Lo viejo y lo nuevo

The book you have in your hands has its distant ancestor in an International Symposium held at the University of Salamanca in September 2011 (2nd-4th) and entitled «Continental Celtic Word Formation. The Onomastic Data». The idea for this gathering arose from a series of conversations between Juan Luis García Alonso, Patrick Sims-Williams and Alexander Falileyev in Aberystwyth in March 2010. This book is undoubtedly indebted to this previous event (belonging in a series that we might call our «Ptolemy Workshops», held in Aberystwyth in 1999 (Ptolemy: Towards a linguistic atlas of the...

There is no survey study to date that would have analyzed the history of spatial relations in Castilian Spanish, i.e. the prepositions, transitive adverbs as well as prepositional and adverbial locutions used for the spatial localization of entities. Based on an extensive corpus, this book offers a complete diasystematic characterization of these aspects and discusses new hypotheses with regard to their correlations.

Now available again, this lively and accessible introduction to one of the world's most beloved artists is filled with color illustrations, fascinating biographical information, and insight into Picasso's artistic development. What did Spain look like when Picasso was born? What kind of community did he grow up in? What was his studio like? Who were the people who had the most influence on his art? The answers to these and other questions help bring into focus the Spanish artist's brilliant career and his influence on 20th-century art. Color reproductions of Picasso's masterpieces are...

Escenarios del crimen ofrece un recorrido por las más emblemáticas obras del cine negro de todos los tiempos y también por películas que, aparentemente, escapan del género. Lo que todas tienen en común, sin embargo, es que en ellas se comete un asesinato. El telón de fondo, como el calor de una cocina, cumbres nevadas o ciudades en las que reina el anonimato, descubre al lector lo que une a películas tan aparentemente dispares como ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?, Arsénico por compasión, Los ríos de color púrpura, El tesoro de Sierra Madre, American Psycho o El tercer...