Welcome to a picture tour of five exciting countriesBritain, Spain, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombiaand five groups of very wonderful people, four of which are related to the presidential families. The story is meant to share vital insights into these countries from the people who live there. But it is more than those five countries because it goes back into time to the 60s to Texas and Mexico and all the territories of Australia. This is a story of how Texans and Mexicans made America a republic by being honest, hardworking people, like the Alamo said.

Reproduction of the original: The Discovery of America by John Fiske

Sceptres and Sciences argues convincingly that previous research on the Hispanic Late Baroque has underweighted the ideologies of ethnicity and empire embedded in Cartesianism and French neoclassicism. "... a masterful work of scholarship... should become essential reading in the field of Colonial and Spanish Enlightenment Studies."—Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

A Reference Grammar of Spanish is a comprehensive handbook on the structure of the Spanish language. Keeping technical terminology to a minimum, it provides a detailed yet clear point of reference on all the intricacies of Spanish grammar, covering word order, parts of speech, verb use, syntax, gender, number, alphabet, and pronunciation. Accompanied by a wealth of carefully chosen examples, it looks at Spanish in Iberia, the USA, Mexico, and Argentina, and demonstrates the differences between these varieties. It is designed specifically with English-speaking learners in mind, and contains useful tools such as a glossary of terms, an index, and a detailed examination of different registers of the language. Clearly structured and systematically organised, this volume is set to become the standard guide to the grammar of contemporary Spanish, and will be an invaluable resource for teachers and students, as well as a practical supplement to textbooks and classroom study.