La Jirafa

An introduction to ostriches, including their size, diet, and everyday behavior and highlighting differences between those in the wild and those living in zoos.

This title in the Que esta Despierto? (What's Awake?) series explores the behavior of this backyard nocturnal animal. Photographs enhance the text which explains why the animal is out at night and what it does in the day. (Text in Spanish.).

These titles look at many of the animals typically found in zoos, covering such topics as appearance, behavior, and babies. Vivid photographs compare the habitat and diet of each animal, both in the wild and the zoo.

Aprenda los colores del arco iris siguiendo un texto lírico. (Learn the colors of the rainbow through the lyrical, rhyming text!) "I’ve learned my colors: green, red, and blue, yellow, purple, orange, and now I’m through." From shiny red apples, to purple violets and yellow bumblebees, the high-quality pictures will have children learning colors quickly. Learn simple English words and phrases with the corresponding version Green, Green Froggy.

Los testimonios no sólo es una obra fundamental en el mundo poético y revolucionario de Roque Dalton; además es una de sus obras más recomendables para aquellos que entran por primera vez en su mundo y pretenden acercarse al conocimiento si no a la experiencia plena del mundo del intelectual comprometido, del rebelde marginal; del mundo donde ética y estética, para bien o para mal, alcanzaron uno de sus grados máximos de comunión.

Ya situado en tiempos de la Gran Depresión o en los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, ya en otros posteriores, marcados por el miedo al apocalipsis atómico o a la caza de brujas de la Guerra Fría, EL CINE NEGRO es sin discusión uno de los géneros mayores de la historia del cine. A su grandeza han contribuido directores Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang, Raoul Walsh, Orson Welles, Samuel Fuller y John Huston , obras de culto El sueño eterno, La jungla de asfalto, La dama de Shanghai, Los sobornados, Laura, Callejón sin salida, Gilda e iconos incontestables, como Lauren Bacall, Marlene...

The second edition of Cinema for Spanish Conversation includes the same stimulating exercises and conversation materials that have made the first edition a success among students and instructors alike. The text is designed to be used in courses in which outstanding films from the Spanish-speaking world are used as springboards for classroom Spanish-language discussion. Using high-interest feature films, students hear Spanish as it is spoken in different countries and in a wide variety of situations and are encouraged to listen to and converse about the social and cultural aspects of...