Enseñar una lengua extranjera es siempre un desafío. Es mucho más fácil cuando a los estudiantes les encantan los materiales que se utilizan para enseñarles. No muchos libros están escritos por lectores jóvenes de secundaria. Esperamos que a sus estudiantes les guste aprender con estos libros bilingües.
En 1995 Ediciones Luciérnaga publicó, con el título Morir es de vital importancia, algunas conferencias de Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, junto con la que pronunció en la ciudad de Barcelona en 1992, además de la entrevista «Sida, amor y vida». Esta nueva edición, corregida y ampliada, incluye las conferencias que Elisabeth Kübler-Ross pronunció en Suecia (1980 y 1981) y en EE. UU. (1982 y 1985), compiladas y editadas por Göran Grip, M.D. El lector encontrará a lo largo de su lectura algunas repeticiones, inevitables por ser la transmisión del pensamiento y experiencia de la doctora Kübler-Ross. Ediciones Luciérnaga ha preferido en esta edición publicarlas en su integridad en el intento de conservar la fuerza, espontaneidad, frescura y unidad presentes en cada una de ellas.
In a post-apocalyptic earth, a group of teenagers are forced to embark on a dangerous quest, upon witnessing a world-changing event in their first mission outside the kingdom Olympus. They quickly learn that this occurrence is capable of ending The Age of Zombies, however, their oppressors soon obtain news of this incident as well. These teens must combat the undead army, the world government's elite enforcers, bandits searching for easy targets, and most deadly of all, each other in their perilous adventure for safety and answers around The New World!
L'estudi de la dona és fonamental per a entendre els mites i les realitats de la cultura del Sud dels Estats Units. Aquest volum estudia com la producció literària d'autores del sud, blanques i negres, es va veure condicionada pel sistema esclavista i per la segregació racial, i com aquestes escriptores es van sentir afectades de diverses maneres pels rols i les imatges sexuals i racials que les van definir. Les obres de totes aquestes autores destaquen la participació de la dona del sud tant en el manteniment com en la destrucció dels mites d'un Sud que el vent encara no sembla haver-se’l emportat.
Los seres humanos pocas veces estamos contentos con nuestra suerte, la mayoría quisiéramos tener una o mas vidas diferentes. Es en este sentido, que la literatura narrativa, nos da la oportunidad de recrearnos en la vida de otros individuos, reales o imaginados. En estos “9 Cuentos” de diversas temáticas, que Mario Ramón comparte, nos lleva como en los sueños: de un macro a un microcosmos, de un país a otro, utilizando libremente el manejo del tiempo; del presente al pasado y de este al futuro, igualmente de la vida a la muerte y de esta nuevamente a la vida. Cuentos que se acercan y se alejan de la historicidad, para entrar en el mundo de los mitos, de la magia, de la imaginación y de los sueños. Mario R. Meneses. R., (1942) es asiduo asistente a las citas del “jueves por las tardes en la Librería Gandhi” para junto con el grupo de lectura, tener un acercamiento a las grandes obras de la literatura universal.
This book talks about the reasons why many people from Central America emigrate to the United States. This is also about how it was my journey and how I crossed the desert of the United States. In reality, most of us as immigrants have a past that has marked our lives, and I dare to talk about this so that all the people of the world see the cruel reality that we have to pass to arrive in United States.
Sadly, domestic violence is the most underreported crime worldwide. But domestic abuse against women, children, or the elderly, is not acceptable. 19 twist ending short stories. Ⓒ2015 Will Smile
Combining poetic language and the traditions of magic realism to paint a vivid portrait of her family, Pat MoraÕs House of Houses is an unconventional memoir that reads as if every member, death notwithstanding, is in one room talking, laughing, and crying. In a salute to the Day of the Dead, the story begins with a visit to the cemetery in which all of her deceased relatives come alive to share stories of the family, literally bringing the food to their own funerals. From there the book covers a year in the life of her clan, revealing the personalities and events that Mora herself so desperately yearns to know and understand. ÒPoet MoraÕs complex and dramatic family history comprises more than personal reminiscences: it also embraces resonant aspects of Mexican American history. Mora recounts her familyÕs traumatic exodus from Mexico to escape the violence of Pancho Villa and his forces and their struggles to begin new lives in another country. To anchor her psychologically rich, dramatic, sometimes funny, often touching multigenerational tale, Mora uses the image of a houseÑthe house of housesÑduring a single year, a fruitful metaphor that allows her to dwell on the bright ...
En sus versiones originales, Fausto, Don Quijote y Don Juan reflejan el anti-individualismo de su tiempo. Fausto y Don Juan son castigados con el infierno y Don Quijote es objeto de mofa. Un siglo despues, el Robinson Crusoe de Defoe nos ofrece una consideración más favorable del individualismo. Ian Watt examina estos cuatro mitos del mundo moderno, creados entre los siglos XVI y XVIII, como productos distintos de una misma sociedad.
Después del éxito de la edición ilustrada de Cien años de soledad, Luisa Rivera vuelve a rendir homenaje a García Márquez con una serie de ilustraciones inéditas que recrean el extraordinario universo del autor. Una edición conmemorativa de El amor en los tiempos del cólera, un gran clásico de Gabriel García Márquez y una novela imprescindible de la literatura contemporánea. «Era inevitable: el olor de las almendras amargas le recordaba siempre el destino de los amores contrariados.» Así empieza una de las historias de amor más maravillosas de la literatura universal. Un amor no correspondido durante medio siglo con un pueblecito portuario del Caribe como escenario. El Nobel de Literatura nos presenta la mágica relación entre Fermina Daza y Florentino Ariza como una mezcla tropical de plantas y arcilla, que el maestro moldea y con las que fantasea a su placer entre los territorios del mito y la leyenda. Los jugos, olores y sabores del trópico alimentan una prosa alucinatoria que se ha ganado el favor de miles de lectores en todo el mundo. Reseña: «Esta brillante y desgarradora novela es quizás una de las mejores historias de amor jamás contadas.» The New...
I was born in a small town that at that time had about 300 inhabitants between children and adults ... I am a simple person, not very happy but not bitter. I am always willing to help those who need it; I do not wait for me to go begging, I offer help. I do not have much education I went to school for a short time. I finished sixth grade until I had 15 years old, but I remember that since I was young I liked to write stories, although I had never had the opportunity to publish them. I hope these stories reach your hearts and I also hope they like you. I want you enjoy them so much that you want to read them all... and other stories more. Remember that reading gives you education and culture. A part of these stories is true. A common occurrence for some people, whether by nature or custom, is to criticize or judge others and, often we do not realize that we make that person, or their family feel bad. Sometimes we can even physically or mentally harm them. Among the stories written here, one is true. It speaks of a little girl who has been criticized since her birth but has had the intelligence to turn criticism into positive energy. She has not stopped to listen to mediocre...
La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy. The play is based around five daughters who live with their fearsome and tyrannical mother. The daughters have been kept sheltered from the opposite sex, but the arrival of a suitor after their father's death catapults the family into a downward spiral of sexual jealousy and death. The play explores themes of sexual oppression, passion, and conformity, and examines women's lives in Spain at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Bernarda's cruel tyranny over her daughters foreshadows the stifling nature of Franco's fascist regime, which was to arrive just a few weeks after Lorca finished writing his play. The introduction by Eric Southworth addresses the main issues of the play and the issues involved in translating it.
Aldama (English, University of Colorado) presents unpublished short fiction, poetry, and essays by Islas (1938-1991), a gay Chicano writer best known for his novels The Rain God and Migrant Souls. An introduction discusses Islas' poetic form and narrative technique and his place in Chicano literature, and a chronology outlines major events in his life. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Flor returns to school from a vacation in Mexico, only to find she brought back a small man with dark yellow skin and thin, stringy hair, who emerges from her backpack and introduces himself as Rafa, a mummy from the famous museum in Guanajuato.
The Apocalypse has been unleashed and it’s ravenous… Welcome to the world of Homo mortem. The Hour of the Dead is the first book in “The Chronicles of Homo Mortem” series, a trilogy that takes readers through an apocalyptic pandemic that threatens the destiny of humanity. A journey to the dark side of human beings through the experiences of five survivors who must unite their paths in order to face the end of the world.
Mucho se ha escrito sobre traducción, pero no tanto sobre lo que en buena medida ha provocado semejante interés por esta disciplina: la didáctica de la traducción. Y es que, para formar a los futuros traductores, apuesta decidida de la universidad española, es necesario conocer la naturaleza y objetivos de lo enseñado para, consecuentemente, elaborar materiales metodológicos idóneos que recojan las diferentes etapas y fases del proceso de análisis y traducción de un texto original. En esta guía didáctica presentamos una oferta metodológica para la traducción de textos idiolectales (ensayo, artículo de opinión, textos literarios, ...) a partir de su consideración comunicativa, determinada por la mayor o menor subjetividad inherente a este tipo de textos. Nuestro propósito es servir de ayuda a los universitarios que forman y se forman en el ámbito de la traducción, ofreciéndoles una sistematización pedagógica que podrán adaptar a sus necesidades acedémicas y experiencia docente.
Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muñoz and Gregorio López y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas, Cartucho (first published in 1931) and My Mother's Hands (first published as Las manos de Mamá in 1938), are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico. Campobello's memories of the Revolution in the north of Mexico, where Pancho Villa was a popular hero and a personal friend of her family, show not only the stark realism of Cartucho but also the tender lyricism of My Mother's Hands. They are noteworthy, too, as a first-person account of the female experience in the early years of the Mexican Revolution and unique in their presentation of events from a child's perspective.
En un mundo cada vez más globalizado y de cambios constantes, requiere unas herramientas adecuadas para abordar los desafíos a los que la comunidad académica, sanitaria, educativa e institucional han de hacer frente. El libro nace de la necesidad de dar respuesta a la diversidad existente en el ámbito de salud. Se busca ofrecer nuevas vías de teorización e intervención sobre cómo la educación y la salud, desde una perspectiva global y transcultural, pueden contribuir a disminuir las desigualdades sociales, los procesos de exclusión, fomentar la interculturalidad y la salud transcultural.
After years of traveling the world, searching for all life has to offer, Toni Martí realizes that his youthful curiosity has soured into stagnation, depression, and drug addiction. While stumbling through what remains of his life, he commits a crime and is sentenced to community service at a nursing home. Forced to comply, he forms a grudging relationship with Juan, an octogenarian whose family long ago abandoned him, and whose day-to-day life seems undisturbed by change. He also encounters Lucía, who runs the nursing home, but not her life; too fearful to follow the lure of her dreams or rebel against her parents, she has grown dull and unhappy. “Beyond Intensity” captures the story of three characters trapped in lives that bring them only loneliness and despair. Soon, they will be forced to discover what is beyond the pursuit of momentary pleasure, beyond routine, beyond conformity. Against the backdrop of a dehumanized society, these three characters’ lives give us the opportunity to reflect on the culture of immediacy and the search for instant gratification—to ask ourselves, what lies beyond intensity?
Las aventuras picarescas de una Sherezade latinoamericana, relatando su nacimiento ilegÍtimo, su orfandad, su adolescencia sin rumbo, sus actividades contra el gobierno, y su romance con un problemÁtico director de pelÍculas documentales. Por medio de su don narrativo, Eva Luna inventa una realidad personal determinada por la magia y el destino.
El inglés es difícil y el español es difícil. A veces la clave para aprender es diversión e interés. Estas historias son divertidas e interesantes. Fueron traducidos principalmente por Inteligencia Artificial, por lo que pueden necesitar un poco de retoque. Pero las ideas están ahí y puedes aprender inglés con las historias originales en inglés.
The Silenced Dead is an invaluable contribution to filling a substantial gap in the memory picture of our recent past and to putting an end to the conversion of crime into an archetype of good.
When you’re told that your child has brain damage, the world falls apart around you. No matter what happens to you, this is a turning point in your life, where you have to take decisions. For me, it was the moment when I decided, without knowing that I had, to start a new life; an awakening, a road with no return. Our children with brain injury come to teach us many things; it’s no coincidence that they have chosen us. Felipón has been, and is, a gift, I’m not speaking out of faith or through false hope, but rather from the experience of a woman who has discovered how loving herself can make her son improve day by day. There’s a fine, imperceptible thread between a mother and her children; a thread that only she recognises, but in order to recognise it, we must be there, in the present, and listen to ourselves. This is the story of how I’ve lived since we were told that Felipón had six very serious injuries in his brain, when I was twenty weeks pregnant. I’d have given a great deal to find a book where someone told me where to start... I do hope this book will help you to understand, as I have done, that your son is coming to achieve much more than you can possibly...
Alabanza de cómo hablar con loco ""Un raro y honesto relato de la manía, la depresión y la psicosis ... el libro para leer si quieres entender el sufrimiento de las personas con enfermedades mentales y el valor crudo que una mujer puede reunir. Donna lucha financieramente, socialmente, sexualmente y espiritualmente para encontrar la paz de los minions del infierno que habitan su mente. "" - Katherine Tapley-Milton, autora de Mind Full of Scorpions.
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