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A pesar del gran interés que ha suscitado su estudio, el lenguaje humano en la Prehistoria sigue siendo un fenómeno poco conocido. Su investigación sólo ha podido llevarse a cabo de forma muy elemental, debido a las grandes limitaciones que la Arqueología encuentra en su realización, pues las palabras no dejan huellas visibles en los yacimientos. Sólo por medio de la Paleoantropología se ha podido relacionar ciertos criterios de evolución anatómica (neurológica y somática) dentro del género Homo con la posibilidad de la existencia del lenguaje.En este libro se realiza un estudio multidisciplinar, usando los conocimientos más actuales de la Neurología, la Psicología, la Sociología y la Biología evolutiva. Con ellos se elabora una síntesis metodológica, o modelo general, sobre el desarrollo y funcionamiento cognitivo del género humano, el cual es utilizado en la interpretación de la conducta observada en los yacimientos y, por tanto, del lenguaje necesario para su creación. Con esta

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El populismo, en una percepción común no muy lejana formaba parte de las patologías endémicas pero no graves de las democracias. La connotación negativa del término deriva de que, desde el nacimiento de la democracia en el mundo antiguo, ésta se ha visto asediada de forma permanente por los intentos de manipulación de demagogos y charlatanes que halagando las pasiones del pueblo buscan dar curso a su poder personal. El populista es sinónimo de demagogo y éste es tan común en las democracias que su presencia a nadie sorprende.El populismo es pues un elemento consustancial a la democracia, pues el político populista siempre ha formado parte de su paisaje: el que busca avivar el rescoldo de los temores sociales para hacer de ello su medro. Puesto que el recurso es conocido, su usuario generalmente carece de credibilidad, salvo en condiciones excepcionales. Sin embargo, más allá de la figura del demagogo, este endemismo de la democracia puede dar lugar a epidemias verdaderamente preocu

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Este libro desarrolla todos los contenidos exigidos por la LOE para afrontar con éxito las pruebas de concurso-oposición necesarias para acceder a la función pública en la categoría de maestro especialista en Educación Infantil. Los 25 temas que conforman el temario se exponen de forma clara y precisa.;El opositor no necesitará resumirlos ni ampliarlos ya que su contenido es el idóneo para ser presentado ante el tribunal examinador. Cada uno de ellos incluye conclusiones a modo de síntesis y bibliografía detallada. Además, la obra incorpora aspectos generales a tener en cuenta por el opositor así como aspectos legislativos y didácticos del sistema educativo.

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Peces tropicales de agua dulce es un libro imprescindible para todo aficionado a la acuariofilia. Incluye seiscientas especies y subespecies de peces tropicales de agua dulce. Es una guía eminentemente práctica, agradable de leer, ilustrada en color, con una completa ficha para cada especie donde encontramos el nombre común y el científico, sinónimos, familia, tipo de agua, tamaño, lugar de origen, primera importación, comportamiento, distribución, hábitat, etc. Todas las especies descritas se encuentran en el mercado, con lo que el aficionado podrá ver realizadas sus expectativas.

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Este libro aúna de manera armónica la investigación y la acción, la teoría y la práctica, la educación y el trabajo social. A partir del estudio descriptivo de la Parálisis Cerebral en la infancia, adolescencia y edad adulta (qué es y qué no es, qué se debe hacer y qué se debe evitar en cada caso) se presenta el trabajo de uno de los más avanzados y experimentados Centros, donde se demuestra que es posible ofrecer una educación significativa, desde la atención temprana hasta la formación profesional en un ?centro ocupacional?. Se concede una gran importancia al departamento de Orientación y Psicología, donde se abordan los aspectos emocionales y la relación con las familias. Se trata, pues, de un estudio rico en enfoques teóricos y propuestas prácticas, realizado desde la experiencia y la reflexión de numerosos expertos en Parálisis Cerebral, pero con un talante divulgativo y pedagógico que hace su lectura interesante para fisioterapeutas, trabajadores sociales, educadores, logopedas,

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En Tecnologías de la Información se hace una exposición acerca de la importancia que tienen éstas en las organizaciones, partiendo de un análisis respecto a lo que son las bases de datos y sus estructuras fundamentales. También se expone la definición de sistema, los elementos que lo integran, así como el impacto que tiene en las organizaciones. De igual forma, se ve la Teoría General de Sistemas y las metodologías de modelado y desarrollo de sistema. Finalmente se prosigue con la identificación de los principales sistemas de información, su aplicación y en dónde los podemos ubicar dentro de una organización. Aprenda:Sobre las diferentes teorías de sistemas e información. Conozca: Las fuentes de información en las organizaciones. Desarrolle:Habilidades para la construcción de bases de datos y la creación de prototipos de sistemas de información. Ángel Gutiérrez González es licenciado en informática por el Instituto Politécnico Nacional, cursó el posgrado en la Universidad del Valle de

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Descripción: 288 p. 21x14 c.Encuadernación: rústico con solapa.Colección: Estudios y ensayos,123.Los salmos son oraciones poéticas. El creyente desgrana su existencia ante Dios a lo largo de ciento cincuenta poemas. En ellos tiene cabida la amplia gama de sentimientos humanos, desde el dolor más profundo. hasta el gozo más intenso. Israel supo orar con los salmos; es decir, captó en este repertorio oficial de oraciones las palabras con las que un padre enseña a su hijo, se apropió de ellas y se dirigió a Dios sin ficción ni fingimiento. Jesús oró con los salmos. La Iglesia heredó de Israel esta antología de oraciones. Con ellas ha orado desde sus orígenes y aun hoy continúa orando auténticamente: se dirige a Dios mediante su santa palabra, dirigida al Padre, por medio del Señor, en la unidad del Espíritu. El presente libro es el resultado de una nueva traducción del texto hebreo, cuya finalidad es ayudar al cristiano de hoy a orar cristianamente con estas oraciones poéticas

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Encuadernación: Rústica.Colección: El Libro de Bolsillo. Bibliotecas de Autor. Biblioteca SchopenhauerPresentado por Arthur Schopenhauer al concurso convocado en 1839 por la real Sociedad Noruega, en el que obtuvo el premio, "Sobre la libertad de la voluntad" vería la luz en 1841 junto con otro trabajo ?Sobre el fundamento de la moral?, bajo el título común de "Los dos problemas fundamentales de la ética". La importancia y el lugar exacto que ocupa esta obra clave de Schopenhauer (1788-1860) en el conjunto de su filosofía quedan perfectamente establecidos en la introducción de Ángel Gabilondo, quien asimismo ha revisado ?subsanando algunas erratas y modificando ligeramente algunos criterios de edición? la traducción clásica de Eugenio Ímaz para la Revista de Occidente. Complementan la edición los combativos prólogos que Schopenhauer escribió para acompañar la primera y la segunda ediciones (1841 y 1860, respectivamente) de la mencionada obra "Los dos problemas fundamentales de l

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El Valle del Loira es uno de esos lugares en los que uno piensa cuando se sueña con el paraíso: una región apacible, con un clima suave y agradable y un paisaje verde, ondulante y abierto, tanto que parece que el cielo está más cerca de la tierra. Escogido como lugar de residencia por varias generaciones de reyes, poco a poco la nobleza fue llenando su apacible campiña de fortalezas y espléndidos castillos renacentistas, que con el tiempo fueron evolucionando en otros estilos, para dejarnos como legado este símbolo del fastuoso modo de vida de una corte y una época. A este lujo se antepone una arquitectura popular, con coquetos tejados que cuelgan sus aguas casi hasta el suelo y preciosas ciudades blancas rematadas por tejados de pizarra, cuyo color anuncia la proximidad del norte. El paso por el Valle del Loira dejará al viajero una sensación de reposo, tranquilidad y calidad de vida y el recuerdo de la dulzura de una tierra grata y acogedora.

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Poca o casi nula ha sido la atención que le ha consagrado la crítica literaria a la comedia Los Prados de León y mucha la desidia que durante siglos se ha cernido sobre ella, una comedia sin embargo predilecta para Lope de Vega y una joya lírica de muchos quilates, por lo que es de justicia rescatarla de este inmerecido e incomprensible limbo del olvido académico y editorial. Es a este justo y justificado rescate al que pretende contribuir esta edición de la comedia Los Prados de León de Lope de Vega, una edición moderna, anotada y comentada, sobre todo comenta-da, con una Introducción y Estudio preliminar importantes, algunos de cuyos planteamientos pueden resultar novedosos o insólitos en la crítica literaria de obras de ingenios del Siglo de Oro. Dirigida en primer lugar a un público en general y también -por qué no- a un público más especializado o interesado en Lope de Vega y su teatro histórico-legendario, esta edición aborda la comedia Los Prados de León desde la problemática de

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La gran aventura intelectual del surrealismo agrupó, en los primeros años del siglo xx y a la sombra no siempre protectora del movimiento Dadá, a un reducido grupo literario que acabaría pronto con los gestos y actitudes de la vanguardia rezagada. Contaminó e hizo suyas pintura, escultura, cine y solo la música parece haber estado fuera de su influencia. Intervino en política con la contundencia de una izquierda sin ataduras, ajena al escalafón y al consenso, uniendo a Marx y a Rimbaud en una frase que ha hecho fortuna: Objetivo triple e indivisible: transformar el mundo, cambiar la vida, rehacer de arriba a abajo el pensamiento humano.A despecho de ellos mismos que siempre se consideraron al margen del orden establecido, fue la literatura su campo de acción y en muchas ocasiones su campo de batalla. André Breton, Paul Éluard, Benjamín Péret, René Crevel, Antonin Artaud, Louis Aragon y Tristan Tzara forman parte de la literatura francesa del siglo xx. Saber lo que se quiere era una

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Understanding the causes of the racial achievement gap in American education—and then addressing it with effective programs—is one of the most urgent problems communities and educators face. For many years, the most popular explanation for the achievement gap has been the “oppositional culture theory”: the idea that black students underperform in secondary schools because of a group culture that devalues learning and sees academic effort as “acting white.” Despite lack of evidence for this belief, classroom teachers accept it, with predictable self-fulfilling results. In a careful quantitative assessment of the oppositional culture hypothesis, Angel L. Harris tested its empirical implications systematically and broadened his analysis to include data from British schools. From every conceivable angle of examination, the oppositional culture theory fell flat.Despite achieving less in school, black students value schooling more than their white counterparts do. Black kids perform badly in high school not because they don’t want to succeed but because they enter without the necessary skills. Harris finds that the achievement gap starts to open up in preadolescence—when cumulating socioeconomic and health disadvantages inhibit skills development and when students start to feel the impact of lowered teacher expectations. Kids Don’t Want to Fail is must reading for teachers, academics, policy makers, and anyone interested in understanding the intersection of race and education.

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Didactics of mathematics has been recently considered, for less than a century, as scientific discipline as itself. The study of this discipline has significantly grown in the last decades since many authors have focused their efforts in the study of the relations of the knowledge and the processes of teaching-learning of mathematics. This book presents eight original contributions of authors from ten different universities, and even from different countries, related to (1) Learning and metacognition; (2) A methodology to teach mathematics; (3) A study related to mathematics in China; (4) Collaborative learning in Mathematics in Secondary Education; (5) Intervention to teach notable products in Secondary Education; (6) The use of holography in geometry teaching in Secondary Education; (7) Problem Based Learning in University for advanced mathematics teaching; (8) Flip teaching in University. This monograph is required reading for all researchers in mathematics education and contains different useful material for mathematics educators and teacher trainers interested in the theory and practice of mathematics education. As such this monograph is suitable to teachers of mathematics in different educational levels. Researchers, graduate students and seminars will find this book really helpful for their daily work. This book is also recommended to researchers in different disciplines, such as general education, didactics or general mathematics.

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Iterative processes are the tools used to generate sequences approximating solutions of equations describing real life problems. Intended for researchers in computational sciences and as a reference book for advanced computational method in nonlinear analysis, this book is a collection of the recent results on the convergence analysis of numerical algorithms in both finite-dimensional and infinite-dimensional spaces and presents several applications and connections with fixed point theory. It contains an abundant and updated bibliography and provides comparisons between various investigations made in recent years in the field of computational nonlinear analysis.The book also provides recent advancements in the study of iterative procedures and can be used as a source to obtain the proper method to use in order to solve a problem. The book assumes a basic background in Mathematical Statistics, Linear Algebra and Numerical Analysis and may be used as a self-study reference or as a supplementary text for an advanced course in Biosciences or Applied Sciences. Moreover, the newest techniques used to study the dynamics of iterative methods are described and used in the book and they are compared with the classical ones.

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suddenlyI should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, I should have stayed at home, for some time, seconds, hours, I can do nothing,suddenly I stopVioleta is driving along a lonely stretch of late-night motorway, in the midst of a fearsome storm. When her tired eyes close for just a second, her car veers off the road, rolls down a muddy embankment, over and over, and comes to rest on an empty stretch of sodden ground. And as she lies amid the wreckage of her car, suspended between this world and the next, Violeta's life will quite literally flash before her eyes . . .Scenes from her past overlap with what happened right before the accident: her upbringing with her distant, critical mother; her father's mysterious double-life; her troubled relationship with her daughter; her life on the road as she drives between waxing product-selling appointments with breaks at motorway service stations, the abuse from other travellers mocking her size, the alcohol, the risky encounters with lorry drivers on filthy public toilet floors...Violeta Among the Stars weaves memories and feelings as Violeta reflects on her death, her life, her reality and her dreams. An astonishing portrait of a seemingly insignificant life, from one of Portugal's greatest living writers.Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-QuintanaÁngel Gurría-Quintana is a historian, journalist and literary translator from Spanish and Portuguese. He writes regularly for the books pages of the Financial Times, and his translations include the anthology Other Carnivals: Short Stories from Brazil and The Return, by Dulce Maria Cardoso.With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

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Everyone has gone away... We too should no longer be here.Luanda, 1975. The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade, but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship, defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight. Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels.Rui is fifteen years old. He has lived in Luanda all his life and has never even visited the far-away homeland - although he has heard many stories. But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return, and Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement and dread at the prospect. But just as they are leaving for the airport, his father is taken away by the rebels, and the family must leave without him.Not knowing if the father is alive or dead - or if they will ever find out what has become of him, Rui, his mother and sister try to rebuild their lives in their new home. This turns out to be a five star hotel in a quiet, seaside suburb of Lisbon, where returnee families are crammed into luxurious rooms by the dozen. These palatial surroundings are a cruel contrast with the reality of returnee life. The hotel becomes a curious form of purgatory as the families wait to discover what will become of them - ever conscious of the fact that they are hardly welcome back in their homeland. Rui has his own personal struggle with his new life: growing up, dropping out of school, facing discrimination, and the ever-present worry over his mother's deteriorating health and his father's fate.And then one night Rui's father returns from the dead.Translated from the Portuguese by Ángel Gurría-Quintana

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Self-taught Angel Laws, the founder of ConcreteLoop.com, created a successful and profitable blog, one that receives more than 500,000 unique hits a day. Offering readers simple, step-by-step advice on how to turn a blog into a career—or at the very least a money maker—Laws will help anyone with an interest in this field. Using this guide to the art of blogging about celebrities, fashion, music, and entertainment, you will learn how to: • Pick the right name for your blog • Brand your blog, bringing your readers, money, and fame • Use social networks to your advantage • Generate ad revenue and know what to look out for • Manage your blog, from content to comments • And so much more! Peppered with insider stories about the movers and shakers of the entertainment world—the kind of stuff only someone behind the scenes knows—ConcreteLoop.com Presents: Angel’s Laws of Blogging is the book to read if you want your blog to succeed.

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The worldwide use of building envelopes in steel and glass is one of the characteristic features of modern architecture. Many of these pre- and post-war buildings are now suffering severe defects in the building fabric, which necessitate measures to preserve the buildings. In this endeavor, aspects of architectural design, building physics, and the preservation of historic buildings play a key role. Using a selection of 20 iconic buildings in Europe and the USA, the book documents the current technological status of the three most common strategies used today: restoration, rehabilitation, and replacement. The buildings include Fallingwater House by Frank Lloyd Wright, Farnsworth House by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Fagus Factory and Bauhaus Building by Walter Gropius.

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A reassuring rhyming picture book about sensory overload and what you can do when everything is too muchWhen feelings go on overload,I pause and breatheand all is . . . slowed. Sometimes everything is too much! Too loud, too bright, and all too overwhelming. Writing from her own experience with sensory processing disorder, Jolene Gutiérrez’s compassionate picture book explores the struggles of a sensorily sensitive child and how they settle themselves. Joined by Angel Chang’s beautiful illustrations, young readers will learn that it’s OK if some days are too much. An extensive author’s note to caregivers and educators explores sensory systems, sensory processing issues, and specific information about how to support kids with overstimulated nervous systems as they learn to soothe themselves.

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To say that multilingualism is the norm and monolingualism the exception has become a truism. In fact, the European Union is clearly committed to a multilingual Europe in which all its educational systems are advised to include two Community languages. It is in this context where this volume analyses the language use and attitudes of would-be teachers, as they will play a paramount role when it comes to keeping multilingualism as one of the key features of the European identity. There are four main reasons why this volume can make a contribution to this field of research. Firstly, it is a transnational study involving nine different bilingual states/areas which allows the reader to compare contexts that, despite sharing some similarities, do have their own pecularities. Secondly, it considers not only the minority and majority languages, but also the different foreign languages. Thirdly, it relies on the same instrument and methodology. And last but not least, the participants will have an enormous influence on their different educational systems and on their students’ linguistic perceptions.

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The twin focus of this book is on the importance of the Spanish heritage on nation and state building in nineteenth-century Spanish-speaking Latin America, alongside processes of nation and state building in Spain and Latin America. Rather than concentrating purely on nationalism and national identity, the book explores the linkages that remained or were re-established between Spain and her former colonies; as has increasingly been recognised in recent decades, the nineteenth century world was marked by the rise of the modern nation state, but also by the development of new transnational connections, and this book accounts for these processes within a Hispanic context.

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El objetivo de la obra es mostrar las dificultades que presenta un alumno con Trastorno de Déficit de Atención en el entorno escolar y en el ámbito de su propio aprendizaje, centrándonos en las áreas instrumentales de lenguaje y matemáticas, presentando una serie de pautas a nivel didáctico para optimizar el rendimiento en estas áreas.Está tratado desde el punto de vista didáctico, respecto al comportamiento ante estas materias, fundamentales para el éxito escolar de los alumnos. El alumno con TDAH padece una serie de problemas que afectan a su rendimiento escolar: unas, por su comportamiento, su impulsividad, su hiperactividad; otras, porque su falta de atención y concentración no le permiten que los contenidos escolares acaben siendo significativos para él, mostrando lagunas en los aprendizajes, el olvido constante de lo aprendido, etc.La obra incluye numerosos ejemplos gráficos de las realizaciones escolares de los alumnos con TDAH en estos ámbitos instrumentales que nos ayudan a co

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Explores new applications emerging from our latest understanding of proteins in solution and at interfaces Proteins in solution and at interfaces increasingly serve as the starting point for exciting new applications, from biomimetic materials to nanoparticle patterning. This book surveys the state of the science in the field, offering investigators a current understanding of the characteristics of proteins in solution and at interfaces as well as the techniques used to study these characteristics. Moreover, the authors explore many of the new and emerging applications that have resulted from the most recent studies. Topics include protein and protein aggregate structure; computational and experimental techniques to study protein structure, aggregation, and adsorption; proteins in non-standard conditions; and applications in biotechnology. Proteins in Solution and at Interfaces is divided into two parts: Part One introduces concepts as well as theoretical and experimental techniques that are used to study protein systems, including X-ray crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance, small angle scattering, and spectroscopic methods Part Two examines current and emerging applications, including nanomaterials, natural fibrous proteins, and biomolecular thermodynamics The book's twenty-three chapters have been contributed by leading experts in the field. These contributions are based on a thorough review of the latest peer-reviewed findings as well as the authors' own research experience. Chapters begin with a discussion of core concepts and then gradually build in complexity, concluding with a forecast of future developments. Readers will not only gain a current understanding of proteins in solution and at interfaces, but also will discover how theoretical and technical developments in the field can be translated into new applications in material design, genetic engineering, personalized medicine, drug delivery, biosensors, and biotechnology.

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Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America’s most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama’s groundbreaking study—presented here in its first English translation—provides an overview of the power of written discourse in the historical formation of Latin American societies, and highlights the central role of cities in deploying and reproducing that power. To impose order on a vast New World empire, the Iberian monarchs created carefully planned cities where institutional and legal powers were administered through a specialized cadre of elite men called letrados; it is the urban nexus of lettered culture and state power that Rama calls “the lettered city.” Starting with the colonial period, Rama undertakes a historical analysis of the hegemonic influences of the written word. He explores the place of writing and urbanization in the imperial designs of the Iberian colonialists and views the city both as a rational order of signs representative of Enlightenment progress and as the site where the Old World is transformed—according to detailed written instructions—in the New. His analysis continues by recounting the social and political challenges faced by the letrados as their roles in society widened to include those of journalist, fiction writer, essayist, and political leader, and how those roles changed through the independence movements of the nineteenth century. The coming of the twentieth century, and especially the gradual emergence of a mass reading public, brought further challenges. Through a discussion of the currents and countercurrents in turn-of-the-century literary life, Rama shows how the city of letters was finally “revolutionized.”Already crucial in setting the terms for debate concerning the complex relationships among intellectuals, national formations, and the state, this elegantly written and translated work will be read by Latin American scholars in a wide range of disciplines, and by students and scholars in the fields of anthropology, cultural geography, and postcolonial studies.

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