Tackling the complexities of the Spanish language just got easier with the new sixth edition of Avanzando. This traditional intermediate-level book covers both spoken and written Spanish grammar to improve one's comprehension of the language. It incorporates updated vocabulary and topics covering new technology. The grammar scope and sequence has also been updated to provide more balance in length and difficulty.
Designed to appeal to today's diverse student population, this is the only book that successfully addresses both native and non-native speakers. Engaging and varied, it teaches grammar through contextualized exercises and activities based on language proficiency, songs, poems, cultural readings and literary selections. This edition includes greater emphasis on cultural material and vocabulary, expanded exercises, numerous self-tests and laboratory drills which focus on listening as a skill.
This critical anthology showcases an interdisciplinary forum of scholars sharing a common interest in the analysis, discussion, critique, and dissemination of educational issues impacting Latinos. Drawing on the best of the past 20 years of the Journal of Latinos and Education, the collection highlights work that has been seminal in addressing complex educational issues affecting and influencing the growing Latina and Latino population. Chapters discuss the production and application of wisdom and knowledge to real-world problems while engaging and collaborating with the interests of key stakeholders in other sectors outside the "traditional" academy. Organized thematically around issues related to policy, research, practice, and creative and literary works, the collection is sure to extend and encourage novel ways of thinking about the ongoing and emerging questions around the unifying thread of Latinos and education.
This traditional intermediate-level book organized by grammatical structure and a theme that reviews spoken and written Spanish grammar is updated to feature more balance in length and difficulty of grammar scope and sequence. It also incorporates updated vocabulary and topics covering new technology. Complemented by a selection of short stories by well-known Spanish and Latin American writers, this book presents grammar explanations and cultural presentations in straightforward, easy-to-understand Spanish with numerous examples, contextualized exercises and activities.
¿En qué terminará su incierto viaje por los laberintos del amor y la guerra? Este libro nos pone en la piel de un soldado al que seguiremos durante sus experiencias en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Junto a él y la mujer que ama, viviremos la incertidumbre, el miedo, la camaradería, el amor, el heroísmo, el horror, la angustia; y todos los sentimientos que afectan al espíritu de las personas expuestas a las condiciones más extremas. Comprenderemos que los soldados de un país enemigo no siempre son enemigos personales nuestros. Comprobaremos que los seres humanos somos todos iguales, más allá de razas, nacionalidades e ideologías. Nos convenceremos de que la única guerra que se gana es la que se evita.
Selected Contents: Part I. The Political Economy of the "Hispanization" of the United States and North America1. The Future of Marketing and Merchandising in the United States2. Management Realities of a Fragmented "North American" Market3. Labor, Immigration and BusinessPart II. The Emergence of the Hispanic Market in North America4. Americans in Mexico: Demonstration Effects of a Flourishing Demographic5. A Vanishing Border: The Emergence of a North American Consumer Market6. Mexicans in the United States: Ethnographic Influences on Consumer Behavior
We are profoundly social creatures--more than we know. In Social, renowned psychologist Matthew Lieberman explores groundbreaking research in social neuroscience revealing that our need to connect with other people is even more fundamental, more basic, than our need for food or shelter. Because of this, our brain uses its spare time to learn about the social world--other people and our relation to them. It is believed that we must commit 10,000 hours to master a skill. According to Lieberman, each of us has spent 10,000 hours learning to make sense of people and groups by the time we are ten. Social argues that our need to reach out to and connect with others is a primary driver behind our behavior. We believe that pain and pleasure alone guide our actions. Yet, new research using fMRI--including a great deal of original research conducted by Lieberman and his UCLA lab--shows that our brains react to social pain and pleasure in much the same way as they do to physical pain and pleasure. Fortunately, the brain has evolved sophisticated mechanisms for securing our place in the social world. We have a unique ability to read other people’s minds, to figure out their hopes, fears, and motivations, allowing us to effectively coordinate our lives with one another. And our most private sense of who we are is intimately linked to the important people and groups in our lives. This wiring often leads us to restrain our selfish impulses for the greater good. These mechanisms lead to behavior that might seem irrational, but is really just the result of our deep social wiring and necessary for our success as a species. Based on the latest cutting edge research, the findings in Social have important real-world implications. Our schools and businesses, for example, attempt to minimalize social distractions. But this is exactly the wrong thing to do to encourage engagement and learning, and literally shuts down the social brain, leaving powerful neuro-cognitive resources untapped. The insights revealed in this pioneering book suggest ways to improve learning in schools, make the workplace more productive, and improve our overall well-being.
