En su sentido etimológico, adolescencia proviene del latín “adolescere”, que significa carecer. De allí que ésta se pueda tomar como un proceso constante y permanente del ser humano. Expertos psicólogos han considerado que es una etapa que merece ser orientada.
(abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
The incomparable Borges delivered these seven lectures in Buenos Aires in 1977; attendees were treated to Borges' erudition on the following topics: Dante's The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, Thousand and One Dreams, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.
The blind Country and Western singer recounts his difficult childhood, describes the highlights of his professional career, and discusses the people and events that contributed to his success
Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
THE GODS ARE BACK? Ever since Roswell NM when an unidentified flying object crashed onto a ranch authorities have vehemently denied the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrials. Now a whistle blower reveals a United States EKV - Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle - has destroyed a mysterious UFO orbiting in the Clarke Belt 22,000 miles from Earth. David Rowan a best-selling author famous for debunking UFOs is led into a strange and grueling trek to attend a "Gathering" set up by descendants of the Biblical "giants in the Earth" - the Anunnaki who are now so far evolved they believe nuclear bombs and weapons are passe. Rowan soon finds they are far from mythical and now possess extraordinary powers that enable them to abduct anyone anywhere at any time and also to resurrect the dead. Rowan's bizarre journey starts in England with strange encounters in New Mexico, Texas, Oregon, Washington State and concluding on a remote plateau in the coastal mountains of British Columbia. As the civilized world falls apart, Rowan and his group desperately seek to reach the summer solstice event riding 350 miles packed in an 80 year-old diesel truck on highways cluttered with wrecked vehicles and looters.