This book object, composed of 30 cards, invites the reader to stop in the poetry that surrounds us.
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This thought-provoking book explores the link between animals, people and their social and physical environments in relation to livestock farming, food safety, food security and sustainability. Providing an overview of livestock farming and animal related food production systems in a one welfare context, One Welfare: Animal Health and Welfare, Food Security and Sustainability begins by considering the interconnections of animals, humans and their environment. It then expands into the food production system, and considers the integration of positive welfare, stress, use of welfare indicators and the economic perspective. Written by a team of international experts, it connects theory with best practice examples and case studies from both organizations and individuals that have successfully implemented a one welfare approach. Essential reading for academics and practitioners who work within farming, food systems and international development, this ground-breaking text is also an important read for veterinary and animal welfare professionals.
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FERNANDO LARA PRIZE 2022 My mother would have been happier if I had never been born. That’s the simple truth about my life. The plot and the ending of this novel don’t really matter. Accepting the circumstances of the story is the only sedative that allows me to write. The only thing I’m afraid of is the end. The only purpose of this sermon of mine, of all these words, of the constant pain and the feigned happiness, is to delay my inexorable arrival at that point, like watching a train make its way down the mountain, disappearing into tunnels that were dug a century ago. “Should I write?” I ask myself. “Write and, once you’ve finished, don’t go back. Say goodbye.” With this brave, intimate account, the author reconstructs a childhood in which everyone – grandparents, parents and children – has been silent for too long. Adiós, pequeño is the story of a family trying to be happy despite everything.
Accompanied by good friends andof the music, nothingnothing is impossible.
Not so much an illustrated novel as a technicolour delirium. Martin Scorsese meets Jack Kerouac under LSD. Enter, read and discover. The grotesque and fearsome Diotisalvi brothers control all the illegal business in New York. One day, completely by surprise, multi-millionaire Camel Horovitz exiles them and imposes a new reign of terror. Old Camel will only allow the Diotisalvi to return to New York on one impossible condition: they must find a way to rid him of the double hump that has earned him his nickname. The Diotisalvis embark upon a crazy adventure in search of a solution, a journey that will take them to Ushuaia, at the very ends of the earth. There, they will encounter Carlos Gardel’s albino twin, Charles Darwin’s lost son, a Madrileñan bullfighter and his bulls, a woman who is crossing Patagonia on foot and gradually becomes black, a dinosaur, a vast ship, a forgotten jazz singer, the Japanese creator of Godzilla, an Indian woman who speaks 364 languages... And a Cyclops, that mysterious legend, a phenomenon capable of performing a thousand and one miracles. “The words that could have come from the writer, are providedhere by the illustrator. One might think that going through life withonly one eye would impede a person’s vision but in the case ofthis Patagonian native it is an advantage, because it enables himto do something that the rest of us – mafia hitmen, albino singers,dinosaur hunters or black servants – cannot: to see the comic sideof tragic situations. We invite the readers of this book to follow suit.To laugh, because life is short and it usually ends badly. And that’sthat.” - Oscar Grillo illustrator of the novel
In the beautiful Oaxaca, some traditions are essential for the heart. This Zapotec story, translated into Spanish, is filled with humour, and tells us how a very hungry girl managed to cheerfully and zestfully quench her appetite.
In the year 825 A.C., Abderraman II, the Emir of Cordoba, ordered the construction of Madina Mursiyya, the actual city of Murcia. Not many years before, a little boy called Omar, witness to one of the turning points that would spark off a bloody civil war in the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula, finds and secretly hides a pendant that will later disclose its power and significance. Always in the company of the aforementioned talisman, which belonged to the Yemeni man murdered next to the river Sangonera, Omar will be forced to act as a spy amid the fratricidal conflict if he wants to save his father from the unfair fate that abides him, shake off the yoke of his stepbrothers and recover his beloved from the grip of the emir and his favourite eunuch. For those purposes, he will have to get involved in the foundation of the city and at the same time confront, with the help of those who should have been his natural enemies, a number of intriguing characters who should have been his allies all through an extraordinary plot full of magic, innocence and adventures. En el 825 d.C. el emir de Córdoba, Abderramán II, ordenó la fundación de la ciudad de Mursiyya, la actual Murcia. Pocos años antes el pequeño Omar, testigo de uno de los decisivos sucesos que incitarían una cruenta guerra civil en el sureste de la península ibérica, encuentra y esconde un colgante que más tarde revelaría su poder e importancia. Acompañado de dicho talismán, propiedad del Yemení asesinado junto al río Sangonera, Omar deberá actuar como espía en el fraticida conflicto si quiere salvar a su padre de su injusto destino, liberarse del yugo de sus hermanastros y recuperar a su amada de las garras del emir y de su eunuco predilecto. Para ello deberá colaborar en la fundación de la ciudad sin dejar de enfrentarse, con la ayuda de los que deberían haber sido sus enemigos naturales, a intrigantes personajes de su propia facción en una insólita historia llena de magia, inocencia y aventuras. La sorprendente novela en la que la vida de nuestro entrañable protagonista Omar se entreteje con la de cerca de un centenar de personajes reales de los siglos IX y anteriores, y con la Historia de Murcia, su huerta y el resto de la antigua cora de Tudmir (Región de Murcia, Alicante, y parte de Almería y Albacete), y la del resto de al Andalus.
En el año 1402 Lorenzo Suárez de Figueroa, XXXII Maestre de la Orden de Santiago, encargó a su médico, Jacobo Zadique de Uclés, traducir una colección de sentencias que tituló simplemente Dichos de sabios. Esta obra, compuesta por un prólogo y siete capítulos temáticos, ofrece un largo listado de sentencias sacadas de autores clásicos (como Séneca, Aristóteles, Cicerón, Valero Máximo, etc.), de citas de la Biblia y una cantidad importante de refranes. Conservada en cinco manuscritos, la obra tuvo una difusión considerable en los siglos XV y XVI; sin embargo, ha permanecido inédita hasta nuestros días. La presente edición ofrece por primera vez un texto crítico y un extenso estudio que explica el contexto de producción de la obra y aclara problemas referentes a su fecha de escritura, elaboración, patronazgo y fuentes. Los Dichos de sabios son una pieza fundamental para comprender el ideario político de Enrique III y el entorno literario del Rimado de palacio de Pero López de Ayala.
Ada lives in a perfect world and leads a perfectly organised life in Sector 7. Everything there is aseptic: there are no wars or diseases, and history and art are unnecessary. Things seem to be under control, until one day Ada’s world falls apart. She flees to the polluted city, a Madrid in ruins where she is to discover a reality that will make her doubt her deepest convictions. A dystopian novel that addresses the issues of our times: freedom, truth, disease and social control.
The Destructive Path of Neoliberalism: An International Examination, a compilation of twelve essays by leading scholars and educators, sheds light on the social, political, economic, and historical forces behind the rise of neoliberalism, the dominant ideological doctrine impacting developments in schools and other social contexts across the globe for over thirty years. Several authors provide rich empirical data from schools across the globe to capture how neoliberal imperatives, discourses, and practices are impacting teachers, students, and communities at today’s historical juncture. Finally, several contributors have developed pedagogical initiatives, suggest policy considerations, and convey theoretical insights designed to assist us in the struggle against the corporatization of schooling and social life.An International Examination of Urban Education: The Destructive Path of Neo-liberalism, by Bradley Porfilio and Curry Malott, is an important and provocative text, indeed; not only for its careful and eloquent theoretical and analytical examination of neo-liberalism and “globalization” in urban educational contexts -- and the dystopic and globally catastrophic consequences of these instantiations of late-capitalism -- but also because it is what its name implies, an international study of these phenomena (a study and critique by those most immediately and directly effected by the “manifest destiny” of capitalist imperialism). As neo-liberalism appears to be both in continued ascendancy and immanent collapse, Porfilio and Malott’s text is a must read for every serious student of education, political science and sociology.--Marc Pruyn, New Mexico State University (co-editor, most recently, with Luis Huerta-Charles of De la Pedagogía Critica a la Pedagogía Revolucionaria: Ensayos para Comprender a Peter McLaren from Siglo XXI Press in Mexico).
Julia is going through a bad time: her mom and her dad are going to go away for three months to finish their diplomas outside of the country and they have left her aunt Sofía in charge of her, meaning, apart from changing house, she will also have to change school. There Julia will meet every kind of specimens: a protective elephant miss, and an understanding giraffe, some obedient zebras, and a dangerous tigress with whom she will fight against more than once. Julia will have to overcome many obstacles alone, and still, in the middle of it, she will have to find time to visit his very peculiar friend: Panther leo.
A selection of short stories by Inés Arredondo, in which the feminine, the sensuality, the eroticism, the unspeakable desire, death, the sordid, and otherness are recurrent themes, and they are part of what can´t be understood, of the intangible that are present in the daily life of its characters. This edition exquisitely illustrated by the young Mexican woman John Marceline contains stories like “Summer”, “Shadows between shadows”, “Mariana”, “The Shunammite”, “Opus 123”, among others.
Women who used to read could’ve been titled women who used to sing, women who used to paint, women who used to play piano or even women who used to dance. All of them, the women that preceded us, had concerns, dreamt about being something more than what destiny had in store for them. It’s the story of the author’s mother, o women in her family, but it could also be the same story of many who lived through the post-war period, a difficult time in which they could be no more than wives and mothers. But many of them kept a treasure inside them. A voice, a gift, a will to create that many times had to be hidden in their homes, in their hearts. She, the mother, managed to make one of her dreams come true, even if it was seventy years later. Mujeres que leían se podía haber titulado igualmente mujeres que cantaban, mujeres que pintaban, mujeres que tocaban el piano o mujeres que bailaban. Todas ellas, las mujeres que nos precedieron, tenían inquietudes, soñaban con ser algo más que aquello que el destino les había marcado. Es la historia de la madre de la autora, de las mujeres de su familia, pero podría ser también la misma historia de muchas que vivieron la posguerra, un tiempo difícil en el que apenas podían ser otra cosa que esposas y madres. Pero ellas guardaban un tesoro en su interior: una voz, un don, unas ganas de crear que en muchos casos escondieron dentro de sus casas y de sus corazones. Ella, la madre, logró hacer realidad uno de sus pequeños sueños, aunque fuera setenta años después.
Through a selection of thrilling and exciting illustrated stories, Mexican author, Amparo Dávila, and Argentinian illustrator, Santiago Caruso, create a fascinating reading spectrum for young audiences. This set combines classic tales of the author: “Petrified trees” and “Concrete music”, alongside with fantastic stories as “The guest”, the story of an ordinary woman hunted by an unknown creature; “High kitchen”, a short story where miniature beings confront their inevitable fate, among others.
Pol doesn’t want to leave A., but his father has found a good job in L. so they have to go. They’ll have a better life there, he says, but Pol doesn’t want that: he just wants to go back to A. Far from home, a voice from the past tells him a story of exile, pain, and a treasure that brings him hope he will return to his home. An exquisite story, full of humour and feelings, that makes us reflect on what is ours, our identity, love, and history.
¿Quiénes son los Centennials? ¿Qué esperan del mundo? ¿Cuales son sus metas, sus sueños? ¿Qué posición tienen frente a la vida? Y, tal vez lo más importante, ¿Cómo comunicarse con ellos? En tiempos en los que los jóvenes son nativos digitales, este estudio en colaboración entre Sancho BBDO y la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano espera despejar algunas de estas preguntas en un lenguaje para baby boomers, genaración X y millenials pueden también entender.
