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Temor y valor en seis días: El testimonio de un soldado isarelí en perspectiva por Yehuda Reves A través del visor de un bazuca, este libro ofrece una visión crítica de temor, valor y orgullo, muerte y amor, amistad y odio, realidad y sueños místicos, de la fe y de lo laico, así como del final y el comienzo. Se trata de una colección de manuscritos, relatos y pensamientos escritos de manera intermitente durante un período de más de cuarenta años en el diario de un combatiente, durante las batallas de la Guerra de los Seis Días y tras ellas. Aquí se pinta una amarga y cruel realidad: cómo soldados matan, son heridos y mueren en el campo de batalla. Aquí se describen hechos entremezclados con imaginación y sueños. Se trata de una descripción que ejemplifica la índole de la sociedad masculina en el ejército israelí, con su combinación de ingenio, tosquedad e inocencia. Este libro fue escrito en el frente de batalla en el norte de Samaria y en el norte de los Altos del Golán. El autor sirvió en el cuerpo de blindados, como comandante de una compañía formada por seis vehículos. Todos estos manuscritos estaban atascados como balas en el cañón de un arma desde el fin de la guerra antes de que estuvieran listos para su recopilación en un volumen que incluye ahora las vivencias y la perspectiva de otro período de más de cuarenta años. Yehuda Reves es un silvicultor que durante toda su vida ha observado a personas, árboles, arbustos, el suelo y rocas inanimadas con un asombro inalterado. Ha tenido a su cargo la recolección de semillas y la propagación y plantación de árboles por cuenta del Departamento de Silvicultura de Israel. Hoy día viaja y se ocupa de la reproducción de plantas silvestres del Mediterráneo. El autor sirvió durante 32 años como oficial subalterno de reserva en el ejército israelí y participó en cuatro guerras. Está casado y tiene dos hijas y nueve nietos.
In the historical context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the height of the Romantic era, the 19th century, Anton Bruckner, the famous Austrian composer and organist, falls in love with the imposing Countess Henriette. She had been appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the wife of Prince Maximilian of Habsburg, to attend to her during the couple's Mexican endeavor. They had been named Emperor and Empress of Mexico and would embark on a journey to America for this mission. Bruckner meets the countess by chance at the funeral of Maximilian, who had been assassinated in Querétaro in 1867, during the so-called Second Mexican Empire. On the recommendation of a musician friend of Henriette's, who sees him at the funeral, she takes piano lessons with Bruckner. When she tells him that she had accompanied the empress to Mexico, the composer becomes enchanted. He admired Maximilian and was passionate about Mexico; he had even wanted to accompany the emperor. Ultimately, the only trips he made were to give organ concerts in London and another at Notre Dame in Paris. Between classes, the countess tells him of the Atlantic crossing, the arrival in Veracruz, and the entrance to Mexico City. Gradually, they grow closer. In one of his concerts, Bruckner meets Franz Liszt, who was a patron of Maximilian's empire in Mexico. Meanwhile, the countess and the organist plan a Requiem, which will be the turning point between them.
Thousands of people say things such as “I have no time”, “when did life pass me by”, or “I have nothing left to live for.” According to the WHO, nearly 700,000 people commit suicide every year, and conditions such as depression, anxiety, hopelessness, and lack of purpose are increasingly rooted in our societies, blocking our view to a life full of light and possibilities. In the age of instant connectivity, we have never been as disconnected, unmotivated and empty as we are now. In these pages, you will find 10 practical tools that will help you get unstuck, find your way through pain, and reconnect with your purpose towards a plentiful life. The book is divided in three sections that help you understand what is valuable about life, what we can give to the world as human beings, and how we can embrace challenges, increase connectivity with each other and increase our awareness. This book invites you to enrich your own life, through reflections that help you go deep inside, and examples of how others who when through similar experiences, got through them to live a happier, meaningful, and purposeful life.
Faced unexpectedly with Lyme Disease, Spanish Architect Blanca Rosa Gutiérrez must face illness and abandonment, while at the same time trying to take care of her two small children. She struggles to find help and treatment from doctors, until the combination of finding the right physician, and an iron will to overcome adversity through meditation and non traditional healing, puts her back on the road to full health. As the author says in her own words: "I wrote this book with a single purpose in mind: make it into a song of hope for anybody who is ill and feels defeated by pain, and have lost the will to live." This book is not about illness, is about recovery and new beginnings
In 2020, amidst the whirlwind of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ideas from books about the science of becoming a millionaire returned to Luis Miguel Estrada whom, since he left a financial job, has dedicated himself fully to literature. In this book, he thinks some of the key questions raised by bestsellers from Napoleon Hill to Kiyosaki. Do we stop seeking money just because we pursue art? More importantly: regardless of what we do, how do we seek money? Why have narratives like positive thinking and the law of attraction become a universal language that gains strength during each economic crisis? Is there a link between bestsellers about the science of getting rich and great universal literature? This book attempts to answer these questions, beginning with the origins of books on becoming a millionaire, which delve into the agile 19th-century United States, transition through the fast-paced turn of the century, and explode in the years after the Great Depression. The journey continues with examples of wild successes (real-life fraudsters like Elizabeth Holmes or fictional criminals like Walter White from Breaking Bad) that prompt us to question the influence of success-at-any-cost ideas on popular culture, as well as their ethical limits. How can one reconcile readings, cultural products, and experiences that seem so distant? The broader reading audience responds more to "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill than to "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck. Is there a way to read them alongside each other and emerge renewed from the experience? This book invites you on that adventure.
Talleres para el tiempo de postcomunión (9 a 11 años). Talleres para el primer año de catequesis de postcomunión: Alegría, Autenticidad, Grupo, Dios, Esperanza, Libertad, Sencillez, Amistad, Humildad, Vocación.
Peace is an idea, an abstract concept, which must be grounded in concrete realities. And building peace involves moving from an initial state, which may or may not be conflict, to a second moment in which people have learned to know, relate, meet, and live together. This book tries to elaborate on the construction of peace from an educational process, in which individuals learn to recognize themselves as subjects of equal dignity and with the capacity to carry out projects oriented to the common good. Similarly, educational settings, the so-called learning environments, are not confined exclusively to the walls of the classroom or the boundaries of formal education institutions: peace education occurs in any environment in which two or more coincide. people with potential conflicts of interest or collective construction.
Un libro sobre amistad, empatía y migración. Retrata la llegada de un nuevo compañero de clase al aula. Pase lo que pase, un cambio de contexto siempre es relevante para alguien. Un compañero se identifica con ella y la recibe. Obra ganadora del concurso nacional de relatos ilustrados para la primera infancia del Ministerio de Desarrollo Social en conjunto con la CNCA 2016. Libro que habla acerca de la llegada de una compañera nueva a la escuela, ideal para hablar de empatía, migración, inclusión, amistad, diversidad.
“The sky was covered with grey clouds. The drizzle was lighter than normal, almost pious. The Japanese were advancing through the streets with short, fast steps. Satoru was ahead of them. He pedaled at a good pace. From his bicycle seat, the city revealed itself to his eyes as a sequence of frames. It was strange to be there, in his grandfather's city, and to ride through it as he had probably never done before: on two wheels. Even so, the possibility that the route he was taking would intersect with the routes that his grandfather had taken when he was a child, provoked an intimate emotion in him. Those landscapes were over eighty years old, including an atomic bomb, but it was the land where Ryu Nakata had learned to walk, to speak, to read”. The death of his grandfather, awakens in the young Yasuhiro Nakata the desire to know the family history, especially after finding a letter in which he discovers another side of the old man whose last words were: 'Hiroshima, Hiroshima', warning of the existence of a secret. As a result, Yasuhiro embarks on a journey that will take him from Valparaiso to Hiroshima, where his grandfather emigrated ten years before the atomic disaster. This is the beginning of Drawings of Hiroshima— a charming story that allows readers to follow the protagonist on a journey in which he not only reconnects with his Japanese origins, but also questions his present, his interpersonal relationships and his interest in writing, deepening the unconscious desire to understand the role that he plays in a story that is not his own but yet challenges him directly. With this new release, Marcelo Simonetti addresses issues such as migration and identity, connecting the historic Chilean port of Valparaiso with the memory of the tragedy occured in the Japanese city.
¿Quién dijo que enamorarse es algo exclusivo de la juventud?¿Por qué un adulto no puede disfrutar del amor?Julián, viudo, de sesenta y seis años y con ganas de vivir, piensa que la vida, en ocasiones, da una segunda oportunidad. Por ello, decide buscar a la mujer de la que realmente está enamorado, causando con ello un gran revuelo entre sus amigos y familiares, ya que no entienden su forma de proceder.Una historia de amor, amistad, valores familiares y morales que no te dejará indiferente.
Through a selection of thrilling and exciting illustrated stories, Mexican author, Amparo Dávila, and Argentinian illustrator, Santiago Caruso, create a fascinating reading spectrum for young audiences. This set combines classic tales of the author: “Petrified trees” and “Concrete music”, alongside with fantastic stories as “The guest”, the story of an ordinary woman hunted by an unknown creature; “High kitchen”, a short story where miniature beings confront their inevitable fate, among others.
This book is an initiative of the Regional Groups of Historical Memory (GRMH), which, together with the National Center for Historical Memory since 2013, generated proposals for the construction of historical memory in Colombia. The objective of the consolidation of the GRMH has been to recognize local research processes carried out by university professors to build bridges between the country's institutions and communities victimized in the framework of the internal armed conflict in Colombia. Although the participatory social research bets are nourished by multiple edges, disciplines, and schools of thought, there are methodological peculiarities in the investigations that are formulated in the key of historical memory that, on this occasion, are transversal and are deepened in each chapter.
Kurzinformation ISBN 978-3-9525331-4-7 Titel “Residuos de Amor”. Mario Salazar Montero. Cuentos Nueve cuentos, en apariencia algo crudos o desconsiderados, la mayoría de ellos en torno a personajes femeninos en una ciudad populosa en Suramérica: adolescentes, secretarias, amas de casa, solteronas. También un travesti y un tarado. Los cuentos intentan narrar en primera persona sus experiencias con el afecto, el amor, la amistad, el pasado y el futuro. No siempre hay un final feliz esperando al lector, pero si de pronto un remedo de esperanza. Son Residuos de Amor. Mario Salazar Montero. Geboren in Kolumbien, Südamerika. Lebt seit vielen Jahren in der Schweiz. Schriftsteller und Ingenieur. Hat mehrere Romane und Kurzgeschichten veröffentlicht. Spanisch und Deutsch. Mehr zum Autor und seinem literarischen Werk unter www.mariosalazar.ch
Peace seems to have been elusive in Colombian history. The ups and downs in the negotiation processes, the unfulfilled promises, and the political polarization have made Colombia a nation in a state of continuous crisis and that, in spite of itself - to take up the old Bushnell phrase - has managed to stay afloat and, above all, do not lose hope for a stable and lasting peace. There have been numerous attempts to build it and they seem to have been unsuccessful, especially because a good part of the collective representation that we have of them has been built from the media apparatus that, in the case of our country, has been at the service of power and that it has resulted in skepticism that, especially since the 1990s, has tended to transform into a strong polarization. With this book, we want not only to think about peace and (post) conflict from communication but to remind (us), once again, that we can still be we.
Durante los años pre-escolares la mayoría de los niños tienen sus primeras experiencias de formación y unión social con sus pares. Durante los años pre-escolares es natural que los niños experimentan con interacciones sociales mientras aprenden sobre el mundo. Cuando el colegio logra crear un ambiente de cuidado mutuo se reduce la posibilidad de que los niños manifiesten un comportamiento negativo (así como la burla y la intimidación). Con la nueva traducción del libro Una guía de prevención de bullying y burlas en salones de clases de pre-escolar, los maestros de niños pequeños pueden abordar estos comportamientos antes de que se desarrollen. El acoso y la burla puedan tener un impacto negativo en el aprendizaje del niño, afectando su salud física y su bienestar emocional. El libro Una guía de prevención de bullying y burlas en salones de clases del pre-escolar comparte actividades, que puedan tomar lugar en el salón de clases y con la participación de la familia para desarrollar la empatía en los niños creando un clima de respeto mutuo en el salón. Hay más de 40 actividades que se enfocan en disminuir y controlar la burla y la intimidación mientras cultivan la amistad, la comunidad y los sentimientos positivos; los maestros de niños pequeños aprenden a crear un ambiente en el que todos los niños se sienten seguros, cómodos y bienvenidos. Barbara Sprung y Merle Froschl son las co-directoras del Educational Equity Center (EEC). Dra. Blythe Hinitz es la coordinadora y catedrática de enseñanza de la educación pre-escolar en The College of New Jersey (TCNJ).
1939. The republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War is a fact, and groups of combatants and hordes of civilians flee to France for fear of reprisals from the victors. Far from finding the desired freedom, they arrive in a country invaded by the Nazis and in which they are repudiated. Marcial Segura and many other compatriots are captured by the Wehrmacht and deported to Mauthausen, the most inhumane concentration camp in the Reich, where a simple stroke of luck can be the key to survival. 1945. Days before Mauthausen is liberated by US infantry, SS troops stampede out of the field. Senior leaders of Nazism are also fleeing the former Reich dominions to overseas. At the heart of that maelstrom, guardian Klein is at peace with her conscience, not yet knowing that the odyssey that will mark her life has only just begun. This is the story of Marcial, Joan, Benito, Luis and so many others who shared hunger and suffering, but also confidences and friendship in the Austrian hell. This is the story that all democratic governments in our country have despised. This is, beyond the Pyrenees, also our history. * * * 1939. La derrota republicana en la Guerra Civil Española es un hecho, y grupos de combatientes y hordas de civiles escapan a Francia por temor a las represalias de los vencedores. Lejos de encontrar la ansiada libertad, llegan a un país invadido por los nazis y en el que son repudiados. Marcial Segura y otros muchos compatriotas son capturados por la Wehrmacht y deportados a Mauthausen, el más inhumano campo de concentración del Reich, donde un simple golpe de suerte puede ser clave para la supervivencia. 1945. Días antes de que Mauthausen sea liberado por la infantería estadounidense, las tropas de las SS salen del campo en estampida. Altos jerarcas del nazismo también huyen de los antiguos dominios del Reich con destino ultramar. En pleno corazón de aquella vorágine, la guardiana Klein se halla en paz con su conciencia, sin saber todavía que la odisea que marcará su vida no ha hecho sino comenzar. Esta es la historia de Marcial, de Joan, de Benito, de Luis y de tantos otros que compartieron hambre y sufrimiento, pero también confidencias y amistad en el infierno austriaco. Esta es la historia que todos los gobiernos democráticos de nuestro país han despreciado. Esta es, más allá de los Pirineos, también nuestra historia.
What is theology? Anyone who tries to answer this question is invited, first of all, to practice such singular science. In order to do so, she or he will have to visit the loci where theology is made, to understand the essential forms it has adopted throughout history, and to deepen into the topics its inner configuration calls for: God’s revelation, human faith, Church, Scripture, Tradition, and Magisterium. This introduction to theological reflection is written from the conviction that theology owns a unique word that only theology can say and propose as a service both to the Church and to society.
Who is not EX of something or someone? EX Stories brings together seven stories of encounters and disagreements that deliberate on the exceptionality of the routine and the spontaneity of the extravagant. Some of the inhabitants of this world of eccentricities are: a group of friends and acquaintances who settle their differences to find an exact moment and dissolve their opinions in the immensity of the unknown; an individual who excavates the banks of a foreign river while opening intimate underground galleries; some anonymous subjects who exclaustrate to demolish fears, demolish doubts and freely know themselves; a lady who exonerates an instinctive desire by giving a feeling oral form; a young man who accepts an absurd eventuality and learns to live with his bad luck; a man who excuses his wishes from the anguish of repetition or abandonment; and a pain-free poet idolized for penetrating uncertain abysses. The characters and voices in these stories exceed the limits of their own magnitude in search of an emotion, the jolt of which gives them the chance to explain themselves from a new exegesis.
More than affirming a set of doctrines, being a Christian means to get involved in the task of responding to the God of Jesus of Nazareth without reservations. By imitating his Teacher and under the guidance of the Spirit, Jesus’ followers can contribute to the rising of a new creation already here on earth. That is the only way for Christian ethics to find its meaning and fulfil its goal. This innovative handbook runs through the New Testament with an eye to three key concepts in Aristotle’s ethics: happiness, virtue, and love, in order to create a basic grammar which allows today’s reader to enter into Christian ethics.
