Renowned Venezuelan scholar and diplomat Alfredo Toro Hardy offers an alternative point of view to the traditional understanding of globalization. He proposes that to the same extent that the world homogenizes taste, ideologies, and identities, it also has a tendency to stimulate certain cultural groups to minimize foreign culture aggression and build upon unique culutral traits. Alfredo Toro Hardy, un diplomático, propone una lectura diferente a lo entendido tradicionalmente con respecto a dichos procesos de la globalización.. Afirma que el mundo tiende también a estimular los de los núcleos culturales determinados con el fin de evitar la agresión de culturas foráneas que tiende a uniformar las ideologías, los gustos, y las preferencias.
El Sol, Símbolo De Continuidad Y Permanencia: Un Estudio… Text in Spanish The purpose of this study is to analyze the soliform figures in schematic cave paintings. The author presents research on all the global factors relevant to the study of these figures (technological, typological, stylistic, semiotic, astronomical, anthropological and landscape) and their relationship with the whole of schematic…
Cross-cultural Approach To Advanced Spanish Puntos de encuentro: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Advanced Spanish is an innovative task- and content-based textbook that rethinks advanced Spanish instruction. Based on research on second language acquisition in the classroom, it combines language-as-discourse instruction with content-based learning. This text emphasizes the analysis of spoken and written texts drawn from…
Guaman Poma Y Su Cronica Ilustrada Del Peru Colonial Published on the occasion of the opening of the full digital edition of the autograph manuscript of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayalas Nueva corónica y buen gobierno (1615) on the website of the Royal Libary, Copenhagen, this new book by one of the worlds most prominent Guaman Poma-scholars contains a…
Brazaletes De Piedra Neolíticos En La Península Iberica (vi-v Milenio A.c.) El uso de brazaletes de piedra es uno de los fenómenos arqueológicos más destacado asociado a las primeras sociedades neolíticas en gran parte del Occidente Mediterráneo. Estos adornos se relacionan con el Neolítico Antiguo, caracterizado por el horizonte de las cerámicas decoradas cardiales y otras impresiones. En este libro se…
Conexiones Active, personalized and real communication about real issues and experience is at the heart of Conexiones. Featuring high interest topics, Conexiones 3/e offers an effective and uniquely sequenced presentation of second year grammar and a thorough integration of language and culture. Each chapter synthesizes the development of language skills and…
Tomando Control De Su Salud A culturally sensitive Spanish translation of Living a Healthy Live with Chronic Conditions. Our readers learn how to become active self-managers through problem solving, decision making, goal setting, and action planning. This book shares these tools of self management as well as the basics of healthy eating, exercise, relaxation, communication,…
