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Los padres de Toto no saben qué hacer. Definitivamente su hija no es normal. La llevan con diversos especialistas y ninguno es capaz de descifrar el enigma. Pero ¿qué es normal? ¿Acaso el nombre de un ciclo de la lavadora? Contado con recursos de la poesía, este relato siembra inquietantes preguntas sobre las formas en que nos relacionamos con los demás.

Fulvio es un gran aficionado de la música metal y aprovecha su regalo de cumpleaños, un viaje mochilero por Europa, para asistir a un concierto en Budapest. En Sarajevo conoce a tres jóvenes, entre los que se encuentra Draga, por quien se deja seducir. Después, todo sucede vertiginosamente:...

THREE WEEKS IN ITALY is the profoundly moving and hilarious story of a journey that a man takes after losing his young wife to cancer. He suffers intense grief for over a year and then joins a dating service to find a new wife. Based on a true story, Douglas Steele marries the first girl he meets...

Words as Medicine What to say to your children to get them through the bumps, bruises, and crises of childhood. Falling off a bike, having a bad dream, getting stitches...sometimes a kiss isn't enough to make it all better. But what you say to your child in those first moments of pain or fear...

En este primer volumen de la colección, el lector encontrará una serie de discusiones emergidas del Seminario de Docentes de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de La Salle. Desde este espacio, sus participantes se han encontrado para hablar, compartir y, en ocasiones también,...

Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businesswomen,...

This book is a comprehensive study of some ways of treating the subject that demonstrate new and unusual perspectives, and provides a different approach to the popularly-held views of mothers-in-law; and that further address these works as popular culture; and as texts in their own right from within...

Fifteen-year old Spencer loves professional wrestling. It’s the reason why he, along with his older brother Billy, started their very own wrestling promotion in their Dallas apartment complex. The fact it puts Spencer closer to Tori, Billy’s girlfriend and the only girl either boy knows who can...

Este libro recoge los trabajos presentados por un grupo de especialistas estudiosos y analistas de la nueva circunstancia que enfrenta la nación de cara a los acontecimientos que protagonizará la sociedad en el arranque del milenio.

Psychotherapy involves a deep ethical commitment to self-knowl­ edge, personal change, and mutual respect by both the therapist and the patient. Unfortunately, therapists have not always lived up to that commitment in understanding and treating low income and minority patients. Too often they lack...

As a child, author Barbara Deotisis Luna De Acostas parents left her and her siblings behind and in the care of others while they pursued their dreams in America. Her story is one of a multitude of emotions and experiences, and she shares it all here. Her experience serves as a warning and a lesson...

Everybody uses lotion. Whether you use it for your hands, face, feet or all-over body, you have one aim in mind. That's to get the softest skin you can. So, you buy what you have been led to believe is the purest and best skin lotions there are. Just as with chemically manufactured foods, lotions of...

This Brief is mainly devoted to two classical and related results: the existence of a right inverse of the divergence operator and the so-called Korn Inequalities. It is well known that both results are fundamental tools in the analysis of some classic differential equations, particularly in those...

One of the most intriguing paleobiogeographical phenomena involving the origins and gradual sundering of Gondwana concerns the close similarities and, in most cases, inferred sister-group relationships of a number of terrestrial and freshwater vertebrate taxa, e.g., dinosaurs, flying birds, mammals,...