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Amid the many catastrophes of the 20th century, the Spanish Civil War continues to exert a particular fascination among history buffs and the layperson alike. This Very Short Introduction integrates the political, social, and cultural history of the Spanish Civil War. It sets out the domestic and international context of the war for a general audience. In addition to tracing the course of war, the book locates the war's origins in the cumulative social and cultural anxieties provoked by a process of rapid, uneven, and accelerating modernism taking place all over Europe.

In Spanish Stories for Beginners, Vol. 2: You will find 10 easily understandable, engaging, and fun stories that will not only help you to dramatically expand your vocabulary, but will give you the tools to improve your grasp of the Spanish language.

"The Saint Louis Tower" is a historical fiction set during the American Revolution, focusing on Mateo de Agulo's journey from a young man on the Canary Islands to a soldier in the Spanish army in the Americas. The story begins with Mateo witnessing a ship bound for the Americas from his father's vineyard in La Gomera, sparking his fascination with distant lands and ships. Mateo, feeling constrained by his lack of prospects on the island and heartbroken over his love interest's impending marriage to a wealthy widower, decides to enlist in the Spanish army for a chance at a new life. The ...

Experience the PULSE-POUNDING action thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat for days! NICARAGUA 1975 ... Deep in the heart of the Nicaraguan jungle, An elite squad of Green Berets secretly undertake covert operations on behalf of the United States. A COUNTRY ON THE CUSP OF REVOLUTION ... Times are changing, however, and the political climate of Nicaragua begins to take a step away from dictatorship and towards revolution, with the team caught in the center of it all. With the sudden explosive arrival of a mysterious female doctor and a deadly assassin, the team realize a grave...

Learning Spanish is fun and easy with this book. Let’s break the misconception that learning a foreign language is hard. From my vast experience in the foreign language teaching field, I can tell you this, learning a foreign language is easy when it is real, natural, meaningful, interesting, fun and useful. This book is intended for those parents out there who wants their kids to learn Spanish for real. Let’s help our own kids to learn Spanish while they have fun! This is something you can do at home, in the park, or at any other place when you spend time with your kids.

For three crucial years in the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world as volunteers flooded to Spain to help its democratic government fight off a fascist uprising led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. Today we're accustomed to remembering the war through Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls and Robert Capa's photographs. But Adam Hochschild has discovered some less familiar yet far more compelling characters who reveal the full tragedy and importance of the war.

In HOW WE SEE YOU, teacher and translator Álvaro Ramírez has collected ten biographical accounts of the lives of British people in Spain, from the late fifties until the present day, written by himself and others, with significant input from the subjects themselves. In this diverse collection we see the trials and adventures of individuals and couples through mostly sympathetic Spanish eyes, from Walter’s enigmatic sojourn in mid-century Castile to Alan’s reflective tale of a long life in voluntary exile. Here we see Brits at work and play, prospering or enduring, from a point of view...

¿Estás listo para aprender inglés de una manera divertida y efectiva? Este audiolibro es tu compañero ideal para dominar el inglés en poco tiempo, especialmente diseñado para principiantes y estudiantes de nivel intermedio.

This audio guide offers an introduction to the dialect of Spanish spoken in Panama. It includes an overview of the language and culture and lots of words and phrases that can be put to daily use. Topics covered include slang, money, transportation, cuisine, history, and other topics, as well as all the core vocabulary that you would expect from a language course. Learning is split across 10 sessions, including learning new vocabulary, pronunciation tips and tricks, cultural sections, and review of content already covered to help make it stick and build fluency.

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Querido estudiante: Thank you for taking an interest in this book. We are sure that you will be very glad you did. Why? Simply because once you have worked through the straightforward systems, the easy explanations and the practical exercises found here, you will be able to do the following with confidence: Use Ser and Estar accurately. Choose intelligently between the Preterite and Imperfect Past. Know how to say WAS and WERE correctly in Spanish. Understand and utilise the Perfect Past tenses.... and so much more. Talking in the Past is a challenge that you can overcome!

Greetings! Welcome to the Language Magic dual-language learning series. After you’ve learned the basics from the classroom or one of the many excellent language learning programs out there, it's time to get fluent! It’s true that gaining fluency with a language is a big hill to climb. But it’s also true that there are different ways to climb that hill. The fastest way is total immersion. Live in country. But most of us can’t do that.

Five years ago, Shannon Astor left the beautiful high-mountain country of West Texas as a single mother. She was desperate for a fresh start and a way to keep the secrets of her past buried. It almost worked. Until a chance to make a better life for her daughter leads her right back home. To the very place of the past betrayals. But it also leads Shannon to horse-trainer Jack MacGowan - her handsome high-school nemesis, now a widowed father. His daughter looks so startlingly like her own that Shannon can't help but question the circumstances surrounding her daughter's birth.

In the fourth and final part of Ernest Postlethwaite’s ground-breaking journal, our hero returns from an unexpectedly eventful trip to England more determined than ever to pursue his dream of achieving total integration into Spanish village life. What could possibly go wrong?

- 'This diary, written by my late husband Ernest Postlethwaite, has been published expressly against his wishes, but with the full and hearty endorsement of my family and friends.' - From the introduction to Part One by Pamela Postlethwaite, Javea, Spain, December 2012 This second instalment of Ernest Postlethwaite's ground-breaking journal charters the continuing progress of a man on a mission to achieve cultural and linguistic integration in a small village in southern Spain. As summer approaches, our hero finds himself confronted by undesirable interruptions to the smooth running of his ...

In the third part of Ernest Postlethwaite's ground-breaking journal he enters the second year of his life in the small Spanish village of La Puebla de Don Arsenio with the laudable intention of consolidating the considerable progress he feels he has made in his quest to integrate into the community. Anticipating an autumn spent peacefully tilling the land and looking after his livestock, events - and Ernest's nemesis, people - soon conspire to complicate proceedings. This unadulterated manuscript will bring tears to the eyes of the most hard-hearted amongst us, as we follow his continuing ...

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This is your introduction to Venezuelan Spanish, including unique Venezuelan words and idioms and an introduction to Venezuelan customs. This is paired with introductory Spanish as used in Venezeula. This course will help prepare you for work or travel in Venezeula. Topics covered include culture, food, customs, and detail on pronunciation and basic grammar. Vocabulary is organized thematically across a range of topics including numbers, colors, weather, questions, verbs, greetings, manners, animals, vehicles, places, and many more words and phrases that you can put to use daily.

In 237 B.C. Hannibal's father, the Carthaginian general Hamilcar, landed in Gadir with the purpose of taking over the mining basins of southern Iberia. The expansionist adventure of Carthage in Iberia will not leave Rome indifferent, which will be forced to intervene when Hannibal destroys Sagunto. With this fascinating and transcendental episode of our History, begins "From Hannibal to Franco, Brief History of the Civil Conflicts in Spain", a work where the most significant uprisings, sedition attempts, civil wars and military uprisings that have been unleashed in Spain in the last 2000 ...

This story is not necessarily one of the Civil War, or the gold-seekers that were darned near everywhere around the area, but rather one of the coming together and fighting for survival of a bunch of cattle ranchers that settled in and around the Cuchara Valley near La Veta, Colorado, while they went about fulfilling their dream of building an empire. However, with the influence of the war in the area being what it was, anyone would be hard-pressed to completely avoid the atrocities that were being committed by members of both sides. The collective partnership of homesteaders, who lived on ...