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El libro es el resultado la investigación realizada entre el 2005 y el 2007 en un curso de composición de la Licenciatura en Lenguas Extranjeras de la Escuela de ciencias del Lenguaje. El texto comienza analizando la problemática de la escritura en la universidad como ejercicio epistémico, hace...

This must-have resource demonstrates the practical application of the Common Core State Standards for mathematics in the classroom. This book provides an in-depth look at the standards and demonstrates how to integrate them into the curriculum through rich tasks, questioning, small-group instruction,...

Trivia-on-Book: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande Take the challenge yourself and share it with friends and family for a time of fun! It is difficult to deal with a loved one who go through the changes of becoming old. It makes the process even more difficult without the support of medical doctors...

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Was ist Speedreading? Speedreading ist die Fähigkeit, überdurchschnittlich schnell zu lesen und dennoch den Inhalt des Textes zu verstehen (lt. Wikipedia). Diese Fähigkeit kann trainiert und die persönliche Leseleistung erhöht werden. Das "Wie" ist Inhalt...

Com podem recuperar i transmetre als nens i als joves les ganes de llegir i la passió per la lectura. Llegir és una necessitat urgent pública i privada. La vida humana transcorre entre paraules. La nostra intel·ligència és lingüística i la nostra convivència, íntima o política, també....

From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's concerts at San Francisco's legendary Fillmore, Patti Smith finds...

Acclaimed author Rick Bass decided to thank all of his writing heroes in person, one meal at a time, in this "rich smorgasbord of a memoir . . . a soul-nourishing, road-burning act of tribute" (New York Times Book Review)****. "Exuberant . . . A classic . . . This is a rich bounty...

The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick...

Speak, Memory, first published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and times, even as it offers incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, and The Defense.

A remarkable literary hybrid—part biography, part detective story—about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe ** ** Where did Crusoe come from? Frank explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their...

In a witty and elegant autobiography that takes up where his bestelling Palimpsest left off, the celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Gore Vidal reflects on his remarkable life.Writing from his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Vidal travels in memory through the arenas...

The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is “a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing” (The Seattle Times).   An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year   The plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930—and...

In a brilliant, nuanced and wholly original collection of essays, the novelist and critic Colm Tóibín explores the relationships of writers to their families and their work. From Jane Austen’s aunts to Tennessee Williams’s mentally ill sister, the impact of intimate family dynamics can...