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In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all. Presented in a lively new translation, the book addresses the fears of growing older and argues why these worries are greatly exaggerated―or altogether mistaken.

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values are perceived as being underthreat in contemporary society. Ranging across politics, social policy, law and sociology, the contributors focus on the diverse realities of contemporary family life. Issues covered include: * the recent backlash against single mothers * lesbian and gay families and the law * men's changing roles within the family * the future of the nuclear family. This book is ideal...

De este ensayo emerge una tesis polémica: la inmadura identidad del mexicano es igual a la de un extraño y a la vez conocidísimo animal: el ajolote.

En Mxico, el inters por la enfermedad y el accidente desde la perspectiva socio-cultural toma cuerpo al finalizar la segunda Guerra Mundial, pero su ascendiente queda reducido a los antroplogos. Las circunstancias, sin embargo, nunca permanecen constantes y en la actualidad son los mdicos y no slo los antroplogos, quienes se interesan por el enfoque cultural de la medicina. Es entonces el proceso de su formacin en nuestra pas, tomndolo desde sus orgenes entre los antroplogos ingleses y estadounidenses, el objetivo de este estudio.