San Antonio College Library

Two teens set off on a wild cross-country trip with seductive, 28-year-old Luisa. Lisa schools them in the finer points of passion, but will their mutual desire for her destroy their friendship forever?

This is a guide to those areas of French usage where student beginning advanced work need help in crossing the threshold from hesitancy and uncertainty to fluency and confidence. The authors highlight a large number of problems of current French usage, both of a lexical and grammatical nature, which present difficulty for the foreign learner, and set these within a framework both easy to understand and exploit. The book is divided into three main...

"In a single volume, Lipski provides useful descriptions of the distinguishing characteristics of the major varieties, from Cuban and Puerto Rican, through Mexican and various Central American strains. Each profile includes a concise sketch of the historical background of each Spanish-speaking group; current demographic information; its sociolinguistic configurations; and information about the phonetics, morphology, syntax, lexicon, and each group's...

English language dictionary of words ending in -ology, -ity, - ism, etc., connected primarily to the pure sciences and social sciences.

Provides a set of guidelines for gender-neutral and bias-free language.

"The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a prophetic blueprint for the future. Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain. According to Kurzweil, machines will achieve all this by 2020, with human attributes not far behind. We will begin to have relationships with automated personalities and use them as teachers,...