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La sociedad ha cambiado a una velocidad de vértigo en los últimos veinte años. Y ser niño, adolescente, padre, madre o profesor es hoy más difícil de lo que fue para las generaciones pasadas. Eva Bailén, ingeniera de telecomunicaciones, profesora, madre de tres hijos, articulista y experta divulgadora en temas de educación, nos aporta herramientas para poder hablar con las nuevas generaciones de lo que ocurre detrás de las pantallas. Este libro práctico, directo y empático nos ayuda a comprender los peligros a los que nos enfrentamos al usar los teléfonos inteligentes y otros dispositivos y a entender cómo los menores manejan la tecnología, qué hay más allá de las pantallas de las que no se separan y qué ocurre en sus vidas online.

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This book provides an overview of otology for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate trainees. Beginning with an introduction to the anatomy and physiology of the ear, each of the following chapters covers different types of disorder, including diseases of the external ear, facial nerve paralysis, vertigo and deafness. Presented in an easy to ready format, each chapter includes ‘High Points’ boxes summarising the key learning concepts for the topic, as well as numerous clinical photographs, diagrams, tables and flow charts to enhance learning. Key points Practical overview of otology for undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees Detailed chapters on anatomy and physiology of the ear Covers numerous different ear diseases and disorders Includes ‘High Points’ boxes and many images and illustrations

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The name Alfred Hitchcock is synonymous with suspense—that is to say, masterful, spine-tingling, thrilling, shocking, excruciating, eye-boggling suspense. With triumphs such as Rebecca, Vertigo, Rear Window, and Psycho, Hitchcock (1899–1980) fashioned a new level of cinematic intrigue and fear through careful pacing, subtlety, and suggestiveness. This complete guide traces Hitchcock’s life and career from his earliest silent films right through to his last picture in 1976, Family Plot. Updated with fresh images, the book combines detailed entries for each of Hitchcock’s 53 films, an incisive essay that sheds light on his fear-inducing devices, photos of the master at work, and an illustrated list of each of his cameos, together adding up to a movie buff’s dream.

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Anyone who has experienced the sensation of the room spinning around or the lightheadedness that signals an impending faint knows how bad it feels to be dizzy. Almost any medical condition can cause dizziness, but the most common include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, transient drops in blood pressure, migraine, and anxiety. Inner ear disorders that cause dizziness are often associated with abnormal eye movements-in fact, it's possible to diagnose an acute inner ear infection in five seconds, just by looking at a person's eyes. In Dizziness, Drs. Gregory T. Whitman and Robert W. Baloh explore the different conditions that can cause dizziness, describe the types of dizziness they see most frequently, and explain what people with dizziness can do to feel better. A detailed look at one of the most common-and complex-medical complaints, Dizziness distills Drs. Whitman and Baloh's six decades of combined experience into a short and practical guide. Packed with useful tips on diagnosis and treatment, Dizziness reveals how top doctors analyze dizziness, including the problems with balance and walking that go along with it. The book also explains the importance of overcoming dizziness and describes what people who are dizzy can do to get an accurate diagnosis. Combining background on specific forms of dizziness with descriptions of optimal treatments for each one, Dizziness covers everything from conditions that cause dizziness when a person changes position (such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and orthostatic hypotension) to conditions that cause dizzy spells without warning or trigger (such as Meniere's disease and migraine-associated dizziness). The book explores bouts of dizziness that last for days, as well as constant dizziness that lasts for weeks, months, or even years. Enhanced with patient stories and rounded out by a glossary of terms and an appendix describing home exercises, this is the go-to book for anyone who struggles with dizziness.

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Una novela repleta de pasión, humor, angustia y un lenguaje arrollador que celebra el entusiasmo de la gente...En Soñé que la nieve ardía , novela escrita en el vértigo del gobierno socialista de Salvador Allende, la escritura ha sido marcada a sangre y fuego por los acontecimientos, los pequeños gestos y las grandes gestas. Una novela respirada a pleno pulmón en las calles de Santiago de Chile, repleta de pasión, humor, angustia y un lenguaje arrollador que celebra el entusiasmo de la gente frustrado con el golpe de Pinochet. Esta novela, traducida a quince idiomas, narra con espontánea originalidad las aventuras de un joven arrogante que pretende triunfar como futbolista y amante en un escenario inflamado entre la revolución y el golpismo.

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Qué nos sucede cuando nos enamoramos de una voz?***A los cuatro años, Nick Coleman escuchó a Mick Jagger en la tele y sintió vértigo. Desde entonces, ha vivido obsesionado con las voces: los Ramones cantan sobre el bullying desde el punto de vista del que lo padece. Las canciones de Roy Orbison son como esculturas que querrías tocar. Aretha Franklin representa el espíritu del éxtasis definitivo.***Coleman repasa en este ensayo personal pero enciclopédico la importancia de las grandes voces en la música y la cultura. Lo hace con los atributos que le pide a una voz: pasión, emoción y, sobre todo, autenticidad. Los que hacen que escuches una canción y pienses que te habla a ti y solo a ti.

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Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk -- about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing. When Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon appeared in French (as Hier), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard's remarkable forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say something about history and desire and art.

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In Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Masterworks of Art and Film, Harry Trosman demonstrates that a psychoanalytic point of view can vastly enrich one's understanding and appreciation of works of art. Drawing on current psychoanalytic views of the importance of fantasy, attachment and individuation theory, preoedipal factors in development, and object relations, Trosman addresses the impact of psychoanalysis on the understanding of the visual arts, painting, and film. Velázquez's Las Meninas, Giorgione's The Tempest, Rembrandt's self-portraits, and Seurat's La Grand Jatte are among the paintings Trosman analyzes. He also considers such films as Antonioni's L'avventura, Welles's Citizen Kane, Hitchcock's Vertigo, and Fellini's 8 1/2. The result is an insightful and innovative perspective, integrating classical and contemporary psychoanalytic thought with art and film criticism.

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Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic—that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room—all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.

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Qué significa hoy la palabra sabiduría? Borrada por el vértigo de nuestro tiempo, es algo más que un concepto pasado de moda, borroso, ajeno en la práctica al uso cotidiano? En este libro sereno y bellísimo, Eugenio Borgna, psiquiatra y humanista, nos reconduce con suavidad a sumergirnos en este concepto ynos lo muestra en todo su esplendor. La sabiduría (nos dice) continúa siendo necesaria entre otras muchas cosas para conocer y sanar el sufrimiento humano en sus distintas manifestaciones. Pero la sabiduría consiste, asimismo, en numerosas actitudes, en numerosas experiencias (no la menor de ellas descender a nuestros propios abismos) que desgrana a lo largo de estas páginas en la compañía de figuras tan sabias e incontestables como Montaigne, Schopenhauer, Rilke, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt...

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Anyone who has experienced the sensation of the room spinning around or the lightheadedness that signals an impending faint knows how bad it feels to be dizzy. Almost any medical condition can cause dizziness, but the most common include benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, transient drops in blood pressure, migraine, and anxiety. Inner ear disorders that cause dizziness are often associated with abnormal eye movements-in fact, it's possible to diagnose an acute inner ear infection in five seconds, just by looking at a person's eyes. In Dizziness, Drs. Gregory T. Whitman and Robert W. Baloh explore the different conditions that can cause dizziness, describe the types of dizziness they see most frequently, and explain what people with dizziness can do to feel better. A detailed look at one of the most common-and complex-medical complaints, Dizziness distills Drs. Whitman and Baloh's six decades of combined experience into a short and practical guide. Packed with useful tips on diagnosis and treatment, Dizziness reveals how top doctors analyze dizziness, including the problems with balance and walking that go along with it. The book also explains the importance of overcoming dizziness and describes what people who are dizzy can do to get an accurate diagnosis. Combining background on specific forms of dizziness with descriptions of optimal treatments for each one, Dizziness covers everything from conditions that cause dizziness when a person changes position (such as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and orthostatic hypotension) to conditions that cause dizzy spells without warning or trigger (such as Meniere's disease and migraine-associated dizziness). The book explores bouts of dizziness that last for days, as well as constant dizziness that lasts for weeks, months, or even years. Enhanced with patient stories and rounded out by a glossary of terms and an appendix describing home exercises, this is the go-to book for anyone who struggles with dizziness.

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Revised and updated 4th edition of Walk! La Palma including the latest Tour & Trail Mapping. Walk! La Palma includes 37 fully detailed walking route itineraries. Each walking route itinerary includes:- - walking route summary - ratings for Effort, Time, Distance, Ascents/Descents, Refreshments and Vertigo risk - fully detailed walk description, including frequent timings to aid navigation and check your progress - GPS Waypoints at every key point on every route where there is good gps reception - full colour 1:40,000 scale map of the route - short walk and stroll alternatives There are some easy routes. There are some challenging routes for fit experts. With author/researchers Charles Davis' and Jan Kostura's excellent walk descriptions you'll know which routes are for you - and all of them are a true adventure. The steepest island in the world, the deepest crater, the clearest skies: volcanoes you can climb without being shot into orbit; a subtropical forest minus the slimy things slinking up your trouser leg; black beaches, blue seas, high mountains, vegetation that is literally flamboyant, everything linked by 1080 kilometres of waymarked paths; and all virtually untouched by tourism. If this sounds divine or like some lost paradise, you're not the first to think so, previous commentators have identified La Palma as the prototype for both the Elysian Fields and Atlantis! The fanciful stuff aside, the island is a walker's idyll, utterly tranquil, verdant and almost unspoiled. GPS Waypoint files (in gpx file format) for Walk! La Palma are available as a free zip file download on Discovery Walking Guides website. Synopsis 37 detailed walking route itineraries. Each route includes:- walking route summary; ratings for Effort, Time, Distance, Ascents/Descents, Refreshments and Vertigo risk; and more. It also provides background information along with details of accommodation, buses, official walking routes, mountain biking, museums, and information offices.

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You can run fast. You can run far. But you can't outrun your family. Long distance runner Riley has been fighting various bewildering symptoms for months, from vertigo to fainting spells. Worse, her doctors can't tell her what's wrong, leaving her to wonder if it's stress or something more threatening. But when her brother's fiancée is killedand he becomes the prime suspectRiley must prove his innocence, despite the toll on her health. As she reacquaints herself with the familiar houses and wild woods of her childhood, the secrets she uncovers take her on a trail to the real killer that leads right back to the very people she knows best and loves most. For readers who enjoy Deer Season by Erin Flanagan, All Good People Hereby Ashley Flowers, and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham.

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Evolución, esa sería la palabra con la que yo identificaría al arque de Atracciones de Madrid; un Parque que en su nacimiento en el año 1969 era lo más novedoso que teníamos los niños -y me incluyo- para divertirnos, experimentar nuevas sensaciones, conocer el significado eal de la palabra adrenalina, o disfrutar de momentos en familia que han quedado imborrables en nuestra memoria.Los niños de hoy esperan algo más que una sensación de vértigo o adrenalina, necesitan verse inmersos en una experiencia desde que acceden al Parque hasta que deciden montar en una de nuestras atracciones. Y eso es lo que ha ido haciendo el Parque de Atracciones de Madrid en sus casi 50 años de historia, evolucionar, adaptarse al visitante actual introduciendo atracciones y tecnología de última generación y ofreciendo distintas temáticas para cada tipo de cliente.

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Basta ya. No tienes que vivir con dolor un día más. éste es el mensaje central del revolucionario programa diseñado por Pete Egoscue, renombrado anatomista, todo un referente para los grandes atletas de nuestro tiempo, para eliminar el dolor crónico sin recurrir a medicamentos, cirugía o costosas sesiones de fisioterapia. Algunas de las cosas que aprenderás a aliviar son: padecimientos de cadera, ciática y rodillas, dolor de cabeza y migraña, cuello torcido, fatiga, vértigo, lesiones en los senos paranasales, DCM., síndrome del túnel carpiano (frecuentemente diagnosticado erróneamente como artritis). Enough already, you do not have to live in pain one more day. This is the central message of this revolutionary program designed by Pete Egoscue, a renowned anatomist. He has served as a reference for the great athletes of our time, to eliminate chronic pain without resorting to medications, surgery,

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"It's a great way to spark interesting conversations with friends and perfect entertainment if you're coffee-ing solo." — Real Homes "Fascinating new book reveals homes in vertigo-inducing locations, from a house clinging to a cliff to a gravity-defying mountain hideout." — Daily Mail In Living on the Edge, the author goes in search of the most amazing and seemingly unfeasible buildings which are situated at the edge of deep chasms and on steep cliffs. These houses are the work of architects who approach complexity and difficult conditions with imagination and a talent for thinking outside of the box. This book shows how, with the help of innovative techniques, fear of heights-inducing homes have been built at the most challenging locations all over the world. Living on the Edge is a book for architecture lovers without fear of heights!

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Go beyond the big screen and explore the real places that inspired some of the greatest films of all time – brought to life through comprehensively researched text and stunning hand-drawn artwork. Travel journalist Sarah Baxter reveals 25 essential cinematic destinations around the globe, spanning different decades, directors and movie genres. Full-page colour illustrations instantly transport you to each location. You’ll find that these places are not just backdrops to the tales told, but characters in their own right. Travel to the sweeping deserts of Lawrence of Arabia in Jordan, escape to the tumbling hills of San Francisco as seen in Hitchcock’s Vertigo or lose yourself in the cobbled lanes of In Bruges. Featured locations: London, England, Paddington Wells, England, Hot Fuzz Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland, The Wicker Man Belchite & the Sierra de Guadarrama, Spain, Pan’s Labyrinth Montmartre, Paris, France, Amélie Bruges, Belgium, In Bruges Görlitz, Germany, The Grand Budapest Hotel Fårö, Sweden, Persona Salzburg, Austria, The Sound of Music Rome, Italy, La Dolce Vita Matmata & Tozeur, Tunisia, Star Wars: A New Hope Wadi Rum, Jordan, Lawrence of Arabia Mumbai, India, The Lunchbox Hong Kong, China, Enter the Dragon Seoul, South Korea, Parasite Tokyo, Japan, Lost in Translation Outback, Australia, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert Karekare Beach, New Zealand, The Piano Alberta, Canada, The Revenant Philadelphia, USA, Rocky San Francisco, USA, Vertigo Brooklyn, New York, USA, Do the Right Thing Dead Horse Point State Park, Utah, USA, Thelma & Louise Jamaica, Dr No Cusco & Machu Picchu, Peru, The Motorcycle Diaries Delve into this book to discover some of the world’s most fascinating cinematic places and the films that celebrate them. Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Artistic Places, Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places, Mystical Places and Wild Places.

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Falling Awake, winner of the Costa Award for Poetry, “give[s] us the sensation of living alongside the natural world, of being a spectator to the changes that mark our mortality” (Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker). Falling Awake expands on the imagery of fallen soldiers from Homer’s Iliad portrayed in her previous volume, Memorial—defining life as a slowly falling weight, where beings fight against their inevitable end. Oswald reimagines classical figures such as Orpheus and Tithonus alive in an English landscape together with shadows, flies, villagers, dew, crickets—all characterized in tension between the weight of death and their own willpower. FROM “VERTIGO” let me shuffle forward and tell you the two minute life of rain starting right now lips open and lidless cold all-seeing gaze

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For those of you who suffer road rage, lost luggage, gridlock, clamped cars, parking fines, agoraphobia, vertigo, frustration at being kept waiting at ports, airports, taxi ranks, Tube stations, bus stops, and so on, here is a chance to both relieve your agony and tickle your funny-bone. In these pages, in easily readable bite-sized chunks, our anthologist has collected a hilarious compendium of witticisms for the hardened traveller to savour, from thought-provoking apercus to laugh-out-loud observations on the muted joys of getting from A to B - or NOT getting there, as the case may be. Illustrated with funny cartoons, this handy pocket-sized book by successful collector of witticisms Aubrey Malone is a must-have for any transport enthusiast or seasoned traveller. Fasten your seatbelts for a bumpy ride!

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This second volume of cinematic eye candy further documents the quickly burgeoning underground film poster movement, a group of artists who challenge Hollywood’s marketing machine by bringing clever artwork and design back to movie posters. Nearly 100 emerging artists, with a dozen returning favorites, present their newly produced images. Cinematic visual masters Jason Edmiston, Gary Pullin, Akiko Stehrenberger, Randy Ortiz, Brandon Schaefer, Gabz, Dave Perillo, Chris Garofalo, Anthony Petrie, Godmachine, Tracie Ching, Clark Orr, Orlando Arocena, Steve Dressler, Paul Shipper, Tom Hodge, Luke Insect, and more additionally provide commentary and behind-the-scenes information. Movies illustrated include classics like Vertigo, Rosemary’s Baby, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, more recent hits such as Her and Drive, cult favorites Dazed and Confused and Donnie Darko, and childhood staples Ghostbusters, Back to the Future, and Labyrinth.

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Si estos hechos pasmosos son reales, voy a volverme loco; si son imaginarios, ya lo estoy. He aquí el epígrafe de Ambrose Bierce que Bernard Quiriny escogió para este volumen de catorce relatos (quince con el de Vila-Matas que abre el libro y que, a decir del autor español, es tanto prólogo como un relato que comunica con el resto de cuentos del libro), todos ellos teñidos por la magia y por un mundo de fuerzas ignotas, en el que sus personajes se encuentran como por casualidad en el vértigo de una simetría desasosegante, el ápice de un deseo o, como los yapus, en el constante malentendido que es incluso provocado por ellos mismos. El lector se verá llevado, de la mano de un escritor iluminado por un poético y volátil humor negro, hacia un vertiginoso torbellino.

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Libro concebido para retar al tiempo y vencerlo, las Metamorfosis de Ovidio resumen la totalidad de la mitología clásica por medio de un encadenamiento de historias que, a modo de matrioskas o cajas chinas, surgen la una de la otra a un ritmo vertiginoso regidas por el principio de transformación continua, cuyo primer objeto es siempre un ser humano o una ninfa y el último siempre un animal o cosa -un árbol, una flor, una constelación-. Llevado de su pasión por la obra, que embebe todo el volumen, Piero Boitani, autor de Diez lecciones sobre los clásicos -publicada en esta misma colección- le rinde tributo abarcándola con su mismo vértigo preciso, sin dejar de apuntar los numerosos temas que la recorren: de la naturaleza al arte, del alma femenina a la violencia, de los raptos al amor conyugal...

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You can run fast. You can run far. But you can't outrun your family. Long distance runner Riley has been fighting various bewildering symptoms for months, from vertigo to fainting spells. Worse, her doctors can't tell her what's wrong, leaving her to wonder if it's stress or something more threatening. But when her brother's fiancée is killedand he becomes the prime suspectRiley must prove his innocence, despite the toll on her health. As she reacquaints herself with the familiar houses and wild woods of her childhood, the secrets she uncovers take her on a trail to the real killer that leads right back to the very people she knows best and loves most. For readers who enjoy Deer Season by Erin Flanagan, All Good People Hereby Ashley Flowers, and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham.

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From the queasy zooms in Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo to the avant-garde mystery of Michael Snow’s Wavelength, from the excitement of televised baseball to the drama of the political convention, the zoom shot is instantly recognizable and highly controversial. In The Zoom, Nick Hall traces the century-spanning history of the zoom lens in American film and television. From late 1920s silent features to the psychedelic experiments of the 1960s and beyond, the book describes how inventors battled to provide film and television studios with practical zoom lenses, and how cinematographers clashed over the right ways to use the new zooms. Hall demonstrates how the zoom brought life and energy to cinema decades before the zoom boom of the 1970s and reveals how the zoom continues to play a vital and often overlooked role in the production of contemporary film and television.

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New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series THE SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology, folklore and fairy tales with his own distinct narrative vision. In PRELUDES and NOCTURNES, an occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman. This book also includes the story The Sound of Her Wings, which introduces us to the pragmatic and perky goth girl Death. Collects THE SANDMAN #1-8.

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Antonio regresa a la isla caribeña en la que sirvió como diplomático diez años antes. No se trata de un viaje sentimental: su propósito es descubrir en los archivos de la Seguridad del Estado quién le traicionó y qué papel jugó en su salida de la isla la misteriosa mujer (Ella) por la que perdió casi literalmente la cabeza.Recorriendo las páginas de su expediente rememora aquellos días vividos en un vértigo de ron, canciones surgidas de la máquina del tiempo, cuerpos como irresistibles imanes, espías fantasmagóricos, disidentes escurridizos como sombras e inquietantes horóscopos.En este caleidoscopio ibérico-tropical conviven, en improbable armonía, revolucionarios, meigas y orixás, segurosos fanáticos del Dépor y de Julio Iglesias, disidentes adoradores de Nino Bravo, travestis con ínfulas de prima ballerina, santeras en conexión astral con San Andrés de Teixido y unas apocalípticas teorías astrológicas pregonadas por un reputado polígrafo de Mondoñedo.Una divertidísima no

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Este libro nos asoma al abismo de una obra de arte que jamás dejará de acompañarnos.Pocas películas han generado tanta literatura como Vértigo: poseedora de una belleza intoxicante, la obra cumbre de Alfred Hitchcock ha cautivado a sucesivas generaciones de espectadores y se mantiene como una obra abierta a nuevas interpretaciones. En Ficción fatal, Manuel Arias Maldonado renueva el debate sobre el film, para el que reivindica una posición paradójica entre la atemporalidad universal y la contemporaneidad intempestiva.Este brillante ensayo subraya la profunda ambigüedad de sus protagonistas y defiende que nada de lo que vemos en pantalla -fetichismo, voyeurismo, amour fou- puede entenderse sin reparar en las ficciones que mueven a los personajes: del amor romántico al psicoanálisis, la imagen de clase o el pasado colonial de San Francisco. El autor discute las acusaciones de misoginia que se han elevado contra Hitchcoc

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The long-awaited reissue of the classic Vertigo miniseries Uncle Sam by Steve Darnall and Alex Ross is a sharp political fever dream praised by Kirkus as a “truly subversive graphic novel” and “a damning account of American political history that also affirms basic democratic ideals”Uncle Sam: Special Election Edition is a vibrant, hallucinatory tour of modern America—the story of a star-spangled, ragged vagrant named Sam who is guided by the voices in his head and his own fractured memories. Absorbed by history-traveling visions of America’s dark past, Uncle Sam struggles to remember his true identity and piece together the scattered clues of his own experiences in this deep and thoughtful look at America’s checkered past. Meticulously researched by Steve Darnall and fully painted by Alex Ross, Uncle Sam returns in print just when it is needed most—in time for th

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Ese alguien perfecto, tal y como soñamos, solo existe en nuestra fantasíaMe acompañáis? Vamos a comenzar un viaje a través de nuestro cuerpo, de nuestro amor propio, de nuestra autoestima, de nuestras inseguridades? Es normal que os dé algo de vértigo; es posible que sintáis que no estáis preparadas? No os preocupéis, demos el salto juntas para alcanzar la felicidad, porque?Estar en paz con tu cuerpo es felicidad.Tener autoestima y valorarte es felicidad.Dejar atrás tus complejos y tus miedos es felicidad.Amor, amistad, salud, tanto física como mental, son felicidad.Cuanto más os apreciéis y os améis, más lo haréis con los demás y seremos mejores como sociedad. Aunque sea duro, ahora es el momento. Aprender a quererse a una misma es un camino largo y complicado?,pero también es un arte.Empezamos?

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Medical students encounter many challenges on their path to success, from managing their time, applying theory to practice, and passing exams. The Medical Student Survival Skills series helps medical students navigate core subjects of the curriculum, providing accessible, short reference guides for OSCE preparation and hospital placements. These guides are the perfect tool for achieving clinical success. Medical Student Survival Skills: History Taking and Communication Skills is a concise and compact guide to obtaining and recording medical histories and achieving positive patient interactions. The first section explores taking history—from initial introduction to identifying symptoms—and includes abdominal and chest pain, dizziness and vertigo, shortness of breath, sexual history, confusion and loss of memory. Essential patient communication skills and strategies for various situations are described in the second section, including angry patients, instances of drug and alcohol abuse, diabetes counselling and breaking bad news.

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One of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time, Neil Gaiman s awardwinning masterpiece The Sandman set the standard for mature, lyrical fantasy in the modern comics era. Illustrated by an exemplary selection of the medium s most gifted artists, the series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven. The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition Book Two collects issues #17-31 of the original run of The Sandman, which includes the World Fantasy Award-winning A Midsummer Night s Dream and tales from the Angouleme International Comics Festival best script award-winning graphic novel Season of Mists. This volume also features the Sandman Special #1 and short stories from Vertigo: Winter s Edge #1-3 that further chronicle the enchanting world of Morpheus, the Lord of Dreams, and his kin, the Endless.

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I niciado un nuevo siglo, JOHN ASHBERY (Rochester, New York, 1927) es considerado el poeta más influyente de la lengua inglesa. Un crítico tan extremo como Harold Bloom opina que su importancia sólo es equiparable a la de Yeats o Stevens.Y, sin embargo, Ashbery será siempre un desconocido. Inabarcable como el mercurio, como la propia vida. La potencia de sus paisajes mentales suplanta en libros como Rivers and Mountains o The Double Dream of Spring a la autoridad de la voz, característica primordial de la poesía estadounidense desde Whitman. Y más que el optimismo, Ashbery confía en otro tipo de elocuencia, en la que se tienen mayor importancia el misterio, lo secreto, lo privado y lo íntimo. Antes de desvanecerse en el aire sus palabras logran, casi con indiferencia, construir una poesía a la que nada le es ajeno. Frente a la obra de John Ashbery se experimenta el vértigo de presenciar, probablemente, la forja del primer clásico de la era posmoderna.M.R.-G .

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Publicado por primera vez en 1844, ?El concepto de la angustia? es quizá el libro más conocido del danés Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855), y en él se articulan algunos de los conceptos en los que se apoya el existencialismo cristiano. La angustia se relaciona con el pecado y con la libertad. Engendrada por la nada, alimentada por la impaciencia, surgida como ?realidad de la libertad en cuanto posibilidad?, la angustia es ?el vértigo de la libertad? y al mismo tiempo un medio de salvación que conduce a la fe, a la verdad que años antes de escribir este libro el autor, en su diario íntimo, confesaba buscar como sentido definitivo de su existencia: ?Es preciso encontrar una verdad, y la verdad es para mí hallar la idea por la que esté dispuesto a vivir y morir?. Del mismo autor, en esta colección: ?Temor y Temblor?, ?Diario de un seductor?, ?In vino veritas? y ?La repetición?.

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Uno de los conflictos modernos más prolongados del siglo xx fue la guerra de Indochina, y sin embargo apenas se le ha prestado atención. Una salida honrosa narra cómo, por un revés sin precedentes de la historia, dos grandes potencias mundiales, Francia y Estados Unidos, fueron derrotadas por un pueblo pequeño, el vietnamita, y nos introduce en la cadena de intereses que conducirá al desastre. En una serie de escenas memorables, Éric Vuillard nos acerca tanto a los explotados recolectores del caucho como a los generales que guiaron la contienda, mientras describe una inquietante comedia humana. Qué debates suscitó esa guerra? Cómo reaccionaron los políticos? Qué solución propuso el secretario de Estado norteamericano? De qué habló el ministro francés de Asuntos Exteriores, apóstol del napalm, en la televisión norteamericana? Y, bien pensado, preferimos el confort de la ficción al vértigo que nos provoca la realidad?Si la literatura tiende a lo universal, debería relatar cómo

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For the last three decades Jock Young's work has had a profound impact on criminology. In this provocative new book, Young rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. His erudite and entertaining examination of what's gone wrong with criminology draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings. Young makes a passionate case for a return to criminology's creative and critical potential, partly informed by the new developments in cultural criminology. A late-modern counterpart to C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination, this inspirational piece of writing from one of the most brilliant voices in contemporary criminology will command widespread attention. The concluding part of the author's trilogy of influential texts including The Vertigo of Late Modernity and The Exclusive Society, it will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of criminology, and the social sciences more generally.

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The spirit of Grant Morrison's groundbreaking DOOM PATROL is captured in this debut series starring the cult-favorite misfits as a part of Gerard Way's new Young Animal imprint. Flex Mentallo, Robotman, Rebis, Crazy Jane, and more are back to twist minds and take control. This new take on a classic embraces and reimagines the Morrison run's signature surrealism and irreverence. Incorporating bold, experimental art and a brash tone to match a new generation of readers, Gerard Way's DOOM PATROL establishes radical new beginnings, breaks new ground, and honors the warped team dynamic of the world's strangest heroes. This abstract and unexpected ensemble series nods at the Doom Patrol's roots by continuing to break the barriers of the traditional superhero genre. Collects issues #1-6. DOOM PATROL is the flagship title of Young Animal--a four-book grassroots mature reader imprint, creatively spearheaded by Gerard Way, bridging the gap between the DCU and Vertigo, and focusing on the juxtaposition between visual and thematic storytelling.

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Extensively revised and updated, this new edition of Emergency Medicine includes essential information on diagnosis and management of acute and sub-acute emergencies. Divided into sixteen chapters, the book begins with an introduction and a chapter on resuscitation emergencies, followed by discussion on emergencies relating to specific systems of the body including neurological, metabolic, renal, endocrine, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems. Further chapters cover various emergencies involving autoimmune hepatitis, blood, carcinoma of bronchus, obstructive sleep apnoea and toxicology, amongst others. Emergency Medicine, Second Edition features nearly 170 images and illustrations, most in full colour, enhancing the fully revised text in this new edition, which includes several new topics such as emergency dermatology, vertigo, Horner’s syndrome, ptosis and Ménière’s disease. Key Points Revised and updated edition including several new topics Previous edition published 2005 (9788180615498) 168 images and illustrations, the majority in full colour UK based editorial team from Royal Victoria Hospital, Edinburgh, and Princess Royal Hospital, Brighton

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101 LUGARES DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN SORPRENDENTESNo es necesario realizar un gran esfuerzo para conocer paisajes increíbles, destinos de película y rincones de ensueño. Estás pensando en realizar una escapada, pasar un fin de semana o realizar un gran viaje? Castilla y León es tu destino! Con entornos espectaculares y fáciles de visitar, en este libro encontrarás 101 lugares sorprendentes y los motivos por los que debes descubrirlos.Esta comunidad autónoma cuenta la mayor concentración de románico de Europa, el osario visitable más grande de España, la mina de oro más extensa de todo el imperio romano, castillos inexpugnables, desfiladeros y cascadas de vértigo, humedales, bosques milenarios y... hasta el lago de origen glaciar más grande de Europa!Recorremos Castilla y León a través de sus 9 provincias y más de 60 comarcas para descubrir rutas de senderismo, pueblos singulares y enclaves diferentes, proponiéndote 101 destinos sorprendentes mediante fotografías e información que te

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Si en " Alabanza de la lentitud " el neurobiólogo Lamberto Maffei rompe una lanza a favor del provecho y adecuación que para toda actividad humana, pero especialmente la relacionada con los procesos cerebrales, tiene el no dejarse arrastrar por el vértigo de la vida actual, en " Elogio de la rebeldía " ?obra en cierto modo complementaria? llama la atención acerca de los perjuicios que el estilo de vida que nos viene impuesto, mediatizado en gran parte por estímulos y demandas constantes, pantallas y clics, causa también a un espacio fundamental de la actividad cerebral y, por extensión, humana: aquel que demanda no sólo una conexión afectiva y efectiva con los demás, sino también con la naturaleza, el clima y la realidad física que nos rodea. Arte, ciencia, cultura, son expresiones de rebeldía, de libertad, de un cerebro que no es pasivo y conforme, sino que quiere ir más allá, y esto, nos explica Maffei, es expresión del cerebro lento, del cerebro del tiempo y del lenguaje, del diálog

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Encuadernación: RústicaColección: DivulgaciónSe crió en la calle, en el vértigo sentimental de un hogar partido y entre las drogas y la delincuencia de un barrio sin movida madrileña. Huérfano y rebelde con un puñado de causas, tenía apenas doce años cuando esquivó la cornada de su propio futuro. Y en la verdad de la escuela taurina encontró el calor de una nueva familia, encauzó su rabia de potro desbocado y descubrió los valores que le hicieron marcar una época en el toreo.Retirado ya de los ruedos, aquel personaje al que siempre se calificó de enigmático se desnuda en este libro para revelar lo que jamás ha contado y lo que nunca se ha sabido de él. Sus vivencias más íntimas y crudas, los secretos de sus éxitos y sus fracasos, los porqués de su cautivadora personalidad y su rebeldía frente a lo establecido. El Joselito que despertó pasiones, el más auténtico y verdadero, vuelve a mostrarse de frente y a pecho descubierto.

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? Escrito por una psicóloga especialista en infancia y familia. ? Dirigido a niños y niñas de entre 2 y 6 años. Dani disfruta mucho cuando va con su familia a la montaña. Un día, descubre los inconvenientes que tiene llevar chupete y decide despedirse de él. Quieres unirte a esta aventura? Quieres dejar el chupete? Seguro que juntos lo lograréis! Llegados los dos años aproximadamente, es recomendable ir disminuyendo el uso del chupete para evitar malformaciones en el paladar. Pero cuál es la mejor forma de hacerlo? La despedida puede dar vértigo al principio, pero es más fácil de lo que parece si se tienen en cuenta algunas ideas. Este cuento proporciona las herramientas necesarias para ayudar a niños y niñas a dejar el chupete con éxito. Este cuento proporciona un lenguaje claro, sencillo y divertido desde las aventuras cercanas, interactivas y divertidas de Dani. Contiene elementos que ayudan a entender la difícil situación por la que pasa la protagonista y permite sacar a la luz par

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Fugitiva. Adolescente. A la defensiva. Y cabreada. Rain Harper huye buscando el calor de un nuevo hogar, aunque todavía no sabe que su vida está a punto de cambiar. En su camino se cruzará el Tribunal de los Secretos, formado por los Juris, un grupo de fantasmas que juzgan y condenan a quienes poseen secretos, desde la violación y el asesinato a una simple mentira piadosa. Rain se convertirá en testigo involuntario, siendo la responsable de leer las sentencias y salvar o condenar a las almas juzgadas? para siempre.A la estela de otras cabeceras clásicas de DC Comics relanzadas con éxito dentro del sello Vértigo como La Cosa del Pantano, Sandman, La Patrulla Condenada o Shade The Changing Man, los autores Steven T. Seagle (Superman, Sandman Mystery Theatre) y Teddy Kristiansen (Genio) ofrecieron una versión alternativa, más sofisticada y adulta, de House of Secrets. Convertida en una mansión móvil y encantada, y surfeando la ola de la contracultura grunge de comienzos de los noventa,

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Un pintor que se pregunta por el origen de las imágenes; un poeta que reflexiona frente a las obras de otros artistas; un filósofo que pinta mientras cuestiona el lugar del artista en la sociedad: tras Todas las pantallas encendidas y Manifiesto de la mirada, Antón Patiño culmina su trilogía sobre la teoría de la imagen con De dónde vienen las imágenes, un periplo a través de la práctica artística, entendida como forma de conocimiento y exploración sensorial. Patiño rastrea los procesos artísticos donde los distintos estratos de la creación establecen una urdimbre con el imaginario colectivo. El relieve del mundo, las sensaciones multiformes, los presentimientos toman cuerpo. La imagen como vértigo, irrupción de lo inesperado, extrañamiento y pulsión inconsciente, desde la que emerge lo real transfigurado. Se trata de lograr respuestas a inquietudes que definen nuestro momento histórico y atraviesan diferentes geografías culturales. Las imágenes se integran, forman parte de nosotros mi

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Tremendas es una recopilación de diez reportajes de la periodista Majo Siscar, donde las mujeres son la fuerza telúrica. Mujeres anónimas que desafían un mundo que siempre nos han contado los hombres. Recogidas en sus 8 años como corresponsal en América Latina, en estas historias la autora huye del relato periodístico habitual para conformar un mosaico que retrata las desigualdades de las sociedades donde están inmersas.Melisa sube al ring y siente que el vértigo se detiene, que la lucha cotidiana que implica ser una mujer joven en México es solo un espectáculo. Vicky transita por Madrid como lo hacía por Tegucigalpa, a pesar de que su identidad trans la pone tan en peligro aquí como en el país más violento del mundo. María busca a sus cuatro hijos desaparecidos incluso bajo tierra, y en este afán ha desenterrado la anormalidad cotidiana de un país convertido en una enorme fosa clandestina. Janice y Ema consiguieron que su hija, Gala, tuviera los mismos derechos que cualquier otra c

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In the Austrian state of Styria lies the Helianau Institute, a boarding school for children born with a mysterious condition known as Indigo syndrome. Anyone who comes near them immediately suffers from nausea and vertigo. Clemens Setz—a fictionalized doppelgänger of the author—is a young math teacher who loses his job at the school after attempting to investigate the mysterious “relocations” of several children. Fourteen years later, Robert, a former student, discovers a newspaper article about Setz’s acquittal for the murder of an animal abuser. Could there be a connection between this story, which continues to haunt Robert, and the puzzling events of the past? DeLillo-esque in its exploration of alienation and anxiety, Indigo weaves together bizarre historical anecdotes, such as Edison’s electrocution of an elephant, with pop cultural marginalia and pseudoscience to create a “literary work that makes its own laws . . . rich in dialogue and variety, amusing and anecdotal, but also brutal and unfathomable” (Der Spiegel).

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For the last three decades Jock Young's work has had a profound impact on criminology. In this provocative new book, Young rejects much of what criminology has become, criticizing the rigid determinism and rampant positivism that dominate the discipline today. His erudite and entertaining examination of what's gone wrong with criminology draws on a range of research - from urban ethnography to sexology and criminal victimization studies - to illustrate its failings. Young makes a passionate case for a return to criminology's creative and critical potential, partly informed by the new developments in cultural criminology. A late-modern counterpart to C. Wright Mills' classic The Sociological Imagination, this inspirational piece of writing from one of the most brilliant voices in contemporary criminology will command widespread attention. The concluding part of the author's trilogy of influential texts including The Vertigo of Late Modernity and The Exclusive Society, it will be essential reading for anyone who cares about the future of criminology, and the social sciences more generally.

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While many works on Hitchcock either openly reject psychoanalysis or utilize it only casually or peripherally, Dial 'M' for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock is the first book-length study to consistently and systematically apply a Freudian psychoanalytic approach to a number of Hitchcock's major films (Shadow of a Doubt, Rear Window, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, Frenzy). Central to this book is the author's analysis of a 'mother complex' that informs not only the major male and female characters of these and other Hitchcock films but their plot, formal structure, and visual, cinematic artistry as well. According to the author, the genius of Hitchcock is inseparable from the director's unrelenting adherence to the 'darker side' of our unconscious fears and fascinations, and in its unwillingness to veil this exploration of the Freudian Unconscious with Hollywood's and society's denial of such truths.

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La continuidad es el gran desafío de las familias empresarias. Sin embargo, las estadísticas demuestran que apenas el 30 % de los negocios de familia llegan a segunda generación, menos del 10 % alcanzan la tercera generación y un porcentaje inferior al 5 % se proyecta hasta la cuarta o más generaciones. También es relevante apuntar que, casi en 2 de cada 3 casos de mortandad en las empresas, son causados por conflictos que afloran entre integrantes de la familia propietaria. Una catástrofe en términos económicos, pero también para las relaciones personales de la familia propietaria.Las familias empresarias deben abordar su tarea en un contexto particularmente complejo y dinámico donde las transformaciones se producen a velocidad de vértigo por efecto de fenómenos como la digitalización y la globalización. Estos cambios del entorno dificultan especialmente la sostenibilidad de los negocios y también acrecientan la brecha generacional, lo que dificulta la necesaria cohesión familiar.

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