“…Calancha's account, meanwhile, exposes a very different way of viewing history from the one we are used to today as it simultaneously describes a teleological narrative while telescoping time into a single moment of creation-the instant time itself was created. This bilingual, critical edition is the first English language translation of Calancha's account and the introductory essays contextualise these events by discussing the conquest and evangelisation of Peru, and Inca politics of state, while also drawing out this radically different way of conceptualising human history-the collapse of time…”

“…The book presents a bilingual edition (Polish-English) with a scholarly introduction and commentary, presenting Mickiewicz as a writer in the context of his times. …”

“…Its main features are: - presentation of the contents in a path from the theoretical to the applied and experimental; - explanations with abundant examples of phraseological units in real contexts of use; - methodological orientations and didactic strategies of a cognitive nature for direct application in the classroom; - activities for teaching and learning Spanish idiomatic phraseological idioms accompanied by answer key; - empirical study of a cognitive-based didactic proposal for the acquisition of a set of Spanish idioms; - a bilingual Spanish-English glossary of key terms in phraseology and cognitive linguistics to bring these two fields closer to teachers. …”