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Este libro presenta un amplio glosario de términos en el campo de la salud, acompañado de una guía de actividades para el aprendizaje de nuevas palabras como elemento fundamental para dar cuenta del conocimiento a través de términos y referencias en el área.
Este texto tiene como objetivo presentar una propuesta para el desarrollo de esta habilidad en los estudiantes de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud y en general de estudiantes de educación superior. Contempla dos escenarios: uno relacionado con los supuestos teóricos que soportan el desarrollo de competencias cognitivas en este caso la capacidad para pensar críticamente para formular preguntas pertinentes de manera clara y concisa y otro con la puesta en práctica de estos conocimientos; es decir la guía conduce al estudiante desde la valoración de sus propias habilidades para el pensamiento crítico pasando por la reflexión acerca de qué son éstas hasta llegar a la puesta en escena de...
In this poignant novel, a man guilty of a minor offense finds purpose unexpectedly by way of his punishment—reading to others. After an accident—or “the misfortune,” as his cancer-ridden father’s caretaker, Celeste, calls it—Eduardo is sentenced to a year of community service reading to the elderly and disabled. Stripped of his driver’s license and feeling impotent as he nears thirty-five, he leads a dull, lonely life, chatting occasionally with the waitresses of a local restaurant or walking the streets of Cuernavaca. Once a quiet town known for its lush gardens and swimming pools, the “City of Eternal Spring” is now plagued by robberies, kidnappings, and the other myriad ...
[In this book, the author's] analysis of the effects and causes of capitalist underdevelopment in Latin America present [an] account of ... Latin American history. [The author] shows how foreign companies reaped huge profits through their operations in Latin America. He explains the politics of the Latin American bourgeoisies and their subservience to foreign powers, and how they interacted to create increasingly unequal capitalist societies in Latin America.-Back cover.
A previously untranslated classic of Portuguese feminist literature originally published in 1978, Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes introduces English-speaking readers to a forgotten and underappreciated woman writer a la recent publishing sensations Lucia Berlin, Natalia Ginzburg, Ingeborg Bachmann, Silvina Ocampo, and Armonia Somers. Empty Wardrobes is a tightly plotted, highly entertaining read, that, thanks to an ingenious detached narrative technique (one that makes the plot all the more fun to revisit and rethink), is both darkly humorous and devastatingly true.
From a young Palestinian writer comes this compelling look at the Israel/Palestine conflict, from both the perspective of an Israeli soldier in 1949 as well as that of a young Palestinian woman.