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The Little Devil and the Rose / El diablito y la rosa: Loteria Poems / Poemas de La Loteria

Viola Canales · Arte Publico Pr; Bilingual edition
Format: Book

In her ode to "The Umbrella," Viola Canales remembers a family story about her mother, who every Saturday as a child "popped open her prized child's bright umbrella / as did her little sister / and followed their mother's adult one / from their Paloma barrio home / to downtown...
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Breathturn into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry: A Bilingual Edition

Pierre Joris · Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Bilingual edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Paul Celan, one of the greatest German-language poets of the twentieth century, created an oeuvre that stands as testimony to the horrors of his times and as an attempt to chart a topography for a new, uncontaminated language and world. Breathturn into Timestead The Collected Later Poetry...
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Berlitz Confident Russian

Berlitz · Berlitz Publishing; Box Pap/Co edition
Format: Print book

Listen, learn, practice: Confident Russian is a self-study course for mastering Russian conversation, grammar and vocabulary. This course is ideal if you are an advanced beginner seeking to deepen your knowledge of Russian or to brush up your Russian language skills. The sturdy box contains...
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Practice Makes Perfect Intermediate English Grammar for ESL Learners

Robin Torres-Gouzerh · McGraw-Hill Education; 2 edition
Format: Print book

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Language Hacking French

Benny Lewis · Teach Yourself
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

It's true that some people spend years studying French before they finally get around to speaking the language. But here's a better idea. Skip the years of study and jump right to the speaking part. Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. Unlike most traditional language courses...
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Gilgamesh's Snake and Other Poems

Gharīb Iskandar · Syracuse University Press
Pages: 103
Format: Print book

The Epic of Gilgamesh is perhaps the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature. According to legend, Gilgamesh built the city walls of Uruk, modern-day Iraq, to protect his people from external threats. Although the epic records events from more than four thousand years ago,...
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Language Hacking Spanish

Benny Lewis · Teach Yourself
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

It's true that some people spend years studying Spanish before they finally get around to speaking the language. But here's a better idea. Skip the years of study and jump right to the speaking part. Sound crazy? No, it's language hacking. Unlike most traditional language courses...
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Malanga Chasing Vallejo: Selected Poems: César Vallejo: New Translations and Notes: Gerard Malanga

César Vallejo · Three Rooms Press; Bilingual edition edition
Format: Book

In the forceful, staggering poetry of César Vallejo, poet and photographer Gerard Malanga discovered a kindred spirit. Driven by a deep sense of spiritual kinship and with the encouragement of Vallejo's widow, Malanga's translations reveal a profound perspective on Vallejo's...
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Barron's German-English Pocket Dictionary: 70,000 words, phrases & examples presented in two sections: American style English to German -- German to English

Barron's Educational Series Inc. · Barron's Education Series
Pages: 1051
Format: Print book

This updated and revised bilingual dictionary is pocket-sized and easy to use. Students can slip it into backpacks and travelers can fit it in carry-on bags for air travel or satchels for use at their destinations. Abridged from Barron's comprehensive, full-size Bilingual Dictionary,...
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Selected Poems: with parallel French text

Guillaume Apollinaire · Oxford University Press
Pages: 281
Format: Print book

'In the end you're tired of this antiquated world'Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) is the most significant French poet of early modernism, and the most colourful. His exuberant, adventurous poetry matched the eventful times through which he lived, and his experimentalism...
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