Historia, lengua y ciencia

Provides coverage of over ninety thousand words and phrases and 130,000 translations of contemporary Spanish and English, as well as sections on grammar, culture, and communication.

This book takes a four-skills approach to the further development of language proficiency beyond the basics. Opiniones provides readers with an audio library—unscripted, native speakers talking about familiar topics—that expose the reader to different aspects of culture, dialectal differences and speech patterns. For those already familiar with the basics of Spanish.

Combines a dictionary of the Spanish language with a geographical and biographical dictionary that offers material on people, places, organizations, and works of literature, and lists verb forms, proverbs, and other data.

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...