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Book The Use of Eyeglasses

    Book Details:
  • Author : P.E. Runge
  • Publisher : Wayenborgh Publishing
  • Release : 2018-11-30
  • ISBN : 906299900X
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Use of Eyeglasses written by P.E. Runge and published by Wayenborgh Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States  Sociology

Download or read book Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States Sociology written by Nicolàs Kanellos and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Project is a national project to locate, identify, preserve and make accessible the literary contributions of U.S. Hispanics from colonial times through 1960 in what today comprises the fifty states of the United States.

Book Su Embarazo Semana a Semana

Download or read book Su Embarazo Semana a Semana written by Glade B. Curtis and published by Da Capo Lifelong Books. This book was released on 2013-07-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La guia medica del embarazo mas completa, actualizada y confiable, completamente revisada y puesta al dia! Su embarazo semana a semana es la guia sobre el embarazo mas completa a su disposicion. Los medicos la recomendan, las parejas que esperan un bebe confian en ella, y usted y su pareja la encontraran indispensable. Con este formato de semana a semana, usted podra seguir los cambios de su bebe y comparar los detalles de su embarazo segun el mismo calendario semanal que emplea sy medico. Autorizada y facil de usar a la vez, esa edicion recientemente corregida--la primera en ocho an~os--cubre la informacion mas reciente, desde las tendencias y recomendaciones de seguridad hasta las inquietudes medicas, asi como tambien: Description detallada del desarrollo del bebe cada semana La mas reciente informacion sobre examenes y procedimientos medicos Consejos sobre nutricion, su salus y como lo que usted hace afecta el desarrollo de su bebe Ejercicios semanales seguros para ayudarla a mantenerse en forma En esta version actualizada se incluyen muchos temas nuevos, tales como el tratamiento sin medicamentos para diversos malestares del embarazo, las vacaciones antes del nacimiento del bebe, la preparacion del cuarto del bebe, consideraciones ecologicas durante el embarazo, las pautas mas recientes sobre el aumento de peso, datos sobre los bancos de sangre de cordon umbilical y mucho mas.... Since its publication nearly twenty-five years ago, Your Pregnancy Week by Week has sold millions of copies and become the go-to guide for expectant parents. Now, the fully revised and expanded seventh edition is available in Spanish. In Su Embarazo Semana a Semana parents-to-be will find the latest information to prepare for their baby's birth—including more than fifty new or updated topics—addressing today's most pressing questions and concerns. Compassionate, reassuring, and medically grounded, this guide provides everything expectant parents need to ensure a healthy, happy pregnancy, including descriptions of the fetus's development each week, up-to-date information about medical tests and procedures, healthy weight guidelines, safe weekly exercises for expectant moms, and helpful hints for the father-to-be.

Book The Refracted Muse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Enrique García Santo-Tomás
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2017-08-08
  • ISBN : 022646587X
  • Pages : 325 pages

Download or read book The Refracted Muse written by Enrique García Santo-Tomás and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence—not just among Spaniards working in the developing science of optometry but among creative writers as well. While Spain is often thought to have taken little notice of the Scientific Revolution, García Santo-Tomás tells a different story, one that reveals Golden Age Spanish literature to be in close dialogue with the New Science. Drawing on the work of writers such as Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Calderón de la Barca, and Quevedo, he helps us trace the influence of science and discovery on the rapidly developing and highly playful genre of the novel. Indeed, García Santo-Tomás makes a strong case that the rise of the novel cannot be fully understood without taking into account its relationship to the scientific discoveries of the period.

Book The History of Ophthalmology

Download or read book The History of Ophthalmology written by Julius Hirschberg and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lenses and Waves

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  • Author : Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2006-01-20
  • ISBN : 1402026986
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Lenses and Waves written by Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-01-20 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1690, Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) published Traité de la Lumière, containing his renowned wave theory of light. It is considered a landmark in seventeenth-century science, for the way Huygens mathematized the corpuscular nature of light and his probabilistic conception of natural knowledge. This book discusses the development of Huygens' wave theory, reconstructing the winding road that eventually led to Traité de la Lumière. For the first time, the full range of manuscript sources is taken into account. In addition, the development of Huygens' thinking on the nature of light is put in the context of his optics as a whole, which was dominated by his lifelong pursuit of theoretical and practical dioptrics. In so doing, this book offers the first account of the development of Huygens' mathematical analysis of lenses and telescopes and its significance for the origin of the wave theory of light. As Huygens applied his mathematical proficiency to practical issues pertaining to telescopes – including trying to design a perfect telescope by means of mathematical theory – his dioptrics is significant for our understanding of seventeenth-century relations between theory and practice. With this full account of Huygens' optics, this book sheds new light on the history of seventeenth-century optics and the rise of the new mathematical sciences, as well as Huygens' oeuvre as a whole. Students of the history of optics, of early mathematical physics, and the Scientific Revolution, will find this book enlightening.

Book Qu   Puedes Esperar Cuando Est  s Esperando

Download or read book Qu Puedes Esperar Cuando Est s Esperando written by Heidi Murkoff and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta traducción al español del libro considerado como la biblia del embarazo en Norteamérica con más 19 millones de copias impresas, What to Expect When You’re Expecting: 4th Edition, es más vital, menos formal y más sencilla de entender de manera general que cualquier otra anterior. Es un libro dirigido a padres que esperan un bebé y quienes no dominan el inglés o quienes, en un momento de estrés como este, prefieren lo que les resulta más familiar – su primer idioma. Está repleto de información actualizada no sólo sobre lo nuevo que se sabe sobre el embarazo, pero también sobre los temas que son relevantes para las embarazadas. Heidi Murkoff ha respondido decenas de nuevas preguntas e incluido nuevos materiales requeridos por los lectores, como, por ejemplo, una sección detallada en todos los capítulos sobre cada mes del embarazo sobre el desarrollo fetal en cada una de las semanas de este, un capítulo expandido sobre la pre-concepción y uno completamente nuevo sobre embarazos múltiples. Siendo más completa, reconfortante y empática que todas las anteriores, esta edición incorpora nuevos descubrimientos en obstetricia y toca diferentes tendencias actuales (desde el tatuaje y otras modificaciones corporales hasta el Botox y la aromaterapia). Hay mucho más que antes sobre temas prácticos (incluyendo una sección aumentada sobre cuestiones relacionadas con el sitio laboral), físicos (con más síntomas y soluciones para estos), emocionales (más consejos sobre cómo navegar la montaña rusa emocional), nutricionales (desde la dieta baja en carbohidratos hasta la vegana y desde la comida chatarra hasta la adicción a la cafeína) y sexuales (lo que es excitante y lo que no lo es al hacer el amor durante el embarazo), así como mucho más apoyo para ese muy importante socio en la maternidad: el papá. Con derroche de consejos útiles y humor (el mejor amigo de una mujer embarazada), esta nueva edición es más asequible y fácil de usar que en el pasado. Es todo lo que los padres esperan de Que puedes esperar . . . durante el embarazo, pero mucho mejor. This Spanish-language translation of What to Expect When You're Expecting: 4th Edition, America's pregnancy bible with over 19 million copies in print, is livelier, less formal, and altogether more user-friendly than ever before. It’s a book for expectant parents who don’t speak English or who, at a stressful time, find that what's most familiar—their first language—is most welcome. It's filled with up-to-date information reflecting not only what's new in pregnancy but what's relevant to pregnant women. Heidi Murkoff has answered dozens of new questions and included loads of new asked-for material, such as a detailed week-by-week fetal development section in each of the monthly chapters, an expanded chapter on pre-conception, and a brand-new one on carrying multiples. More comprehensive, reassuring, and empathetic than ever, this edition incorporates recent developments in obstetrics and addresses current lifestyle trends (from tattooing and belly piercing to Botox and aromatherapy). There's more than ever on pregnancy matters practical (including an expanded section on workplace concerns), physical (with more symptoms, more solutions), emotional (more advice on riding the mood roller coaster), nutritional (from low-carb to vegan, from junk food–dependent to caffeine-addicted), and sexual (what's hot and what's not in pregnant lovemaking), as well as much more support for that very important partner in parenting, the dad-to-be. Overflowing with tips, helpful hints, and humor (a pregnant woman's best friend), this new edition is more accessible and easier to use than ever before. It's everything parents-to-be have come to expect from What to Expect . . . only better.

Book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

Download or read book How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents written by Julia Alvarez and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the international bestselling author of In the Time of the Butterflies and Afterlife, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents is "poignant...powerful... Beautifully captures the threshold experience of the new immigrant, where the past is not yet a memory." (The New York Times Book Review) Julia Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, is coming April 2, 2024. Pre-order now! Acclaimed writer Julia Alvarez’s beloved first novel gives voice to four sisters as they grow up in two cultures. The García sisters—Carla, Sandra, Yolanda, and Sofía—and their family must flee their home in the Dominican Republic after their father’s role in an attempt to overthrow brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo is discovered. They arrive in New York City in 1960 to a life far removed from their existence in the Caribbean. In the wondrous but not always welcoming U.S.A., their parents try to hold on to their old ways as the girls try find new lives: by straightening their hair and wearing American fashions, and by forgetting their Spanish. For them, it is at once liberating and excruciating to be caught between the old world and the new. Here they tell their stories about being at home—and not at home—in America. "Alvarez helped blaze the trail for Latina authors to break into the literary mainstream, with novels like In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents winning praise from critics and gracing best-seller lists across the Americas."—Francisco Cantú, The New York Times Book Review "A clear-eyed look at the insecurity and yearning for a sense of belonging that are a part of the immigrant experience . . . Movingly told." —The Washington Post Book World

Book The Entrem  s for Performance

Download or read book The Entrem s for Performance written by Kerry Wilks and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bilingual anthology brings together a collection of Spanish entremeses, the comic interludes that were performed between the acts of a comedia. Penned by authors such as Lope de Rueda, Cervantes, Calderón, Quevedo, and Quiñones de Benavente, many of these plays appear here for the first time in English. Translated for performability, these plays create a panoramic view of one-act plays from Spain’s classical theater period. Presented with discussions of dramaturgical and performance possibilities and difficulties, including relevant historical, cultural, and social information for the plays, the collection opens with two precursors to the entremés, moves through the breadth of the entremés form, and concludes with works from the 18th century, including a sainete. There are also examples of trans-adaptation that show how these works can be interpreted through strong directorial concepts that relocate the plays in historical time and location. The selected titles raise challenges to social mores and expectations, surprise with their humor, and delight with their stagecraft. Whether aimed at the classroom or the stage, the collection is valuable for research, pedagogy, and performance.

Book Diccionario Manual Enciclop  dico Ilustrado de la Lengua Castellana

Download or read book Diccionario Manual Enciclop dico Ilustrado de la Lengua Castellana written by Saturnino Calleja y Fernandez and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sancho Panza s Proverbs  and Others which Occur in Don Quixote

Download or read book Sancho Panza s Proverbs and Others which Occur in Don Quixote written by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Eye Chart

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Germano
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2017-09-07
  • ISBN : 1501312340
  • Pages : 193 pages

Download or read book Eye Chart written by William Germano and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eye chart—essential diagnostic tool, template, sign, toy—is a monument to un-reading and a guide to the absurdities of modern life.

Book The First Scientific Work on Spectacles

Download or read book The First Scientific Work on Spectacles written by Casey Albert Wood and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book El    rbol de la dicha

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  • Author : Alfredo Romero Espinoza
  • Publisher : Palibrio
  • Release : 2013-06
  • ISBN : 1463359845
  • Pages : 253 pages

Download or read book El rbol de la dicha written by Alfredo Romero Espinoza and published by Palibrio. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Taylor se salva milagrosamente, después de un accidente de tráfico donde mueren su esposa y su hija, luego de un largo periodo de inconsciencia, y de una profunda depresión, un misterioso personaje se presenta en su vida, y le deja un mensaje que marca el destino de su vida, esto lo lleva a decidir un futuro inesperado, cumplir con el mensaje y encargo, poco a poco, él descubre que es un hombre, más que ordinario, y su misión en la Tierra es colaborar con la misión encomendada por el incógnito individuo que le da en sus manos, el poder de cambiar la sociedad, él entiende que el camino es muy largo y acepta el reto del misterioso hombre. Su destino también lo marcan otras personas, que él cree que son puestas en su camino por un ente superior. Su personalidad tiene dos caras, se convierte en un hombre con emociones muy profundas, una, el amor de servir a la humanidad, y la otra cara, es un hombre frío implacable, con el deseo de impartir justicia a quienes rompen las leyes, y sacar del camino a criminales que no dejan evidencia en su carrera delictiva de asesinatos. El árbol es la incógnita más grande de su vida, y a la vez, su propia vida.

Book Subtle Subversions

Download or read book Subtle Subversions written by Gwyn Fox and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women across early modern Europe suffered repressive and restrictive patriarchal measures that denied them education and a voice. Nowhere was this more apparent than in Counter-Reformation Iberia. Yet there is increasing awareness of a wealth of cultural activity by women, produced in spite of long-cherished masculine notions of biological determinism, masculine control, and feminine shame. Women proved that given the opportunity and the education they were equal in reason and intelligence to their male counterparts. Subtle Subversions is the first full-length, contextual, and analytical study of the sonnets of five seventeenth-century women in Spain and Portugal: Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza, Catalina Clara Ramírez de Guzmán, Sor María de Santa Isabel, Leonor de la Cueva y Silva, and Sor Violante del Cielo. Using the sonnets as a basis for inquiry, Gwyn Fox adds significantly to scholarship on women's interpersonal relationships through nuanced and revealing analyses of family and friendship as seen through the sonnets. She deciphers issues of subjectivity, interpersonal relationships, and power structures and engages with patronage as a major issue in women's writing. As a difficult form of poetry requiring wit, artistry and education, sonnets provided the ideal framework to display intellectual skills and education, but they also allowed the women to create a subtext of criticism of contemporary systems of control. Although their criticisms had to be subtle, since these systems still offered them much in terms of social advancement and privilege, these women and their works revise our understanding of women's lives in Baroque Spain and Portugal. English translations accompany the Spanish quotations throughout the book. Gwyn Fox is honorary research fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where she teaches Spanish language and literature. Fox is currently translating Los baños de Argel, a previously untranslated play by Miguel de Cervantes. "Fox demonstrates that the fixed form of the sonnet simultaneously allowed women to showcase their intellectual talents and critique predominant masculine norms in an understated fashion. . . . Recommended." -- P.W. Manning, Choice "In this beautifully written study of five early modern Iberian poets, Gwyn Fox offers a revisionary history of women's poetics as well as a challenge to conventional Renaissance hermeneutics. . . . Fox delves deeply into each theme, not only contextualizing, but also historicizing her analysis by comparing these women's writings with a broad range of examples. Indeed a bonus of this book is that it does not limit itself to the five women specified above or solely to their sonnets. Fox speaks knowledgeably about other women writers, such as Maria de Zayas and Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, to name the most well known, and mentions lesser-known figures such as Inarda de Arteaga. . . . [Fox's] close readings of individual poems are themselves subtle and nuanced. . . . She offers original insights into the poems' social purpose. . . . It is a welcome and much-needed addition to early modern Spanish scholarship." -- Anne J. Cruz, Renaissance Quarterly "Fox's contribution adds to prior rediscoveries and assessments of the poetry of five Iberian women of the Baroque about whose lives, in some cases, very little is known. . . . The critical analysis offered in Subtle Subversions present new insights into the interpersonal relationships of women as well as their engagement with structures of social power, affirming that their sonnets were meant to display these authors' intellect, wit, and education. . . . With her skillful readings of their sonnets, Fox offers a fuller picture of these women's poetic production and contributes to an overall understanding of upperclass women's lives in Spain and Portugal." -- Dana Bultman, Caliope

Book 35 Consejos para un Cerebro Feliz

Download or read book 35 Consejos para un Cerebro Feliz written by V. Noot and published by Self Publisher. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Haz que tu cerebro funcione mejor y conviértete en una persona más feliz! ¿Sabía que muchas de las emociones que experimentamos están influenciadas por los niveles de oxitocina, serotonina, dopamina y endorfinas? Si pudiera obtener más de esas "hormonas de la felicidad", ciertamente mejoraría su estado de ánimo y le daría más poder a su cerebro, ¿no es así? Entonces no espere y descargue este e-book para que pueda experimentar más alegría en la vida al: Crear más hormonas para la felicidad Aliviar el estrés Liberando más sentimientos Aumentar tu energía Mejorar tu humor Disminuir las posibilidades de una depresión Tener sentimientos más gratificantes en lo que haces Conectar a otras personas más íntimamente Agregue este libro al carrito ahora.

Book Urgent Tales of Mystery and Horror

Download or read book Urgent Tales of Mystery and Horror written by Ernesto Marcos and published by Xlibris US. This book was released on 2015-02-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urgent Talesa book of surreal stories that lay bare the terrors hidden under our collective beds and confront us with our own fears. Comprised of eleven supernatural and cautionary accounts of sideshow freaks, vampires, aliens, and other mythical creatures, these tales blend horror with dread-induced humor, granting us entry into the world of the inexplicable, the irrational, and the delectably bizarre. In Astor Roth, a young entrepreneurs inner demon emerges from her subconscious past to draw her into a monstrous and debasing reality. Set in Vienna, a successful yet vulnerable woman struggles to keep her sanity before she is consumed and possessed by her demonic lover. A serial killer watches the affairs of his next victimher nightly ablutions, her ritual of the bath. He waits in the darkness until it is time to transform his prey into an objet dart and add the woman immersed in water to his oeuvre of mutilated masterpieces. A vampire stalks the streets of Rome, Barcelona, and Miami Beach in search of sustenance, only to find he is not the one on the top of the food chain but merely a part of it. In the stories Deal, The Magus, and SoBe It, the ruthless yet cerebral vampire Alejandro encounters nemeses as cold-blooded and resolute as he in their quest for power and blood. Two ex-lovers expectations run interference for their living counterparts in the story Reunion. Unbeknownst to their human hosts, they revisit a past filled with possibilities, consequences, and circumstances not anticipated. The dreamer dreams, or is it the dream that dreams the dreamer? In the tale Tatianas Dream, a brilliant antiquities professor is sought out by a fantastical vision and sent forth to discover her destiny in a multidimensional universe she not only inhabits, but must somehow control.