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This book presents the unpublished intelligence report “South America”, written in 1822 by Woodbine Parish, clerk at the Foreign Office, Castlereagh's private secretary and later the first British Consul to Buenos Aires. The document is transcribed, analysed and fully contextualised in order to foreground its decisive historical significance. The aim of Parish’s report was to outline British foreign policy and political strategy towards the South American revolutions at the final Congress of the Holy Alliance, held in Verona. Its publication contributes to the ongoing debates on Informal Empire, providing new empirical evidence that will enable us to better understand the social content of the political, economic and cultural relationships established between Britain and Latin America in the first half of the 19th century. The history of the document and of its author introduce the reader to the early stages of British intelligence and diplomacy with respect to an Independent Latin America, revealing the Foreign Office’s powers and limitations. Likewise, they offer an overview of the information about the South American revolutions circulating in London at the time, as well as the mechanisms used by the British government to obtain, classify and publicize this intelligence for political purposes. In this sense, the report makes evident the importance for the British government of knowing a specific historical and geographical reality in order to develop a foreign policy and political strategy. The book reflects on how this knowledge was mediated by class antagonisms and social relations (on a national and international scale) and was shaped by the stages of development of the productive forces in the regions involved. In this sense, studying the Parish family will allow us to more fully understand the role played by the increasingly influential social classes, in particular the merchants and manufacturers, in the development and implementation of a British foreign policy for Latin America.

The present book is a compilation of articles corresponding to the papers presented at TISLID ?10, the First International Workshop on Technological Innovations for Specialised Linguistic Domains, which took place in Spain on October 21-22, 2010. The program of TISLID?10 was established to offer the research and teaching community an opportunity to exchange knowledge and experiences and promote face-to-face academic debate on effective and innovative ways to design and develop CALL systems and NLP systems for sublanguages or specialized linguistic domains. The inclusion of basic research undertaken in educational institutions and research centers, together with the applied research and commercial development undertaken by publishers, e-Learning companies, etc. was considered a priority.

In her groundbreaking and innovative study, the author takes us on a fascinating journey through some of Madrid's multilingual and multicultural schools and reveals the role played by linguistic practices in the construction of inequality through such processes as what she calls "de-capitalization" and "ethnicization". Through a critical sociolinguistic and discourse analysis of the data collected in an ethnographic study, the book shows the exclusion caused by monolingualizing tendencies and ideologies of deficit in education and society. The book opens a timely discussion of the management of diversity in multilingual and multicultural classrooms, both for countries with a long tradition of migration flows and for those where the phenomenon is relatively new, as is the case in Spain. This study of linguistic practices in the classroom makes clear the need to rethink some key linguistic concepts, such as practice, competence, discourse, and language, and to integrate different approaches in qualitative research. The volume is essential reading for students and researchers working in sociolinguistics, education and related areas, as well as for all teachers and social workers who deal with the increasing heterogeneity of our late modern societies in their work.

- Incluye 8 módulos y 32 capítulos que abordan, desde una perspectiva multidisciplinar y poniendo el foco en la implicación del paciente, los factores de riesgo cardiovascular, las enfermedades cardiovasculares, las enfermedades neurodegenerativas, los trastornos musculoesqueléticos, las enfermedades óseas, las enfermedades renales, las enfermedades respiratorias y las enfermedades oncológicas. - Presenta una estructura uniforme en cada módulo: fisiopatología, clasificación y epidemiología de las enfermedades; enfoque multidisciplinar para la prevención, el diagnóstico y el tratamiento de las enfermedades; herramientas prácticas para el abordaje multidisciplinar de las enfermedades, y herramientas para la toma de decisiones compartida. - Trata un amplio número de patologías, seleccionadas atendiendo a criterios de prevalencia, gravedad y repercusión social. - Enfatiza en la implicación del paciente y proporciona herramientas para la toma de decisiones compartida. Los nuevos perfiles de pacientes están generando un cambio en la demanda asistencial. En este contexto, el abordaje terapéutico de las patologías más prevalentes constituye un objetivo prioritario tanto en el propio ámbito asistencial como en el científico. Estas patologías deben ser atendidas por equipos multidisciplinares que realicen un trabajo protocolizado y en continua actualización, contando además con el apoyo de nuevas herramientas tecnológicas. Abordaje terapéutico multidisciplinar de patologías prevalentes proporciona a los profesionales sanitarios y a los docentes y los estudiantes de Ciencias de la Salud herramientas para afrontar los distintos aspectos relacionados con la atención multidisciplinar y para conseguir la implicación del propio paciente, aspecto este último fundamental para el éxito del tratamiento.

Del 6 al 9 de noviembre de 2009 se celebró en la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad de Cádiz el VI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Historiografía Lingüística. Este volumen recoge bajo el título 'Las ideas y realidades lingüísticas en los siglos XVIII y XIX' todos aquellos trabajos presentados en el congreso en dicha línea temática.

Tratamos de ofrecer una propuesta de intervención y participación de la psicomotricidad, desde el enfoque que los nuevos diseños curriculares de Educación Infantil delimitan para este ciclo escolar. Una propuesta que supere los viejos modelos organísmicos que la psicomotricidad ha asumido durante tiempo y que haga de la psicomotricidad un medio favorecedor de aprendizajes constructivos, integrados en el propio proyecto curricular que se desarrolla en el aula.