Foreign Language Books : Spanish

Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. This multilingual collection of essays by both scholars and creative artists explores the diversity of Spanish women's writing, celebrated and forgotten. The contributors include: Nicole Altamirano, Alda Blanco, and Jo Labanyi. more...

Price: $15.95

Break down the language barriers and enjoy better working relationships. Perfect Phrases in Spanish for the Hotel and Restaurant Industries gives you the necessary phrases to communicate with your Spanish-speaking employees--no prior knowledge of Spanish needed! The book features more than 500 vital words and phrases specific to the restaurant and hotel fields, with translations spelled out phonetically so you can say what you need to right away. From interviewing potential employees to discussing wages and every subject in between, Perfect Phrases in Spanish for the Hotel and Restaurant Industries will help you conquer the language barrier in the workplace, leading to increased productivity and a more collaborative environment. more...

Price: $9.95

Prosodies, in the broad Firthian sense, covers phenomena that extend over stretches of segmental and featural units that must be examined with respect to their interaction with other features to fully appreciate their role in the phonetics and phonology o more...

Price: $145.80

Concerned with misleading interpretations of literature and culture that dominate Latin American studies, Larsen proposes the need for a freshly conceived historical materialist approach to Latin American texts and cultural practices. He provides insightful commentaries on political discourses, cultural events, films, and literary texts, as he draws upon a wide diversity of texts written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. more...

Price: $57.00

Wide-ranging in focus, these essays demonstrate that the work of seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the “New World Order.” “Rhetoric and Politics will do much to stimulate a renewed interest in Gracián and in the originality of Spanish culture.” David William Foster, Arizona State University. more...

Price: $90.00