"Escapa a la vejez, que no te alcance en la vida una tumba. Con afan y buenas ganas, y una sonrisa muy sincera, hagamos nuestra vida productiva y solucionemos los dilemas. Encontraremos la verdad que la madurez exuda, con la habilidad que resulta de afrontar todo problema. Caminemos en busca de nuevos horizontes, por la ruta que nos traza la sabiduria y la experiencia, obteniendo nuevos gozos para nuestra corta existencia. Si nos sumimos en recuerdos y si vivimos del pasado, el final de nuestros dias ha llegado, y seremos viejos y cansados y amargados, a pesar de que en optimismo todavia podamos, vivir sin llegar a ser tan viejos."

Immerse yourself in the charming and humorous world of ""The Umbrella"" by Guy De Maupassant. This delightful short story centers around an umbrella and the series of events that unfold due to its presence. Maupassant’s narrative explores themes of chance, human nature, and the quirks of everyday life. De Maupassant masterfully combines humor and observational insight, using the umbrella as a catalyst for a series of comedic and ironic situations. The story offers a lighthearted yet insightful look at the ways in which ordinary objects can influence our lives and interactions. ""The Umbrella"" is perfect for readers who enjoy humorous and cleverly constructed narratives. Ideal for those who appreciate Guy De Maupassant’s ability to find humor and significance in the mundane.

Now available in Spanish Victoria Osteen’s New York Times bestselling Love Your Life provides practical guidance to help women embrace joy and live life to its fullest. As one of the pillars of Houston’s Lakewood Church and the supportive wife and partner of Pastor Joel Osteen, Victoria Osteen is a major figure in the international faith community, whose events draw crowds as large as Joel’s. In this inspirational book, she brings to bear the wisdom won in a life spent helping women, children, and families reach their highest potential. In Ama tu vida, Osteen speaks directly to women harried by the pressures of the modern world, providing a pathway to understanding their awesome responsibilities and embracing life’s beautiful choices. Whether it’s learning how to balance career and family, community and Church, or coping with matters of faith and health, Osteen outlines a simple plan for saying "yes" to life’s bountiful gifts and allowing them to enrich every aspect of your life. Make no mistake: happiness is achievable, and this book will serve as a powerful tool empowering all women to discover their true higher purpose. Victoria’s passion and energy for life is contagious, and she is rising in her role as an inspiration and mentor to women everywhere as she helps them savor life and enjoy their family, their friends, and themselves.

Abalos (religious studies and sociology, Seton Hall U.) presents a critique of archetypal roles of Latino males including the womanizer, the macho, and the patriarch. As an alternative to these outdated and restrictive ways of living, Abalos describes how Latino males are able to radically redefine themselves and create new transformational archetypes. He goes on to discuss how Latino men can become agents of transformation in the family and the larger world. c. Book News Inc.

En esta obra póstuma, Carlos Monsiváis, con su estilo y erudición únicos, recorre un siglo de la vida cultural de México, si bien, como él mismo confiesa, ésta es una tarea inacabable a la que además se suma la brevedad de la obra, que le obliga a cerrar su crónica en la década de 1980, dejando fuera los movimientos y creadores de los dos últimos decenios del siglo XX. Su recorrido parte de la época del modernismo y pasa por todas las manifestaciones culturales que se desarrollan a lo largo de las siguientes décadas, como la narrativa de la Revolución, el muralismo, la cultura en los años veinte, los Contemporáneos, la poesía de la generación del 50 hasta llegar al año de la ruptura que representa 1968 y las manifestaciones culturales que de él se desprenden.

Quixotic Modernists gives close readings of two novels by two little-studied writers of the early twentieth century in Spain, Felipe Trigo's Las ingenuas (1901) and Maria Martinez Sierra's Tu eres la paz (1906), in relation to the canonical Tristana by Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest nineteenth-century novelist. This study shows the modern message (regarding gender), and modernist qualities of the prose of these works. Included are discussions of Quijote intertexts, proverbial language and tactics, the angel and the mujer-nina, flower, water, and animal imagery, and visual arts in relation to gender definition. Also included are contemporary responses to the novels and material about the authors' lives and Spain's social conditions in the early twentieth century. Quixotic Modernists integrates these themes into a study of the novelization of difficulties in transforming contemporary gender and class roles. In all three authors' works, this process of change in roles for both men and women becomes a quixotic enterprise, in which artists as/and characters search to reconnect with an elusive material, social body.