La semiótica social de la comunicación de masas

Escuchar al profesor y copiar en un cuaderno lo escrito en un pizarron o leer y memorizar para responder examenes es la dinamica tradicional en el sistema educativo, un metodo que solo limita las inmensas posibilidades de la inteligencia humana. Los mapas mentales han demostrado ser una extraordinaria alternativa en el proceso de ensenanza-aprendizaje para estimular el enorme potencial que hay en cada uno de los estudiantes para las artes, las letras, las ciencias, la historia, la politica. Con este libro aprendera de manera sencilla a elaborar mapas mentales, a sintetizar y analizar diversos ...

Henri Charriere, called "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: "escape." After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years, he was eventually sent to the notorious prison, Devil's Island, a place from which no one had ever escaped . . . until Papillon. His flight to freedom remains one of the most incredible feats of human cunning, will, and endurance ever undertaken. Charriere's...

How was racism institutionalized in the United States? What strategies have black people used in their struggle for liberation and equality? Joseph Scott addresses these weighty questions from the perspective that at its core, racism is a "legal-political problem in which blacks and whites have been assigned to separate legal estates.'" He enumerates three different forms of exploitation to which black people have been subjected, and seven basic strategies they have used to combat slavery and institutional racism.

The first full-length examination of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement led by Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi, which claims up to one hundred thousand members from around the world.This is the first full-length examination of Sahaja Yoga, a new religious movement led by Sri Mataji Nirmala Devi, which claims up to one hundred thousand members from around the world. The author examines how newcomers adopt new practices and allegiances on becoming full-time members, and how most develop a radically new awareness of 'spiritual vibrations' as a result of the regular meditation suggested by Sri Mataji. ...