When a tragic plane crash took the life of singer and actress Jenni Rivera on December 9, 2012, the world lost an artist whose talents transcended borders and even languages. One of this generation's most beloved singers, Rivera achieved 15 platinum and 5 double platinum records while selling more than 15 million albums total. Popular in both the United States and Mexico, Rivera played to sold-out crowds across North America, and in 2009, she was nominated for a record 11 Billboard Awards. Jenni Rivera: La Diva de la Banda is a photographic tribute to this beloved artist, featuring unique images of a star who lit up both the stage and the screen. Featuring nearly 100 full-color photographs, this book provides fans with a glimpse into this star's life—from her commercial debut in the late 1990s to her ascent to the top of the Billboard charts in the 2000s. This keepsake also explores Rivera's wide-ranging talents as an entrepreneur and a television actress. Cuando un accidente de avi&ón le quit&ó la vida a la cantante y actriz Jenni Rivera el 9 de diciembre de 2012, el mundo perdi&ó a una artista cuyos talentos fueron m&ás all&á de fronteras y a&ún idiomas. Una de las cantantes m&ás adoradas de esta generaci&ón, Rivera logr&ó 15 discos de platino y 5 discos de doble platino, con ventas de m&ás de 15 millones discos en total. Popular tanto en los Estados Unidos como en México, Rivera tocaba en concierto en varios lugares agotados, incluyendo el Staples Center, el Kodak Theatre y m&ás. En 2009, fue nominada para un récord de 11 premios de Billboard. Jenni Rivera: La diva de la banda es un tributo fotogr&áfico a esta artista querida que presenta im&ágenes &únicas de una estrella que se iluminaba tanto la escena musical como la gran pantalla. Con casi 100 fotograf&ías a todo color, este libro permite que los admiradores vislumbren la vida de esta estrella—desde su debut comercial a finales de los a&ños 90 hasta su ascensi&ón a la cima de las listas de éxitos de Billboard en la primera década del siglo XXI. Este recuerdo también explora los talentos diversos de Rivera como empresaria y actriz de televisi&ón.

Repase y escriba, 7th Edition combines solid grammar coverage with contempo­rary readings from a variety of sources, including literature, maga­zines, and newspapers. Readings are preceded by a short passage introducing the author and the context, and are followed by vocabulary, comprehension questions, and conversation prompts. The Sección léxica teaches students proverbs, idioms, and word families. There are also topics for creative compositions with guidelines. With updat­ed literary and cultural readings, Repase y Escriba includes an “oral exchange,” to make the text more useful when stressing conversation.

Your life is worth saving through God’s grace. Though she is now an award-winning Latin contemporary Christian music artist and worship leader, Christine D’Clario spent the early years of her life overcoming personal hardships, including the death of her father; moving to another country; feelings of unforgiveness, loss, and rejection; being sexually molested; and even living a double life while being a leader in the church. In Prodigal Heart Christine shares her compelling story and the joy she experienced in surrendering completely to God. This book is for all those who believe their lives are broken beyond repair and for those who think their scars are too deep to be healed. You will see a true story of redemption, giving you hope that any life is worth saving.

This CD-Rom is part of the Ages & Stages Questionnaires (ASQ), a flexible, culturally sensitive system for screening infants and young children for developmental delays or concerns in the crucial first 5 years of life. The CD-Rom includes all 19 questionnaires and scoring sheets translated into Spanish, plus a Spanish translation of the intervention activity sheets found in The ASQ User's Guide. Each questionnaire covers 5 key developmental areas: communication, gross motor, fine motor, problem solving, and personal-social. Users can print an unlimited number of forms in PDF format. Some restrictions apply; ASQ is a registered trademark of Brookes Publishing Co.

Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists. Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product. By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism. This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers inter-ested in comparative literature.