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An essential lifeline for educators offering tools to break free from burnout and reclaim their passion for the classroomTodays teachers face unprecedented pressure and exhaustionand they deserve more than just survival mode. This isnt another generic teaching manual. Its a comprehensive, research-backed toolkit designed to help you build unshakable resilience, quiet the mental noise of stress, and reignite the joy that first drew you to teaching.Renowned speaker and former teacher, Dr. Jen Rafferty, weaves her personal experience with practical, actionable strategies proven to shift both your work and your well-being. Whether youre stepping into your first classroom or navigating the demands of a long-standing career, this book offers real support, guidance, and hope, helping you craft a balanced, empowered life inside and outside of school.In The Empowered Educator, youll work through essential skills to reclaim your energy and lead with purpose:Awareness to Advocacy: Develop the discipline of deep self-reflection to pinpoint exactly what you need, and learn how to voice it with confidence and clarity, driving lasting change in your classroom and beyond. Emotional Intelligence in Action: Shift from knee-jerk reactions to grounded, thoughtful responses that build calm, strengthen relationships, and foster a more connected school community. Sustainable Well-Being: Put practical, science-backed strategies into motion to protect your mental, physical, and emotional health by lowering stress and anxiety while building long-term resilience. Join thousands of educators who have transformed their experience with Jen Raffertys guidance, and take your first step from drained and overwhelmed to feeling grounded, and truly empowered.

Las descarnadas, inspiradoras y emocionantes memorias del icono y legendario ganador de varios premios Oscar, Sylvester Stallone, sobre su increíble camino al estrellato y la mejor historia jamás contada de un ganador contra todo pronostico.En los cincuenta años transcurridos desde que Sylvester Stallone subio corriendo los escalones del Museo de Arte de Filadelfia, el mismo y esos escalones se han convertido en simbolos de resiliencia y determinacion, y han inspirado a millones de personas de todo el mundo para perseguir sus sueños. En Los escalones, Stallone relata como persiguio sus propios sueños. Culminando un proceso de reflexion de decadas, Sly cuenta sus origenes -un nacimiento dificil, una infancia aun mas dificil, años de problemas en el colegio por no ser comprendido- y explica como la historia real de una vida exitosa se construye afrontando, asumiendo y, en ultimo termino, superando nuestras dificultades. La clave esta en la distancia que estamos dispuestos a recorrer y en los pasos que debemos dar para pasar de donde estamos a donde queremos llegar.En una narracion enmarcada entre su llegada a Nueva York en 1969 y el triunfo de Rocky en los Oscar de 1977, Sly teje un vivido y apasionante relato de lucha, subsistencia y, finalmente, exito. Escribe sobre sus inicios y tambien sobre los años posteriores, asi como sobre la persistencia, creatividad y resiliencia que lo llevaron no solamente a crear Rocky, sino a labrarse una carrera repleta de papeles iconicos. Los escalones constituye un testimonio de la extraordinaria vida de Stallone y una profunda meditacion sobre la importancia de la fuerza de voluntad, la vision y el trabajo duro.

El relato en primera persona de una de las leyendas del punk español. Un recorrido nostálgico por las décadas que marcaron y cambiaron para siempre la historia de la música de este país.Guitarras, resacas y alguna que otra verdad. Mas que unas memorias, este libro es un parte de guerra. ¡Esas palmas, coño! es la historia de un chaval de Vigo que nacio entre calles de barro, aprendio a tocar la guitarra con un trasto canjeado por cupones de supermercado, monto una banda punk sin saber muy bien como y acabo llenando estadios por toda España. Luego, cuando todo iba viento en popa, cogio su Gibson SG y se largo.Con la honestidad de quien ya no tiene que impresionar a nadie, Miguel Costas recorre en estas paginas su propia vida: entre el cachondeo punk y las perdidas que no avisan; entre la fanfarroneria de los noventa y la vulnerabilidad de quien aprendio nunca es tarde que pedir ayuda no te hace mas debil.Desde el barrio del Calvario hasta los escenarios mas sudorosos del pais, estas memorias cuentan el viaje de un hombre que lo gano casi todo, lo perdio a ratos y aprendio que algunas deudas no se pagan con dinero: se pagan sobreviviendo.

Este volumen recoge cuatro escritos tan diferentes sobre Wagner, con abundantes notas que remiten tanto a los dramas y ensayos del compositor como a todo el legado nietzscheano, así el lector puede ampliar y proseguir los juicios y argumentos aqui expuestos.

El K-pop y toda la cultura asiática se han posicionado como uno de los fenómenos globales más relevantes de los últimos años (de BLACKPINK al «bubble tea» y los K-dramas). Pero ¿qué hay detrás de est

Un esencial para profesionales de las artes escénicas y, en general, para todas aquellas personas que se enfrenten al reto de levantar desde cero espectáculos vivos.¿Es la ayudantía de dirección una profesion tecnica, artistica o creadora? La respuesta, por supuesto, es que requiere trenzar estas tres perspectivas con sumo cuidado, razon por la cual se convierte en una labor tan delicada y tan fundamental para una pieza escenica. Este manual, escrito por seis profesionales con una amplia experiencia como ayudantes de direccion, repasa todas las claves necesarias para desempeñar este oficio. Asi, y con la voluntad de ser util antes, durante y despues del montaje, presenta diez capitulos en los que se desgranan tanto la esencia de la ayudantia como las estructuras y los pormenores del trabajo diario, se aporta un Decalogo del buen ayudante y se recogen, a traves de entrevistas, los testimonios de multiples figuras destacadas de la profesion. Un libro escrito desde el amor al teatro y con la voluntad de abrir su espacio a todos los amantes de las artes escenicas.

El increíble relato de una proeza humana que ya forma parte de la historia del toreo.El 6 de febrero de 2025, Morante de la Puebla lloraba en un rincón de Las Ventas durante la presentación de San Isidro. El tratamiento de electrochoques contra una depresion resistente con episodios disociativos le habia provocado perdida de memoria. Faltaba un mes para empezar la temporada. En enero, tras cinco meses de paron por su enfermedad psiquiatrica y en el frio silencio campestre del sur de Portugal, se habia probado ante una vaca brava. El resultado fue decepcionante, desolador. Todo hacia presagiar que no lograria ni siquiera arrancar. Sin embargo, consiguio llegar a su primera corrida del año y firmo la temporada mas rotunda y conmovedora de su vida, una obra artistica y humana contra toda logica. Un ejercicio de superacion descarnado que abre tambien una reflexion sobre la salud mental en el hermetico mundo del toro.Este libro es un viaje a su infancia y sus origenes, a su reconstruccion personal y a una temporada antologica que culmina el 12 de octubre de 2025, cuando en Madrid, en plena apoteosis, se quito la coleta: No puedo mas. Pero para Morante sin torear no hay vida, solo oscuridad. Su regreso en 2026 convierte las paginas de Memoria de Morante en la cronica circular de un genio herido.

En la planificación del bienestar urbano han prevalecido los aspectos económicos o estructurales frente a la experiencia corporal y cotidiana de la ciudadanía. Pero una ciudad próspera es aquella que permite, sin estigmas ni obstaculos, los gestos mas basicos que sostienen la vida. En ella no solo intervienen decisiones estrategicas, sino decisiones vitales esenciales para los entornos urbanos y sus habitantes. Desde la perspectiva del buen vivir, concepto andino de raiz quechua (sumak kawsay), este libro articula diferentes propuestas para la regeneracion, rehabilitacion y diseño ex novo de los barrios a partir de ocho funciones fundamentales de la vida: nacer, criar, dormir, comer, sanar, jugar, cortejar y caminar. Cada una de ellas, primordiales en la construccion y sostenimiento del bienestar, se analiza a traves de tres capas: el cuerpo, el espacio social y el entorno urbano-territorial. Propone, ademas, una revision critica de la historia de las costumbres cotidianas en diferentes ciudades, geografias y tiempos, identificando momentos en los que la prosperidad no se definio por la acumulacion economica, sino por la mejora de las condiciones de vida de la poblacion. Pero sobre todo esta obra esta concebida integramente desde la cultura del proyecto: incluso cuando mira al pasado lo hace buscando reconfigurar la ciudad como un ecosistema de proximidad y equilibrio, y reinterpretar el bienestar como una forma de prosperidad colectiva. Izaskun Chinchilla es catedratica de Practica Arquitectonica en la University College London. Es tambien madre y arquitecta en ejercicio, y ha desarrollado acciones urbanas orientadas a promover el bienestar en ciudades de Asia, America y Europa. Su practica ha sido pionera en el desarrollo de arquitecturas temporales con impacto en la transformacion urbana, con especializacion en estrategias de economia circular y en procesos de participacion ciudadana que integran a los usuarios en el diseño y la manipulacion material de los elementos del espacio publico. Colabora internacionalmente con instituciones, administraciones y asociaciones civiles en el desarrollo de proyectos y estrategias de regeneracion urbana, desde una agenda ecologica, social y orientada a la construccion de comunidad. Es autora de La ciudad de los cuidados (Catarata, 2021).

¿Cómo se construye afectivamente una persona cuando no se conforma con lo establecido?¿Cómo negocia con un entorno que, al menor tropiezo, puede tornarse hostil y agresivo?Estas son algunas de las preguntas que responde la autobiografia de Terry Holiday, cuyo trabajo artistico esta estrechamente vinculado a cuestiones de afectos: un juego sutil de espejos y reflejos.Terry nace en la Ciudad de Mexico en los años 1950, en un periodo de fuerte conservadurismo obsesionado con la defensa de la moral y las buenas costumbres, tanto en la vida privada como publica. Homosexuales, travestis, trabajadoras sexuales y personas trans eran frecuentemente objeto de redadas y extorsiones por desobedecer la estricta norma (hetero)sexual, que exigia que los hombres fueran viriles y se casaran con mujeres angeles del hogar, sumisas, decentes y dedicadas a la familia. Terry sueña con otra vida.Sus primeras representaciones en dibujos y pinturas pronto revelan su talento como artista plastica.A finales de los años 60 y principios de los 70, en plena adolescencia, Terry emprende un camino al margen de las normas establecidas: sus pasos la conducen a la Zona Rosa, donde conoce artistas alternativos que impulsan su protagonismo en cine, teatroy cabaret. Participo en obras como La montaña sagrada y Lucrecia Borgia, dirigidas por Alejandro Jodorowsky y Hair deJoe Donovan.Una parte fundamental de su vida transcurre en los escenarios delcabaret, no solo en la Ciudad de Mexico, sino tambien en diversos puntos de la Republica mexicana. En este libro, Terry narra con humor y detalle las practicas artisticas y rituales tanto de los cabarets como de los antros mexicanos en los que trabajo desde los años 70 hasta la actualidad.Un vago temblor de estrella es una escritura a cuatro manos. El epilogo, a cargo del coautor Antoine Rodriguez, relata las sesiones de trabajo con Terry Holiday y propone una genealogia de las teorias sobre identidades trans, ademas de analizar aspectos de la formacion de Terry como artista transcultural.

Published on the occasion of the International Congress of Art History which will be held in Lyon in June 2024, the book is an intellectual history of the history of art in France since 1964, a founding date which marks a renewal of discipline.In 1964 the French Committee for Art History (CFHA) was founded. But above all, this date marks a renewal of art history in France, both at university and in the field of heritage. Sixty years later, when the International Congress of Art History will be held in Lyon in June 2024, an international event which will welcome around two thousand researchers from around the world, the CFHA publishes Histories of Art in France. 1964-2024. Places, Questions, Challenges. The work retraces the important stages which marked the history of art in France during this period and emphasizes the diversity of the discipline, as it has been practiced for several generations in different places.A true intellectual history of the history of art in France, the book, a collective work which brings together the best specialists on the subject, addresses around fifty "events which have marked the discourse on the history of art in France. and emphasizes some cross-cutting themes. It offers a historiographical reflection and a questioning of the contemporary issues of the discipline. Through its epistemological openness, it will also contribute to a deeper understanding of the methods and practices of art history.Work published by the French Committee for the History of Art, under the direction of Olivier Bonfait, president of the CFHA.

THE FRENCH DISPATCH brings to life a collection of stories from the final issue of an American magazine published in a fictional 20th-century French city. It stars Bill Murray, Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Lea Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothee Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, and Owen Wilson.

The events of your life, from local walks to exotic trips, can provide endless inspiration for textile art. This inspiring book shows you how to record your experiences, using sketchbooks, journals and photography, to create personal narratives that can form a starting point for more finished stitched-textile pieces.Acclaimed textile artist and teacher Cas Holmes, whose work is often inspired by her life and the journeys she makes, helps you find inspiration through your own life and explains how to record what you see in sketchbooks and journals, which can often become beautiful objects in themselves. She explains how you can use photography, both as documentation and as inspiration, and sometimes incorporate it into the work itself, along with found objects and ephemera.Throughout the book are useful techniques that can be harnessed to add extra interest to your work, such as methods for making layered collages, how to sketch with stitch, and advice on design and colour. If you want to create beautiful, unique work inspired by your life and travels, this is the perfect book for you.

One of the attractions of painting outdoors is the challenge of capturing the spirit of a place changing light, weather and transient conditions demand particular painting skills if they are to be interpreted effectively. Leading painter David Curtis works on location, in all weathers, observing and capturing the subtle effects of light and mood. Oil paint is as good for painting on site as it is for large-scale painting in the studio; it is remarkably responsive; can be applied in many different ways; and it allows time to assess and modify work in progress. In this fascinating book, David Curtis shows how he achieves such expressive and original results using drawings, paintings and stage-by-stage examples. He gives detailed explanations of his two main working methods for plein-air paintings and for studio compositions as well as plenty of helpful guidance and advice on choosing materials, exploring techniques, selecting ideas, composition, colour and tone and associated topics. Drawing skills and interpreting the qualities of light are other key issues that he deals with, while his wonderfully evocative landscapes, coastal scenes, interiors and figure compositions provide much inspiration.

"She is the most wonderfully inventive and brilliantly talented designer" Dame Judi Dench on Clancy.Deirdre Clancy is one of the most experienced and accomplished costume designers in the business. In this book, she gives her inside knowledge of designing for stage and screen, which includes television, film, theatre and opera. She includes a brief illustrated history of costume design from the Greeks to Lady Gaga an invaluable guide for students and current designers.Part Two takes the reader through the design process: how you go about doing it, and the different strands of costume design from contemporary clothes through to period costume, how to communicate with the audience, designing on paper and with Photoshop or on an iPad and how to share and communicate your ideas and well as mood boards and collages for inspiration. Part Three is about the world of costume design what it involves and how to get into the field, who does what and the differences between working for stage and screen productions. Clancy advises on budgets and improvisation and covers all the practicalities and behind-the-scenes tips. Part Four looks at period costume from the Dark Ages up to the twentieth century, encompassing authenticity and feasibility. Finally, Part Five looks at individual case studies in depth, including opera and Shakespeare productions.Packed with great drawings and case studies, this is an essential book for any student or professional costume designer looking for additional inside advice. Whether you are a designer for the stage or screen, this book has something new for you with advice from one of the best in the business.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh was an innovator.He is undoubtedly one of Scotlands most celebrated architects. His astounding buildings creatively reinterpreted the past and opened the way for the Modern Movement. Architecture was his first love, though he was also a highly accomplished artist and designer of interiors, furniture, metalwork, glass and textiles. In addition his graphic design work, using nature and organic plant forms, made him an early exponent of Symbolism and Art Nouveau. In the later years of his life he produced watercolour paintings of intense power and subtlety. His extraordinary work is still regarded today as innovative and modern, and continues to astonish and delight art lovers everywhere.

Widely regarded as one of Americas most important contemporary thinkers, Susan Sontag had a particular gift for reflecting on the meaning and influence of the visual, and On Photography became a seminal work for all those concerned with the interplay of images with the world.Now, more than thirty years after On Photography was first published, comes Sontag on Film: a collection of her writings and musings on films and cinema, gathered together here for the very first time by critic David Thomson and producer Tom Luddy. Inspired, vigorous and enlightening, the collection includes lucid discussions of the intersection between film and literature; in-depth studies of films and directors; and other such delightful and illuminating fragments as a list of Sontags top-ten films taken from a 1982 issue of Sight and Sound.Sontag on Film is set to become a key work on the importance and significance of cinema in the modern world.Praise for Susan Sontag:What ultimately matters about Sontag . . . is what she has defended: the life of the mind, and the necessity for reading and writing as "a way of being fully human" Hilary Mantel, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIntellectually and imaginatively gifted to an extraordinary degree, she used her fearless intelligence to illuminate some of the deepest contradictions of contemporary life John Gray, New StatesmanComplex and contradictory . . . one of Americas greatest public intellectualsObserver

If theres one thing that Joanne McNally knows its that we may have smart phones, Prozac and Prosecco, but were still just animals trying to survive. And in Femme Feral, she explores the chaos and exhilaration that results from following our basic instincts. Blending stories from her life with wider observations about what it means to be a single, unfertilised female in her 30s.Femme Feral is both hilarious and reassuring, boldly revealing that Joanne knows exactly the BS that most of us grow up with and can never quite escape. Whether its body image, booze, fashion, dodgy boyfriends, withholding therapists, weak pelvic floors or figuring out how to be enough - this book shows that no woman is out there on her own.Raucously funny and infinitely insightful, Femme Feral is Joanne McNallys dazzling survival manifesto.

A stunning illustrated gift edition of the bestselling Alan Jacobs edition of the Christian mystical sacred text The Gnostic Gospels. Includes c.50 full-colour illustrations in a hardcover package with a fabulous gold foil cover, ribbon and patterned endpapers.Omitted from the Bible and discovered only in 1945 in Nag Hammadi in Egypt, the Gnostic Gospels are a source of fascination, intrigue and inspiration for many spiritual seekers. Now, Alan Jacobs bestselling selection of these sacred texts, including the Gospels of Mary Magdalene, Philip, Thomas and Judas, and introduced by the Reverend Dr. Vrej Nersessian, curator of the Christian Middle East section at the British Library, is presented in a glorious gift edition, beautifully illustrated with medieval paintings, images of archaeological artefacts and gnostic symbols. Unearth the ancient sayings and enlightened teachings of the Gnostic Gospels, dated from the 2nd to the 4th century AD, to truly envision the origins and history of Christianity itself. Explore these 14 key texts, chosen out of the 54 discovered for their curious and poignant relevance today, dealing with questions of good and evil, sin and suffering and the path to salvation. Discover the light these esoteric doctrines shed on intimate conversations between Jesus and his Disciples, and learn from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene more about his relationship with this favourite disciple. Learn from concentrated mini-parables in The Gospel of Thomas, containing deep inward and symbolic meaning, many of which are not found in the New Testament. Artfully woven together by author and senior priest at the Armenian Apostolic Church, Reverend Dr. Vrej Nersessian, and by poet and author Alan Jacobs, The Illustrated Gnostic Gospels is an enticing must-have for those wanting to experience a deeper and more intimate relationship with Christianity.

The life and times of a living legend, the most successful and influential singer/songwriter of the past fifty years throughout the Spanish-speaking world, who also happens to be an acclaimed Hollywood and Broadway actor, a Harvard Law School graduate with a Masters degree in international law, and a political activist who ran for president in his native Panama.Blades has lived a life in full, and he tells of it with infectious brio, honesty, and wit:He writes about his mother, a Cuban child prodigy musician and radio drama actress, and his father, who was born in Colombia and was a percussionist and officer of the secret police. He also writes about his arrival in New York City from Panama in the 1970s and his rise as a leading light among the Fania-All Stars in salsas glory years.Blades writes about his initially productive and ultimately fraught collaborations with the great trombonist/singer Willie Colon, which resulted in the release of Siembra, the best-selling salsa album of all time. It sold millions of copies, and every track became a hit throughout Latin America and the Spanish speaking world, including "Pedro Navaja," his best-known song, which was inspired by Kurt Weils "Mack the Knife." He talks about his refusal to allow his music to be pigeonholed, which set the stage for his inventive and eclectic 1983 solo breakout, Buscando America, one of the great albums of that decade.He writes about his embrace of other popular musical genres and his collaborations with Linda Ronstadt, Sting, Elvis Costello, and Wynton Marsalis. He discusses his acting career and his appearances in films such as Predator 2, Color of Night, Safe House, and Hands of Stone, and about his performances in The Josephine Baker Story, Crazy from the Heart, and The Maldonado Miracle, for which he received Emmy nominations.Finally, Blades writes about his own political activism: his stance against American imperialism, which is most evident in his 1981 song Tiburon (Spanish for shark), his denunciation by anti-Castro Cubans in Florida, and his creation of a progressive political party in Panama under whose banner he made a run for president, in which he came in third place with 20% of votes.