Promesas Rotas / Broken Promises

This authentic diary, kept by a Viennese schoolgirl when she was eleven to fourteen years old, first appeared publicly in 1919. Richly expressive and emotionally moving, it intimately chronicles her passage from childhood to puberty with frankness, lucidity, and an honesty that scandalized the anonymous author's contemporaries. Originally presented by Sigmund Freud as a specimen to analyze and observe the development of a young female during the vital years of personal growth, the book relates, in a gently ironic tone, daily encounters and experiences as well as private conversations and...

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...

En este libro sencillo e inspirador, Piero Ferrucci insiste en que, en este momento crucial de la humanidad, la bondad no es un lujo sino una necesidad y, página a página, nos enseña a descubrir sus dones.

La adolescencia es una etapa de transición entre la infancia y la edad adulta. Cambios físicos, psicológicos, sociales y espirituales son parte de este proceso, que tiene como objetivo lograr la independencia de los hijos. Para algunos padres y profesionales que trabajan con adolescentes, esta etapa puede representar un desafío y hasta ser vista como algo negativo, debido a la tensión o a los conflictos que suelen manifestarse en los chicos, pero esto no tiene que ser así. La adolescencia puede ser un momento fascinante de cambios y crecimiento, e incluso puede unir a los padres y a los ...