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        Infancia y abandono en la Barcelona del siglo XV

        by Ximena Illanes Zubieta

        Este libro explica cómo fue el abandono de niñas y niños en la Barcelona del siglo XV, deteniéndose en tres etapas esenciales: la escena del abandono, el cuidado de los lactantes en manos de nodrizas y el aprendizaje en casas ajenas. En cada fase se revisan las condiciones de integración y marginación, la presencia de lo femenino y los relatos de amores y desamores. Las historias que aquí se recogen permiten comprender las diferentes dimensiones del abandono, acto que involucraba no solo a los infantes expuestos, sino también a su entorno. Los niños en su mayoría eran abandonados en las puertas del Hospital de la Santa Creu de Barcelona durante las horas menos transitadas para evitar el juicio social. Las cartas que acompañaban a los infantes reflejan el drama de la pobreza y, por ende, la incapacidad forzosa de las madres para asumir el rol de la crianza. Al reconstruir el contexto de la época, el lector tiene la posibilidad de realizar un ejercicio de empatía que vuelve el foco de atención al presente. Es inevitable percibir las duras realidades que se mantienen a lo largo del tiempo y el casi irreparable sufrimiento que causa la soledad en los primeros años de vida.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2020

        En tus manos

        Acompañar en la enfermedad y preparar una buena muerte

        by Jose Mª Avendaño

        Lo grande, lo importante, se esconde en lo pequeño, en la simplicidad, en el abandono. Así lo repite el autor, de una u otra manera, en su canto, porque este libro es un canto.Estas páginas nos hacen descubrir, en la memoria filial y creyente, la belleza de la creación y de la salvación encarnada en un pueblo de La Mancha, en la vida de un hombre sencillo, bueno, un campesino honrado y creyente sincero, en el escenario de una familia rural y piadosa.Unas memorias cristianas llenas de agradecimiento, de profundidad, de sentido. La historia que cuenta este libro no es fantasía, no es ficción, sino una historia real, la historia de Cándido.Nos encontramos con temas fundamentales de nuestra existencia: la vida, la familia, el sufrimiento, la muerte, el duelo, la orfandad, el acompañamiento de los que sufren, etc.El mejor camino para la aceptación del sufrimiento y de la muerte, para superar el duelo, es asumirlo, hacerlo parte de nuestra vida, comulgar con él con la certeza de que hemos vencido en el Aquel que murió y resucitó por nosotros.

      • Fiction
        March 2018

        Luciana

        by Pilar Tena

        Luciana is a novel about the impact of the past on our lives. Pilar Tena comes back with an intimate story, full of secrets, loyalty and treason focused on the life of the, on many occasions, invisible witnesses. Ireland, second half of the 20th Century, a young Spanish couple arrives with their children to Dublin. And Luciana is travelling with them. Luciana es una novela sobre el impacto del pasado en nuestras vidas. Pilar Tena vuelve a las librerías con una historia íntima y llena de secretos, de lealtades y de traiciones que se centra en la vida muchas veces invisible de los testigos. Irlanda, segunda mitad del siglo xx, un joven matrimonio español llega con sus hijos a Dublín.Y Luciana viaja con ellos.

      • Fiction
        May 2019

        Gaoh

        En tierras de Urantia

        by Díaz Latorre, José Ignacio

        Are you ready to read the story of the second coming of Christ in full s. XXI? Do you want to know first-hand who he was, what he did and with whom? Do you know that this time she was a woman and that her mothers were lesbians?Get ready to explode your neurons with this groundbreaking, entertaining, and surprising novel, set in real settings in Spain (Valencia, Madrid, Barcelona) and Europe.Action, adventure, travel, sex, technology, chases, magical scenarios, extraterrestrial beings ...You have before you a new modern and daring thriller that will make you reflect on reality.

      • Health & Personal Development
        November 2019

        How to make good things happen to you

        Understand your brain, manage your emotions, improve your life.

        by Marian Rojas

        The author offers a deep reflection, sprinkled with useful advice with an edifying aim, on the application of our abilities to achieve a full and happy existence. To this end, she brings together scientific, psychological and human points of view. This full and happy existence is achieved in the knowledge and optimization of certain areas of the brain. With this book we will learn to set goals and objectives, exercise our will, activate emotional intelligence, develop assertiveness, avoid excessive self-criticism and self-demands, and affirm our optimism.

      • June 2015

        Violencia de género y las respuestas de los sistemas penales

        by Encarna Bodelón (comp.)

        The problem of impunity and the devaluation of the rights of women who suffer sexist violence in intimate relationships is still present in European penal systems. The basic question is what differentiates sexist violence in the sphere of the couple from other types of violence. This type of violence in the sphere of the couple has nothing to do with what is known as injuries in the criminal sphere, but rather "gender violence, sexist violence, violence against women". The "problem" is not the women who report or do not report, but to what extent criminal treatment pursues the reported behaviors and protects women who suffer violence. In diverse contexts we will see common problems and remote solutions, but which coincide in not being yet ensuring the freedom of women. Our purpose is to advance in the construction of women's rights and denounce that the insufficient guarantee of the right to a life free of violence is an attack against all women, against all citizens and a burden of the patriarchal State.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        April 2017

        ARAWETÉ

        A Tupi people from the Amazon forest

        by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (author), Camila de Caux (author) and Guilherme Orlandini Heurich (author)

        Result of an academic research carried out in the 1980s by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, this book was published in 1992, following an edition adapted for wider, non-specialized audiences who showed great interest in the Araweté way of life. This third edition, revised and expanded with new chapters based on recent studies, celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the pioneering research by one of the most respected Brazilian anthropologists, and, above all, retrieves the struggle of this people to survive, resist and reinvent themselves without losing their culture.

      • October 2019

        Meaningful breeding paths Educating from consistency

        by Clara Martínez Sánchez

        Si está al cuidado de niños y adolescentes, ya sea ​​padre o madre de familia, tía o tío, abuela o abuelo, prima o primo, o simplemente un cuidador o tutor, este libro le mostrar varios faros de sentido, es decir, le brindará luces que, al iluminar, le permitirán paso a paso ir descubriendo en cada uno de los capítulos las herramientas fundamentales para orientar la crianza que desea transmitir.

      • Fiction
        July 2020

        Todas nosotras (All of us)

        by Elizabeth Casillas and Higinia Garay

        El Salvador has one of the strictest anti-abortion laws in the world and termination of pregnancy, both voluntary and spontaneous, is extremely harshly punished. In fact, the majority of convicted women are tried for homicide, after having suffered obstetric complications. They are accused of having killed their baby and face sentences of up to forty years in prison.

      • October 2019

        Parenting The Art of Caring and Loving Parenting. A proposal from the family resilience.

        by María Stella Rodríguez

        Este libro quiere aportar desde la resiliencia familiar a la tarea maravillosa de nuestros prodigar amor y cuidado a niños y jóvenes. Todos tenemos la obligación sagrada de cuidar la vida, cuando lo hacemos de forma consciente estamos paternando y maternando. Quien desarrolla esta actitud siente indignación ante los terribles atropellos a la infancia. Por ello es urgente que comprendamos y cambiemos los sistemas de creencias que limitan nuestra capacidad de amar y cuidar.

      • Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
        June 2020

        Swarms

        by Edgar Borges

        A plague of flying insects is damaging an undefined city in an abstract present. Vibrant and disturbing swarms darken the sky, while violence spread in the streets and the number of suicides increases exponentially.   Five young men take shelter in a house away in the woods, far from the collective delusion, fear and sufferance that reigns in the city. Voluntarily confined, the five friends will face solitude and despair; they will go through their own memories and dreads, living in an oneiric atmosphere between life and death.

      • Teaching, Language & Reference

        Ciclo 1. Velocidad-percepción: desarrollo de habilidades perceptivas

        Sistema Integral de Lectura Rápida. Comprensión y memorización

        by María Guadalupe Baeza Gómez

        In this cycle Speed - perception: development of perceptual skills, you will significantly improve the speed of your reading thanks to the exercises of each lesson, whose main objective is that you achieve rapid perception of words, as well as identify and eliminate all those noises, distractions and bad habits that affect your reading process.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2019

        MEMORY OF AMNESIA

        Policies of oblivion

        by Giselle Beiguelman

        Giselle Beiguelman assembles textual and visual essays in the field of the aesthetics of memory that gravitate around experimental works and research conducted in artistic interventions, in order to propose a reflection on the right to memory as opposed to the systematic policies of oblivion.

      • Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
        May 2020

        Beyond the god machine

        by Antonio Solano

        Following a helium escape at the Large Hadron Collider, countless glares of a strange nature are seen in the Valsain area. Alberto Cuellar has the misfortune of being close to one of them and suddenly goes back in time, specifically to the Spanish post-war period. Our protagonist will be immersed in the hard task of explaining where he comes from and the objects he’s carrying with him. When news of him coming from the future are spread, several characters from different countries want to gather information about the Second World War development and how to influence it, through unprecedented personal conversations with the main character. Conspiracies and betrayals are present throughout the novel up to the resolution of the glares issues and the restoration of the normal situation… or the change of the future forever.

      • Gender studies: women
        June 2012

        MUJERES A LA CONQUISTA DE ESPACIOS.

        by ALMELA BOIX, Margarita; GUZMÁN GARCÍA, Helena; SANFILIPPO, Marina; GARCÍA LORENZO, María Magdalena

        Mujeres a la conquista de espacios es el cuarto libro del Seminario sobre Literatura y Mujer (siglos XX y XXI) y está dedicado a la representación de los espacios físicos y simbólicos de las mujeres. Hasta el siglo XIX, los espacios en la literatura eran simplemente un lugar de paso, una realidad más o menos formal, pero con los cambios sociales y los nuevos enfoques de pensamiento de los siglos XX y XXI, el espacio pasará a ser entendido desde otro punto de vista: ocupar un espacio define nuestro estar en el mundo, conseguir una realidad espacial significa ocupar un lugar en el tiempo, con todo lo que comporta ejercer algún tipo de poder o sufrir alguna pérdida.

      • Fiction
        April 2017

        Los pecados de Victoria

        by Giovanna Zuluaga

        My knees were shaking so I collapsed face down on the rug, feeling its texture and a distant smell of lavender. I moved with his urgent pace, in a perfect and harmonious copulation, until we came almost at the same time. We remained silent, while our breath calmed down, his chest on my back, all his skin adhered to mine. [...] Victoria is not the ideal protagonist of a book, because she is far from being the perfect, virginal and innocent woman who abounds in contemporary stories. She has a love-hate relationship with sex and with men, as well as a vulnerable and masochistic personality. Classified by its author as a "dramatic erotic" book, "Victoria's Sins" is a story based on real events, it is told in first person, intimate, personal, sometimes exciting, because of the stories it narrates, and other times sad, because of the situations that the protagonist must confront in her desperate search for happiness.

      • Sagas
        August 2017

        O Onironauta

        Devaneio - Livro 01

        by Otaviano Lacet

        “Between reality and Dreaming, a third force emerged... capable of destroying both!” Allow yourself to embark on an epic journey through a universe hidden in the dreams of human consciousness. Endowed with incredible worlds and beings, heroes unlikely and powerful forces in the midst of the outbreak of war, this combination explosive promises to give the reader a unique experience to be lived in one breath! Together with Aziz Mandral, a frustrated and bankrupt young journalist, unveil dreamlike secrets of a reality that can only be seen with closed eyes. Travel with him through ‘lucid dreams’ showered with a lot of rock n ’roll, confusions and selfdiscoveries, all mixed with a dose of frank humor that will captivate from start to finish. Live a world where time is nothing more than a piece to be shaped by skillful hands, like Kazuo's - The Cartographer of Dreams. And if you still with your eyes closed, get drunk on Seiji's confused adventures Miura: a mercenary and warrior monk from the forests of Mt. Ōmine will drive through trails, at least, mindblowing! But don't be fooled by the charms of the dream world and don't whistle so loudly carefree songs, my dear Onironaut... for here you never know what that lurks behind the blackness of the night. Know that where the grass scorching sands are on the rise - and the term ‘nightmare’ gets new Meanings... Yes, a lifetime in one night ... this is the proposal, no less. But you're not a coward, are you? So sleep now: you are challenged to be won over!

      • Children's & YA
        October 2020

        Las profecías de Alcania

        by M.F. Medrano

        After several years of peace, darkness returns to raze with the five kingdoms and only the four Crystals of Hope, prophesied in Alcania, will be able to save Aucaseem from its destruction. The gene of evil has been passed from generation to generation, a powerful force has awakened and is pulling the strings to carry out its plan. Four young warriors, Seglan, Cafflan, Andria and Trehia, must overcome their own fears and face trials they never imagined to fulfill the prophecy and, thus, defeat the eternal enemy of the Empire. Can they do it? Will they find the strength to stop the war?

      • Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        June 2022

        Perder

        by Francisco Cabezas

        Carlos García is told in the newspaper that his name is too common. For this reason, when he begins to write the chronicles of FC Barcelona, he signs as K. Behind the mask of the pseudonym, the student who dreamed of newsrooms engulfed in smoke and screams at closing time begins his promising career without having left university. But dreams are seldom made of real material. Between football stadiums, ballpoint pen caps and lonely hotel rooms, K. imposes on himself a happiness that he will never own. The rise and fall of a legendary team, the decrepitude of a profession that only finds refuge in the big headlines and some journalists who hide behind their screens set a chronicle of chronicles in which the final result remains to be discovered. Soccer players, journalism or K. Who will accept the final defeat?

      • TRES BALAS EN LA PAMPA

        UN WESTERN EN LA PAMPA SALITRERA

        by RIQUELME, LEAL, RIVERA

        Tras el término de la Guerra Civil de 1891, el desierto del Norte Grande chileno se ha convertido en tierra fértil para la llegada de aventureros, contrabandistas y bandoleros, todo en busca de un solo objetivo: obtener la riqueza que yace bajo el suelo atacameño. Allí, en medio de la pampa, las historias del Flaco, la Rubia y el Indio se entrecruzan, mientras la oficina salitrera Santa Fe se alza como el escenario perfecto para una trama marcada por la cuestión social, los engaños, la rapidez del gatillo y la sed de venganza

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