Diccionario Espasa lenguas del mundo

El nacimiento de las lenguas, su extensión, el arraigo en un pueblo y su desaparición avanzan junto con los acontecimientos que dan forma a la Historia. Es un ciclo continuo e inmutable. En esos cambios permanentes, el ser humano ha sentido desde siempre la necesidad de ser bilingüe y así, si un viajero desea decir algo en cualquier rincón del planeta, intentará hablar el latín actual, que es el inglés; hace dos mil años ese mismo viajero intentaría expresarse en el inglés de entonces, que era el latín. Las lenguas son, pues, numerosas y diversas. Las que han influido en la...

A collection of printed monographs on the aesthetic and mythological concepts of the Latin American Pre-Columbian art previously published in out-of-print editions. The author selected and updated each essay that included: Paradigmas del arte de Amerindia; Los Códices (Libros), Orfebrería Colombiana; Azteca: La monumentalidad trágica; Inca: Forma y especialidad and others.

Material in this book previously published in: Inside the worlds of Star wars episode I; Inside the worlds of Star wars attack of the clones, Inside the worlds of Star wars trilogy.

2014 Runner-Up, MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural StudiesIn Unbecoming Blackness, Antonio López uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlapping Cuban and African diasporic experiences. López shows how Afro-Cuban writers and performers in the U.S. align Cuban black and mulatto identities, often subsumed in the mixed-race and postracial Cuban national imaginaries, with the material and symbolic blackness of African Americans and other...

The global framework of the first Triennial of Chile included 3 international colloquiums directed by art critic Nelly Richards with the participation of international intellectuals and art administrators who during 7 days debated and reflected on the concepts in art of history, territory and identity. Some names included: Néstor García Canclini, Andrea Giunta, Adriana Valdes, Willy Thayer, Ana Lomgoni, Ticio Escobar, Guillermo Machuca, Pablo Oyarzún, Maria Berrios and others. "The limits of art are the main topic around in which this 1st Triennial de Chile is developed, exploring as a...