Over 4,000 extensive entries that look at all aspects of Latin American culture - food, sport, religion, television, transport, alongside architecture, dance, film, literature, music and sculpture.
A comprehensive encyclopedia in Spanish covering the past and present of Spanish and Spanish culture in Spain and in the world, especially in Latin America. It includes articles, images, maps and flags as well as videos and biographies. It includes Dictionary of la Real Academia Espanola and access to la Red de Revistas Cientificas de America Latina y el Caribe, Espana y Portugal. The following reference works are included: Historia Universal, Historia del Siglo XX, Geografia Universal, Enciclopedia Tematica, Culturas y civilizaciones, Museos del Mundo, Clasicos de la Literatura espanola.
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A comprehensive encyclopedia in Spanish, covering Spanish culture & history in Spain and Latin America and includes bibliographic citations as well as images and videos and the Dictionary of la Real Academia Espanola.
License Information: Access is restricted to one (1) simultaneous user. Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and to "walk-in" users of the University of Saskatchewan Library for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. It is accessible in the library, on campus, and remotely. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and International Copyright law.
A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources. Especially noteworthy for subject essays discussing recent research trends and scholarship.
This Ebook features five introductory essays and a chronology of key events, this three-volume encyclopedia covers the reciprocal effects that the politics, foreign policy, and culture of Spain, Portugal, and the American nations have had on one another since the time of Columbus.
The online Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures is the first comprehensive and comparative reference source to chronicle Pre-Hispanic, Colonial, and modern Mesoamerica. It includes articles on art, archaeology, religious studies, anthropology, Latin American culture, and the history of the region.
This online work contains a concise narrative history, a chronology, and an A-to-Z encyclopedia covering significant people, places, events, and issues in Spanish and Portuguese history.
World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. Underrepresented writings--such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism--also appear.
The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Spain (online) is an unrivalled reference guide to Spanish history and politics from the Middle Ages to the present. With its chronology, introductory essay, and over seven hundred dictionary entries on major Spanish organizations, including political parties, trade unions, and state bodies; the various regions and languages which comprise Spain, including Catalonia and the Basque Country; and major figures in Spanish culture and the arts.
This reference looks at the literature of Spain from the perspective of women's studies. Though the volume focuses on the literature of Spain written in Castilian, it also includes survey entries on the present state of women's literature in Catalan, Galician, and Basque. Included are hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries for numerous topics related to Spanish literature, including literary periods and genres, significant characters and character types, major authors and works, and various specialized topics.
From geology and biology to cinema and the theatre, this ambitious thematic encyclopedia, unique in scope and style, provides a much needed one-volume account of all aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The "accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words past and present from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from those of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings. You'll still find these in the OED, but you'll also find the history of individual words, and of the language traced through 3 million quotations, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to films scripts and cookery books."
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Esta nueva edicion del Diccionario de la lengua espanola contiene:88 431 articulos190 581 acepciones18 749 acepciones con una o mas marcas de America o Filipinas 35 685 remisiones.
¡Exacto!is online a student-friendly Spanish grammar aimed at intermediate-level learners and idea both for use in the classroom and as an invaluable reference for self-study.
La primera vez que una gramática académica refleja todas las variedades del español. Un mapa de la unidad y variedad del español, una obra práctica que, uniendo tradición y modernidad, fija la norma para todos los hispanohablantes.
For students looking for a quick nuts-and-bolts overview, this series is a pared-down, simplified, and tightly focused version with an emphasis on clarity and brevity. Graphic elements such as sidebars, reader-alert icons, and boxed highlights stress selected points from the text, illuminate keys to learning, and give students quick pointers to the essentials.
The book sets out the complexities of Spanish in short, readable sections, and explanations are clear and free from jargon. The Grammar is the ideal reference source for the learner and user of Spanish.