El español en la red

Based on the idea that all forms of knowledge are interconnected and that the human mind weaves them together naturally, this book encourages the incorporation of art education into all other forms of education instead of keeping them separate and compartmentalized. It urges parents and teachers to make art education an integral part of children's daily lives, arguing that by combining various disciplines, such as health and photography or geometry and painting, children will develop into smarter and more creative individuals. By turning art into a part of both playtime and their education,...

An introduction to the life and work of Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco Goya, featuring color reproductions of over sixty works, with captions, and including a chronology.

"New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras" is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical borrowing in the languages of Western Europe with particular focus on borrowing from Latin, or from Greek via Latin, into Spanish. Such cultured, or “learnèd” borrowing—as it has sometimes been designated—, is an especially intriguing feature of the Romance languages, since they also derive from Latin. It is also of particular interest to historical linguists since it is an example of what has been called “change from above”: innovation first evidenced in the...

Desde sus inicios, el cinematógrafo ha estado ligado a las ciencias ocultas, el esoterismo, la brujería y los fenómenos paranormales, y no solo porque el cine fantástico recurra frecuentemente a estos temas. Cuando hablamos de la «magia del cine» no sabemos lo literal que puede ser. La pantalla esotérica propone una relectura en 50 títulos fundamentales de la historia y el papel del cinematógrafo en nuestra sociedad, a la luz oscura del misticismo, el hermetismo y la parapsicología: desde el cine mudo con los magos del «expresionismo» alemán hasta los filmes de Rob Zombie. De las ...