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Stimulative animation – already introduced in the formation of social educators – is faced with the new expectations which arise due to population’s progressive ageing. For this reason it is of interest to analyse the theoretical bases which permit the elaboration of dynamics for individualized attention (whether in homes or in institutions) based on human dignity and guaranteeing the quality of life. The author has dedicated the first part of the book to this. In the second part the physical, psychical and sensorial disabilities of elderly persons are systematically defined, and the...

A través de los años me di cuenta que aunque el papa prohíbe los anticonceptivos, las católicas los usan. Acuden al confesionario y vuelven a usarlos. Las más conscientes se atormentan y supongo que viven con el alma dividida. Seguramente en la intimidad de muchas mujeres, allá en lo oscuro, en lo más hondo, allí donde los pensamientos duelen mucho, hay un aborto. Dentro de mí lo hay. La interrupción del embarazo es parte de la libre decisión de las mujeres. La herida de paulina es la historia de una niña de 13 años a la que la ley, en connivencia con la iglesia católica no le...

This work deals with the collapse of Teotihuacan and the period 650-900 AD. Teotihuacan was the most important urban centre in Central Mexico before the rise of Tula. The study develops a new view of the cultural changes adopted by the new society. This is the first work that attempts to reconcile the archaeological complexities of the transition. Spanish text.

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...