Foreign Language Books : Spanish

Break down the language barriers and enjoy better working relationships. Perfect Phrases in Spanish for the Hotel and Restaurant Industries gives you the necessary phrases to communicate with your Spanish-speaking employees--no prior knowledge of Spanish needed! The book features more than 500 vital words and phrases specific to the restaurant and hotel fields, with translations spelled out phonetically so you can say what you need to right away. From interviewing potential employees to discussing wages and every subject in between, Perfect Phrases in Spanish for the Hotel and Restaurant Industries will help you conquer the language barrier in the workplace, leading to increased productivity and a more collaborative environment. more...

Price: $9.95

Communicate with ease with the Spanish-speaking public!. Learning Spanish is vital to performing many public services, include police work and other law-enforcement professions. Police, patrollers, detectives, and corrections, parole, court and security officers who interact with Spanish- speaking people need this specialized, easy-to-use guide to help them communicate and sometimes translate quickly and effectively—anywhere. •From expert authors with experience in Spanish language instruction for law enforcement officials. •Essential phrases—including Miranda rights—and vocabulary for patrol, investigations, emergency situations, narcotics, corrections, and more •Easy-to-use phonetic translations. •Useful information on Latino culture and street Spanish more...

Price: $9.95

In this unprecedented study, Lúcia Sá approaches indigenous texts as creative works rather than source material. She offers a historical overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons with native sources and making close analyses of major instances, such as Mário de Andrade’s classic Macunaima (1928) and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller (1986). more...

Price: $75.00

Concerned with misleading interpretations of literature and culture that dominate Latin American studies, Larsen proposes the need for a freshly conceived historical materialist approach to Latin American texts and cultural practices. He provides insightful commentaries on political discourses, cultural events, films, and literary texts, as he draws upon a wide diversity of texts written in Portuguese, Spanish and English. more...

Price: $57.00

Wide-ranging in focus, these essays demonstrate that the work of seventeenth-century Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracián offers insights into the deployment of rhetoric under the “New World Order.” “Rhetoric and Politics will do much to stimulate a renewed interest in Gracián and in the originality of Spanish culture.” David William Foster, Arizona State University. more...

Price: $90.00