La educación, en términos de aprendizaje, es uno de los principales pilares sobre los que se desarrolla el ser humano. Cuando echamos la vista atrás, todosnosotros encontramos a "aquel magnífico profesor" que nos explicaba maravillosamente esa asignatura que tanto nos había costado asimilar en cursos anteriores. Esa es la gran cualidad de Antonio: no solo tiene un talento y sensibilidadespeciales para comunicarse con los perros y sacar de ellos el máximo partidosino que, además, sabe transmitirlo en sus escritos de forma que éstos adquieren el inconfundible valor y la gran autoridad que representa su filosofía personal pro-ducto de más de treinta años de dedicación al estudio y adiestramiento de perros. En la primera edición de Psicología del aprendizaje y adiestramiento del perro (2003), Antonio Paramio Miranda dio un giro al concepto tradicional del "Manual de adiestramiento de perros", alejándose de los métodos tradicionales didácticos y proponiéndonos nuevas ideas para entenderlos mejor, comunicarnos correctamente con ellos y, así, poder educarlos y adiestrarlos de laforma más eficaz, sencilla, positiva y eficiente. A los amantes de los perrosnos ayudó a conocer su carácter, a tener identificadas sus pautas de comportamiento heredadas, a compartir sus emociones y a controlar sus impulsos y reflejos, y a crear así un vínculo más especial con nuestra mascota. A los profesionales dedicados a la educación y adiestramiento canina les abrió la puerta a una forma nueva de entender su labor, llegando a convertirse en el manual oficial de adiestramiento canino de la Guardia Civil. Los lectores de la segunda edición se verán gratamente sorprendidos porque, aún respetando el contenido original de la primera edición, Antonio ha añadido algunos capítulos nuevos, entre los que podemos destacar por lo novedoso de su contenido, el de-dicado a lamente, emociones y cognición, en el que trata temas tan interesantes como la forma en que los perros procesan y clasifican la información, sus emociones y cómo afectan éstas a su conducta, su capacidad para la representación mental yespacial, planificación, etc. Y tras el deleite de su lectura, no tendrán queesperar demasiado tiempo para disfrutar de nuevas emocionesà porque su próximo libro, Conducta canina y Flores de Bach, nos abrirá las puertas a un mundo aún poco conocido y que nos ayudará a encontrar soluciones para muchos problemas conductuales de nuestros perros.?ndice Resumido: El perro y su entorno. El cachorro. El perro adulto. Psicología. Principios de aprendizaje. Condicionamiento. Adiestramiento. Adiestramiento de perros de rastro. Adiestramiento de obediencia. Adiestramiento para la defensa. Problemas de conducta. Temas de debate en la actualidad.

From internationally-acclaimed novelist Mayra Santos-Febres comes a carnal, epic novel about the life of Isabel “La Negra” Luberza--a legendary Puerto Rican madam who, by the end of World War II, became the most powerful woman on the island. Born into poverty and then abandoned by her mother, Isabel "La Negra" Luberza blossoms into a supremely sensual young woman. Obsessed with attaining aristocratic status—armed with incredible physical presence, indomitable ambition, and keen intelligence—she meets Fernando Fornarís, the man who will forever change her life. With a parcel of land given to her by her rich, white married lover, Isabel transforms herself into a hard-edged and merciless businesswoman—abandoning her own newborn son to become Puerto Rico's most feared and respected madam, a collector of society's secrets, a queen of the notorious brothel that emerges as the island's true political and economic heart. Set against the rich backdrop of the Caribbean and the United States during the tumultuous years of World War II, Mayra Santos-Febres's Our Lady of the Night is a breathtaking novel of passion, power, and the devastating price of achieving everything one wishes for.

The effect on a Puerto Rican family, which is without a man in the house, of a visit by an uncle from New York. For the first time the conversation rises above the mundane. The novel is narrated by a girl who describes the joy of having her horizons widened.

Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological sciences, as well as the humanities, this reader charts the evolution of debates on 'race' and 'mixed race' from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The book is divided into three main sections: tracing the origins: miscegenation, moral degeneracy and genetics mapping contemporary and foundational discourses: 'mixed race', identities politics, and celebration debating definitions: multiraciality, census categories and critiques. This collection adds a new dimension to the growing body of literature on the topic and provides a comprehensive history of the origins and directions of 'mixed race' research as an intellectual movement. For students of anthropology, race and ethnicity, it is an invaluable resource for examining the complexities and paradoxes of 'racial' thinking across space, time and disciplines.

Examines the history of special education by categorical areas (for example, Learning Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Autistic Spectrum Disorders). This title includes chapters on the changing philosophy related to educating students with exceptionalities as well as a history of legal and legislation content concerned with special education.

DIVBenjie and his friend Ezzie have escape plans for every emergency, including lion attacks and quicksand, but no clue what to do about the class bully /divDIV So what if Benjie “Mouse” Fawley likes practical jokes? He’s a good kid who never meant to harm anyone. The same cannot be said for Marv Hammerman, a boy in Benjie’s middle school who is as big as a high-schooler but has the temper of a two-year-old. When Benjie (in a fit of insanity) writes a joke about Marv for all to see, he soon realizes he’s stumbled into the biggest emergency he’s ever faced. Now Benjie must decide whether to stay at school and face a clobbering, or run off and live the rest of his life hiding in the woods. The 18th Emergency is a hilarious account of the trials of surviving the school bully./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Betsy Byars including rare images from the author’s personal collection./div