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Violeta comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first daughter in a family of five boisterous sons. From the start, her life is marked by extraordinary events, for the ripples of the Great War are still being felt, even as the Spanish flu arrives on the shores of her South American homeland almost at the moment of her birth. Through her father's prescience, the family will come through that crisis unscathed, only to face a new one as the Great Depression transforms the genteel city life she has known. Her family loses all and is forced to retreat to a wild and beautiful but remote...

In this New Edition, Dr. Dobson offers practical "How To's" on raising the strong-willed child, drawing on up-to-date research and years of experience advising families.

Placing the concept of revenge in historical, social, and psychological context, this compendium is packed with hilariously shocking stories of wronged wives, sacked employees, and angry car drivers. Grouping stories together in sections such as sporting revenge, the revenge of Mother Nature, and the revenge of and on the powerful, this book also reveals which gender is most likely to settle a score on an unthinking whim and which prefers to patiently plan and deliver retribution. A discussion of the personality types that are most likely to commit acts of reprisal and a look at the role fear ...

El nacimiento de un hijo es, sin duda, uno de los grandes acontecimientos que experimentan los padres. Además, es un suceso que marca un hilo de continuidad en su historia de pareja y familiar. También marca el inicio de otra etapa sostenida por la alegría, la ilusión, el deseo, la esperanza y las expectativas que han depositado en su nuevo hijo. Sin embargo, el nacimiento de un hijo con una enfermedad o discapacidad es un acontecimiento traumático, inesperado e incomprensible, que rompe con la continuidad de la historia de la pareja y de la familia. A partir de ese momento, la...