How To Exist, An Impractical Guide


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As the book title explains, this second bilingual compilation of my poems and art is an impractical guide because the useful guide for your practical life resides within yourself; one way to explore your guide is creating your own poetry and art. My poetry and art represent my emotional reality and my commitment to passion; Passion as the element that guides the directions in which I take my life. Passion defined not as mere feeling or sensation, but as powerful insights into the being that I really am. I refuse to be carried by the currents of life in the form of social pressures; instead I am passionately committed to a certain direction, even when I don't know the final destination. I hope that this book will inspire you to explore your inner guide using art. Sobre El Libro Como explica el título de este libro, esta segunda recopilación bilingüe de mis poemas y arte es una guía impráctica, porque la guía útil en tu vida práctica reside dentro de ti; y una forma de explorar esa guía interna es creando tu propia poesía y arte. Mi poesía y mi arte representan mi realidad emocional o devoción hacia mi pasión; Pasión como el elemento que guían la dirección en que llevo mi vida. Pasión no definida como simple sentimiento o sensación, sino como poderosas visiones del ser que realmente soy. Me niego a ser llevadas por las corrientes de la vida en forma de presiones sociales, en cambio estoy apasionadamente comprometida con una dirección determinada, aun cuando no se cual será mi destino final. Espero que este libro te inspire a explorar tu mundo interior a través del arte.




In the Country We Love


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The star of Orange is the New Black and Jane the Virgin presents her personal story of the real plight of undocumented immigrants in this country.




A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish


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For many years A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH has been trusted by students and teachers as the standard English-language reference grammar of Spanish. Now updated to include the latest findings of the Royal Spanish Academy's official grammar book, 'La Nueva gramática de la lengua española', making A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH FIFTH EDITION even more relevant to students and teachers of Spanish. Key features of this fifth edition include: a 'Guide to the Book', enabling you to make the most of this new edition new vocabulary such as topical and technological terms, bringing you up-to-date with contemporary spoken Spanish more Latin-American Spanish, ensuring world-wide coverage aclearer guidance to recommended usage -advice on the Academy's latest spelling rules. Whether a student or a teacher of Spanish, you can be sure that this fifth edition of A NEW REFERENCE GRAMMAR OF MODERN SPANISH will provide you with a comprehensive, cohesive and clear guide to the forms and structures of Spanish as it is written and spoken today in Spain and Latin America.







A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish


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(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.




Recollections of Things to Come


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This remarkable first novel depicts life in the small Mexican town of Ixtepec during the grim days of the Revolution. The town tells its own story against a variegated background of political change, religious persecution, and social unrest. Elena Garro, who has also won a high reputation as a playwright, is a masterly storyteller. Although her plot is dramatically intense and suspenseful, the novel does not depend for its effectiveness on narrative continuity. It is a book of episodes, one that leaves the reader with a series of vivid impressions. The colors are bright, the smells pungent, the many characters clearly drawn in a few bold strokes. Octavio Paz, the distinguished poet and critic, has written that it "is truly an extraordinnary work, one of the most perfect creations in contemporary Latin American literature."




A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish, 4th Edition


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This text provides a comprehensive guide to the forms and structures of the Spanish spoken and written in Spain and Latin America. Examples have been introduced, drawing on contemporary Spanish and Latin American usage.







Las 5 llaves maestras


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Este libro esta destinado para aquellos que estan en busca del conocimiento para ser una mejor persona. Sin duda alguna estas cinco llaves maestras te abriran las puertas del éxito, que te llevarán al siguiente nivel de consciencia. Si las estudias con detenimiento cada una de ellas.