Mas Grande que la Vida

Companion to the 2009 science fiction movie, Avatar. "This report details Pandora's alien ecosystem; its mining mother lode and topography; its flora and fauna; and the culture, language, and physiology of the native population, the aggressive hunter-gatherer race called the Na'vi. ... Also included in this manual are highly confidential and detailed descriptions of RDA [the "enemy" -- the Resources Development Administration] technology and weapons systems deployed to suppress the indigenous hostiles and defend employees agingst the dangerous Pandoran environment"--P. [4] of cover.

Este libro nos lleva más allá de su fachada para mostrarnos, con minuciosidad y detallismo, la creatividad del gran arquitecto. Incluye un ensayo de Juan José Lahuerta y un estudio sobre la morfología del edificio.

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...

For the first time in the history of research both in Spanish and German linguistics, this book undertakes a comparative study ofthe lexical structures commonly understood as word families and the theoretical and methodological basesof their analysis.Using the word families derived from dec(ir) and sag(en) as a main reference point, thestudy discusses differenttheoretical approaches and positions."