Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dal was a controversial painter, sculptor, and filmmaker, as well as a jewelry, furniture, set, and costume designer. This biography highlights Dals childhood, education, art lessons and early Impressionist influence from Ramon Pitxot, work and friendship with filmmaker Luis Bunuel and poet Federico Garcia Lorca, exhibitions, married life, support of the Dali Theatre-Museum, and travels to the United States, France, and England, as well as his interest in optical illusions and his later work combining classical themes and modern science.
Brief articles in English with Spanish translations of the vocabulary and questions to test comprehension permit Spanish-speakers learning English to practice their reading skills and learn more about the United States and its culture.
The introduction, instructions and tests are in Spanish.
Growing up Bilingual: Puerto Rican Children in New York
This book provides an inside view of the social construction of bilingualism in one of the largest and most disadvantaged Spanish-speaking groups in the United States.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 25 November 2011
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Charon's Landing
Russian mastermind Ivan Kerikov is being paid millions by a rogue Arab oil minister who is plotting a coup in his own country and, being in desperate need of foreign income, wants to force the United States from domestic to foreign sources of oil. Ivan’s task is to sabotage the Alaska pipeline.
This is an excellent book on the F-4. Lots of technical info and lots of pictures of the F-4 in Vietnam. This book covers the F-4E and the last chapter covers the F-4G Wild Weasel in Desert Storm. The Phantom is the all time greatest jet fighter the United States military ever had.
