Las piedras que hablan

This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other s contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main...

El libro Introducción a la Psicología Comunitaria recoge alguno de los principales elementos teóricos y aplicados de esta joven y dinámica disciplina. Tanto por la organización de sus contenidos como por su estilo didáctico está especialmente recomendado como apoyo a la docencia, si bien puede resultar de utilidad para profesionales de la intervención psicosocial y aquellos interesados en el estudio del comportamiento humano desde planteamientos ecológicos. Debido precisamente a su énfasis didáctico, el libro presta especial atención a la exposición de los contenidos de una...

Henri Matisse (1869-1954), a cofounder of Fauvism, understood the expressive power of pure colors and simple forms. As seen here, his color harmonies can be analogous to musical compositions, complex and expressive.

Jacinto, Rosa, and Pablo are members of a family, and the main characters of this story, where civic conscience and living in harmony with others are essential, promoting attitudes which foster humane respect for all.