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Directo, claro e informativo Hazlo Bien, Hazlo Seguro constituye un libro esencial para el adolescente, así como para todo aquel que desee saber todo lo relacionado con el sexo en los noventa. Unánimemente considerada una guía sincera y abierta se dirige a los adolescentes, así como a padres y profesores para insistir en que el gran peligro de hoy no es ya la falta de información que puede llevar a un embarazo no deseado. Todos los jóvenes que quieran hacerse una idea de lo que es el sexo, y también los menos jóvenes, han de encontrar en este libro la información básica, cómo pueden evitarse problemas y a dónde acudir si precisa ayuda.

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Cómo recuperar y transmitir a los niños y los jóvenes la pasión y las ganas de leer.Leer es una urgente necesidad pública y privada. La vida humana transcurre entre palabras. Nuestra inteligencia es lingüística y nuestra convivencia, íntima o política, también. Este libro es una introducción poética, científica y práctica a la lectura. Un manual para padres, maestros, profesores de secundaria y para lectores curiosos. Pero es, ante todo, un libro de magia. Mezcla, pues, recetas y consejos para lograr encantamientos prodigiosos. Quienes dividen la magia en blanca y negra se equivocan. Olvidan que la magia más poderosa y magnífica es la del negro sobre el blanco. La escritura, y la lectura, claro, que es su complemento. De ella emergen hadas y dragones, mundos nuevos y mundos antiguos, personajes, historias, sentimientos, leyes, poemas y ecuaciones. El lenguaje transfiguró a la especie humana. Tal vez La magia de leer haga lo mismo con usted.

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En un pueblo del sur de Alemania, tres chiquillos disfrutan de la amistad y de los días luminosos intentando dejar atrás su historia familiar, marcada por el dolor y la pérdida. Veinte años más tarde, convertidos ya en estudiantes universitarios, deciden viajar juntos a Roma, donde su vínculo se ve sometido a las duras pruebas del amor, la traición y la culpabilidad. Con su habitual lenguaje depurado, Zsuzsa Bánk muestra en Los días luminosos la posibilidad de redención que a veces nos conceden los demás, gracias a los cuales logramos salvaguardar la esperanza. Una conmovedora novela sobre la amistad y la traición, el amor y la mentira, los secretos del pasado y los decisivos instantes que pueden cambiar nuestras vidas.

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Mamá rana despierta a sus 999 hijas. Es primavera! Ya podéis levantaros! Pero que ha pasado? Mamá rana cuenta a sus hijas una y otra vez, y solo hay 998. La hermana mayor aún no se ha despertado-una, dos, tresMamá rana cuenta a las pequeñas, pero solo hay 998.-Qué raro-dice, y justo después oye unos ronquidos.-Vaya! Hay una que todavía duerme-exclama mamá rana, sorprendida.-Es nuestra hermana mayor.-La mayor aún no se ha despertado.-Es una dormilona!Las ranitas se ríen de su hermana.

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The German Idealism Reader is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel - and including those thinkers often considered as secondary, but who are also crucial for understanding of this period, the Reader presents an influential era in all its philosophical complexity. Through its broad coverage of philosophers and their texts, it offers a complete dynamic picture of the intellectual period and features: - Selections from key texts by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel - Readings from Reinhold, Schiller, Maimon, Schulze, Jacobi, Hölderlin, and Novalis - Responses to and critiques of German idealist thought by late nineteenth century thinkers, such as Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche - Selections extending beyond the typical focus on epistemology and metaphysics to include ethics, religion, society, and art - A general introduction and timeline, together with a chronology and bibliography to each thinker and introductory overviews to both thinkers and text With readings carefully selected to illustrate thinkers in dialogue with each other, The German Idealism Reader provides a better appreciation of the philosophical discussions central to the period. This is essential reading for all students of German idealism and the nineteenth-century German and Continental philosophies, as well as to those studying the important movements and periods of European intellectual history.

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Swine can be infected with many different mycoplasmas. Some are important pathogens, causing significant health and welfare issues in pigs and major losses to the swine industry worldwide. Other mycoplasmas are not pathogenic for swine and can be considered commensals. This book provides up-to-date scientific, clinical and practical information of the most important pathogenic mycoplasmas in swine. Most emphasis has been placed on Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae as the most economically important, but other pathogenic species like Mycoplasma hyorhinis, Mycoplasma hyosynoviae and Mycoplasma suis are also discussed. Written by internationally renowned scientists and clinicians from all over the world, this book draws together in depth knowledge, expertise and experience in swine mycoplasmas to provide an evidence-based, academically rigorous and practical collection. It aims to serve the scientific and veterinary community and the swine industry worldwide.

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Women’s Health in Canada considers the challenges relating to the conceptualization of women’s health. While emphasizing the importance of taking an intersectional approach to women’s healthcare, this book also focuses on the social and structural determinants at play. This revised and updated second edition brings together a collection of new chapters and contributors who collectively shed light on the problems and risks involved in perceiving women’s healthcare using a strictly "gender"- or "sex"-based lens. Contributors foreground an understanding of power as it is mediated through a range of social relations based on gender, race, culture, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, class, and geography and the ways in which privilege and oppression intersect to shape health and system responses to health. This new edition includes updates on what is currently known about women’s health nationally and internationally and situates the chapters in the current Canadian health care and policy context. Scholarship is foregrounded in new developments in gender and intersectional health research and policy. Collectively, this volume explores the important histories and contemporary realities in women’s health experiences.

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The work of 38 established and emerging artists explore the creative potential of risk-taking and transgression in contemporary life The unconventional theme underlying the art featured in this book is the struggle between risk-taking and the prediction algorithms that have become a feature of contemporary life. Does the influence of machine intelligence, and the coincident avoidance of risk, homogenize creative thought? These ideas are explored in the work of 38 established and emerging artists in a variety of media including painting, drawing, sculpture, sculpture, video art, computer art, and performance. Featured artists include Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Ed Atkins, Esther Ferrer, Mounira Al Solh, and Shezad Dawoud. The book takes its title from a town on the French-Belgian border with a history as a well-known customs outpost.Distributed for MercatorfondsExhibition Schedule:WIELS Museum for Contemporary Art Brussels (September 12, 2020–February 10, 2021)

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This timely book offers a series of lively essays debating the topic of globalization—our increasingly integrated and interconnected world. Globalization and Multicultural Societies argues that the globalization process is a major catalyst in transforming contemporary society. Focusing primarily on Europe, this collection brings together writings by renowned intellectual, cultural, and political figures, such as Romano Prodi, Pierre Boulez, Jacky Mamou, and Franco Modigliani, that reflect on the key features and problems of globalization. Essays range across broad topics, including multinational corporations, technology, the arts, science, information flow, finance, unemployment, and the environment. Part 1 of the book is devoted to an analysis of contemporary society’s evolution toward globalization. Part 2 focuses on the restructuring of the systems that produce and distribute goods and services around the world. Part 3 explores the effect of globalization on culture. Taken in their entirety, these essays offer a deeply and meaningfully multidisciplinary volume in which each piece contrasts and contextualizes the other. As most of the contributors are European, the text also offers a fascinating snapshot of contemporary European consciousness, and reveals how much of a “great experiment” the European Union really is. This significant book makes a timely and learned contribution to the debates over globalization that are currently raging not only in the academy, but also on the nightly news and in daily political life. It will appeal to anyone who wishes to better understand the evolution of the world in which we live.

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Corporeality in Early Cinema inspires a heightened awareness of the ways in which early film culture, and screen praxes overall are inherently embodied. Contributors argue that on- and offscreen (and in affiliated media and technological constellations), the body consists of flesh and nerves and is not just an abstract spectator or statistical audience entity.Audience responses from arousal to disgust, from identification to detachment, offer us a means to understand what spectators have always taken away from their cinematic experience. Through theoretical approaches and case studies, scholars offer a variety of models for stimulating historical research on corporeality and cinema by exploring the matrix of screened bodies, machine-made scaffolding, and their connections to the physical bodies in front of the screen.

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Portraits of women and girls intertwined with the photographer’s gaze, in a rare subversion of photography’s power relations This volume presents award-winning Pennsylvania-based photographer Lydia Panas’ (born 1958) much-praised series of mesmerizing color portraits of reclining women and girls. In an interesting reversal of roles, the artist's and models' gazes are intertwined, incorporating the viewer as participant in an often uncomfortable connection. Critics and curators have praised the work for Panas’ artistic and technical mastery, and all have noted and examined the powerfully affecting gaze of her subjects. Panas notes: “While my subjects do in actuality turn their gaze towards me, it’s as if at times I turn the camera onto myself, both in the present and back in time.” In Sleeping Beauty, her subjects lie down, a metaphor for the position girls and women have been placed in historically. But they look out with self-awareness, in a way that implies a lack of complicity.

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Public, Private, Secret explores the roles that photography and video play in the crafting of identity, and the reconfiguration of social conventions that define our public and private selves. Consciously framed by our present era, this collection of essays, interviews, and reflections assesses how our image-making and consumption patterns are embedded and implicated in a wider matrix of online behavior and social codes, which in turn give images a life of their own. Within this context, our visual creations and online activities blur and remove conventional delineations between public and private (and sometimes secret) expression; in fact, they multiply and expand the number of potential selves in the contemporary image-centric world. The writings address the various disruptions, resistances, and subversions that artists propose to the limited versions of race, gender, sexuality, and autonomy that populate mainstream popular culture. In so doing, they anticipate a future for our image-world rich with diversity and alterity, one that can be shaped and influenced by the agency of self- representation.

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Live the life you want, not the life you settle for.Helping people build healthy new habits that improve their lives is more important than ever. Arianna Huffington launched Thrive Global to do just that - Thrive's specific mission is to end the epidemic of stress and burnout and help individuals and companies unlock their greatest potential. Science continues to show that we don't have to sacrifice our well-being in order to succeed; in fact, it turns out that well-being is critical to peak performance. Learning to thrive means:* Moving from awareness to action - from knowing what to do to actually doing it* Embracing solutions that appeal to wisdom, wonder, intuition, reflection, and are steeped in science* Taking the time to rest and recover in order to fuel and maximize productivity, both personal and professional* Making the mindset shifts and habit changes that supercharge performance in ways that truly matter to usEschewing trendy self-care fixes or the latest health fads, Your Time to Thrive is the revolutionary guide to living and working based on Microsteps - tiny, science-backed changes. By making them too-small-to fail, we can incorporate them into our daily lives right away, and begin building healthier ways of living and working. This book is a Microstep bible. With chapters dedicated to sleep, nutrition, movement, focus and prioritization, communication and relationships, unplugging and recharging, creativity and inspiration, and purpose/meaning, Your Time to Thrive shares practical, usable, research-supported mini-habits that will yield huge benefits and empower people to truly thrive in all parts of their lives.

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A beautifully designed book full of creative ideas and fun activities to get your children outdoors, with a foreword by Chris Packham. Spending time outdoors and interacting with the elements gives our senses a host of stimuli that cannot be recreated indoors. Whether you’re splashing in muddy puddles, making shelters, foraging blackberries, playing hide and seek or watching birds, experiencing the natural world reduces stress, makes us feel alive and lays critical foundations for a healthy developing brain. Learning with Nature is ideal for parents, teachers and youth workers looking to enrich children’s learning through nature and teach them to enjoy and respect the great outdoors. Written by experienced Forest School practitioners, it is packed with more than 100 tried and tested games and activities suitable for groups of children aged between 3 and 16, which aim to help children develop key practical and social skills and gain a better awareness of the world. The book is well-organised and features step-by-step instructions, age guides, a list of resources needed, and invisible learning points. Explore, have fun, make things and learn about nature with this fantastic guide.

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The Uses of Oppression follows the development of the Ottoman Greek press in the nineteenth century. It employs the vivid reflections of editors, correspondents, advertisers, commentators, and readers to view the everyday lives of a generation caught up in radical social and political changes, including the period of reforms known as Tanzimat.

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This monograph has two aims: first, to identify specific processes of the reversal phenomenon by using a developmental approach. Second, to use ambiguous figures as a research tool to shed more light onto children's developing understanding of pictorial representation.

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Gabriela and her father become separated while visiting the zoo. She's worried that she won't find him. What can she do? Includes a parent who use a wheelchair.

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Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent employment of bots and artificial intelligence. The book adopts an original and multidisciplinary approach to this topic: combining the science of media economics with the experience of a practicing journalist of a major daily newspaper. The result is an essential guide to the opportunities of the media to respond to a changing global digital landscape. Independent news reporting is vital in the contemporary democracy; the media must itself become a new “smart press”.

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This book offers a pragmatic guide to navigating through the complex maze of EPR/ESR spectroscopy fundamentals, techniques, and applications. Written for the scientist who is new to EPR spectroscopy, the editors have prepared a volume that de-mystifies the basic fundamentals without weighting readers down with detailed physics and mathematics, and then presents clear approaches in specific application areas. The first part presents basic fundamentals and advantages of electron paramagnetic resonance spectrscopy. The second part explores severalapplication areas including chemistry, biology, medicine, materials and geology. A frequently-asked-questions sections focuses on practicalquestions, such as the size of sample, etc. It's an ideal, hands-on reference for chemists and researchers in the pharmaceutical and materials (semiconductor) industries who are looking for a basic introduction to EPR spectroscopy.

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Together, images and conversations portray the underlying motivation, orientation and stances of some of the most prominent young architects, photographers, artists and filmmakers whose body of work gravitates around the world of architecture. Interviews with: Kersten Geers (Office KGDVS, architect), François Charbonnet (Made In, architect), Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine (filmmakers), Junya Ishigami (architect), Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara (DOGMA, architects), Philipp Schaerer (visual artist), Go Hasegawa (architect), Bas Princen (photographer), Yuri Ancarani (visual artist) and Anne Holtrop (architect). Text in German.

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Comprender a su hijo es un libro innovador que abarca desde los rutinarios biberones y el cambio de pañales hasta uno de los aspectos más interesantes y gratificantes de ser padres: educar a un individuo feliz y equilibrado. Con ideas prácticas y constructivas le ayudará a afrontar los numerosos retos del hecho de ser padres como: comunicar amor, aprender a compartir, problemas de sueño, educación sexual, divorcio, falta de apetito, timidez, dependencia de sustancias tóxicas, enseñar a valorar las buenas maneras, etc.

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Este libro es una cálida y directa ayuda para una de las experiencias humanas más dolorosas. Escrito por un psicólogo, un psiquiatra y un poeta, este libro amable y simpático a la vez es una guía eficaz para sobreponerse a la aflicción y la infelicidad. Ofrece una recopilación de soluciones, realmente factibles, que pueden confortar y ayudar de manera natural.

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En pleno verano reúne doce relatos que comparten una atmósfera melancólica y nostálgica; en todos ellos algún cambio, por imperceptible que sea, señala el final de una etapa. El tiempo parece fluir sigiloso en el viaje que acaba, la amistad que languidece, la lejana infancia o el amor que ya sólo pervive en el recuerdo. Historias cotidianas en las que la autora se sirve de la elipsis, así como de su intuición yempatía, para recrear la soledad, el miedo o el sentimiento de pérdida de los personajes. Bánk plasma con calculada sobriedad un intenso mundo afectivo, rico y destilado, y retrata la complejidad de las relaciones humanas con el gran talento narrativo que ya mostró en El nadador.

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Lili es una mujer de treinta y cinco años que vive con Yukio, su marido, a quien hace tiempo que no ama. Haruna, su mejor amiga, está enamorada de Yukio desde que lo conoció, y Lili sospecha que ambos la engañan, pero decide no hacer nada al respecto. Una noche conoce a Akira, un hombre más joven que ella, con el que inicia una relación. Las historias de los cuatro amantes se entrelazan sutilmente en esta novela, en la que Hiromi Kawakami, con su prosa sensual y concisa, nos invita a reflexionar acerca de la soledad y la naturaleza de las relaciones humanas.Hiromi Kawakami (Tokio, 1958) estudió Ciencias naturales y fue profesora de Biología hasta que en 1994 apareció su primera novela. Sus libros han recibido losmás reputados premios literarios, que la han convertido en una de las escritoras japonesas más leídas. En esta editorial han aparecido sus libros El cielo es azul, la tierra blanca (2001; Acantilado, 2009), que recibió el Premio Tanizaki, Algo que brilla como el mar (20

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