Miguel: 1889 books

A presente coletânea reúne os textos das palestras ocorridas nas mesas-redondas da II Jornada do Histedbr, realizada no estado do Paraná, entre os dias 8 e 11 de outubro de 2002. O evento teve por tema geral "A produção em história da educação na região Sul do Brasil" e oportunizou...

Prologue Light Without light, you can’t see. Those who believe only in what they can touch can’t feel the light. Light powers life, flowers, oceans, animals, the earth, and your life. Light is such a beautiful word. It illuminates your body, your emotions,...

Drawing on philosophy, the history of psychology and the natural sciences, this book proposes a new theoretical foundation for the psychology of the life course. It features the study of unique individual life courses in their social and cultural environment, combining the perspectives of developmental...

Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New World of Animals shows...

Different institutions, theories and psychological systems have focused their endeavors in different areas, existing from the focuses that are centered solely in the observable behavior. (behaviorism), by passing through those which occupy internal processes such as the thought, the reasoning, the memory, etc.

The word intelligence was introduced by Cicero to signify the intellectual capacity concept. Its semantic spectrum is very broad, reflecting the classical idea according to which, by intelligence, man is, in a certain way, all things. Intelligence, like learning, is a concept that psychology has borrowed...

Personal Coaching is the art of facilitating people´s potential development to reach possible goals and changes the Being and Doing. In this process, the coach helps people to clarify their goals, weather personal, professional, affective, etc., and to find a way to accomplish them.  The Coach...

Writing is a vocation, born of a need of each person. It is an inner manifestation, a communicational expression, be it artistic, scientific or of another literary genre. It is a property of the human being, communication through writing. This means that each one will do it in their own way and form,...

Coaching: Consists of the guidance that an external professional (coach) gives to a manager to improve their skills, that is, make them much more effective in their performance. The importance of the speaker in the radio communication is definitive, and his verbal, fundamental self-confidence....

The dream of writing a book for prosperity is one of the so-called purposes in life. They all write it down together with “plant a tree” and “have a child” and most will marry, breed offspring and participate in a reforestation campaign but… what about the book? We walk through a bookstore...

A recipe can be a guide to achieve a certain food dish, in the same way sometimes we believe that there will come a specific moment to be happy and we let pass the opportunities that life presents us because we believe that to feel happy must happen something extremely extraordinary or out of...

This long-awaited new edition helps students understand and solve the complex problems that organic chemists regularly face, using a step-by-step method and approachable text. With solved and worked-through problems, the author orients discussion of each through the application of various problem-solving...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces. Understanding cities as spaces for encounter, conflict and otherness, this book argues that this indeterminacy is not marginal but a key characteristic of urban space, and degrees of liberty foster change, creativity,...

Action research has become a valued research and educational development technique -an innovative approach through which a group of participants engage in self-reflection to improve practice. Developing Innovation in Online Learning introduces action research as a method of developing e-learning modules...