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In this exciting Spanish kids' book, Arnold the moose lives in a small wooden house on the edge of the forest. He is something of a dreamer, and one day his friend, a goose called Louis, comes to his house with a suggestion that they go searching for treasure. Arnold jumps at the chance, of course, and the two prepare to set off into the dangerous forest in their truck. They enlist the help of some other animals and head off on the adventure of a lifetime. But there are more dangers than even they could have imagined, and they soon realize the value of friendship. What will happen when they...

In every student book you will find: Extensive speaking, pronunciation and vocabulary sections Thorough grammar sections with clear examples and practice Comprehensive listening activities with scripts Contemporary, engaging reading materials taken from authentic sources Writing Banks with the chance to practice different writing styles And finally, the Review and Practice pages after each unit bring all the learning activities together ActiveBook is a complete digital version of the Students' Book on one CD. It is a convenient and simple tool with easy navigation and zoom facility. Videos...

What cities were there in early 16th-century Spain? With how many inhabitants? Were they fortified? And how many leagues apart were they? Those are the questions that Ferdinand Columbus tried to answer in his Vocabulary containing the names of the places and kingdoms of Spain. The present edition reconstructs the "cosmographic" endeavor of Christopher Columbus’ youngest son based on two codices from the Biblioteca Capitular y Colombina of Seville.

A very accurate symbolic representation of the way in which the intellectual as a social role expresses himself in relation to other estates within the medieval world is the exordial miniature of a Milanese Codex, the ms. Biblioteca Nationale Braidense AD XIII 30 (ca. 1400), preserving Petrarch’s moral treatise De remediis utriusque Fortunae. The symbolism of the image refers not only to the diversification of society and the recognition of this diversity as a defining vision of human community, it also casts a special light on the position of the intellectual as a public dignity, as a...