El amor, así de simple, así de complicado: Y para colmo, solo se vive una vez / Love, Just That Easy, Just That Complicated


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Del famoso @PsicologoRamonTorres, con más de 9 millones de seguidores en redes sociales Todos queremos amar y ser amados. Pero ¿por qué algo que parece tan simple es tan complicado? Primero hay que encontrar una pareja, conquistarla, enamorarla y vivir felices para siempre… ¡pero no! Aparecen las peleas, las mentiras, la rutina, los celos, la infidelidad… y la separación. Nadie sabe más de esto que Ramón Torres, quién estudió psicología para comprender su propio divorcio. Ahora con un doctorado, es experto en temas de pareja y es el psicólogo con más seguidores en redes sociales del mundo. Ramón, que rehízo felizmente su vida sentimental, transmite un mensaje muy claro: antes de amar a nadie, debemos amarnos a nosotros mismos… Y luego, sí podemos conquistar, enamorarnos, ser felices y… bueno, enfrentar de la mejor forma posible las ya consabidas complicaciones del amor… El amor, así de simple y así de complicado reúne las reflexiones de @PsicologoRamonTorres sobre los retos que todos enfrentamos en el terreno del amor y las relaciones personales, siempre con optimismo y honestidad. Esto no es un cuento de hadas, es la realidad pura y simple. "Este es un libro sin recetas, con el deseo de que todo ser humano aprenda lo que es la reflexión personal. Un ejercicio que te permite entender cómo son las cosas, y a pesar de todo, ser feliz". —Ramón Torres. En El amor, así de simple y así de complicado podrás leer reflexiones sobre: • Lo que es realmente el amor • El amor y la felicidad • El amor propio • El amor no correspondido • El amor y el sexo Y cómo reaccionar ante complicaciones como... • La infidelidad • Los celos • La mentira • El sexo sin amor • La rutina • Las relaciones tóxicas Y muchos otros temas que por simple que parezcan... ¡a veces son bastante complicados! ENGLISH DESCRIPTION With a straightforward, direct, and sometimes funny style, Love: Just That Easy, Just That Complicated compiles the reflections of psychologist Ramón Torres about the challenges that we all face in the realm of love and personal relationships. Accompanied by illustrations, these thoughts about love and its complications invite the reader to discover that before you can fall in love with someone else, the love of your life must be yourself, while also offering advice about how to tackle difficulties. "This is a book without magic formulas, with the aim that all human beings should learn what personal reflection is. An exercise that allows you to understand how things are, and despite everything, to be happy." –Ramón Torres In Love: Just That Easy, Just That Complicated, you can read reflections about love… What love really is • Love and happiness • Self-love • Unrequited love • Love and sex And how to react in the face of complications like… • Infidelity • Jealousy • Lies • Sex without love • Ruts • Toxic relationships And many other topics that, as simple as they might seem, are sometimes very complicated!




Women in Argentina


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"Tells a compelling story about an almost unknown body of work--Argentine women's travel narratives--and also provokes the reader to think more deeply about the intersection between learning about one's country and learning about oneself."-- Debra A. Castillo, Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University, and author of Easy Women: Sex and Gender in Modern Mexican Fiction In this collection of writings by women both inside and outside of Argentina, M�nica Szurmuk has unearthed a rich and delightful tradition of travel writing. The selections, recorded from the period 1850-1930, include travelogues by European and North American women who visited Argentina alongside pieces by Argentinean women who describe trips to the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the interior of their own country. The pieces show that women writers in colonized and colonizing countries share literary and ideological perspectives and discuss race and gender in similar ways, often using the form of travel writing to discuss highly charged political issues. In addition to short introductions to each text and author, Szurmuk describes how women's texts were co-opted to form an image of white women as models of nationhood that need to be protected and sheltered. She also examines the history of travel writing alongside the participation of women in public life, population policies, and the development of the public school system, and she offers enlightening conclusions about the nature of travel writing as a literary genre. Introduction Part I: Frontier Identities, 1837-1880 1. A House, a Home, a Nation: Mariquita S�nchez's Recuerdos del Buenos Ayres Virreynal 2. Queen of the Interior: Lina Beck-Bernard's Le Rio Parana Part II: Shifting Frontiers, 1880-1900 3. Eduarda Mansilla de Garc�a's Recuerdos de Viaje: "Recordar es Vivir" 4. Interlude in the Frontier: Lady Florence Dixie's Across Patagonia 5. Traveling/Teaching/Writing: Jennie Howard's In Distant Climes and Other Years Part III: Shifting Identities, 1900-1930 6. Traveler/Governess/Expatriate: Emma de la Barra's Stella 7. Globe-Trotting Single Women 8. The Spiritual Trip: Delfina Bunge de G�lvez's Tierras del Mar Azul M�nica Szurmuk is assistant professor of Latin American literature at the University of Oregon. She is the editor of the anthology Mujeres y Viaje: Escritos y Testimonios, published in Buenos Aires, and her work has appeared in English and Spanish in journals such as Nuevo Texto Cr�tico and English Language Journal.




A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish


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A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish. Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and full English translation. The Dictionary provides a rich resource for language teaching and curriculum design, while a separate CD version provides the full text in a tab-delimited format ideally suited for use by corpus and computational linguistics. With entries arranged both by frequency and alphabetically, A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish enables students of all levels to get the most out of their study of vocabulary in an engaging and efficient way.




Lasting Wounds


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New Arabian Nights


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Utopias in Latin America


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Latin America has historically been a fertile ground where utopian projects, movements, and experiments could take root and thrive. Each of the thirteen authors in this collective volume address a particular case or specific aspect of Latin American utopianism from colonial times to the present day. The America that the Spanish and Portuguese discovered became, from the sixteenth century onwards, a space in which it was possible to imagine the widest variety of forms of human coexistence. Utopias in Latin America reconsiders the sense and understanding of utopias in various historical frames: the discovery of indigenous cultures and their natural environments; the foundation of new towns and cities in a vast colonial territory; the experimental communities of nineteenth-century utopian socialists and European exiled intellectuals; and the innovative formulae that attempts to get beyond twentieth-century capitalism.




After Exile


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Can an exiled writer ever really go home again? What of the writers of Argentina, Uruguay, and Chile, whose status as exiles in the 1970s and 1980s largely defined their identities and subject matter? After Exile takes a critical look at these writers, at the effect of exile on their work, and at the complexities of homecoming -- a fraught possibility when democracy was restored to each of these countries. Both famous and lesser known writers people this story of dislocation and relocation, among them Jose Donoso, Ana Vasquez, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, and Mario Benedetti. In their work -- and their predicament -- Amy K. Kaminsky considers the representation of both physical uprootedness and national identity -- or, more precisely, an individual's identity as a national subject. Here, national identity is not the double abstraction of "identity" and "nation, " but a person's sense of being and belonging that derives from memories and experiences of a particular place. Because language is crucial to this connection, Kaminsky explores the linguistic isolation, miscommunication, and multilingualism that mark late-exile and post-exile writing. She also examines how gender difference affects the themes and rhetoric of exile -- how, for example, traditional projections of femininity, such as the idea of a "mother country, " are used to allegorize exile. Describing exile as a process -- sometimes of acculturation, sometimes of alienation -- this work fosters a new understanding of how writers live and work in relation to space and place, particularly the place called home.




History of Special Education


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Examines the history of special education by categorical areas (for example, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders). This title includes chapters on the changing philosophy related to educating students with exceptionalities as well as a history of legal and legislation content concerned with special education.




The Ethics of Special Education, Second Edition


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Updated to include changes in the field, this new edition addresses ethical issues that are most pressing to special education teachers and administrators. Using a case-based approach, students are encouraged to reason and collaborate about due process, the distribution of educational resources, institutional unresponsiveness, professional relationships, conflicts among parents and teachers, and confidentiality.




El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace


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El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, crime rates shot up. The number of murder victims surpassed wartime death tolls. Those who once feared the police and the state became frustrated by their lack of action. Peace was not what Salvadorans had hoped it would be. Citizens began saying to each other, "It's worse than the war." El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy challenges the pronouncements of policy analysts and politicians by examining Salvadoran daily life as told by ordinary people who have limited influence or affluence. Anthropologist Ellen Moodie spent much of the decade after the war gathering crime stories from various neighborhoods in the capital city of San Salvador. True accounts of theft, assaults, and murders were shared across kitchen tables, on street corners, and in the news media. This postconflict storytelling reframed violent acts, rendering them as driven by common criminality rather than political ideology. Moodie shows how public dangers narrated in terms of private experience shaped a new interpretation of individual risk. These narratives of postwar violence—occurring at the intersection of self and other, citizen and state, the powerful and the powerless—offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy.