No cruces las piernas

Presents six works of art each of which tells a story using a different technique. Includes instructions for using these techniques to make one's own pictures and stories.

"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...

"Annotated catalogue of the collection of antique pieces of Mesopotamian, Egyptian,Greek, Etruscan and Roman art from the private collection of Dr. Joaquín GumáHerrera, Count of Lagunillas (b. Cuba 1909-1980), some donations of the Cuban ScienceAcademy and Dr. Antonio Nieto and at present part of the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts.The catalogue includes scientific research contributions from three prestigious specialists: AymeChcuri for the section devoted to Egypt; doctor Maria Castro Miranda for the Greek classicobjects and philologist Ana Vilma Castellanos Bisset with texts on the...

A medida que los descendientes de inmigrantes mexicanos se han ido estableciendo por todo Estados Unidos, ha surgido una gran literatura, pero sus similaridades con la literatura de México han pasado inadvertidas. En Voces sin fronteras, la primera antología que combina la literatura de ambos lados de la frontera méxico-americana, Cristina García nos presenta un diálogo intercultural de una rica diversidad. Voces históricas de maestros mexicanos como Carlos Fuentes, Elena Poniatowska y Juan Rulfo se entrelazan contínuamente con voces magistrales de chicanos como Sandra Cisneros,...