Un libro ameno y fácil de leer organizado en cuatro secciones. En primer lugar se explica cómo respirar y la postura correcta para realizar una meditación. En segundo lugar explica el aspecto y la cualidad más destacada de cada uno de los siete colores. Cada color tiene su propia enseñanza, y para explicarla la autora usa recursos distintos. Por ejemplo, en el verde, que es la vida, lo ilustra con una detallada explicación del samsara, la rueda de la vida budista. O en el amarillo, que representa la sabiduría, lo hace con un cuento popular hindú. La tercera parte estará dedicada a las meditaciones con cada color, para que el usuario pueda visualizar las cualidades de los colores e integrarlas en su vida. Finalmente, la última parte son siete fichas, donde queda concentrada toda la información de cada color para su fácil estudio: todas las cualidades del color, su gema, la ley universal a la que responde, su chakra, su día de la semana, su aroma, etcétera.

This high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom. Luego del gran éxito de Ser como el bambú, Ismael Cala presenta La piñata mágica, su segundo libro bilingüe para niños. Cala ofrece una excelente opción de entretenimiento para los niños, a la vez que les enseña un valioso mensaje para desarrollar virtudes durante el resto de sus vidas. El autor fomenta el hábito de la lectura en español e inglés, lo cual ayuda a los niños a mejorar sus habilidades en ambos idiomas. Además incluye coloridas ilustraciones, de la mano de Yunior Suárez, que prometen atrapar la atención de los niños. La piñata mágica hará recordar a chicos y grandes sus propias anécdotas, en las que las piñatas eran el centro de atención. Vive junto a tus hijos momentos inolvidables al leer esta tierna historia que contiene una lección muy trascendente en la vida de todo niño: el valor de compartir.

A mysterious plague is decimating the population of colonial Mexico. One of His MajestyÍs highest physicians is dispatched from Spain to bring the latest advances in medical science to the backward peoples of the New World capital. Here begins the cyclical tale of man battling the unknown, of science confronting the eternally indifferent forces of nature. Morales takes us on a trip through ancient and future civilizations, through exotic but all-too-familiar cultures, to a final confrontation with our own ethics and world views. In later chapters, the colonial physician finds his successors as they once again engage in life or death struggles, attempting to balance their own hopes, desires and loves with the good society and the state. Book II of the novel takes place in modern-day southern California, and Book III in a futuristic technocratic confederation known as Lamex. In the tradition of Latin American born novelist, Alejandro Morales is one of the finest representatives of magic realism in the English language. In The Rag Doll Plagues, Morales creates a many layered fictional world, taking us on an entertaining and thought-provoking safari thorough lands, times, peoples and ideas never before encountered or presented in this manner. But ultimately, this valuable trip leads to a reacquaintance with our own society and its moral vision.

A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.

This book reviews the history, current state of knowledge, and different research approaches and techniques of studies on interactions between humans and plants in an important area of agriculture and ongoing plant domestication: Mesoamerica. Leading scholars and key research groups in Mexico discuss essential topics as well as contributions from international research groups that have conducted studies on ethnobotany and domestication of plants in the region. Such a convocation will produce an interesting discussion about future investigation and conservation of regional human cultures, genetic resources, and cultural and ecological processes that are critical for global sustainability.