Ecos de la memoria

En esta obra, la doctora Morrison narra sus vivencias con algunos de los asesinos en serie más famosos de todo el mundo: Richard Macek, el asesino con cara de niño; Ed Gein, el verdadero Norman Bates (Psicosis, 1960); John Wayne Gacy, el payaso asesino; Peter Sutcliffe, el destripador de Yorkshire; Bobby Joe Long, el Hannibal Lecter de Florida; Robert Berdella, el carnicero de Kansas City; Michael Lee Lockhart, el asesino itinerante; el matrimonio Fred y Rosemary West, los verdugos de la Casa de los horrores; Marcelo Costa de Andrade, el redentor de ángeles, y Gary Ridgway, el asesino del...

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...

La International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) define el dolor como «una experiencia sensitiva y emocional desagradable asociada a lesión tisular real o potencial o descrita en términos de dicha lesión». Esta definición viene a mostrar que el dolor es un concepto tremendamente complejo en el que, además del evidente hecho biológico, intervienen aspectos psicológicos, emocionales, sociales y culturales. El dolor, además, ha sido interpretado de forma diferente a lo largo de la historia. No obstante, la perspectiva social ha sido bastante descuidada, encontrando muy pocas...

Nationalism is one of the major social and political issues of modern times, and a subject of intense intellectual debate. The most important and influential theory of nationalism is that of Ernest Gellner (1925-1995). This volume assesses every aspect of that theory, bringing together an exceptional set of scholars to explain, criticise and move beyond Gellner's work. In doing so the book establishes the state-of-play within the theory of nationalism, and complements Gellner's account by bringing political variables back into play. The book is unique in offering sustained attention to a...