The LATin Project seeks to tackle the decrease in textbook use among university students in the region (who favor photocopies), by developing open source textbooks written by Latin American teachers.
The LATin Project seeks to tackle the decrease in textbook use among university students in the region (who favor photocopies), by developing open source textbooks written by Latin American teachers.
Literature-Map is a simple, concise tool for finding new authors from those that we've liked, dosdoce.com's blog Comunicación Cultural reports.
Now, courtesy of Kindle and other e-readers, people all over the world can access online books no matter their points of origin. The number of available titles has skyrocketed, and costs tend to be far lower than printed versions, Tucson Weekly reports.
Anaya Infantil and Juvenil presents its releases for the first semester of the year. Titles as “Al Ataque”, “El Soldadito Salomon,” and “El Bosque de Piedra,” are among the titles to be released, and the list continues monthly all the way until May.
Nielsen BookScan, part of the Nielsen Company (US) LLC, and America Reads Spanish (ARS) present the free, weekly list of the Spanish bestseller titles in the US Market for week 4 of 2014 (week ending 1/26/2014).
“The Forgotten Dialogue of the Heart” (El dialecto olvidado del corazón), a selection of poems by Jack Gilbert, will take place January 31, 7 p.m. at McNally Jackson in New York City. The book is published byDíazGrey Editores and translated by Eva Gasteazoro.
The titles will be available through Perseus, and include Planeta Prize 2013's “El cielo ha vuelto” (Heaven has Returned) by Clara Sánchez; “Max” by Sarah Cohen-Scali and “Mamá, te quiero zen” (Mom, I love you Zen) by Ana Paula Domínguez & Lourdes Botello.
The January edition features the rebounding of print books sales, how World Book Night helps to improve literacy, the first century of donkey Platero, and more industry news. Plus the latest book releases like “Casablanca la bella,” “Alicia en el país de las rosquillas,” and “El cuerpo expuesto,” among others. Don't miss the exclusive interview with actor Leonardo Dicaprio, this month's Amigo del Español.
In its latest newsletter, the publisher features “The Cazuela That the Farm Maiden Stirred” and “Yum! ¡MmMm! ¡Qué rico!”, the latest additions to its catalog.
The Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities, a coalition member of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda (NHLA), was among the organizations that endorsed a letter sent urging President Barack Obama to include seven key priorities in his State of the Union address on January 28.
