Libros a Descargar Gratis

The Exiles and Other Stories

Autor: Horacio Quiroga

Número de Páginas: 168

Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony. These are the stories of the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, here presented in an important compilation of thirteen of his most compelling tales, sensitively selected and translated by J. David Danielson. Author of some two hundred pieces of fiction, often compared to the works of Kipling, Jack London, and Edgar Allan Poe, Quiroga set many of his stories in the territory of Misiones in northeastern Argentina, the subtropical jungle region where he spent much of his life. Included here are stories from Los desterrados (1926) often said to be his best book, as well as others from Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917), Anaconda (1921), and El Desierto (1924). The publication of this selection marks the first appearance in English of all but two of the thirteen stories. Quiroga here presents a wide range of characters: parents and children, servant girls and prostitutes, landowners and lumber barons, foremen and...

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Humor, Education and Art

Autor: Alberto Dionigi , Ibukun Filani , Magali Gravier , Paul Jewell , Mike Lloyd , Lita Lundquist , Parkin John C , Arie Sover , Douglas Wulf

Número de Páginas: 210

La historia de la música, de la literatura, del teatro, de la danza y de la pintura, refleja un interés por el humor. Desde los griegos, la tragedia y la comedia eran dos caras de una misma moneda que reflejaba el mundo psíquico del ser humano. Lo mismo se puede decir de la literatura, con obras tan magníficas como el Quijote, en la que a través de la sátira se pone en entredicho el valor de los libros y, en este sentido, del conocimiento mismo; o ese Cándido de Voltaire, en el que la crítica a la filosofía se mezcla con el más fino humor negro y una particular actitud pedagógica... La lista es extensa. En este tercer volumen de la serie Humor: aproximaciones transdisciplinares, editada por Ediciones UCC, se reflejan estos vínculos tan estrechos, desde el análisis de las puestas escénicas exageradas de los payasos, hasta el análisis de obras literarias universales y regionales. También este volumen recoge un tema fundamental: la educación. ¿Puede el humor facilitar los procesos de enseñanza? ¿Es posible que funcione como un facilitador para la enseñanza de una segunda lengua o de otros procesos de aprendizaje escolar?¿De qué manera los actos humorísticos...

Keys to the Classroom

Autor: Carrol Moran , Judy Stobbe , Wendy Baron , Janette Miller , Ellen Moir

Número de Páginas: 244

This workbook for elementary school teachers is designed to help make their first few weeks of school successful. It provides lesson plans, classroom management strategies, student assessments, and special aids for teaching bilingual students. After an "Introduction" that discusses the ups and downs of a first-year teacher, there are nine chapters: (1) "A Guide to Planning" (long range, mid-range, daily, and weekly planning); (2) "Creating the Environment" (room arrangement, environment checklist, preparation before the first day, and essential knowledge); (3) "Daily Routines and Procedures" (e.g., classroom management rules, freeze and listen, cleanup, behavior strategies, and daily ongoing activities); (4) "The First Two Weeks of School...A Detailed Account"; (5) "Activities for the First Month" (e.g., appreciation words, bingo, group definition of cooperation, shared writing, problem solving skits, names games, partner drawings, math challenges, people measuring, and homework ideas); (6) "Fingerplays and Songs for Oral Language in English and Spanish"; (7) "Assessments"; (8) "Parent Communications: Sample Letters in English and Spanish"; and (9) "Resources" (bibliography for...

Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages

Autor: Henry Neuman , Giuseppe Baretti

Número de Páginas: 736

Rhetoric and Argumentation in the Beginning of the XX Century

Autor: Henrique Jales Ribeiro

Número de Páginas: 312

This book is the edition of the Proceedings of the International Colloquium “Rhetoric and Argumentation in the Beginning of the XXIst Century” which was held at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra, in October 2-4, 2008, and was organized by Henrique Jales Ribeiro, Joaquim Neves Vicente and Rui Alexandre Grácio. The main purpose of the Colloquium was to commemorate the publication in 1958 of the books La nouvelle rhétorique: Traité de l’argumentation, and The Uses of Arguments, by, respectively, C. Perelman/L. Olbrechts-Tyteca, and S. Toulmin. But another important goal was to take stock of the state of rhetoric and argumentation theory at the beginning of a new century. It was a unique event, without parallel in Portugal and worldwide - considering its theme and its aims -, which gathered some of the World’s most renowned rhetoric and argumentation theorists: Alan Gross, Douglas Walton, Erik Krabbe, Frans V. Eemeren, F. Snoeck Henkemans, Guy Haarscher, John Anthony Blair, Marianne Doury, Oswald Ducrot, Ruth Amossy. The book includes a variety of very important contributions to rhetoric and argumentation theory, ranging from those that naturally fall...

Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy: Creating Synergy between Competency Models and Information

Autor: De Juana-espinosa, Susana

Número de Páginas: 445

Businesses worldwide are faced with major challenges related to the progressive (and many times unavoidable) incorporation of information technologies into their processes. Often, organizations don’t suitably react to the new requirements of these technologies, resulting in outdated policies, practices, and strategies. Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy: Creating Synergy between Competency Models and Information is a reference for both practitioners and academics that demonstrates how to implement e-management and competency models in companies. This book offers perspectives on the impact of integrated e-human resource policies and provides recommendations for addressing the shift from traditional human resource policies to new perspectives.

Studia Patristica

Autor: Frances Margaret Young , Mark J. Edwards , Paul M. Parvis

Número de Páginas: 475

Proceedings of the First Annual Palo Alto Conference

Autor: Aaron P. Mahr Yáñez

Número de Páginas: 268

¡Di algo!

Autor: Peter H. Reynolds

Número de Páginas: 40

El creador de El punto presenta una historia de empoderamiento para niños sobre cómo encontrar la propia voz y usarla para hacer del mundo un lugar mejor. En ¡Di algo! el autor de éxito internacional Peter H. Reynolds explora las muchas maneras en las que una sola voz puede cambiar el mundo y nos recuerda que, cada día, todos nosotros tenemos la oportunidad de decir algo: con nuestras acciones, con nuestras palabras y con nuestras voces.

Breaking New Ground

Autor: W. Michael Mudrovic

Número de Páginas: 598

"Each of these works is meticulously structured around a two-poem section that gives each its unique configuration and character. Yet, at the same time, each poem maintains its individual independence and singular integrity."--BOOK JACKET. "In Breaking New Ground, W. Michael Mudrovic presents a comprehensive reading and detailed analysis of Rodriguez's work to date, including Casi una leyenda."--BOOK JACKET.

Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century

Autor: Andrew P. Debicki

Número de Páginas: 276

"The first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. Debicki, more importantly, is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the post-modernists. See other books in the series Studies in Romance Languages.