Para cada hombre, un conjunto de palabras especialmente emocionantes. Es importante captar el momento de la conversación. Y sin problemas, tradúzcalo en la dirección correcta. Entonces, por ejemplo, un hombre estará encantado con la tosquedad femenina, otro necesitará balbuceos modestos, el tercero necesitará revelaciones apasionadas con detalles sucios.Sin embargo, con mayor frecuencia en los matices sexuales del siguiente personaje, los hombres reaccionan inequívocamente...

For each man a set of particularly exciting words of his own. It is importantto catch the moment of conversation. And smoothly translate it intothe right direction. So, for example, one man will be delighted withfemale coarseness, another will need modest babbling, the third willneed passionate revelations with dirty details.However, most often on the sexual overtones of the next character, men react unequivocally...

A tantalizing mystery from one of Spain's most celebrated writers turns the disappearance of two red-headed spinsters into a thriller.

Tarzan, the king of the jungle, enters an isolated country called Minuni, inhabited by a people four times smaller than himself, the Minunians, who live in magnificent city-states which frequently wage war against each other. Tarzan befriends the king, Adendrohahkis, and the prince, Komodoflorensal, of one such city-state, called Trohanadalmakus, and joins them in war against the onslaught of the army of Veltopismakus, their warlike neighbours.

Cecilia Valdés is arguably the most important novel of 19th century Cuba. Originally published in New York City in 1882, Cirilo Villaverde's novel has fascinated readers inside and outside Cuba since the late 19th century. In this new English translation, a vast landscape emerges of the moral, political, and sexual depravity caused by slavery and colonialism. Set in the Havana of the 1830s, the novel introduces us to Cecilia, a beautiful light-skinned mulatta, who is being pursued by the son of a Spanish slave trader, named Leonardo. Unbeknownst to the two, they are the children of the same father. Eventually Cecilia gives in to Leonardo's advances; she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. When Leonardo, who gets bored with Cecilia after a while, agrees to marry a white upper class woman, Cecilia vows revenge. A mulatto friend and suitor of hers kills Leonardo, and Cecilia is thrown into prison as an accessory to the crime. For the contemporary reader Helen Lane's masterful translation of Cecilia Valdés opens a new window into the intricate problems of race relations in Cuba and the Caribbean. There are the elite social circles of European and New World Whites, the rich culture of the free people of color, the class to which Cecilia herself belonged, and then the slaves, divided among themselves between those who were born in Africa and those who were born in the New World, and those who worked on the sugar plantation and those who worked in the households of the rich people in Havana. Cecilia Valdés thus presents a vast portrait of sexual, social, and racial oppression, and the lived experience of Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

A state-of-the-art collection of works on institutional discourse across the Spanish-speaking world. This volume focuses on how language is used in the media, politics and the workplace; what discursive identities are constructed; and how interpersonal relations are negotiated.