven niñera de mi sobrina. No actuaba, ni hablaba ni parecía inocente. Casi sin notarlo, en el espacio entre un latido y otro, dejé de preocuparme por la diferencia de edad. Como soy un poco mayor, sé cómo hacerme cargo de Mary, de la forma en que debe hacerlo un verdadero hombre. Mary es hermosa, inteligente y me provoca… Es hora de hacerla mía. ¡Esta es una novela de romance independiente, una lectura rápida con un final feliz y sin engaños! ¿Te gusta instantáneo? ¿Te gusta disfrutar de algo dulce y excitante? Si te gustan los romances rápidos y calientes, con un macho alfa, dominante y posesivo, que sabe exactamente a quién quiere y cómo despertar el lado salvaje… entonces este libro es para ti.
Cultural Writing. Poetry. Fiction. Essays. NUESTRA VOZ is the first volume of an anthology of International PEN Women Writers Committee. Poetry, fiction, and essays contributed by 113 women writers from 33 countries, writing in Spanish, English, and French. The second volume is available in Spring of 2002.
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