Sumérgete en las apasionantes experiencias de un intrépido guardavidas que ha recorrido las playas de Uruguay y España, enfrentándose a desafíos impactantes y a situaciones límite. En "De agua y arena 2", descubrirás la valiente historia de un hombre que ha dedicado su vida a proteger y salvar vidas en dos costas diferentes, en donde cada día es una nueva aventura. Desde tranquilas playas con sus arenas doradas y aguas serenas, hasta otras, con sus poderosas olas y paisajes cautivadores, este libro te sumergirá en el mundo emocionante y arriesgado de los guardavidas. A través de relatos reales y conmovedores, este guardavidas nos llevará a través de las situaciones de peligro y emergencia que ha enfrentado. Con un estilo narrativo cercano y envolvente, el autor nos invita a conocer las historias detrás de cada rescate, las emociones que lo han impulsado a actuar con rapidez y valentía, y la camaradería y apoyo de sus colegas que lo han acompañado en esta noble misión .

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.

Mark Williams is tired of his marriage and tired of his job teaching astronomy at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City. Angela Vasquez is a young single mother training to be a nurse. Norman Ketterly is fighting for his life in a cancer ward. Their intertwining stories unspool under a canopy of stars too vast to imagine and too beautiful to comprehend, especially when the travails of life on Earth threaten to blot it out. Kenneth Lonergan's play The Starry Messenger is a bittersweet exploration of love, hope and the mysteries of the cosmos. It premiered in New York in 2009, and received its UK premiere at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in May 2019, featuring Matthew Broderick and Elizabeth McGovern.

When the Past Is Always Present: Emotional Traumatization, Causes, and Cures introduces several new ideas about trauma and trauma treatment. The first of these is that another way to treat disorders arising from the mind/brain may be to use the senses. This idea, which is at the core of psychosensory therapy, forms what the author considers the "third pillar" of trauma treatment (the first and second pillars being psychotherapy and psychopharmacology). Psychosensory therapy postulates that sensory input—for example, touch—creates extrasensory activity that alters brain function and the way we respond to stimuli. The second idea presented in this book is that traumatization is encoded in the amygdala only under special circumstances. Thus, by understanding what makes an individual resistant to traumatization we can offer a way of preventing it. The third idea is that traumatization occurs because we cannot find a haven during the event. This is the cornerstone of havening, the particular form of psychosensory therapy described in the book. Using evolutionary biological principles and recently published neuroscientific studies, this book outlines in detail how havening touch de-links the emotional experience from a trauma, essentially making it just an ordinary memory. Once done, the event no longer causes distress.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third Asian Computing Science Conference, ASIAN'97, held in Kathmandu, Nepal, in December 1997. The volume presents 24 revised full papers selected from a total of 94 submissions. Also included are an abstract of the keynote by Michael O. Rabin, two full invited presentations, and 10 posters. Among the areas addressed are programming languages, formal methods, mathematical logic, reasoning and constraints, real-time computing, networking, mobile computing, image processing, hardware verification, and parallel processing.