El niño estrella

La guerra ha cambiado. Hoy sólo se habla de operaciones especiales, grupos de navy seals, drones asesinos y mercenarios contratados para misiones inconfesables. Estamos ante un nuevo tipo de guerra en las sombras que no utiliza grandes ejércitos, pero que extiende sus tentáculos hasta el más lejano rincón dela Tierra. Mark Mazzetti, ganador del Premio Pulitzer, nos cuenta por primera vez la historia completa y global de esta nueva clase de guerra que en diez años ha transformadola CIA en una organización que planea y dirige el asesinato de sus enemigos, reales o supuestos. Mazzetti se...

Pancho the elephant is captured and is sold to the circus. There he befriends a monkey and a mouse that are as unhappy as he is. The three decide to escape and return home. Children will respond to the book's great humor, sensitivity, and unique paper collage illustrations.

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...

This thoroughly updated second edition provides a clear and comprehensive overview of sociolinguistics and the pragmatics of oral communication in Spanish. While maintaining the same structure as the first edition, it includes revised “Ejercicios de reflexión” and new comprehension checks at the end of each chapter, along with numerous bibliographic references throughout, enhancing its use as a classroom text. Among the significant revisions are new sections on corpus linguistics and on statistical modeling programs for studying linguistic variables, an expanded chapter on the study of...