Spanish in the United States


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This collection of original papers presents current research on linguistic aspects of the Spanish used in the United States. The authors examine such topics as language maintenance and language shift, language choice, the bilingual's discourse patterns, varieties of Spanish used in the United States, and oral proficiency testing of bilingual speakers. In view of the fact that Hispanics constitute the largest linguistic minority in the United States, the pioneering work in the area of sociolinguistic issues in the U.S. Spanish presented here is of great importance.










The Selected Canterbury Tales: A New Verse Translation


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Fisher's work is a vivid, lively, and readable translation of the most famous work of England's premier medieval poet. Preserving Chaucer's rhyme and meter and faithfully articulating his poetic voice, Fisher makes Chaucer's tales accessible to a contemporary ear.




Born Twice


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When a breach birth leaves Paulo severely disabled, his father, the articulate, unsentimental Professor Frigerio, struggles to come to terms with his son’s condition. Face to face with his own limitations, Frigerio confronts the strange way society around him handles Paolo’s handicaps and observes his surprising gifts. In spare, deeply affecting episodes, the professor of language explores the nuanced boundaries between “normal” and “disabled” worlds. A remarkable memoir of fathering, winner of the 2001 Strega Prize, Italy’s most prestigious literary honor, Born Twice is noted Italian author Guiseppe Pontiggia’s American debut. Sometimes meditative, often humorous, and always probing, Pontiggia’s haunting characters linger and resound long after the book is done.




The Radio Amateur's Handbook


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Food and Literature


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This volume examines food as subject, form, landscape, polemic, and aesthetic statement in literature. With essays analyzing food and race, queer food, intoxicated poets, avant-garde food writing, vegetarianism, the recipe, the supermarket, food comics, and vampiric eating, this collection brings together fascinating work from leading scholars in the field. It is the first volume to offer an overview of literary food studies and reflect on its origins, developments, and applications. Taking up maxims such as 'we are what we eat', it traces the origins of literary food studies and examines key questions in cultural texts from different global literary traditions. It charts the trajectories of the field in relation to work in critical race studies, postcolonial studies, and children's literature, positing an omnivorous method for the field at large.




Aprender Ucraniano - Rápido / Fácil / Eficaz


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Este libro contiene un vocabulario con las 2000 palabras y frases más comunes ordenadas por frecuencia de uso en la conversación diaria. Este libro de vocabulario sigue la regla 80/20, de manera que aprenderá primero las estructuras y palabras más importantes que le ayudarán a progresar con rapidez y mantener la motivación. ¿Quién debería comprar este libro? Este libro está dirigido a estudiantes de ucraniano de nivel principiante e intermedio con iniciativa y dispuestos a dedicar de 15 a 20 minutos al día a aprender vocabulario. Este libro de vocabulario presenta una estructura sencilla producto de eliminar todo lo innecesario para concentrar el esfuerzo de aprendizaje exclusivamente en las partes que le conducirán a mayores progresos en menos tiempo. Si está dispuesto a dedicar 20 minutos al día a aprender, probablemente sea la mejor inversión que puede hacer si tiene un nivel principiante o intermedio. Se sorprenderá de la velocidad a la que progresará con apenas unas semanas de práctica diaria. ¿Quién no debería comprar este libro? Este libro no va dirigido a estudiantes de ucraniano con nivel avanzado. En ese caso, visite nuestro sitio web y busque el libro de vocabulario de ucraniano, que incluye más términos y está agrupado por temas, ideal para estudiantes avanzados que desean mejorar su capacidad lingüística en determinados ámbitos. Además, si lo que necesita es un libro para aprender ucraniano todo en uno que le oriente durante las distintas fases del aprendizaje del idioma, probablemente no sea esto lo que busca. Este libro solo contiene vocabulario y se espera que los compradores aprendan aspectos como la gramática y la pronunciación a través de otras fuentes o en cursos de idiomas. El punto fuerte de este libro es que se centra en la adquisición rápida de vocabulario esencial, a expensas de otra información que muchas personas esperarían encontrar en un libro de ucraniano convencional. Tenga esto en cuenta al comprarlo. ¿Cómo utilizar este libro? Se recomienda utilizar este libro a diario y repasar un número de páginas determinando en cada sesión. El libro se divide en secciones con 50 términos para progresar gradualmente. Pongamos por ejemplo que está repasando los términos 101 a 200. Cuando domine bien los puntos 101 a 150, podrá empezar a estudiar los elementos 201 a 250 y, al día siguiente, omitir las secciones 101-150 y continuar repasando 151 a 250. De este modo, paso a paso, avanzará en el libro y sus capacidades lingüísticas aumentarán con cada nueva página que domine.




To the Other


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"The best introduction available for students of one of the most important philosophers of this century."--"American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly." (Philosophy)




A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Annotated


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"A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur.In the book, a Yankee engineer from Connecticut named Hank Morgan receives a severe blow to the head and is somehow transported in time and space to England during the reign of King Arthur. After some initial confusion and his capture by one of Arthur's knights, Hank realizes that he is actually in the past, and he uses his knowledge to make people believe that he is a powerful magician. He attempts to modernize the past in order to make people's lives better, but in the end he is unable to prevent the death of Arthur and an interdict against him by the Catholic Church of the time, which grows fearful of his power."