Your students are changing. Technology is changing. The idea of the “classroom” is changing. Now, the way your students experience Spanish can change as well! At McGraw-Hill, we rededicated ourselves over the past few years to broadening and deepening our understanding of the student and instructor experience in World Languages. Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we identified a number of areas for improvement upon the existing learning materials available. The result is Experience Spanish. Experience Spanish is a first. Its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic and synchronous/asynchronous conversation tools create a 24/7 active language-in-culture environment never possible before. With Experience Spanish, instructors can tailor the environment while students tailor the experience, allowing everyone to take ownership of the learning experience. Affording the flexibility that only an integrated solution can provide, Experience Spanish provides an opportunity for instructors to quickly and easily provide a common learning experience for their students regardless of whether the course is face-to-face, online, or hybrid. At the same time, students have all of the tools at their fingertips to take their second language acquisition from the classroom to their communities in an efficient and personalized way. With Experience Spanish, your concerns about different levels of student preparedness and delivering consistent and meaningful courses in different formats are behind you. Own the experience. Take charge of learning. Experience Spanish and experience the world. *Connect Spanish, including but not limited to the workbook/lab manual, LearnSmart, the video program, and chat tools, is sold separately and does not come automatically with the purchase of the textbook.

This text presents the broad historical contours of the African experience in Spanish America, from enslavement, resistance, and rebellion to the crucial participation of Afro-Latin Americans in the wars of independence, and a region-by-region account of their varied treatment in the newly-founded republics from the 19th century to the modern era.

This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.

Your students are changing. Technology is changing. The idea of the “classroom” is changing. Now, the way your students experience Spanish can change as well! At McGraw-Hill, we rededicated ourselves over the past few years to broadening and deepening our understanding of the student and instructor experience in World Languages. Employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies, we identified a number of areas for improvement upon the existing learning materials available. The result is Experience Spanish. Experience Spanish is a first. Its groundbreaking adaptive diagnostic and synchronous/asynchronous conversation tools create a 24/7 active language-in-culture environment never possible before. With Experience Spanish, instructors can tailor the environment while students tailor the experience, allowing everyone to take ownership of the learning experience. Affording the flexibility that only an integrated solution can provide, Experience Spanish provides an opportunity for instructors to quickly and easily provide a common learning experience for their students regardless of whether the course is face-to-face, online, or hybrid. At the same time, students have all of the tools at their fingertips to take their second language acquisition from the classroom to their communities in an efficient and personalized way. With Experience Spanish, your concerns about different levels of student preparedness and delivering consistent and meaningful courses in different formats are behind you. Own the experience. Take charge of learning. Experience Spanish and experience the world.

The Spanish Empire was a complex web of places and peoples. Through an expansive range of essays that look at Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Pacific, this volume brings a broad range of regions into conversation. The contributors focus on nuanced, comparative exploration of the processes and practices of creating, maintaining, and transforming cultural place making within pluralistic Spanish colonial communities. The Global Spanish Empire argues that patterned variability is necessary in reconstructing Indigenous cultural persistence in colonial settings. The volume’s eleven case studies include regions often neglected in the archaeology of Spanish colonialism. The time span under investigation is extensive as well, transcending the entirety of the Spanish Empire, from early impacts in West Africa to Texas during the 1800s. The contributors examine the making of a social place within a social or physical landscape. They discuss the appearance of hybrid material culture, the incorporation of foreign goods into local material traditions, the continuation of local traditions, and archaeological evidence of opportunistic social climbing. In some cases, these changes in material culture are ways to maintain aspects of traditional culture rather than signifiers of new cultural practices. The Global Spanish Empire tackles broad questions about Indigenous cultural persistence, pluralism, and place making using a global comparative perspective grounded in the shared experience of Spanish colonialism. Contributors Stephen Acabado Grace Barretto-Tesoro James M. Bayman Christine D. Beaule Christopher R. DeCorse Boyd M. Dixon John G. Douglass William R. Fowler Martin Gibbs Corinne L. Hofman Hannah G. Hoover Stacie M. King Kevin Lane Laura Matthew Sandra Montón-Subías Natalia Moragas Segura Michelle M. Pigott Christopher B. Rodning David Roe Roberto Valcárcel Rojas Steve A. Tomka Jorge Ulloa Hung Juliet Wiersema

Harbron attempts to disprove many beliefs about the ineptness of the commanders and the poor quality of equipment attributed to the Spanish at Trafalgar. While the author describes the history of Spanish ship building and design, the case that would prove the ships were well led is not made.

Heritage Speakers of Spanish and Study Abroad is an edited volume that provides emerging research on heritage speakers of Spanish in immersion contexts in theoretical, empirical, and programmatic terms. This edited collection seeks to expand our understanding of heritage speakers of Spanish by incorporating research on their linguistic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic development during and after a sojourn abroad, by discussing the complexities of their identity formation and negotiation during immersive stays, and by highlighting programmatic innovations that could be leveraged to better serve diverse learners in study abroad contexts. This volume advances the fields of both heritage language education and research on immersion study in a variety of ways, and will be of interest to scholars of applied linguistics, sociolinguistics, second language acquisition, and educational linguistics, especially those interested in study abroad programming and Spanish for heritage speakers.

This lavish coffee table book delivers an eye-opening behind-the-scenes look at the creation of SpongeBob and all the hard work and creativity that have gone into making him one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. Featuring in-depth interviews with the cast and crew who bring Bikini Bottom to life, The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience will also include a treasure trove of SpongeBob concept artwork and other rare and revelatory visuals that will make it an absolute delight for fans. Delving into the creation of each of the beloved characters like never before and featuring early sketches, concepts, and other material that sheds new light on the creative vision behind SpongeBob, this is the ultimate book on a true icon of animation. The SpongeBob SquarePants Experience also presents a wealth of fun inserts, pullouts, and other surprises, creating a truly interactive experience that takes fans into SpongeBob’s world like never before.

In Warriors for a Living, Idan Sherer examines the experience of the Spanish infantry during the formative period of the Italian Wars. Decades of clashes between Spain and France transformed Italy into a crucible of military tactics and technology and brought about the emergence of the Spanish infantry tercios as Europe’s finest military force for more than a century. From their recruitment, through the complexities of everyday life in the army and culminating in the potential brutality of soldiering, the book offers a fresh and much needed exploration, analysis and, at times, reconsideration of what it meant to be a professional soldier in early modern Europe.