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Docencia: riesgos y desafíos, aborda de manera integral la profesión docente, capturando la enorme complejidad que la caracteriza; asimismo, incluye prácticamente todas las dimensiones de la actividad magisterial; es una obra que reivindica y dignifica al profesor. Resulta un libro completo debido a que define a la actividad docente, sus espacios, oportunidades, riesgos y amenazas. Además, la enfoca en su contexto individual, relacional, grupal y organizacional; abarca los ámbitos psicológico, sociológico, laboral, económico administrativo y el relacionado con la salud. Incluye temas...

Describes the importance of farms and the changes that have taken place on farms in the United States from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century.

Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. She is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy relatives and neighbors. Each day she is glued to the TV screen that blots out the painful realities of her existence and also illuminates the possibilities that lie ahead. But--click!--when the TV goes off, Sonia is taken back to real-life--the cramped, colorful world of her neighborhood and an...

From art and architecture to politics, philosophy, and mathematics, "western civilization" owes a great deal to the achievements of ancient Greece, but what do we really know about this long-gone civilization? How did geography influence the politics of the Greek city-states? What's the difference between an agora and an acropolis? This book takes readers several thousand years into the past, when independent city-states ruled the Mediterranean Sea, to find the answers. Full-color photographs and maps, accompanied by accessible text, introduce readers to the many contributions the ancient...