ACERCA DE LAS ALEGRCAS Y LOS DESAFCOS DE LA PATERNIDAD.Todos los padres conocen las alegrias y las penas, los desafios y los triunfos de llevar adelante una familia. Esta coleccion de inspiradas historias ha sido creada para ustedes, los padres del mundo.Tal vez en este momento esten esperando a su primer bebe, o siguiendo asombrados los primeros pasos de su hijo mas pequeno. Quiza tengan a un adolescente a punto de ingresar en la vida adulta o comiencen a experimentar la increible sensacion de ser abuelos. CuaIquiera sea su situacion, estas maravillosas historias le recordaran que la paternidad es la realizacion del rol mas valioso de sus vidas.Con los matices profundos y sutiles que aportan las experiencias de padres de toda indole: biologicos, adoptivos, padrastros y madrastras, estas entretenidas historias le hablaran a su corazon, lo conmoveran con lagrimas y risas, y lo llenaran de inspiracion. Ellas lo ayudaran a poner los tiempos dificiles en perspectiva, renovando la fe en si mismo y recordandole que hay que aprender a valorar cada momento como unico.Un libro para deleitarse y calentar el alma, como una taza de chocolate caliente en un dia de invierno.

ACERCA DE LAS ALEGRCAS Y LOS DESAFCOS DE LA PATERNIDAD.Todos los padres conocen las alegrias y las penas, los desafios y los triunfos de llevar adelante una familia. Esta coleccion de inspiradas historias ha sido creada para ustedes, los padres del mundo.Tal vez en este momento esten esperando a su primer bebe, o siguiendo asombrados los primeros pasos de su hijo mas pequeno. Quiza tengan a un adolescente a punto de ingresar en la vida adulta o comiencen a experimentar la increible sensacion de ser abuelos. CuaIquiera sea su situacion, estas maravillosas historias le recordaran que la paternidad es la realizacion del rol mas valioso de sus vidas.Con los matices profundos y sutiles que aportan las experiencias de padres de toda indole: biologicos, adoptivos, padrastros y madrastras, estas entretenidas historias le hablaran a su corazon, lo conmoveran con lagrimas y risas, y lo llenaran de inspiracion. Ellas lo ayudaran a poner los tiempos dificiles en perspectiva, renovando la fe en si mismo y recordandole que hay que aprender a valorar cada momento como unico.Un libro para deleitarse y calentar el alma, como una taza de chocolate caliente en un dia de invierno.

The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.

An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller! A Publishers Weekly Bestseller! Leading actor, producer and director Channing Tatum's picture book debut, The One and Only Sparkella is a charming ode to self-esteem and the love between a father and daughter—illustrated by Kim Barnes. Ella is excited for her first day at a new school. Glimmering pencil case? Check! Shimmering backpack? Check! Glittery ribbons in her hair? Check! She can't wait to meet the other kids and share her sparkly personality. But her first day doesn't go quite as planned: Her new classmates don't like her disco-ball shoes, her PB&J-with-sprinkles sandwich, or her rainbow-y unicorn painting. Ella decides to try to be less sparkly at school the next day so the other kids won't make fun of her. But with a little help from her dad, she soon learns the importance of just being herself, no matter what other people say.