La lengua española estándar en la red. Tensión entre oralidad y escritura

En el mundo hay entre 4.500 y 6.000 lenguas. Son muchas. Todas menos cinco -entre ellas el vasco- se agrupan en diecinueve familias. A pesar de esta riqueza, hoy muchas están en peligro de extinción. Este libro explica cuál es el futuro de este patrimonio universal, como lo clasificamos y de qué manera podemos conservarlo. Aclara también como surgen nuevas lenguas: desde el esperanto al criollo.

Esta colección realiza un recorrido exhaustivo y totalmente ilustrado a través de los grandes creadores de todos los tiempos y los testimonios artísticos que han dejado las principales culturas, en un papel de gran calidad y un formato manejable. Este vol

Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Breton all had a great influence on his career. Dalí's film, An Andalusian Dog, produced with Buñuel, marked his official entry into the tightly-knit group of Parisian Surrealists, where he met Gala, the woman who became his lifelong companion and his source of inspiration. But his relationship soon deteriorated until his final rift with André Breton in 1939. Nevertheless Dalí's art remained surrealist in its philosophy and expression and a...

The Short Story of Art explores 50 key works, from the wall paintings of Lascaux to contemporary installations, and then links these to sections on art movements, themes and techniques. The design of the book allows the student or art enthusiast to easily navigate their way around key periods, artists and styles. It simplifies and explains the most important and influential concepts in art, and shows how they are linked. The book explains how, why and when art changed, who introduced certain things, what they were, where they were produced, and whether they matter. It demystifies artistic...