Spanish

Filmed on location in the beautiful Spanish city of Valencia, this program follows a young British girl as she learns and explores with a group of Spanish companions. The meanings and usages of numerous Spanish words, phrases, and expressions are shown as the lively bunch takes in Valencia’s culture, traditions, and activities. Viewers watch as the children go to school, participate in fruit picking and kart racing, visit art and science institutions, and enjoy a day at the beach. A great learning tool that mixes fun, facts, and real-world situations to reinforce language comprehension. English narration sets up each segment. (Portions in Spanish with Spanish subtitles, 33 minutes)

We all know the basics of punctuation. Or do we? A look at most neighborhood signage tells a different story. Through sloppy usage and low standards on the internet, in email, and now text messages, we have made proper punctuation an endangered species. In Eats, Shoots & Leaves, former editor Lynne Truss dares to say, in her delightfully urbane, witty, and very English way, that it is time to look at our commas and semicolons and see them as the wonderful and necessary things they are. This is a book for people who love punctuation and get upset when it is mishandled. From the invention of the question mark in the time of Charlemagne to George Orwell shunning the semicolon, this lively history makes a powerful case for the preservation of a system of printing conventions that is much too subtle to be mucked about with.

Ten intertwined stories of life in a northern Mexico town by a local author vividly re-create postrevolutionary Mexico of the 1920s and 1930s. A romance and a mystery of identity unify the stories as do richly drawn characters from all levels of village society. The colors, sounds, and fragrances of village life animate the dramas of rich and poor, old and young.

Summary: Warns against common errors in structure, style, and diction, and explains the fundamentals of conducting interviews and writing travel, scientific, sports, critical, and humorous articles.

Presents thousands of entries in American English and Latin American and Iberian Spanish, and includes grammar notes, verb lists, and guidance on word choice.

A young girl and her mother put on their red dresses and dance their way through the barrio, collecting friends and neighbors along the way as they go to the park to hear her father's salsa band play.

"From the author of 1491--the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas--a deeply engaging new history that explores the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two halves of the world developed totally different suites of plants and animals. Columbus's voyages brought them back together--and marked the beginning of an extraordinary exchange of flora and fauna between Eurasia and the Americas. As Charles Mann shows, this global ecological tumult--the "Columbian Exchange"--underlies much of subsequent human history. Presenting the latest generation of research by scientists, Mann shows how the creation of this worldwide network of exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Manila and Mexico City-- where Asia, Europe, and the new frontier of the Americas dynamically interacted--the center of the world. In 1493, Charles Mann gives us an eye-opening scientific interpretation of our past, unequaled in its authority and fascination"-- Provided by publisher.

Lee Nez is a nightwalker-a Navajo vampire-and a New Mexico state police officer. Investigating cop-killing smugglers who are bringing in jewels and silver from Mexico, Lee is teamed once again with sexy FBI agent Diane Lopez, who knows Lee is a vampire and is attracted to him nonetheless. The smugglers are Navajo shapeshifters or skinwalkers-and the cop and the FBI agent must kill them all without revealing that the smugglers are werewolves or that Lee is a vampire. Complicating matters, Lee is being stalked by a pair of vampire assassins who want revenge on him for killing their leader.

An analysis of the history, outlook, behavior, and life-styles of those people living in the United States-Mexico borderlands.

The Spanish language -- Introductory greetings -- Gathering patient information -- Medical emergencies -- Obstetrical emergencies -- Trauma -- Cardiac arrest -- Treatment -- Words and phrases -- Cognates.