Puntos de Partida


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Puntos de Partida


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"In any language-learning setting, students require numerous and various opportunities to read, write, hear, and speak. Puntos de partida sets the standard for Spanish-language teaching with its concise grammar explanations, practical vocabulary, integration of cultures, and abundant resources. An innovative program that has been continuously refined for today's classroom, Puntos delivers proven pedagogy with clear and effective presentations, comprehensive teaching materials, and powerfully adaptive digital tools. Puntos builds on the holistic, four-skills approach it pioneered, and offers a wealth of resources for every instructor and every learner. Your students are unique. Puntos has what they need"--







Puntos en Breve


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Focuses on communicative language proficiency and provides coverage of the essentials of language instruction - vocabulary, grammar, and culture. This text offers teacher- and student- friendly pedagogy, grammar presentations, and an ancillary package.




A Persistent Revolution


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CHAPTER FOUR: Carlos Salinas and Mexico's New Era of Solidarity and Concertación -- SNAPSHOT FIVE: ¡Ya basta! -- CHAPTER FIVE: Land, Liberty, and the Mestizo Nation -- SNAPSHOT SIX: Mexico 2010: Let's Celebrate -- CHAPTER SIX: A New Revolution? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover




Odetta in Babylon and the Canada Express


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Kohon and Toni Griffiths stunning translation has the power to transport you to the 1960s, to Buenos Aires, to those firstoverpowering experiences of sexual love. Odetta in Babylon and theCanada Express invites you to step onto the train, and to let go. Loseyourself in the music and enjoy the journey, wherever it takes you.




Chess Structures


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Mauricio Flores Rios provides an in-depth study of the 28 most common structures in chess practice. In Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide you will find:*Carefully selected model games showing each structure's main plans and ideas*Strategic patterns to observe and typical pitfalls to avoid*50 positional exercises with detailed solutionsGM Axel Bachmann from the Foreword:"Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide is an excellent selection of model games. By studying the 140 games and fragments in this book, the reader will learn many of the most important plans, patterns and ideas in chess."




ISE Traditions & Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past


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"This is History Book. It explored the grand scheme of world history as a product of real-life human beings pursuing their individual and collective interests. It also offered a global perspective on the past by focusing on both the distinctive characteristics ofindividual societies and the connections that have linked the fortunes of diff erent societies. It has combined a clear chronological framework with the twin themes of traditions and encounters, which help to make the unwieldy story of world history both more manageable and more engaging. From the beginning, Traditions & Encounters off ered an inclusive vision of the global past-one that is meaningful and appropriate for the interdependent world of contemporary times"--




Punto y Aparte


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¿Hasta Qué Punto... Es Usted Usted...?


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Saber uno quin es no tiene equivalente. Cuestionado, sarcsticamente, sobre su identidad, Don Quijote, protest enfticamente: Yo s quin soy! Y Jess, modelo de integridad e independencia, lapidariamente, afirm de s mismo: Yo soy la verdad misma, la verdad absoluta: Yo en el Padre y el Padre en M. Y por ser la verdad, tambin Soy el camino y la vida. El descubrimiento de s conduce al ser humano a la autenticidad responsable. Hasta que punto..., intenta, en un estilo alegre, con lenguaje sencillo, facilitar al lector ayuda efectiva para conocerse, apropiarse de s mismo y disfrutar su autenticidad, deseable y verdadera individualidad: el descubrimiento del intrnseco propsito de su vida nica e irrepetible.