The passionate life and violent death of Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) retain an enduring fascination for readers around the world. Murdered by Nationalists at the outset of the Spanish Civil War, Lorca died at the peak of his creative powers. This selection includes 55 of the 68 poems that comprised Lorca's 1921 Libro de poemas, all of them in their entirety and in their original sequence. Imbued with the spirit and folklore of the poet's native Andalusia, these verses feature the most complex spiritual content of any of Lorca's works. Includes an informative introduction to the author's life and works, plus notes on the individual poems.

This is the first translation of the complete poetry of Peruvian César Vallejo (1892-1938).
An introduction and chronology provide insights into his life and work. Presented in facing-page Spanish and English, translated by National Book Award winner Clayton Eshleman. Includes The Black Heralds (1918), Trilce (1922), Human Poems (1939), and Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939). Vallejo's poetry strikes against theology with the very rhetoric of the Christian faith, Vallejo's is a tragic vision in which salvation and sin are one and the same.

The eighty poems in this bilingual edition offer the first English translation of the complete collection of poems of Cuban poet Juan Carlos Flores. Alamar, the home of the award-winning Flores, is the setting for his collection, The Counterpunch (and Other Horizontal Poems) / El contragolpe (y otros poemas horizontales). Constructed as a self-help community in eastern Havana, Alamar is the largest housing complex in the world. Flores's highly structured texts, organized into "art galleries," present prose paintings of a big place in very small form. He builds a poetic landscape with repeating structures that mirror Alamar's five-floor walkups. Exploring life and dream on the flat surfaces of the poems, he gives fleeting glimpses of perception and survival at the urban margins.

These eleven tales in this dual-language edition are by four outstanding nineteenth-century authors whose work brought new life to Spanish literature. Published between 1870 and 1900, they include "El Hechicero" (The Sorcerer), by Juan Valera, a highly polished allegorical retelling of an Andalusian legend. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón's tale of bandits, "La buenaventura," appears with his ""La Comendadora,"" inspired by an incident in a Granada convent. Three tales by Leopoldo Alas ("Clarín")--"Adios," "Cordera,""Cambio de luz," and "Benedictino"--exemplify the author's remarkably protean style. Emilia Pardo Bazán's stories ("Afra," "La Santa de Karnar," "La cana," "Dios castiga," and "La Mayorazga de Bouzas") take place in her native Galicia. All exhibit the violence that fascinated Pardo Bazán, along with the independent, courageous female characters who populate her work. It features an informative introduction and ample footnotes.

These twelve classic short stories reflect the idealistic and exotic appeal of a golden age in Spanish literature. Published from the 1830s to the 1860s, the heyday of the Romantic era, featuring author Fernán Caballero," Ramón de Mesonero Romanos, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, Mariano José de Larra, Enrique Gil y Carrasco, and Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. This dual-language edition features an informative introduction and ample footnotes.

With this collection of poems, Antonio Machado y Ruiz became the primary voice of the Spanish artists known as the Generation of 1898. This compilation features an unabridged edition of Machado's landmark work, plus other poems and essays. Introduction, new English translations, and notes by Stanley Appelbaum.

Especially designed for the beginning student, this handy volume helps students learn Spanish by presenting simple, easy-to-read adaptations of classic Spanish stories and other material -- with complete faithful English translations on the facing pages. The selections, by significant writers of the past and present (Don Juan Manuel, Luis Taboada, Juan José; Milla, Eufronio Viscarra, Ricardo Palma, Lope de Rueda, Enrique Amorim, Juan José; Arreola; and other noted writers), derive from the best and most genuine Hispanic tradition, and are revealing of the life and psychology of the Spanish-speaking peoples.

From the golden age of the Spanish theater comes this captivating seventeenth-century drama of peasantry defending their honor against oppression by a feudal lord. Based on a historical incident during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, Fuenteovejuna takes its name from an Andalusian town in which the residents unite to enact justice when faced with vicious oppression. One of Spain's most highly esteemed and prolific playwrights, Lope de Vega (1562-1635) created a remarkable number of plays, noteworthy for their individual freshness, sincerity, and spontaneity. This edition of Fuenteovejuna, one of his most popular works, features an informative introduction with background on Spanish theater in the time of Lope de Vega as well as on the dramatist's career and on the play itself.

From 12th-century Cantar de Mio Cid to 20th-century poetry of Garcia Lorca, Salinas and Alberti -- 37 poems by Spain's greatest poets. Full Spanish texts with expert literal English translations on facing pages. Also, wealth of biographical, critical commentary. Portraits of poets where available. Introduction. 24 black-and-white illustrations.

The first picaresque novel, and one of the gems of Spanish literature. A brief, simply told tale of a rogue's adventures and misadventures, full of laconic cynicism and spiced with puns and wordplay. Introduction, Notes, and new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum.

Luís de Camões (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante, and Shakespeare. Camões was renowned for his intensely personal sonnets and equally intense adventurous life. He was banished for dueling and brawling at court, lost an eye fighting the Moors in North Africa, was shipwrecked off the coast of India, jailed in Goa, and exiled in Mozambique. Throughout these personal trials, he advanced poetry beyond the Petrarchin model of love won and lost to write of personal despair, history, politics, war, religion, and the natural beauty of Portugal. Here are seventy of Camões's best poems, translated by William Baer, with the original Portuguese on facing pages.

"Walking underground" for the first time in his life, Juan Marcos Villalobos, a freshly arrived migrant to New York City, offers his seat to a woman standing on the subway. Though his English isn't up to her rude reply, he quickly realizes that good manners in Nueva York are quite different than in Puerto Rico!
Juan Marcos is eager to continue his studies in the United States and rents a room from family friends living in El Barrio, or Spanish Harlem. Soon, he has a job wrapping packages at a department store that pays as much as he made teaching high school at home. As he interacts with the Puerto Rican community in New York, he witnesses the problems his compatriots encounter, including discrimination, inadequate housing, jobs and wages. Despite these problems, friendships and romances bloom and rivalries surface, leading to betrayal and even attempted murder!
Originally published in 1951 as Trópico en Manhattan, it was the first novel to focus on the postwar influx of Puerto Ricans to New York. Cotto-Thorner's use of code-switching, or "Spanglish," reflects the characters' bicultural reality and makes the novel a forerunner of Nuyorican writing and contemporary Latino literature. This new bilingual is translated by J. Bret Maney. The novel's exploration of class, race and gender-while demonstrating the community's resilience and cultural pride-ensures its relevance today.

This rich sampling of Spanish poetry, prose, and drama includes more than seventy selections from the works of more than forty writers, from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Includes the anonymous author of the great medieval epic "The Poem of the Cid" to such 20th-century masters as Miguel de Unamuno. Includes medieval classics such as "The Book of Good Love" by the Archpriest of Hita and Spain's first great prose work, the stories of "Count Lucanor" by Juan Manuel. Works by writers of the Spanish Renaissance follow, among them poems by the Marqués de Santillana and excerpts from the great dialogue novel "La Celestina" by Fernando de Rojas. Spain's Golden age, ca. 1550-1650, an era which produced its great writers, is represented by the mystical poems of St. Teresa, passages from Cervantes' "Don Quixote" and scenes from Tirso de Molina's "The Love-Rogue," the drama that introduced the character of Don Juan to the world, along with other well-known works of the period. Among the translators are Lord Byron, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edward FitzGerald and John Masefield.

Published in Spanish as "Otras cartas a Milena," "Other Letters to Milena" shows Rodríguez confronting pressing issues at the turn of the twenty-first century. These involve a new post-Soviet world and the realities of diasporic existence, which have a profound effect even on people like Rodríguez who have not migrated but continue to live and work in their home nation. The book's title references Franz Kafka, whose Letters to Milena was published after his death in 1952. This signals that Rodríguez participates in her city's long cosmopolitan tradition asserted by Cuban writers and scholars of Cuban literature.
As an introduction to the book, Dykstra has included a critical commentary clarifying many of the author's references.

Recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature, Jian Ramón Jiménez (1881-1958) ranks among the foremost Spanish poets. The early influences of German Romanticism and French Symbolism led Jiménez to the development of his unique voice, and he became a leader in the vanguard known as the modernistas, who staged a Spanish literary revival at the turn of the twentieth century. Jiménez's most popular work, Platero y yo, unfolds in his native Andalusia. A series of autobiographical prose poems about the wanderings of a young writer and his donkey, it first appeared in a shorter version, suitable for children, in 1914. This new, accurate English translation is drawn from the complete edition, which was published in 1917. The only dual-language edition of this classic of Spanish literature, it is accompanied by an excellent introduction and explanatory notes that will assist students in understanding and appreciating this work.

Early in the eighth century, Berbers from Morocco invaded Spain and quickly gained control of almost the entire peninsula. During the centuries-long struggle to reconquer their country, Christian warlords carved out small territories from the Moors, including the kingdom of Castile. Rodrigo Diaz, a Castilian knight who reclaimed much of Islamic Spain, ultimately achieved legendary status, and his exploits were celebrated in ballads, songs, and stories — most famously, in the twelfth-century epic, Poema de Mio Cid. One of the few Christian heroes of the Spanish Reconquest to be known familiarly by a Muslin title (from the Spanish Arabic al-sid, or "lord"), the Cid is presented as a hero perfectly suited to medieval Spain. Valiant in battle and loyal to his king, he is portrayed as an exemplary hero and vassal. His legend is embodied in the Poema de Mio Cid — the only Castilian epic poem that has endured in its essentially original form. This dual-language edition features a new translation of two-thirds of the Poema, with full English summaries of the omitted sections.

Francisco de Quevedo (1580-1645), one of the greatest poets of the Spanish Golden Age, was the master of the baroque style known as "conceptismo," a complex form of expression fueled by elaborate conceits and constant wordplay as well as ethical and philosophical concerns. In this book, Christopher Johnson gathers together a generous selection of forty-six poems with samples of each of the genres in which Quevedo excelled: metaphysical and moral poetry, grave elegies and moving epitaphs, amorous sonnets and melancholic psalms, playful romances and profane burlesques. Presented in bilingual Spanish-English format on facing pages.

Unique format offers 13 great stories in Spanish -- from classics by Cervantes and Alarcon to contemporary works by Borges and Goytisolo. Complete faithful English translations on facing pages. Includes Spanish to English vocabulary, biographical-critical introductions, more.

Nicaraguan poet and essayist Dar\u00edo (the pen name of F\u00e9lix Rub\u00e9n Garc\u00eda Sarmiento) is considered the high priest of the modernismo school of literature. This volume contains a rich selection of his best poems and stories from Azul (Blue), Prosas profanas (Worldly Hymns), and others. Accurate English translations appear on the facing pages.

Cuban Marcelo Morales was born in Cuba in 1977 and is a new voice in Cuban literature which was dominated by writers born before the 1959 revolution. He is already an established, prize-winning writer. "The World as Presence/El mundo como ser" showcases this new voice. While older generations of Cuban poets have wrestled in their work with social and political critique, those critiques have often been articulated through formal experimentation and abstraction, unsurprising given the censorship and the real threats of punishment that dissident writers have faced. Morales, however, directly interrogates both the Cuban past and present. References to many significant moments, people, and issues in Cuban history and culture can be found throughout his work such as to the activist group "The White Ladies," the 1976 bombing of Cuban Airlines Flight 455, and the military aid that Cubans provided to Angola during its fight for independence. Morales's poetry follows a timeline ranging from Martí to Guevara to the day of the 2014 announcement by Obama and Castro that diplomatic relations between the two nations would finally be restored.

This bilingual dictionary contains over 3000 commonly used words arranged thematically. Words are arranged according to their meaning, not alphabetically. Content is presented in three columns to facilitate the reviewing and self-testing processes.

The Multilingual Dictionary of Knowledge Management comprises some 3,400 basic and topical terms in the major European languages, i.e. English, French, Spanish, Italian and German. The terms cover all areas relevant for making knowledge management a success, such as database technology, document management, knowledge presentation, database administration or data mining (searching for new interesting connections in large amounts of data) which is becoming increasingly common in larger businesses. The main part of the book is structured by the English-language terminology, along with explanations, synonyms or abbreviations if necessary. This is followed by corresponding terms in the other languages.

Over 23,000 entries
Covers all aspects of each field:
applied economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, stock markets and investment, e-commerce, business, finance, marketing, banking. economic theory, world currencies, labor studies, international economics, international trade, personal finances, worldwide economic organizations.

Este diccionario para la ciencia de la educación: 1. Incorpora los nuevos conceptos y términos más utilizados en el campo de la educación. 2. Los términos son definidos con un carácter preciso y concreto, permitiendo el descernimiento núcleo esencial de las palabras. 3. Tiene una brevedad en la explicación de cada palabra. 4. Las palabras no son neutras, ni asépticas, sino toman sentido aceptando las diferencias que pueden existir en la dimensión política-ideológica que subyace en cada termino. 5. La sencillez y profundidad de cada definición permite que las palabras, como materia prima del discurso, realicen una adecuada y correcta comunicación entre las personas.

Palabras con diferentes significados. Todas las definiciones están redactadas en un español internacional, libre de regionalismos, hasta donde fue posible. Cada significado o excepción tiene ejemplos de uso.