Y en paz me acostaré es el fruto de años de experiencias y conversaciones acerca de la vida y sus circunstancias. Es una llamada a la calma y a la confianza en Dios, aun en medio del caos y la dificultad. Una reflexión acerca de esos momentos en la vida en los que necesitamos ver la luz en medio de la oscuridad, en los que necesitamos encontrar sentido a aquello que estamos viviendo y que se escapa a nuestro control. Este libro se ha escrito para ayudarte a reflexionar sobre tu vida, de la misma manera que me ha ayudado a mí a hacerlo sobre mis experiencias y momentos de dificultad. Pero sobre todo es un libro que trae esperanza que nos ayuda a ver un rayo de luz en medio de la «noche oscura del alma».
Este libro es un devocional esperanzador para tiempos de dificultad, el cual ha nacido de la experiencia personal y pastoral del autor. El número 40 es uno de los números más importantes en las Escrituras. Siempre que aparece, está relacionado con tiempos de prueba o con personajes bíblicos que necesitan desesperadamente acercarse a Dios para superar aquellos momentos difíciles y encontrar la paz que solo Dios puede dar. Este es el motivo principal por el cual este libro contiene 40 reflexiones esperanzadoras, las cuales están directamente relacionadas con los episodios que encontramos en la Biblia. Podemos identificarnos con ellos y encontrar palabras de esperanza en medio de las crisis y de las diferentes pruebas que la vida pueda traer. This book is a hopeful devotional for times of trouble that was born from the author’s personal and pastoral experience. The number 40 is one of the most important numbers in Scripture. Any time it appears, it is related to times of trial or to biblical characters desperately needing to approach God in order to overcome those difficult moments and find the peace that only God can provide. This is the main reason behind this book’s 40 hopeful reflections, which are related directly to the events we encounter in the Bible. We can relate to them and find words of hope in the midst of crisis and of the different trials that life can bring.
Since its first edition in 1990, The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook has sold more than 600,000 copies. Its engaging exercises and worksheets have helped millions of readers make real progress in overcoming problems with anxiety and phobic disorders. The Authoritative Guide to Self-Help Resources in Mental Health (Norcross, et al., 2003) gave the book its highest rating and praised it as "a highly regarded and widely known resource." Thousands of mental health and medical professionals recommend this book to their clients and patients every year. Simply put, it is the single finest source of self-help information on its topic available anywhere. The text of this edition has been fully revised and expanded and includes two new chapters on the physical conditions that can aggravate anxiety and the use of mindfulness practice in the treatment of some anxiety disorders. The sections on relaxation, nutrition, and exercise have all been updated and broadened.
Ángel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature. Originally published in 1982, the book links Rama's work on Spanish American modernism with his arguments about the innovative nature of regionalist literature, and it foregrounds his thinking about the close relationship between literary movements, such as modernism or regionalism, and global trends in social and economic development. In Writing across Cultures, Rama extends the Cuban anthropologist Fernando Ortiz's theory of transculturation far beyond Cuba, bringing it to bear on regional cultures across Latin America, where new cultural arrangements have been forming among indigenous, African, and European societies for the better part of five centuries. Rama applies this concept to the work of the Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist José María Arguedas, whose writing drew on both Spanish and Quechua, Peru's two major languages and, by extension, cultures. Rama considered Arguedas's novel Los ríos profundos (Deep Rivers) to be the most accomplished example of narrative transculturation in Latin America. Writing across Cultures is the second of Rama's books to be translated into English.
Miguel Delibes Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian Translated by Teresa Boucher Miguel Delibes (1920-2010) was born and died in Valladolid, Spain. He was a novelist, journalist, newspaper editor, professor, and father of seven. He won virtually every literary prize awarded in Spain from the Nadal Prize for his first novel in 1948 to the Cervantes Prize in 1993 to the National Prize for Narrative for his last novel in 1999. In 1973 he was elected to the Royal Spanish Academy. He delivered his inaugural address in 1975, his wife having died in the interim. Delibes is the author of twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories and essays. Nine of his novels have been adapted to film, one to theater, and one to television. To date, eleven of his works have been translated into English. Love Letter from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian is the first English translation of Cartas de amor de un sexagenario voluptuoso, originally published in 1983. This novel has already been translated into Bosnian, Hebrew, Japanese and Russian--but only now into English. In Love Letters from a Voluptuous Sexagenarian, our antihero, Eugenio Sanz Vecilla, a sixty-five-year-old retired Castilian newspaperman, reads a personal ad in Sentimental Correspondence while in the waiting room of a doctor's office. Thus begins a six-month exchange of letters with Roc o, a fifty-six-year-old widow from Seville whose son, Federico, is writing a graduate thesis on censorship of the press in the 1940s under Francisco Franco's dictatorship. This novel, an epistolary mono-dialogue, weaves a comic love story with an unwitting expos of the state of journalism under an authoritarian regime. *** Teresa Boucher holds the Ph.D. from Princeton University in Romance Languages and Literatures. She is professor of Spanish at Boise State University. She has published articles, book reviews, and a monograph on Miguel Delibes.
Obesity and overweight have been under estimated as public health problems in Latin America and the Caribbean and both conditions are on the rise in the region. This book is a review of the prevalence of the problem and the medium and long term adverse effects of the conditions and the implications for planning public health actions.
