A pocket-sized word-finder just for Spanish speakers, this title features the 2500 most common words in English. Each entry includes translation, pronunciation and grammar usage. The introduction in Spanish explains the easy-to-use format. Useful appendices include common abbreviations, common English names, postal abbreviations, and a gazetteer. Este libro es convenientemente portable, y tiene cualidades especiales qu lo hacen muy útil. Por ejemplo, puesto que el volumen tiene 2500 palabras alfabéticamente ordenadas tan sólo las palabras inglesas esenciales -- usted podrá llevar consigo, a cualquier parte, esta guía manual y hallar prontamente la palabra que necesite. Otra cualidad especial es una transcripción fonetica de cada voz o palabra, representativa de los sonidos de la lengua español. Además de las 2500 voces del diccionario mismo, hallará usted una guía de pronunciación, listas de nombres communes, de abreviaciones, y un nomenclador geográfico. Las 2500 Palabras le serán sumamente valiosas para su estudio del ingles, no sólo como referencia sino también como librito compañero de viajes, allevar con usted dondequiera que vaya.

Cortina Method Books bring you the quick, easy and natual way to learn a new language. The Cortina method is time-tested and has received the approval of teachers, students, schools, colleges and business firms all over the world.

The book is composed of several articles that explore complexity in its most varied aspects. The solution of contemporary problems, whatever they may be, requires a multifaceted vision, far beyond the reductionist perspective. The study of complex systems, however, does not have the capacity to offer ready answers to the challenges of humanity. On the contrary, it points to the increase in uncertainty, the need to control variables, and uncertainty. This does not mean, therefore, that we should simply ignore the social, economic, and political phenomena that are all around us. What this book demonstrates is the importance of knowledge being disseminated, and it is imperative that different sciences exchange ideas, theories, and breakthroughs.

“We are our bodies”, “we have our bodies”, “we make our bodies”. This “three-headed” axiom has made the body the “parasite” of modern culture. The individual that is fit for modernity was, and certainly still is, expected and encouraged to embrace its corporeal existence in order to find an answer to one of the most frequently asked questions in the modern Western world: “Who am I?” For those who live in Western societies, with a history of individualism, the temptation is to look inside oneself, to examine one’s thoughts and feelings, as if self-identity is a treasure locked inside. The desire to change the skin one inhabits, to cite Almodòvar, has become “territorialized” in on-screen media, digital sites and social networks, shuffling the cards as if in an attempt to dance on the ruins of passing time. Everything is at play, everything is art. Madonna is like Michelangelo. Comic strips are like eight hundred page novels by Tolstoy. What is up for discussion is the advanced transformation of persons into spectators. The multiplication of screens creates a “visual party”. The definition of the boundaries between the social sensorium and today’s advanced technologies is the fundamental, and as yet unsolved, methodological problem arising from the contemporary “spatial turn” that is coming to maturity thanks to the re-orientation of the classical digital paradigm. “Reclaiming the social throughout embodied practices” (Greenwood, 1994) is basically the ultimate objective of this book. The thinking, feeling and acting body will figure as prominently as the mind, cognition, and rationality in combining the framework of the research and the methodology underpinning its development. The body is, indeed, the origin of humans’ most individual experiences and actions, since it is the point of application of the tuning and calibration of the senses and the general training of social skills. The notion of “body in action in context” is, consequently, the methodological proposal that Beyond the Skin: The Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies in an Unequal World offers to sociology, in order to surpass the “new alliance” between human senses and the new media, an alliance staged by bodies moving faster than thought across the maps of contemporary mobile spaces.