Mil millones de tapones

Did you know that 5 minutes of remembered anger can depress your immune function for up to 6 hours? That your platelets get sticky with stress? That the telomeres on your DNA shorten and you age faster? This book is filled with stories, comments, suggestions, quotes and references to medical research rich in proving the psychological and physical benefits in healthy thinking and feeling good. You can look over the "new thoughts" at the end of each segment with an open mind and see if there are any you want to "test drive" in your life to change your heart variability pattern from jagged and...

Este libro narra parte de la larga lucha por la defensa de los derechos humanos de las personas desplazadas y refugiadas en Colombia y Ecuador, desde las voces de organizaciones del tercer sector de ambos países, a saber: el Servicio Jesuita a Refugiados, la Misión Scalabriniana, la Consultoría para los Derechos Humanos y el Desplazamiento, la Hebrew Inmigrant Aid Society, el Asylum Access Ecuador y los Catholic Relief Services. Estas organizaciones conocen a fondo la complejidad del fenómeno migratorio y su evolución en las últimas cinco décadas

Un ensayo que no pretende ser un estudio de nuestra educación superior sino una acusación, un libro de tesis crítica y denuncia.

The book focuses on and tracks the relationship and the quality of discourse that evolve between interviewer and interviewee within a series of interview situations. It presents theoretical arguments and empirical findings based on twenty-five face-to-face conversations with a freshwater fish wholesaler in the northeastern Peruvian rainforest town of Iquitos. Supplemented by the interview transcripts in Spanish, it is a valuable methodological source for sociologists, anthropologists, linguists, economists and historians who are interested in interdisciplinary qualitative research. (Series:...