Desentrañando hábitos

Desentrañando hábitos
Author: MAX EDITORIAL
Publisher: Max Editorial
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1991094590

Presentación de los objetivos del libro y lapropuesta de ofrecer una perspectiva alternativa a «El poder del hábito». Bienvenido al libro «Hábitos de revelación: un enfoque alternativo al poder del libro de hábitos». En esta obra, emprendemosun viaje de exploración y cuestionamiento de lasteoríastradicionales sobre hábitos, presentando una perspectiva alternativa a lapropuesta por el autor Charles Duhiggensu aclamado libro. Desde lapublicación de «The Power ofHabit», muchoslectores se han inspirado enlasideas de Duhigg sobre cómolos hábitos moldeannuestras vidas y cómo podemos transformarlas para alcanzareléxito y lafelicidad. Sin embargo, si bienreconocemosel mérito de sus contribuciones, tambiéncreemos que es esencialcuestionar y profundizarlacomprensión de loscomplejos mecanismos que rigennuestroscomportamientos automáticos. Nuestro enfoque no es simplemente desafiar eltrabajo de Duhigg para disputar. Por elcontrario, buscamos ampliar elconocimiento sobre el tema de los hábitos y proporcionar a loslectores una visión más completa y refinada de cómo se forman, cómo se mantienen y cómo se pueden modificar. Nuestro objetivo es ir más allá de laidea simplista de que todos los hábitos siguenunpatrón de disparador-rutina-recompensa, destacando que los hábitos sonmucho más complejos que esta fórmula. Investigaremos la influencia del contexto social y cultural enlaformación de hábitos, así como laimportancia de laautoconciencia para el cambio de comportamientos arraigados. A medida que buceamosen este viaje, buscaremos apoyoeninvestigacionesrecientes sobre neurociencia, psicologíadelcomportamiento y otras disciplinas relevantes. Buscaremos una comprensión más profunda de las conexiones cerebrales que apoyanlos hábitos, así como identificar estrategiaseficaces para laadopción y elmantenimiento de hábitos positivos. A lo largo de los próximos capítulos, le invitamos a reflexionar connosotros y cuestionarlaspremisasestablecidassinmiedo a explorar nuevos horizontes. Nuestraintención es ofrecerun enfoque complementario más que competitivo a la obra de Duhigg, proporcionando a loslectores una visión completa y fundamentada de los hábitos que rigennuestras vidas. Esperamos que, al final de este viaje, te sientas empoderado para entender mejorlamecánica de los hábitos y para tomar decisiones conscientes que te llevena una vida mássaludable, más productiva y satisfactoria. Acompáñenoseneldescubrimiento de losmatices y secretos detrás de los hábitos, y juntos descubriremosel poder que realmente ejercenennuestras vidas.

Desentrañando la mente de Warren Buffett

Desentrañando la mente de Warren Buffett
Author: MAX EDITORIAL
Publisher: Max Editorial
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2024-07-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1779718357

En este libro, nos embarcamos en un viaje profundo a la mente de uno de los mayores genios de las inversiones de la historia: Warren Buffett. Más que un inversor colosalmente exitoso, Buffett es un ícono de la filantropía, un crítico perspicaz del capitalismo y un mentor inspirador para generaciones de líderes empresariales. A través de un análisis de su filosofía de inversión en valor, su ejemplar frugalidad, su visión única sobre la responsabilidad social y su profunda influencia como mentor, descubriremos los secretos detrás de su extraordinaria trayectoria. En este capítulo, profundizaremos en la filosofía de inversión que impulsó el éxito de Warren Buffett y Berkshire Hathaway. Exploraremos los principios fundamentales de la inversión en valor , que se basa en la compra de acciones de empresas infravaloradas con potencial de crecimiento a largo plazo . Veremos cómo Buffett utiliza métricas como el valor intrínseco y el círculo de competencia para identificar oportunidades de inversión excepcionales, ignorando las fluctuaciones del mercado a corto plazo y centrándose en el valor duradero de las empresas. A pesar de su inconmensurable riqueza, Warren Buffett es conocido por su frugalidad y su aversión a la ostentación . Exploraremos cómo esta filosofía se refleja en sus hábitos personales y en la gestión de Berkshire Hathaway, demostrando que riqueza y sencillez pueden coexistir. Por el contrario, cubriremos la filantropía de Buffett , destacando su compromiso de donar el 99% de su fortuna a causas filantrópicas y su creación de GivingPledge , inspirando a otros multimillonarios a seguir su ejemplo. Descubra mucho más...

Harm Reduction Psychotherapy

Harm Reduction Psychotherapy
Author: Andrew Tatarsky
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2007-06-10
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1461628709

This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. Harm reduction is a framework for helping drug and alcohol users who cannot or will not stop completely—the majority of users—reduce the harmful consequences of use. Harm reduction accepts that abstinence may be the best outcome for many but relaxes the emphasis on abstinence as the only acceptable goal and criterion of success. Instead, smaller incremental changes in the direction of reduced harmfulness of drug use are accepted. This book will show how these simple changes in emphasis and expectation have dramatic implications for improving the effectiveness of psychotherapy in many ways. From the Foreword by Alan Marlatt, Ph.D.: “This ground-breaking volume provides readers with both an overview of harm reduction therapy and a series of ten case studies, treated by different therapists, that vividly illustrate this treatment approach with a wide variety of clients. In his introduction, Andrew Tatarsky describes harm reduction as a new paradigm for treating drug and alcohol problems. Some would say that harm reduction embraces a paradigm shift in addiction treatment, as it has moved the field beyond the traditional abstinence-only focus typically associated with the disease model and the ideology of the twelve-step approach. Others may conclude that the move toward harm reduction represents an integration of what Dr. Tatarsky describes as the “basic principles of good clinical practice” into the treatment of addictive behaviors. “Changing addiction behavior is often a complex and complicated process for both client and therapist. What seems to work best is the development of a strong therapeutic alliance, the right fit between the client and treatment provider. The role of the harm reduction therapist is closer to that of a guide, someone who can provide support an

Juan de la Rosa

Juan de la Rosa
Author: Nataniel Aguirre
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 1999-04-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0199938873

Long considered a classic in Bolivia, Juan de la Rosa tells the story of a young boy's coming of age during the violent and tumultuous years of Bolivia's struggle for independence. Indeed, in this remarkable novel, Juan's search for his personal identity functions as an allegory of Bolivia's search for its identity as a nation. Set in the early 1800s, the novel is narrated by one of the last surviving Bolivian rebels, octogenarian Juan de la Rosa. Juan recreates his childhood in the rebellious town of Cochabamba, and with it a large cast of full bodied, Dickensian characters both heroic and malevolent. The larger cultural dislocations brought about by Bolivia's political upheaval are echoed in those experienced by Juan, whose mother's untimely death sets off a chain of unpredictable events that propel him into the fiery crucible of the South American Independence Movement. Outraged by Juan's outspokenness against Spanish rule and his awakening political consciousness, his loyalist guardians banish him to the countryside, where he witnesses firsthand the Spaniards' violent repression and rebels' valiant resistance that crystallize both his personal destiny and that of his country. In Sergio Gabriel Waisman's fluid translation, English readers have access to Juan de la Rosa for the very first time.

The She-Devil in the Mirror

The She-Devil in the Mirror
Author: Horacio Castellanos Moya
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811219852

Salvadorean society is shocked by the gruesome murder of a young upper-class woman, and no one more so than her best friend Laura. In her first-person solo narration, Laura rattles on and on about her disbelief and horror at the evils all around her—but who’s that in the mirror? Laura Rivera can’t believe what has happened. Her best friend has been killed in cold blood in the living room of her home, in front of her two young daughters! Nobody knows who pulled the trigger, but Laura will not rest easy until she finds out. Her dizzying, delirious, hilarious, and blood-curdling one-sided dialogue carries the reader on a rough and tumble ride through the social, political, economic, and sexual chaos of post-civil war San Salvador. A detective story of pulse-quickening suspense, The She-Devil in the Mirror is also a sober reminder that justice and truth are more often than not illusive. Castellanos Moya’s relentless, obsessive narrator—female, rich, paranoid, wonderfully perceptive, and, in the end, fabulously unreliable—paints with frivolous profundity a society in a state of collapse. Castellanos Moya’s Senselessness was acclaimed “an innovative and invigoratingly twisted piece of art” (Village Voice) and “a brilliantly crafted moral fable, as if Kafka had gone to Latin America for his source materials” (Russell Banks).

Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Distributional Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Author: Richard Cookson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0198838190

Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis aims to help healthcare and public health organizations make fairer decisions with better outcomes. It can provide information about equity in the distribution of costs and effects - who gains, who loses, and by how much - and the trade-offs that sometimes occur between equity and efficiency. This is a practical guide to methods for quantifying the equity impacts of health programmes in high, middle, and low-income countries. The methods can be tailored to analyse different equity concerns in different decision making contexts. The handbook provides both hands-on training for postgraduate students and analysts and an accessible guide for academics, practitioners, managers, policymakers, and stakeholders. Part I is an introduction and overview for research commissioners, users, and producers. Parts II and III provide step-by-step guidance on how to simulate and evaluate distributions, with accompanying spreadsheet training exercises. Part IV concludes with discussions about how to handle uncertainty about facts and disagreement about values, and the future challenges facing this growing field. Book jacket.

Writing Across Cultures

Writing Across Cultures
Author: Angel Rama
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2012-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822352931

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.

Choosing Choice

Choosing Choice
Author: David Nathan Plank
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0807742910

The first cross-national comparative study on school choice policies, this volume features prominent scholars who analyze experiences in countries around the world, England, Chile, South Africa, the Czech Republic, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Sweden. Together, they answer such important questions as: Why are policies that expand educational options being adopted in such a diverse set of countries? Why have governments in widely varying circumstances come to view school choice as an apt response to educational dilemmas? What have we learned about the impacts of these policies on existing educational systems and the quality of teaching and learning in the classroom? The analyses presented here illuminate school choice policies as a critical worldwide development in education, noting both similarities and differences across countries. This volume broadens our understanding of school choice on the world stage while exploring implications for education policy in the United States.

Evaluation in Context

Evaluation in Context
Author: Geoff Thompson
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027270724

It is now an acknowledged fact in the world of linguistics that the concept of evaluation is crucial, and that there is very little – if any – discourse that cannot be analyzed through the prism of its evaluative content. This book presents some of the latest developments in the study of this phenomenon. Released more than a decade later than Hunston and Thompson’s (2000) Evaluation in Text, Evaluation in Context is designed as its sequel, in an attempt to continue, update and extend the different avenues of research opened by the earlier work. Both theoretical and empirical studies on the topic are presented, with the intention of scrutinizing as many of its dimensions as possible, by not only looking at evaluative texts, but also considering the aspects of the discursive context that affect the final evaluative meaning at both the production and reception stages of the evaluative act. The editors’ main objective has been to gather contributions which investigate the manifold faces and phases of evaluation by presenting a wide variety of perspectives that include different linguistic theories (e.g. Axiological Semantics, Functionalism or Politeness Theory), different levels of linguistic description (e.g. phonological, lexical or semantic), and different text types and contexts (e.g. the evaluation found in ironic discourse, the multimodality of media discourse or the world of politics, just to name a few). The volume can be of use not only for scholars who study the evaluative function of language, but also for students who wish to pursue research in the area.