La reconquista de la creatividad

La reconquista de la creatividad
Author: Fernando Trias de Bes
Publisher: CONECTA
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 8416029164

Somos creativos por naturaleza. Las barreras de nuestra creatividad son externas: aprendamos a eliminarlas. «La creatividad no tiene final, no conoce más límite que el que la propia vida le imponga. Cuando se acabe la vida, la creatividad lo hará con ella. Mientras haya vida, la creatividad permanecerá. Y eso, como seres vivos e inteligentes que somos, es una gran noticia.» Fernando Trías de Bes La creatividad es una facultad inherente a la condición humana. Este es el punto de partida de la reflexión de Fernando Trías de Bes en La reconquista de la creatividad. El acto de crear es consustancial a nuestra existencia. Sin embargo, a medida que nuestras vidas avanzan vamos progresivamente perdiendo el impulso de esta facultad. El miedo al error, el imperio de la lógica, el sistema educativo o los protocolos y rutinas producen individuos eficientes y adaptados pero se convierten enalgunas de las circunstancias que van limitando de forma progresiva nuestra capacidad de crear. La buena noticia es que la facultad creativa permanece latente en nuestro interior y es recuperable. Fernando Trías de Bes nos ofrece una serie de herramientas prácticas para reconquistar nuestra capacidad de crear, tanto a través de la identificación y erradicación de los obstáculos e inhibidores del proceso creativo como de una serie de potenciadores de la creatividad.

Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century

Mexican American Colonization during the Nineteenth Century
Author: José Angel Hernández
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107378753

This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war that resulted in the loss of half Mexico's territory. Responding to past interpretations, Jose Angel Hernández suggests that these resettlement schemes centred on developments within the frontier region, the modernisation of the country with loyal Mexican American settlers, and blocking the tide of migrations to the United States to prevent the depopulation of its fractured northern border. Through an examination of Mexico's immigration and colonisation policies as they developed in the nineteenth century, this book focuses primarily on the population of Mexican citizens who were 'lost' after the end of the Mexican American War of 1846–8 until the end of the century.

Do Pause

Do Pause
Author: Robert Poynton
Publisher: Do Book Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781907974632

Machines are designed to run constantly; people aren't. Our coping mechanisms are meditation apps, weekend breaks and annual holidays, but things soon revert. To prosper, we need a more sustainable approach - an ability to pause. Do Pause looks at the importance of this subtle yet powerful idea to communication, creativity, relationships - as well as our wellbeing and sanity. With practical tools to help you create new habits or make more significant lifestyle choices, you'll discover ways to: Reset and regenerate; Deepen your thinking and experiences; Take back control of your time; Reconnect with other people - and yourself. From taking a breath to taking a sabbatical, a pause can be many things. And the good news is, even just a small pause every now and again can make a real and lasting difference.

La lengua espanola

La lengua espanola
Author: Rainer H. Goetz
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0786451351

The Spanish language has a long and rich history, from its prehistoric roots to its position today as the mother tongue of nearly 400 million inhabitants of 21 countries. How the language originated, how it evolved, and how it is spoken today around the world makes for a fascinating story that greatly enhances the study of written and spoken Spanish. This Spanish-language text covers the history of Spanish from its pre-Roman and Latin roots to its standardized form and its many regional variations. Along the way, discussion covers the spread of Latin on the Iberian Peninsula, the development of romance dialects due to a number of sociolinguistic influences, and the process of creating a standard variety of Spanish. It concludes with a discussion of the origin and the range of dialects that are spoken across the vast geographical area that forms the Spanish-speaking world. Details of pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary are explained in their historical context, giving the student of Spanish a deeper understanding of the language as a whole. Perfect for students of Spanish as well as Spanish-speaking readers seeking to expand their general knowledge of the language, this book also includes a glossary of basic linguistic terms discussed in the text. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. La lengua espanola tiene una rica y larga historia, desde sus raices prehistoricas hasta su estado actual como la lengua materna de casi 400 millones de habitantes en 21 paises. El como se origino, como evoluciono, y como se habla hoy en dia alrededor del mundo contribuye a una historia fascinante que complementa el estudio del espanol escrito y hablado. El presente texto, en lengua espanola, trata la historia del espanol desde sus raices prerromanas y latinas hasta su forma estandarizada y sus multiples variantes regionales. A lo largo de la narrativa se cubre la expansion del latin en la Peninsula Iberica, el desarrollo de los dialectos romances debido a una serie de influencias de tipo sociolinguistico, y el proceso de crear una variante estandar del espanol. El libro concluye con una discusion de los origenes y de la variedad de dialectos que se hablan en la vasta zona geografica que comprende el mundo hispanohablante. Los pormenores de la pronunciacion, la ortografia, la gramatica, y el vocabulario se explican dentro de su contexto historico, y proporcionan al estudiante del espanol un entendimiento mas profundo de la lengua en su totalidad. El libro es perfectamente adecuado para los estudiantes del espanol tanto como para otros lectores hispanohablantes que desean aumentar sus conocimientos de la lengua, e incluye tambien un glosario de los terminos linguisticos elementales que se tratan en el texto. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Reescrituras

Reescrituras
Author: Luz Rodríguez Carranza
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Intertextuality
ISBN: 9789042008298

Este volumen reúne una serie de ensayos cuyo origen fue un coloquio doble - Reescrituras I y II - organizado en Leiden en mayo 2001 por el Departamento de Lenguas y Culturas de América Latina, la Cátedra de Estudios Brasileños y la Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies (OSL), con el apoyo de la Universidad de Aarhus y del University College London. En Imagen y Memoria (Reescrituras I) las aproximaciones, cada una a su modo, giran en torno a un aspecto del tema propuesto: desde el tratamiento de varios niveles de intertextualidad hasta la cuestión compleja de la presencia simultánea de múltiples memorias en la literatura. Muchos trabajos problematizan el rescate de las voces del pasado, oscurecidas y marginalizadas, que dialogan con el presente o se mezclan con él creando situaciones anacrónicas que al fin y al cabo terminan por eliminar las barreras entre lo erudito y lo popular, lo moderno y lo tradicional, lo propio y lo ajeno. En Jorge Luis Borges y la cultura popular (Reescrituras II) el hilo conductor es la propuesta inicial del coloquio: la escritura de Jorge Luis Borges como mito, como estereotipo de las Reescrituras de lo popular. La hipótesis fue la del estudiante de "El acercamiento a Almotásim" "En algún punto de la tierra hay un hombre de quien procede esa claridad, en algún punto de la tierra está el hombre que es igual a esa claridad". El volumen se cierra con un ensayo en el cual la autora asume en primera persona los desgarramientos y las reescrituras de la modernidad.

¡Reconquista!

¡Reconquista!
Author:
Publisher: Tecnologico de Monterrey
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2010
Genre: Chihuahua (Mexico : State)
ISBN:

The Next Step in the Dance

The Next Step in the Dance
Author: Tim Gautreaux
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 371
Release: 1999-01-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466833920

“A mighty first novel, told with cinematic grip . . . Gautreaux himself takes the next step in the moody, sweet dance of southern literature.” —GQ Bringing the same light and gentle understanding that he did to the story collection Same Place, Same Things, author Tim Gautreaux tells the tale of Paul and Colette, star-crossed and factious lovers struggling to make it in rural south Louisiana. When Colette, fed up with small town life, perceives yet another indiscretion by the fun-loving Paul, she heads for Los Angeles, with big dreams and Paul in tow. Paul’s attempts to draw his beautiful young wife back home to the Cajun bayou, and back to his heart, make up a tale filled with warmth, devotion and majestically constructed scenes of Southern life, in The Next Step in the Dance. “A smartly turned-out first novel, about the push and pull between a young Louisiana couple, that holds you snug and won’t let go . . . [an] A.” —Entertainment Weekly “[What] wins us over is Gautreaux’s powerful, often poetic mix of colorful detail and rapid-paced suspense, not to mention his keen ear for Cajun dialect.” —The New York Times Book Review “This is both an elegy for a disappearing way of life and a celebration of enduring values.” —The New Orleans Times-Picayune “An entertaining and immensely likable debut novel, set mostly in Louisiana’s southwestern Gulf Stream area . . . As a storyteller, and especially as one with such a good eye for character, Gautreaux looks like one of the best writers to have emerged in the 1990s.” —Kirkus Reviews

A Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Discourse in Mexican Narrative

A Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Discourse in Mexican Narrative
Author: Catherine L. Caufield
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

A Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Discourse in Mexican Narrative explores the complex phenomenon of religious discourse in contemporary Mexico as it appears in four works of Mexican literature: Rosario Castellano's Oficio de tinieblas, Elena Poniatowska's Hasta no verte Jesús mío, Vicente Leñero's El evangelio de Lucas Gavilán, and Carmen Boullosa's La Milagrosa. Catherine L. Caufield examines how it is possible to write lived experience as fiction as well as how it is possible that fiction can stimulate the reader to imagine the lived world differently.