Portvs Imperator


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Viquito, el querido hermano de Santiago y líder de la pandilla, ha muerto, dejándole como herencia, sólo, una extraña conversación en la playa y una tarjeta con un número telefónico. Al llamar descubrirá, por medio de Filósofo, el mensaje que le dejó su hermano: tenía que hacerse con el liderazgo de la banda. Está en la peor situación posible porque su propio hermano lo mantuvo alejado del grupo, no sabe casi nada del negocio y, mucho menos, está apto para enfrentarse a esos hampones despiadados que sólo lo respetaban por ser el hermano del jefe. ¿Puede un muchacho de los bajos fondos aplicar métodos empresariales al mundo del hampa? la respuesta de "Portvs Imperator" es SI




Now and on Earth


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San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own.




McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot


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From vulgar insults to religious oaths, colloquialisms to clichés, the personality and passion of a language can be found in its slang. Spanish is no exception, as the McGraw-Hill Diccionario del Argot makes clear. This monolingual Spanish dictionary provides the most authoritative reference to all aspects of non-standard Spanish, with more than 12,000 entries supported by 20,000 citations. The broad range of sources, from literature to newspapers and TV, reflects the full spectrum of contemporary usage in Spain. For scope and depth as well as bibliographic reference, this is an essential language tool for libraries, advanced-level students, teachers, scholars, and lexicographers.




Recoil


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Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for violence is legendary -- surely nothing could be worse. But when an unbelievably Samaritan act by a psychologist he's never met places Cosgrove in the care of Roland "Doc" Luther, Cosgrove's not so sure he hasn't traded the frying pan for the fire after all. On the one hand, Doc claims that Cosgrove owes him nothing, and seems at times like the most decent man alive. But at other times, Doc's potential for cruelty seems unimaginable. As it turns out, freedom's not as freeing as he thought it would be -- especially when it might end up getting him killed.




Introducción a la sociolingüística hispánica


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Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica es un libro de texto imprescindible para los estudiantes de pregrado que cursan sociolingüística hispánica. Cada capítulo está redactado en un lenguaje sencillo y accesible. Sobre la base de un enfoque pedagógico, cada capítulo incluye una introducción, una lista de los temas a ser discutidos, el desarrollo de tales temas, un resumen, una lista de términos claves, un glosario de la terminología clave, una sección de ejercicios y preguntas de comprensión al final de cada sección temática de cada capítulo. Provee una introducción actualizada sobre los temas más relevantes de la versátil sociolingüística española contemporánea tales como la variación fonológica, el bilingüismo, la lengua y las leyes, las actitudes lingüísticas, entre otros Incluye una variedad de actividades para apoyar y extender el aprendizaje de los estudiantes Ofrece un enfoque pedagógico único que incluye ejercicios de análisis de datos. Estas actividades estimulan la investigación por parte de los estudiantes a través del uso de las bases de datos, la música popular y otros recursos audiovisuales El libro incluye ejemplos de las variedades de español habladas en el mundo hispanohablante con secciones especiales dedicadas a las variedades habladas en los EEUU Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica is a much-needed undergraduate introduction to the study of sociolinguistics in the Spanish-speaking world. Written in accessible Spanish, each chapter includes an overview, a review of topics, a section of key terms, exercises and questions. Provides up-to-date coverage of the main topics of sociolinguistics – such as phonological variation, bilingualism, and language attitudes – in relation to the Hispanic world Incorporates a variety of activities to support and extend student’s learning Offers a unique pedagogical approach, in which data analysis exercises encourage students to conduct research by using electronic databases, popular music, and audiovisual material Features examples that apply to Spanish varieties spoken around the world, with special sections dedicated to the Spanish varieties of the US




Imagining Human Rights in Twenty-First Century Theater


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There is extraordinary diversity, depth, and complexity in the encounter between theatre, performance, and human rights. Through an examination of a rich repertoire of plays and performance practices from and about countries across six continents, the contributors open the way toward understanding the character and significance of this encounter.




Pima Bajo


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Galveston


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After being diagnosed with lung cancer, Roy Cady kills the men hired by his loan shark boss to kill him, and flees to Galveston, Texas, with a prostitute and her young sister, where they face more problems.




A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish


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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.




Savage Art


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Robert Polito recounts Thompson's relationship with his father, a disgraced Oklahoma sheriff, with the women he adored in life and murdered on the page, with alcohol, would-be censors, and Hollywood auteurs. Unrelenting and empathetic, casting light into the darker caverns of our collective psyche, Savage Art is an exemplary homage to an American original. A National Book Critics Circle Award winner. 57 photos.