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Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Press
Universidad Nacional de Quilmes President Gustavo Eduardo Lugones Vice-president Mario E. Lozano UNQ Press Editorial Board Daniel Alonso, Science and Technology Department Jorge Flores, President Office Diego Golombek, Research Department Rodolfo Pastore, Social Sciences Department UNQ Press Staff Director: Ed. Anna M贸nica Aguilar Associate Director: Ed. Rafael Centeno Design and Production: GD. Hern谩n Morfese, GD. Mariana Nemitz, and Ed. Victoria Villalba Administration: Andrea Asaro and Otilia Diaz Bulay
The National University of Quilmes (Universidad Nacional
de Quilmes), founded in 1988, is a public university located in Argentina which established its own publishing house (Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes) in 1996. Designed to serve as a one of the University’s centerpieces in terms of outreach and community integration efforts, this Publishing House has become an essential tool to increase the University’s social visibility and to release those books which can make a real contribution to knowledge and cultural heritage in Argentina and the world at large. The Universidad Nacional de Quilmes Press, which has adopted an academic approach, maintains a backlist of over 200 titles divided into 15 series directed by experts from the University, who enrich every series with original and translated works that provide different perspectives on knowledge, reflecting all the fields of interest to the University’s faculty, students, research teams, and scholars. In addition, the catalogue includes art books by prestigious Argentine artists and some other special editions designed to reach a wider readership, thus giving way to further interaction with the community. This is how our Publishing House promotes culture and knowledge, acting as a centerpiece in the effort to meet public university’s goals.
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Series Biomedicina [Biomedicine], edited by Daniel E. Gomez . . . . . . . 10 Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad [Science, Technology & Society], edited by Pablo Kreimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Convergencia. Entre Memoria y Sociedad [Convergences, Between Memory and Society], edited by Noemí Girbal-Blacha . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Cuadernos Universitarios [University Notebooks], edited by Jorge Flores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Derechos Humanos [Human Rights], edited by Baltasar Garzón and María Sonderéguer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Filosofía y ciencia [Philosophy & Science], edited by Pablo Lorenzano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Intersecciones [Intersections], edited by Carlos Altamirano . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 La ideología argentina [The Argentinian Ideology], edited by Oscar Terán (1938-2008) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 La ideología argentina y latinoamericana [The Argentinian and Latin American Ideology], edited by Jorge Myers . . . . . . . . . 53 Las ciudades y las ideas [Cities and Ideas], edited by Adrián Gorelik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Música y ciencia [Music & Science], edited by Pablo Di Liscia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Nuevos enfoques en ciencia y tecnología [New Approaches in Science & Technology], edited by Florencia Mabel Rembado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Política [Politics], edited by Claudio Amor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Textos y Lecturas en Ciencias Sociales [Social Sciences Writings and Readings] edited by Eduardo Gosende . . . . . . . . . . 65
Other Series Administración y Economía [Business Administration & Economics Series] edited by Fernando Porta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Comunicación y Cultura [Communication & culture] edited by Nicolás Casullo (1944-2008) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Electronic Publications Digital Series, edited by Mariano Belaich and Margarita Pierini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Journals Prismas, Intellectual History Journal, board of directors: Carlos Altamirano, Anahi Ballent, Alejandro Blanco, Adrián Gorelik, Jorge Myers, Elías Palti, and Oscar Terán (1938-2008) . . . . . . . 71 Redes, Journal of Social Studies in Science, Pablo Kreimer (Editor in Chief) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Social Sciences Journal, Second Series, Carlos Fidel (Editor in Chief) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Special Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Art Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Academic Conferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
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Biomedicina [BIOMEDICINE] A series edited by Daniel E. Gomez Some 2400 years ago, Democritus suggested that living organisms were composed of atom clusters which decayed and were constantly replaced by new ones. Fields of study in biological sciences and medicine have changed through the years. Scientists have come to understand that living matter is divided into different organization levels, while the grounds to explain how organisms work, both in normal and pathological circumstances, have shifted from the macroscopic level to the microscopic and molecular levels. Recent developments in identification of molecular elements which determine cellular behavior have increasingly modified human understanding of the origins of diseases. This molecular revolution has led to a new shift in those fields of study. In many cases, this new scientific stage has been creating some confusion, since the language of genes appears to be almost abstract. This Biomedicine Series intends to show that such shift stands as a formidable opportunity for cognition, while it also aims at introducing significant tools for building unprecedented biological knowledge. Paperback | 15.5 x 22.5 cm
Introducci贸n a la oncolog铆a molecular [An Introduction to Molecular Oncology] Daniel E. Gomez Daniel F. Alonso isbn 987-9173-29-5 1998 | 208 p. | 320 g $ 23 | usd 6,14
New information as applied to disease diagnosis and treatment is growing rapidly, which makes it hard to stay updated. This books leads us through major topics in molecular biology and oncology, such as communication within and between cells, the role of tissue remodeling, oncogenes and tumor supressor genes, the basis for cell chemoresistance mechanisms and, last but not least, a selection of the latest perspectives on the issue. An essential book for students and professionals.
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Farmacología molecular Receptores, transducción de señales y activación de genes
Medicina regenerativa y stem cells De la terapia celular a la ingeniería de tejidos
[Molecular Pharmacology. Receptors, Signal Transduction, and Gene Response]
[Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cells. From Cell Therapy to Tissue Engineering]
Marcelo G. Kazanietz (ed.)
Pablo Argibay (ed.)
isbn 987-9173-45-7 2000, 1st edition | 2003, 1st reprint | 368 p. | illus. | 540 g $ 39 | usd 10,41
In the 20 chapters that make up this volume, readers will find the basis for receptor activation mechanisms and molecular pharmacology, along with the latest findings on cellular pathways activated by drugs, hormones, neurotransmitters, and other growth factors. The information provided in this book is essential for physicians, biologists, biochemists, and pharmacologists who might be interested in understanding the molecular foundations of pharmacology, molecular biology, and molecular biochemistry.
isbn 987-558-056-2 2005 | 464 p. | 680 g $ 48 | usd 12,82
Current research on regenerative medicine seems to have the power to impact millions of lives all around the globe, becoming a new paradigm. However, the latest developments on this kind of therapy are moving forward slowly, as a result of both technical and scientific difficulties, as well as the lack of an internationally-accepted regulatory framework and the existence of ethical controversies. The need to establish international consensus committees involving scientists, philosophers, ethicists, lawyers, and representatives from different religions and populations is becoming increasingly evident. Most of the articles in this volume have been written by medical doctors and researchers from the Italian Hospital at Buenos Aires. Pablo Argibay is head of the Hospital’s Institute for Basic Sciences and Experimental Medicine.
Biotecnología [Biotechnology] María Antonia Muñoz de Malajovich Translation from Portuguese into Spanish and technical revision: Gabriela Levitus isbn 987-558-096-1 2006, 1st edition | 2007, 1st reprint | 400 p. | illus. | 620 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
This book aims at introducing readers to a fascinating open road in the sciences. Through her unique educational approach, the author leads us into one of the most promising fields in biology for the 21st Century, providing her comprehensive, dynamic vision. From the very beginning, she offers an accurate definition of the current paradigm in biotechnology: she describes it as “an activity based on multiple disciplines, which aims at creating useful products or solving problems through biological agents”. Based on this conceptual framework, the author helps us realize how much influence biotechnology has on the widest variety of fields in human activity. Not only does she delve into the foundations of this discipline, but she also goes into the details of its uses in manufacturing, agriculture, food production, environmental sciences, and energy.
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Cronobiología humana
Introducción a la oncología clínica
Ritmos y relojes biológicos en la salud y en la enfermedad
Tomos i y ii [An Introduction to Clinical Oncology, Volumes i & ii]
[Human Chronobiology. Biological Rhythms and Cycles in Health and Disease]
Adrián P. Huñis | Daniel F. Alonso | Daniel E. Gomez (eds.)
Diego A. Golombek (ed.)
isbn for both volumes: 978-987-558-118-0
isbn 978-987-558-130-2 2002, 1st edition | 2007, 2nd edition 424 p. | 620 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
Volume I: 978-987-558-117-3 2007 | 1008 p. | illus. | 1.420 g $ 80 | usd 21,36
Diego Golombek and other researchers approach the enigma of time from a biological perspective. In a reader-friendly fashion, they introduce us to the latest developments on biological cycles at the molecular level, their neural and evolutionary basis, offering an insightful look into cycles in human cardiovascular, immune, and reproductive systems. Unraveling complexities in circadian cycle alterations will enable us to achieve further advances in chronopharmacology and chronotoxicology, to understand the impact of shifts at school and work, to treat sleep disorders, to explain the effects of time on intellectual performance, and to address some psychiatric disorders.
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Volume II: 978-987-558-163-0 2008 | 936 p. | illus. | 1.300 g $ 90 | usd 24,03
This is an essential guide for professionals who manage clinical cases of cancer, as well as people who wish to know more about the disease. Through a comprehensive approach, this book gathers knowledge from different experts on the widest range of oncology branches, covering a great scope of topics, from the tiniest molecular mechanisms through the importance of prevention, diagnostic algorithms, cancer staging and follow-up, critical assessment of ethical issues, and the impact of digital technologies on cancer studies, to different types of tumors and their treatment.
Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad [SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY] A series edited by Pablo Kreimer This book series aims at contributing to develop a new field for social studies on science and technology in Latin America, covering different issues, theories, approaches, and possibilities for new inquiries. This contribution is based on two strategies that complement each other: publishing theoretical and empirical work by Latin American authors, on the one hand; and translating relevant work by researchers from industrialized nations, on the other. This editorial project seeks to serve as a tool for introducing new ideas, as well as discussing processes associated with scientific and technological knowledge production, use, and management, both in the current context and in history. Therefore, each topic is approached from different perspectives in its multiple social, political, historical, cultural, ideological, economic, and ethical dimensions. Paperback | 15 x 20 cm
La hélice de oro Aventuras biotecnológicas: el recorrido de la ciencia a los negocios Original title: The Golden Helix: Inside Biotech Ventures Arthur Kornberg Translated into Spanish by Ana Laura Díaz Foreword by Alberto Díaz isbn 987-9173-68-6 2001 | 348 p. | illus. | 440 g $ 29 | usd 7,74
The average reader –or even a more sophisticated one– is dazzled and captivated by biotechnological facts, both in business and in scientific environments. Arthur Kornberg, a Nobel laureate, chronicles his own experience with biotech “adventures”, shedding light on this thrilling human enterprise. Written from an insightful point of view on biotechnology, this book is a landmark where science and industry converge in an intrinsically fascinating fashion, through enzymes and dna.
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Ensayos en campera [Essays in a Jacket] Jorge A. Sabato isbn 987-558-028-7 2004 | 216 p. | 280 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
This new edition of Ensayos en campera, first published in 1979, aims at recovering physicist Jorge Sabato’s innovative thinking and his firm beliefs. Sabato’s key concept –the socalled “triangle” of government, higher education, and business– was “a basic, almost primitive insight into the more complex institutional, economic and technological network of interconnections and co-evolution between micro and macro systems, which represent the infrastructural foundations for long-term growth in any society,” says Jorge Katz. Technology production in Argentina and the involvement of the government, the higher education system, and the business sector in a network that is necessary to build modern societies serve as coordinates for a number of somewhat ironic reflections from this essential Argentine researcher and thinker.
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Producción y uso social de conocimientos Estudios de sociología de la ciencia y la tecnología en América Latina [Social Production and Use of Knowledge. Studies in Sociology of Science and Technology in Latin America] Pablo Kreimer et al. isbn 987-558-030-9 2004 | 212 p. | 420 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
Studies in sociology of science and technology are a key tool for knowledge production processes development in Latin America. This book examines a wide range of experiences in social production and use of knowledge, while it addresses the following questions: How and why is knowledge produced in Latin America? Why does such knowledge have almost no impact on the region’s economy? Which are the mechanisms that drive research and development initiatives in Latin America? And which are the mechanisms that deter the transformation of such knowledge into innovations? A critical analysis of these experiences provides some keys to understanding the current scenario, as well as the role for science and technology in recent socio-economic development processes.
La fabricación del conocimiento Un ensayo sobre el carácter constructivista y contextual de la ciencia Original title: Manufacture of Knowledge. An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of Science Karin Knorr Cetina Translated into Spanish by María Isabel Stratta isbn 987-558-050-3 2005 | 368 p. | 480 g $ 39 | usd 10,41
This book by Karin Knorr Cetina is already a classic, even though it was written only some 25 years ago. Indeed, the sociology of scientific knowledge is quite a young discipline. At the same time, paradoxical though it may sound, this is a relatively unknown classic, especially among Spanish-speaking readers, as it had only been published in English and German so far. From the depths of scientific research labs, its author poses questions on a wide array of issues which go beyond scientists’ workplaces, urging us to reflect on the nature of knowledge, its links with culture, the relationship between epistemology and culture and, most importantly, on the social production of knowledge.
El Leviathan y la bomba de vacío Hobbes, Boyle y la vida experimental Original title: Leviathan and the Air-Pump. Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life Steven Shapin Simon Schaffer Translated into Spanish by Alfonso Buch isbn 987-558-059-7 2005 | 512 p. | illus. | 640 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
Social studies of science and technology are quite recent as a discipline, especially in Spanish-speaking countries. The author’s thesis and the contents of this book make it an essential part of such emerging field of study. This comprehensive work contains a wide scope of interesting elements for experts in a whole range of social sciences. Indeed, it should concern sociologists and science historians as a classic in their field. It should concern political scientists and philosophers as a study that delves into the origins of their discipline from an unusual perspective, exploring the relationship between Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan and the naturalism debate in the 17th Century. And it should also concern epistemologists and philosophers of science as it addresses some fundamental issues in their area of studies, such as the discovery vs. construction debate.
Forma y función de un sujeto moderno Bernardo Houssay y la fisiología argentina (1900-1943) [Form and Function of a Modern Subject. Bernardo Houssay and Physiology in Argentina (1900-1943)] Alfonso Buch isbn 987-558-095-3 2006 | 496 p. | 640 g $ 42 | usd 11,21
The topics discussed in this book are Argentina, its physicians and researchers, as well as scientific knowledge and social conflict, mainly revolving around Dr. Bernardo Houssay, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1947. Dr. Houssay’s career and background justify the rather ambitious title of this book, as this Argentine scientist was, in a way, a paradigm of what we have come to call modernity. In his figure we can observe some essential symbolic structures which usually lie at the foundation of the scientist’s role and, therefore, account for something more than a haphazard combination of personal circumstances.
“O inventamos o erramos” La ciencia como idea-fuerza en América Latina [“Either We Invent or We Err”. Science as an IdeaForce in Latin America] Hebe Vessuri isbn 978-987-558-124-1 2007 | 400 p. | 520 g $ 41 | usd 10,95
Nowadays, knowledge issues are dealt with in a wide scope of contexts, ranging from the specialized discourse of scientific policy and higher education to the more general scenario of globalization and competitiveness. Since knowledge has been declared to be a key feature for the present and the future of our society, it is not surprising that it has increasingly become a politically charged notion, with a wide range of agendas at stake. Governments in developed and developing nations have come to realize that citizen commitment is vital to ensure that science and technology meet people’s needs.
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Actos, actores y artefactos Sociología de la tecnología [Actions, Actors, and Artifacts. Sociology of Technology] Hernán Thomas Alfonso Buch (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-148-7 2008 | 296 p. | illus. | 400 g $ 42 | usd 11,21
This book includes several articles for reference on the new sociology of technology, while it aims at raising two issues: how to break fossilized commonsense notions on technology as a “neutral” and “autonomous” system that results from the lineal processes of the “applied sciences”; and how to describe technology’s role in social, cultural, political, and economic processes. Everyone, from lay readers to scientists, economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and historians, will find in Actos, actores y artefactos new theoretical and methodological approaches to the links between technology and society.
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Los científicos Entre poder y saber Original title: Les Scientifiques. Entre Pouvoir et savoir Jean-Jacques Salomon Translated from French into Spanish by Leila Gándara isbn 978-987-558-158-6 2008 | 520 p. | 640 g $ 70 | usd 18,69
This book is among the first studies to portray the history of “science as a profession”, in Max Weber’s words. It discusses different stages in the formation of a collective space designed for creating knowledge and interacting with society, in a sometimes deliberate fashion. One of the main issues in Salomon’s work is historical change in the relationship between science and technology as social products and power resources.
Cambiar el orden Replicación e inducción en la práctica científica Original title: Changing Order. Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice Harry Collins Translated into Spanish by Alfonso Buch isbn 978-987-558-182-1 2009 | 288 p. | illus. | 380 g $ 52 | usd 13,88
This book, which was first published in 1992, has already become a classic work on sociology of science. Contrary to an externalist vision of science, Harry Collins’ study explores how scientists behave in their research practices, how they try to replicate experiments, how they draw conclusions from their lab work, and how they frame their public debate based on those practices, experiments, and conclusions. The author examines these issues in three different cases, namely: tea-laser building, detection of gravitational radiation, and experiments in paranormal phenomena. However, analysis of these case studies does not focus exclusively on “technical” issues. Instead, throughout the book Collins outlines his vision on science, knowledge, and their social dimensions in special. Indeed, this “maintenance of order” does not concern science alone, but it is also sought by society.
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La enfermedad de Chagas en la Argentina Investigación científica, problemas sociales y políticas sanitarias [Chagas Disease in Argentina. Scientific Research, Social Issues, and Health Policies] Juan Pablo Zabala isbn 978-987-558-195-1 2010 | 360 p. | illus. | 460 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
A hundred years after it was first discovered, Chagas disease still affects some three million people in Argentina. A symbol of poverty and social inequality, it has posed a challenge for scientific researchers and health policy-makers since the early 20th Century. This book describes the development of the disease in Argentina, providing details about all researchers, physicians, scientists, agencies, and public policies involved, while keeping track of conceptions and strategies implemented throughout the 20th Century. As a result, readers can learn the history of the disease in Argentina, while taking part in a national debate about the complex relationship between scientific research and government intervention in social conflict.
Ciencia expandida Naturaleza común y saber profano [Expanded Science. Common Nature and Amateur Knowledge] Antonio Lafuente Alonso Andoni Foreword by Langdom Winner isbn 978-987-558-212-5 2010 | 240 p. | 300 g $ 55 | usd 14,68
According to Langdom Winner, this book explores the many ways knowledge resources can be expanded, nurtured, and enhanced through an interconnection among a number of inquiring minds from different disciplines and places in today’s world. The authors (physicist and science historian Antonio Lafuente, and philosopher Andoni Alonso) describe and celebrate these new research communities and their vitality, while they also elaborate on how these communities work. As they clearly show, these communities’ ultimate source lies in groups of people with major issues in mind who have managed to effectively join and expand their capacities beyond the often bridled boundaries of conventional research.
De los quipus a los satélites Historia de la tecnología en la Argentina [From Khipus to Satellites. A History of Technology in Argentina] Tomás Buch Carlos E. Solivérez The pressing need for a history of technology in Argentina is widely justified, as we know almost nothing about it. Our rich historiography tradition has so far restricted science and technology issues to a few simple, uninformed fact descriptions. In Argentina, there are no histories of major science and technology institutions, but just a few analyses of technological development processes, mostly from an economic perspective. (From the Foreword by Diego Hurtado)
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CONVERGENCIA. Entre memoria y sociedad [CONVERGENCES. BEWTEEN MEMORY AND SOCIETY] A series edited by Noemí Girbal-Blacha As implied in its title, this series embraces pluralism, ideological openness, and a willingness to include the whole spectrum of Humanities and Social Sciences, which feeds it and aims to define its unique character. Its main goal is to make a contribution in our attempt to construct and reconstruct memory, seeking to understand heterogeneity, consistency, continuity, and discontinuity in social phenomena, while recovering a critical outlook on historical processes to reconsider them under the light of contemporary events. Paperback | 15.5 x 22.5 cm
Ambiente, sociedad y naturaleza Entre la teoría social y la historia [Environment, Society, and Nature. Between Social Theory and History] Guido Galafassi Adrián Zarrilli isbn 987-9173-69-4 2002 | 112 p. | 160 g $ 12 | usd 3,20
It is necessary to understand that there is a strong link among environment, society, and nature, even if we consider them as three different categories. Indeed, if environment is defined as a consequence of the nature-society relationship, it becomes vital to explore and analyze its social construction process from a Social Science perspective.
Contrarrevolución en la Argentina 1900-1932 La Liga Patriótica Argentina Original title: Counterrevolution in Argentina. 1900-1932. The Argentine Patriotic League Sandra McGee Deutsch Translated into Spanish by Mario Ranaletti isbn 987-558-014-7 2003 | 272 p. | 380 g $ 29 | usd 7,74
This book introduces a case study on the counterrevolutionary movement in Argentina, where said political trend has remained vital since the 1920s. The author focuses on the Argentine Patriotic League, Argentina’s first counterrevolutionary organization, which was created in 1919 and became one of the most powerful political movements in the country during that period. She examines the local forces and ideological currents that nurtured it, the circumstances under which it took shape, the profile of its members, and the activities it undertook, as well as the League’s social, political, and economic worldviews.
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Mitos,paradojas y realidades en la Argentina peronista (1946-1955) Una interpretación histórica de sus decisiones políticoeconómicas [Myths, Paradoxes, and Facts in Peronist Argentina. 1946-1955. A Historical View on its Political and Economic Decisions] Noemí Girbal-Blacha isbn 978 -987-558-017-6 2003, 1st edition | 2011, 1st reprint | 282 p. | 420 g $ 50 | usd 13,35
This historical study, focusing on financial policies in the examined period, introduces some reflections on the main features of Peronist Argentina, its changes and patterns as expressed through government discourse and historical events from 1946 to 1955. The author intends to shed light on some symbolic events and values that have been preserved by collective memory, to describe how social groups interpret the past on the basis of their current needs, and to recover some facts which have sunk into oblivion.
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Ni gringos ni indios
La restauración del virreinato
Inmigración, criminalidad y racismo en la Argentina, 1890-1940
Orígenes del nacionalismo territorial argentino
Original title: Italiani malagente. Immigrazione, criminalitá, razzismo in Argentina, 1890-1940
[Restoration of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. The Origins of Territorial Nationalism in Argentina]
Eugenia Scarzanella
Paulo Cavaleri
Translated from Italian into Spanish by Irene Theiner isbn 987-558-019-8 2003, 1st edition | 2004, 2nd edition 176 p. | 280 g $ 28 | usd 7,48
In the first part of this book, the author examines the “criminality issue” and its many features in Argentina until the 1940s. She focuses on the urban underworld and its main players, on controversies over Italian immigration, and on medical and legal assessment of Italian immigrants. In the second part of the book, she explores some initiatives aimed at addressing the population “quality” and “quantity” issues from the inside. This work intends to bridge the gap between “gringos” and Indians, two of the groups that were most seriously marginalized by power elites in Argentina over the discussed period.
isbn 987-558-031-7 2004 | 214 p. | 320 g $ 23 | usd 6,14
This extraordinary study deals with a complex issue –the history of the so-called “Gran Argentina”, an entity which was intended to comprise the former territories of the Viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata. The author’s analysis is nurtured by a wide range of perspectives, from diplomatic history to legal, intellectual, and cultural approaches. He focuses on the construction of Argentina’s national imaginary on the basis of territorial definition and boundary demarcation, while he also examines the intellectual origins of nationalism in Argentina through the works of diplomat Vicente Quesada (1830-1913). In his major contribution to the study of this process in Argentina, the author proves that there is a hidden division between territorial and “revisionist” nationalism, which has had an impact on the way both have spread and been later adopted by their intellectual heirs, mainly in Argentina’s liberal tradition.
Industria, finanzas e instituciones en la Argentina La experiencia del Banco Nacional de Desarrollo. 1967-1976 [Manufacturing, Finances, and Institutions in Argentina.The National Development Bank of Argentina. 1967-1976] Marcelo Rougier isbn 987-558-027-9 2004 | 352 p. | 500 g $ 29 | usd 7,74
This study explores the history of the National Development Bank of Argentina, a government-run institution which was created to fund the manufacturing industry in the 1960s and 70s. The author addresses such economic history issue as the performance of a government agency which used to act as an instrument of industrial policy. While the book reveals a clear tendency towards microhistory, it will still enable readers to reflect on general models and initiatives for development and industrialization, governmentcorporate relationships, and the link between macroeconomics and microeconomics.
Las derechas La extrema derecha en la Argentina, el Brasil y Chile, 1890-1939 Original title: Las Derechas. The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. 1890-1939 Sandra McGee Deutsch Translated into Spanish by Julio C. Cortés isbn 987-558-046-5 2005 | 528 p. | 780 g $ 45 | usd 12,01
Despite its relevance, early 20th Century Latin American right has received little scholarly attention. If we were to read a list of the published work on Latin America for that century, we would be led to believe that Leftist ideas and revolutionary change have prevailed in this region for the last hundred years. However, Latin American countries have been more often ruled by the Right. Extreme conservative and rightwing movements, even when they are not in power, have consistently managed to remain important. In Las derechas, Sandra McGee Deutsch helps to cover this academic gap through a comparative study of the right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile from 1890 to 1939.
Memorias de expropiación Sometimiento e incorporación indígena en la Patagonia. 18721943 [Memories of Land Expropriation. Oppression and Inclusion of Native Peoples from the Patagonia Region. 1872-1943] Walter Mario Delrio isbn 978-987-558-049-7 2005, 1st edition | 2010, 1st reprint 312 p. | maps | 460 g $ 48 | usd 12,82
The so-called “Conquest of the Desert” in Argentina was not so much a military campaign as the creation of a framework to describe relationships between Argentina as a nation and its native peoples. This “desert’s” invention has actually shaped the idea that it was all empty land, therefore deleting from national history any trace of the independent peoples that inhabited those areas before said campaign, in the late 19th Century. What happened to Mapuche and Tehuelche communities after such oppression? How can we follow the steps of surviving families and communities after they were deprived of their lands, confined, divided, and deported?
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Misiones, economía y sociedad
La expansión de la frontera bonaerense
La región vitivinícola argentina
La frontera chaqueña del Noroeste Argentino en el siglo xix
Posesión y propiedad de la tierra en Chascomús, Ranchos y Monte, 17801880
Transformaciones del territorio, la economía y la sociedad, 1870-1914
[Frontier Expansion in the Province of Buenos Aires. Land Possession and Ownership in Chascomús, Ranchos, and Monte Districts. 1780-1880]
[Argentina’s Wine Region. Territorial, Economic, and Social Transformations. 1870-1914]
[Missions, Economy, and Society. The Southern Frontiers of Argentina’s Northwest in the 19th Century] Ana A. Teruel isbn 987-558-044-9 2005 | 152 p. | maps | 240 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
There is still little knowledge about colonization processes through the Northwestern border of the Chaco province in the late-nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries. This book explores disciplining and assimilation attempts introduced by religious missions in native communities of the area, including a reconstruction of inter-ethnical relationships, land settlement and expropriation processes, and the main features of production. The scenario is an infant Nation-State, where the provinces of Salta and Jujuy endow the borders of Chaco with a specific economic role. The history of this region’s incorporation is analyzed under the light of both national-level projects and local-level processes. The border is approached as a subject that can be historicized, describing its singularities and the relationships it established with the nation as whole.
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Guillermo Banzato
R. Richard-Jorba | E. Pérez Romagnoli | P. Barrio | I. Sanjurjo
isbn 987-558-053-8 2005 | 224 p. | maps | 340 g $ 28 | usd 7,48
isbn 987-558-063-5 2006 | 296 p. | maps | 440 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
This book examines land possession and privatization, as well as the creation of a land market in the Pampas region while capitalism was developing in the area. The author focuses on the Chascomús, Ranchos, and Monte districts, which were especially attractive to land settlers in 1779, when frontier expansion was launched, until 1880, when the so-called “Conquest of the Desert” military campaign came to an end. This local approach has enabled the author to identify each of the methods implemented to assign public lands to private hands, such as donations, auctions, sales, emphyteusis, and a kind of lease known as moderada composición.
This volume gathers articles by an interdisciplinary team of geographers and historians seeking to account for the processes that have turned the Argentine provinces of Mendoza and San Juan into one of the first “regional economies” in the country, which is now known as Argentina’s Wine Region. The examined period is plenty of transformations towards a new economic, social, and territorial configuration, driven by the overwhelming force of capitalism, which would help integrate the region into the national realm, establishing links between its economic activity and the domestic market, while breaking a long-standing tradition of shared interests with Chile.
Acción colectiva y corporaciones agrarias en la Argentina
El desvanecimiento del mundo chacarero
Transformaciones institucionales a fines del siglo xx
Transformaciones sociales en la agricultura bonaerense, 1937-1988
[Collective Action and Agricultural Corporatism in Argentina. Institutional Transformations in the Late-20th Century]
[A Vanishing Farm Tradition. Social Transformations in Farming, Province of Buenos Aires, 19371988]
[Farming Reform in the Pampas Region. Agricultural Leasing, Ownership, and Legislation in the province of Buenos Aires. 19401960]
Javier Balsa
Mónica Blanco
isbn 987-558-104-6 2006 | 328 p. | 480 g $ 36 | usd 9,61
isbn 978-987-558-111-1 2007 | 352 p. | 520 g $ 38 | usd 10,15
In the early 1990s, historian Javier Balsa interviewed traditional farmers from the province of Buenos Aires to study the impact of the Great Depression on agriculture in the Pampas. However, as he moved on with his survey, something else caught his attention: there was a growing distance between descriptions of everyday life in the farms of the 1920s and 30s, and the evidence he observed in his interviewees and their families while he was conducting his research. These differences involved not only their economic resources, but also their lifestyle, which had been deeply affected. It was in those occasions that he became interested in describing transformations undergone by farmers in the Pampas from the 1930s to the early 1990s, which has given birth to this book.
Debates on the different methods for land possession, such as ownership, leasing, and sharecropping, became increasingly significant in late-19th Century Argentina. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of agricultural policies, their foundational discourse, and their impact on land possession and ownership in the province of Buenos Aires through case studies and a comparative approach that enables the author to account for heterogeneous social production structures and to describe the special relationship among land possession methods, farming activities, and prevailing types of land exploitation. A study of the Benito Juárez, Gonzales Chaves, Bolívar, and Pergamino districts sheds light on patterns and discontinuities in the agricultural policies of the period.
Mario Lattuada isbn 987-558-075-9 2006 | 272 p. | 400 g $ 34 | usd 9,08
Through an approach that combines contributions from collective action, corporatism, and social movement theories, the author describes the main changes in Argentina’s economic, institutional, and political scenarios in the 1990s, while analyzing their impact on the agricultural sector and its social structure. He also delves into the transformations undergone by these social agents and the associations they participate in, whether economic or political. An attempt to strengthen the new social regime governing capital accumulation has driven the agricultural sector to take a paradoxical turn: technological upgrading has gathered pace, while agricultural output and exports have doubled, but at the same time social and economic farming structures have become more concentrated.
Reforma en el agro pampeano Arrendamiento, propiedad y legislación agraria en la provincia de Buenos Aires, 1940-1960
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La pervivencia de la República posible en los territorios nacionales Poder y ciudadanía en Río Negro [The Survival of the ‘Possible Republic’ in National Territories. Power and Citizenship in Río Negro] Martha Ruffini isbn 978-987-558-120-3 2007 | 280 p. | 420 g $ 36 | usd 9,61
This book explores the process of national state formation in Argentina through the lens of the special relationship between the government and each of the ten territorial states that later comprised the country. Framed by a conservative order, these territorial states’ creation is closely linked with the national state, which implemented a sort of controlled republicanism that the author describes as “republicanismo tutelado”. Political rights restriction and coercion in the exercise of power stand out as the most visible signs of survival of Juan Bautista Alberdi’s “possible Republic”, which remained alive until the Peronist period, when most national territories were integrated into the country’s political structure as actual provinces.
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Educación, agro y sociedad Políticas educativas agrarias en la región pampeana, 1897-1955 [Education, Agriculture, and Society. Agricultural Education Policy in the Pampas Region. 18971955] Talía Violeta Gutiérrez isbn 978-987-558-126-5 2007 | 264 p. | 400 g $ 36 | usd 9,61
In the late-19th Century, different sectors began demanding from Argentina’s government a specialized school system and an agricultural curriculum in rural primary schools. This book intends to explore those public policies which resulted in the creation of an agricultural school system in the Pampas region, addressing the relationship between government, education, and rural society from 1897 to 1955, when the country reached a turning point in terms of the national and popular Peronist experience. The author seeks to show an interaction between education history and socio-economic history of rural areas, which might lead to a richer, more complex examination of the subject, offering some new core issues to discuss.
Entre la torre de marfil y el compromiso político Intelectuales de izquierda en la Argentina, 19181955 [Between Political Commitment and the Ivory Tower. Left-Wing Intellectuals in Argentina. 1918-1955] Osvaldo Graciano isbn 978-987-558-135-7 2008 | 384 p. | 560 g $ 44 | usd 11,75
This book describes the intellectual and political careers of a group of reformist, leftwing academics during the interwar period in Argentina. Led by Argentine philosopher Alejandro Korn, Dominican philologist Pedro Henríquez Ureña, and Argentine lawyer and politician Alfredo Palacios, these Latin American thinkers participated in student struggles for University Reform in 1918, while they also drove a great number of initiatives for university management and cultural events in the 1920s and 30s. In addition, the author provides a detailed account of their intellectual relationships with students and other reformist colleagues.
Cuestiones agrarias en el varguismo y el peronismo Una mirada histórica [A Historical Perspective. Agricultural Issues in Varguism and Peronism] Vanderlei Vazelesk Ribeiro
Cuestión social y políticas sociales en la Argentina
El sindicalismo rural en la argentina
La modernidad periférica. Córdoba, 1900-1930
De la resistencia clasista a la comunidad organizada, 1928-1954
[Social Issues and Policies in Argentina. Peripheral Modernity in the Province of Córdoba. 1900-1930] Beatriz I. Moreyra
isbn 978-987-558-150-0 2008 | 200 p. | 320 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
isbn 978-987-558-169-2 2009 | 400 p. | 580 g $ 62 | usd 16,55
This volume addresses agricultural policy in the administrations of Brazilian President Getulio Vargas (1930-1945, 1951-1954) and Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1946-1955), who aimed at including farm workers in the capitalist development projects each of them sought to implement. For a deeper insight into both administrations, the author discusses correspondence exchanged between rural workers and each of the Presidents, a communication channel that served as a “hot line” of sorts, through which those workers managed to make their voices heard, opposing landowners as their political enemies.
In Cuestión social y políticas sociales en la Argentina, the author discusses the historical process that led to the formation of a social proto-state in Córdoba between 1900 and 1930, i.e., the complex and flexible path that led from solidarity at the civil-society level to widespread solidarity at the institutional level. Likewise, the author also inquiries into the multiple dimensions of social issues, the conception of social issues which underlies different decisions on regulation and investment, and the government’s material and institutional intervention through public spending and changes in tax structures, as well as provincial and local legislation and welfare programs.
[Farming Unions in Argentina. From WorkingClass Resistance to Organized Communities. 1928-1954] Adrián Ascolani isbn 978-987-558-183-8 2009 | 392 p. | 580 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
This volume results from the author’s insightful research on relationships between farming unions, landowner associations, the government, and other social agents from the agricultural sector in the Pampas region. It covers the period that ranged from a military intervention in the province of Santa Fe to quell farmer demonstrations and rioting in 1928 through the passage of harsh labor legislation during President Peron’s first term in office. The author effectively recovers local history, workers’ memories, and unionist experience through accurate historical research, offering a novel view on interventionist-welfare state origins and development in Argentina through its relationship with rural workers.
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Entramados del poder Salta y la nación en el siglo xix [Power Networks. The Province of Salta and the Argentine Nation in the 19th Century] María Fernanda Justiniano isbn 978-987-558-196-8 2010 | 320 p. | illus. | 540 g $ 69 | usd 18, 42
In this book, the author thoroughly discusses power networks connecting the province of Salta with the federal government of Argentina in the 19th Century. Here, history results from several stories that cross over to make up a meaningful constellation for a historiography study of the past. To sum up, we might say that the author covers the history of Salta and its family networks, both within the province’s borders and beyond them. This enticing volume draws on different sources to take the shape of a labyrinth of sorts, through which we are fortunately led by a knowledgeable guide.
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Estado y empresarios de la industria del aluminio en la Argentina El caso aluar [Government and Business in the Aluminum Industry in Argentina. A Case Study of aluar] Marcelo Rougier isbn 978-987-558-211-8 2011 | 480 p. | 700 g $ 78 | usd 20,83
This book explores the different paths that have led to the creation of an aluminum production industry in Argentina, focusing on aluar, a large company that epitomizes such industry. It will enable us to understand the factors that have driven or curbed growth in the manufacturing industry, as well as the relationship between government policy and the emergence of big corporations in terms of planning, technological advances, and other major development issues.
Condiciones de vida y vitivinicultura Mendoza, 1870-1950 [Viticulture and Living Conditions. Mendoza, 1870-1950] Juan Manuel Cerdá isbn 978-987-558-208-8 2011 | 256 p. | illus. | 380 g $ 50 | usd 13,35
In this book, the author explores the province of Mendoza’s society through a multi-dimensional approach, covering the period from late-19th Century through mid-20th Century. Over those decades, said province became part of the so-called “agroexport model of development” as the main producer of wine for the domestic market, leading to major changes in economic structure. The author’s main goal here is to discuss the impact of economic growth and government policy on living conditions in the province.
Cuadernos universitarios [UNIVERSITY NOTEBOOKS] A series edited by Jorge Flores This series is comprised of several volumes that were originally created as support material for unq’s online courses (uvq). They have been reformulated for publication as books, but they still maintain their initial purpose of serving as useful support tools for teachers and students, now in the real classroom. Paperback | 15 x 20.5 cm
Sociología de la educación [Sociology of Education] Emilio Tenti Fanfani isbn 978-987-9173-53-4 2001, 1st edition | 2009, 2nd reprint 164 p. | 240 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
One of the key dimensions of contemporary societies is education, understood as a system of practices and institutions with specific learning goals. Presentday Nation-states feature almost no institution as far-reaching and extended as their education systems. In Argentina, it involves over 40,000 schools and universities, which employ more than 700,000 teachers, assistants, officials, and other workers, and serve almost 10 million students. However, resources allocated to this massive social effort are not enough to meet the needs of modern life.
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Cambios contemporáneos en la estructura industrial argentina (1975-2000) [Contemporary Changes in Argentina’s Manufacturing Industry (1975-2000)] Bernardo Kosacoff Adrián Ramos isbn 987-9173-53-X 2001 | 260 p. | 320 g $ 14 | usd 3,74
Argentina is a developing country where market failures and shifts in economic policy have a more dramatic impact than they do in developed nations. In addition, a lower capital accumulation rate and macroeconomic imbalances increasingly require that we accurately address specialization structures. The technology frontier seems to have further expanded lately, which calls for a review of Argentine products placement in international markets.
Estado, sociedad y economía en la Argentina (1930-1997)
Introducción a la psicología del aprendizaje escolar
[State, Society, and Economy in Argentina (1930-1997)]
[School Learning Psychology: An Introduction]
Noemí Girbal-Blacha Adrián Zarrilli Juan Javier Balsa
Ricardo Baquero Margarita Limón
isbn 987-9173-55-4 2001, 1st edition | 2004, 1st reprint 268 p. | 360 g $ 17 | usd 4,54
This book seeks to address, analyze, and discuss some transformations witnessed in Argentina’s state, society, and economy through almost seven decades. The author approaches a wide array of issues, such as authoritarianism, governance, shifts in political leadership, democracy, the rule of law, militarism, and repression, covering periods of interventionist democracy, welfare state formation, and authoritarian bureaucracy in a country that has seen migration waves; urbanization processes; population growth and displacement; unemployment issues; shifts in farming, manufacturing, and finance; capital mobility; economic slumps; and a foreign debt crisis.
isbn 978-987-9173-58-9 2001, 1st edition | 2011, 2nd reprint 200 p. | 260 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
This book approaches education through a number of issues selected from a wide range of topics in psychology of learning, prioritizing those which are mostly connected with school learning and focusing on current debates in education and psycho-education.
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Educación superior y reformas comparadas
Dirección estratégica
[Higher Education Reform: A Comparative Study]
Carlos Greco
Pedro Krotsch isbn 978-987-558-188-3 2001, 1st edition | 2009, 2nd edition 228 p. | 360 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
The notion of “higher education” has been gaining ground since the 1960s, which is no coincidence, as it reflects the shift from elite to mass university. This transition has involved a major trend towards task differentiation in an attempt to satisfy new needs. Therefore, higher learning institutions are becoming increasingly complex and multi-layered as a result of demographic pressure and upgrading processes. This book’s second edition features a foreword by Juan Carlos Geneyro.
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[Strategic Management]
isbn 987-9173-56-2 2001, 1st edition | 2004, 1st reprint | 200 p. | 280 g $ 15 | usd 4
Most public and nonprofit organizations usually implement strategic management processes. In theory, strategic management is deceptively simple: it involves reviewing and analyzing present and past circumstances, forecasting the future, steering the organization in a given direction, and introducing measures to fulfill its mission. But in practice, it usually turns out to be a complex endeavor requiring an approach that enables stakeholders to recognize and assess external factors, while adapting and enhancing organizational resources and capacities to successfully achieve their goals.
Problemas de la enseñanza de la lengua y la literatura [Teaching Spanish Language and Literature] Maite Alvarado (ed.) isbn 978-987-558-033-6 2004, 1st edition | 2008, 1st reprint 136 p. | 200 g $ 17 | usd 4,54
Should students be taught grammar? What is the purpose of a systematic study of language? Should schools teach anything but literacy skills in language programs? Are those skills the sole domain of language programs? Which text types should be prioritized for language teaching? Should literary discourse prevail over other types of discourse in school contexts? Which literature should teachers teach? What should teachers teach about literature? These questions focus on the challenges involved in literature and language teaching, which are discussed by language didactics and faced by teachers themselves in their everyday work, when planning a course or drafting a program.
Sociedad democrática y política democrática en la Argentina del siglo xx
Historia social del mundo occidental Del feudalismo a la sociedad contemporánea
[Democratic Society and Politics in 20th-Century Argentina]
[A Social History of the Western World. From Feudalism to Contemporary Society]
Luis Alberto Romero
Susana Bianchi
isbn 987-558-038-4 2004, 1st edition | 2006, 1st reprint 256 p. | 340 g $ 15 | usd 4
isbn 978-987-558-048-0 2005, 1st edition | 2010, 4th reprint 280 p. | 380 g $ 37 | usd 9,88
Compared to other countries in Latin America, Argentina’s managed to remain a democratic society for most of the 20th Century, when mobility was the rule rather than the exception. Since 1912, when the government passed the socalled Saenz Peña Law, which granted universal male suffrage, democratic institutions were in place for short periods, while republican institutionality barely endured democratization processes in the political arena. Shifts in society had their own impact on the terms of political coexistence, resulting in as traumatic an experience as a military regime in the mid-1970s and early-1980s. This book aims to explore development parallels and contradictions between society and politics, democracy and republic, in a context of economic and cultural change.
This book focuses on the economic, social, cultural, and political features of major historical processes in the Western world from a social history perspective, as defined by Eric Hobsbawm. The author discusses some of the key stages in the history of Western societies, such as the formation of feudalism through some remaining features of the Ancient World, the development of the bourgeoisie, the transition to capitalism, the bourgeois revolutions, the rise and fall of the bourgeois world, the emergence of socialism and the “Third World”, the birth of Neoliberalism, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the latest social developments in the contemporary world.
Manual de literatura argentina (1830-1930) [A Handbook of Argentine Literature (1830-1930)] Lucila Pagliai isbn 987-558-051-1 2005 | 216 p. | 300 g $ 16 | usd 4,27
This volume seeks to serve as a practical resource providing readers with some frameworks and conceptual tools, clearing their doubts, and opening new paths towards further research, which may enable them not only to increase their knowledge about Argentine literature but also to become familiar with other outlooks and approaches in the field. Hence, special attention has been paid to diversity regarding theoretical work, lines of literary criticism, literary perspectives, and bibliography. In addition, the cultural context of Argentine literature has been depicted in comparative timelines covering the 100-year period under study and including other literary, artistic, social, economic, and political expressions from the Western world.
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Introducción a la geografía [An Introduction to Geography] Elena Margarita Chiozza Cristina Teresa Carballo isbn 978-987-558-066-4 2006, 1st edition | 2009, 1st reprint 160 p. | illus. | 220 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
Current geography is indeed an heir of the past, but it also focuses on space organization and resource valuation as required by contemporary societies. The world is changing under our eyes, as landscapes and territories undergo daily transformations, while old states die and new ones are born. In geography, studying space involves exploring most features of the social processes that create and re-create it, as well as the natural characteristics inherent in the land surface where said space is located, which does not act as passive support for society but as an agent that can react upon changes introduced by such society.
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Docencia y enseñanza. Una introducción a la didáctica
Notas de ciencia política
[Teaching and the Teaching Profession. An Introduction to Didactics]
[Notes on Political Science. An Outline for a Study of Politics from a Social System Perspective]
Sonia Araujo isbn 978-987-558-098-5 2006, 1st edition | 2008, 1st reprint 224 p. | 300 g $ 26 | usd 6,94
This book aims to provide readers with some knowledge that will enable them to analyze, support, organize, and restructure their teaching practices, whether they already belong to the teaching profession or seek to become part of it. In addition, it is intended as a contribution to the creation of classroom frameworks and principles grounded on theoretical, ethical, and practical standards. The author delves into the realm of didactics through an examination of its main issues, its relationship with other disciplines, and its research approaches from a critical standpoint, attaching great value to position-taking as a result of previous reflection on our teaching-practice decisions and their moral and political grounds and implications.
Esbozo de una sistemática social de la política
Marcelo Fabián Sain isbn 978-987-558-128-9 2007 | 328 p. | 460 g $ 26 | usd 6,94
In this book, political science is considered as a cognitive activity that seeks to build a social system framework for politics, which should contribute to empirical and theoretical research on political events. The realm of politics stands as a specific dimension of social life, involving production and reproduction of the ways and means of domination (i.e, government structures), as well as the ways and means of power that enable members of society to build and connect those structures. Therefore, politics cannot be studied and understood in scientific terms unless its specific nature as a dimension of social life is recognized.
PedagogĂa, currĂculo y subjetividad: entre pasado y futuro [Pedagogy, Curricula, and Subjectivity: Between the Past and the Future] Silvia Grinberg Esther Levy isbn 978-987-558-175-3 2009 | 168 p. | 260 g $ 30 | usd 8,01
Thousands of children and teenagers attend school on a daily basis for nine months a year in Argentina. In spite of the fact that this sounds so familiar, school education is quite recent in Argentine history. This book provides some meaningful insights into the making of modern-day school, inquiring into our present, and thinking up alternatives for the future. With no preset course, we can ask ourselves what education is and what it ought to be, a key question for pedagogy as an activity that takes place in the present, but whose impact can only be seen in the future. Hence, discussing what education is should be as important as asking ourselves about its meaning. Who are our students? Who are we as teachers? What can we pass on to younger people? What do we see as valid culture for the 21st Century? What kind of relationships do we establish with younger people? Which are the tensions that cut across different pedagogic devices nowadays?
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Derechos humanos [HUMAN RIGHTS] A series co-edited by Baltasar Garzón and María Sonderéguer The realm of human rights has recently articulated, both internationally and regionally, a series of reflections at the point of convergence where philosophy meets anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, gender studies, children studies, memory studies, and international law, among other disciplines. This Human Rights Series draws on an interdisciplinary outlook to introduce different approaches and discussions on relevant issues in the field. Through expert essays, academic studies, and special collections of articles on different issues, it seeks to offer an insight into current research in Argentina and Latin America, as well as an approach to key international work on this realm. Paperback | 14 x 20 cm
Las estructuras elementales de la violencia Ensayos sobre género entre la antropología, el psicoanálisis y los derechos humanos [The Basic Structures of Violence. Essays on Gender at the Crossroads among Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Human Rights] Rita Laura Segato isbn 987-558-018-X 2003 | 264 p. | 340 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
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In this book, the author suggests that mutual tension and feedback between the equal –whether partners or competitors– and the unequal –whether dominator or dominated– should be explored to find the etiology of violence, its main engine. Although this is a shared structure for every system where status signals continue to inflect current expansion of the citizenship contract, gender relations are here considered a paradigmatic scenario for said structure. Throughout the “long history of patriarchy”, as the author calls it, these relations make up the core of all violence.
El género del multiculturalismo [The Gender of Multiculturalism] María Luisa Femenías isbn 978-987-558-115-9 2007 | 328 p. | 360 g $ 30 | usd 8,01
In this book, feminist theory and multiculturalism intertwine to explore the advantages and disadvantages of a multicultural perspective for women. María Luisa Femenías seeks to provide an outlook on the different shapes that feminism and women’s rights claims have taken in Latin America, from the dismantling of ethnic/class solidarity bonds that drives “black” women exclusion to a critical review of the role women played in revolutionary struggle through the 1970s.
En torno a los límites de la representación El nazismo y la solución final Original title: Probing the Limits of Representation. Nazism and the “Final Solution” Saul Friedlander (ed.) Trad. Marcelo G. Burello isbn 978-987-558-129-6 2007 | 472 p. | 540 g $ 47 | usd 12,55
This book gathers a number of papers first presented at a conference organized by Saul Friedlander on “Nazism and the ‘Final Solution’: Probing the Limits of Representation”, which was held at the University of California, Los Angeles, on April 26-29, 1990. The authors discuss the limits of historical accounts or artistic representations of the Holocaust and human suffering in general, under the light of different scientific and ethical issues.
Infancia, justicia y derechos humanos [Children, Justice, and Human Rights] Carla Villalta (ed.) isbn 978-987-558-192-0 2010 | 320 p. | 380 g $ 53 | usd 14,15
The articles collected in this volume result from anthropological research conducted in Brazil, Spain, and Argentina about children and childhood, but they do not belong in the realm of so-called ethnography or anthropology of childhood. Rather, they focus on the great number of legal-bureaucratic devices designed for intervention on a demographic group that can be subject to guardianship, judicial control, illegal appropriation, and adoption. Through an insight into the multiple devices at work in contexts of great inequality to “protect”, “guarantee”, and/or “restore” children’s rights, these essays seek to discuss different intervention methods, which do not boil down to unilateral action by courts and governments on passive subjects, while they should neither be subject to opposing doctrines.
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Filosofía y ciencia [PHILOSOPHY & SCIENCE] A series edited by Pablo Lorenzano Philosophy and science are part of the most important cultural production of our time. The increasingly changing relations between these realms have always covered a wide spectrum of possibilities, including two contrasting views: one that regards them as identical, and another one that regards them as opposed. While it does not embrace either of those extreme positions, this series does recognize that there are philosophical assumptions and implications in science, while philosophical reflection on science is essential for a better understanding of scientific phenomena. Including recent studies as well as classic works so far unavailable to Spanishspeaking readers, this series seeks to spread the ideas that have emerged from an intertwining of those disciplines, which epitomize C.P. Snow’s “two cultures”, thus helping to bridge the gaps between them. Paperback | 15 x 23 cm
Desarrollos actuales de la metateoría estructuralista: problemas y discusiones [Current Developments on Structuralist Metatheory: Issues and Debates] José A. Díez Pablo Lorenzano (eds.) isbn 987-9173-72-4 2002 | 364 p. | 450 g $ 26 | usd 6,94
This book gathers most of the papers presented at “I Encuentro Internacional ‘Perspectivas actuales de la metateoría estructuralista’”, an academic meeting organized by a small group of Spanish-speaking philosophers who sought to discuss methodological and epistemological issues in science from a structuralist perspective. This event, which took place in México in 1998, was the first to be held on the topic among Spanish speakers at an international level.
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new title
De Newton y los newtonianos Entre Descartes y Berkeley [Newton and Newtonians. Between Descartes and Berkeley] Laura Benítez José A. Robles isbn 978-987-558-073-2 2006 | 376 p. | 440 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
This book contains the first translation into Spanish of two unpublished works by Isaac Newton: “De gravitatione et æquipondio fluidorum” and “De ære et ætere”. The former has been translated almost entirely and it features extensive annotations and comments, while the latter has been fully translated and it introduces two short essays about its contents. Both pieces show some surprising features facing a traditional interpretation of Newton’s Principia, but they also exhibit plausible evidence about the origins and development of some fundamental concepts in Newtonian physics. This volume also gathers a number of essays by Laura Benítez and José A. Robles, authors, translators, and experts on the subject, which highlight Newton’s connection with Descartes, on the one hand, and Berkeley, on the other.
Cómo la guerra fría transformó la filosofía de la ciencia Hacia las heladas laderas de la lógica Original title: How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science. To the Icy Slopes of Logic George A. Reisch Translated into Spanish by Daniel Blanco isbn 978-987-558-178-4 2009 | 480 p. | 700 g $ 80 | usd 21,36
This book is the first in-depth study of philosophy of science development in the United States during the Cold War. It reveals how anti-communism shaped university curricula, philosophical research, and political persecution of prominent scholars by the fbi over that period.
Una arquitectónica para la ciencia El programa estructuralista Original title: An Architectonic for Science. The Structuralist Program Wolfgang Balzer C. Ulises Moulines Joseph D. Sneed Translated into Spanish by Pablo Lorenzano
This book is about the structure of knowledge. By “knowledge” we mean “reasoned, true belief”. This entails that knowledge consist of things like propositions or statements. By “structure” we mean simply the way in which the truth values, or probability values, of statements are interdependent. Our account of the structure of knowledge, however, requires something more than statements and logical relations among them. Indeed, we may appear to give so much attention to these other elements that the propositional nature of knowledge is ignored. We find these other elements essential to exhibiting the complexity of the structural features we find in common examples of knowledge. Our attention to these features and the somewhat elaborate technical apparatus we employ to describe them should not, however, obscure our essentially conservative and conventional views about the nature of knowledge.
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INTERSECCIONES [INTERSECTIONS] A series edited by Carlos Altamirano This series seeks to help understand our present, its history, and its issues through analysis and reflection from a social-science perspective. The volumes in the Intersections Series are designed to be of common interest to sociologists, historians, philosophers, anthropologists, and literary critics. As shown by the series’ title, they have been carefully selected to create an open field for discussion on human disciplines and their intersections, aiming at providing readers with some keys to make sense of our times. Paperback | 14 x 20 cm
Otro territorio Ensayos sobre el mundo contemporáneo Original title: Um outro térritorio Renato Ortiz Translated from Portuguese into Spanish by Ada Solari isbn 987-9173-00-7 1996, 1st edition | 2005, 2nd reprint 144 p. | 180 g $ 18 | usd 4,81
Relations between culture and globalization should not be boiled down to the spontaneous explanations provided by mass media. Through his essays, Brazilian sociologist and anthropologist Renato Ortiz seeks to interpret cultural processes in a globalized world, deconstructing common sense notions and reconstructing sociological categories.
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Populismo posmoderno
La formación de las almas
Legisladores e intérpretes
[Postmodern Populism]
El imaginario de la República en el Brasil
Sobre la modernidad, la posmodernidad y los intelectuales
Paul Piccone et al. Translated into Spanish by Horacio Pons
Original title: A formação das almas: o imaginário da República no Brasil
isbn 987-9173-05-8 1996 | 296 p. | 340 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
José Murilo de Carvalho
These articles, previously published in American journal Telos, result from a series of debates held to discuss the current rise of populism, which has been worrying analysts around the world after the collapse of the ussr, and which is no longer restricted to those peripheral nations where it first emerged, since it has also developed in hypermodern societies.
Translated from Portuguese into Spanish by Ada Solari isbn 987-9173-10-4 1997 | 220 p. | 260 g $ 20 | usd 5,34
This innovative work on Latin American political and intellectual history probes into a battle for popular imagery waged by three opposing conceptions of Republican order. The arena is Brazil in the late-19th Century, when a new Republic was emerging, and the contenders are Liberals, Jacobins, and Positivists. Brazilian historian José Murilo de Carvalho suggests that, when this struggle for “souls” goes beyond the realm of elites, symbols, allegories, and myths become the weapons of choice.
Original title: Legislators and Interpreters Zygmunt Bauman isbn 987-9173-16-3 1997, 1st edition | 2005, 1st reprint 288 p. | 340 g $ 30 | usd 8,01
Zygmunt Bauman discusses the role of intellectuals in the modern world, connecting it with the nature of modernism and postmodernism in cultural analysis. Indeed, intellectuals no longer “legislate” on the opinions of other members of society, competing with rival principles and beliefs. In this thought-provoking essay, Bauman focuses on how intellectuals have become “interpreters” of different points of view, and on the implications this process has had in terms of contemporary cultural analysis.
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El desarrollo del Estado moderno Una introducción sociológica Original title: The Development of the Modern State. A Sociological Introduction Gianfranco Poggi Translated from Italian into Spanish by Horacio Pons isbn 987-9173-09-0 1997 | 228 p. | 280 g $ 20 | usd 5,34
After rejecting economics, anthropology, and political science, which “over the last thirty years or so have gone to incredible lengths in order to forget the State”, the author resorts to the history of political institutions (especially the best German writings in the field), and to constitutional law, focusing mainly on those writers who are sociologically or historically informed, and whose concern with juridical analysis aids their grasp of larger political structures.
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Crítica y resignación Fundamentos de la sociología de Max Weber Original title: Crítica e resignação. Fundamentos da sociologia de Max Weber Gabriel Cohn Translated from Portuguese into Spanish by Ada Solari isbn 987-9173-28-7 1998 | 272 p. | 320 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
First published in 1979, this paper by Brazilian sociologist Gabriel Cohn offers a deep, thought-provoking interpretation of Max Weber’s social theory. The author provides an account of the trends, writers, and inspirations that would later resonate in the German sociologist’s work, and he discusses Weber’s conceptual framework, focusing on methodology writings and asserting that there are no discrepancies between those writings and Weber’s empirical analyses. Indeed, according to the author, Weber’s work has always been self-consistent.
Giro lingüístico e historia intelectual [Intellectual History and the Linguistic Turn] Elías José Palti isbn 987-9173-23-6 1998 | 344 p. | 400 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
Along the same lines that have shaped American intellectual history for more than a decade, these study reveals the dynamics of the new paths that have been opened by the so-called “linguistic turn”, which has brought about self-reflection on historical analysis of language. The articles by Stanley Fish, Dominick LaCapra, Richard Rorty, and Paul Rabinow, gathered in this book to complete the author’s work, shed further light on the issue.
Caja de herramientas El lugar de la cultura en la sociología norteamericana [A Toolbox. Culture in American Sociology] Javier Auyero Preface by Néstor García Canclini isbn 987-9173-39-2 1999 | 296 p. | 340 g $ 22 | usd 5,87
This is not a book on cultural sociology in the us, nor does it intend to represent state-ofthe-art American sociology. Rather, the collected articles (by Craig Cathoun, José Casanova, Paul Dimaggio, Marc Steinberg, and Loïc Wacquant) seek to introduce Spanish-speaking readers with a sample of the work obtained when sociological thought involves a cultural dimension.
Romanticismo político Original title: Politische Romantik Carl Schmitt Translated from German into Spanish by Luis A. Rossi and Silvia Schwarzböck isbn 987-9173-44-9 2000, 1st edition | 2005, 1st reprint 256 p. | 340 g $ 35 | usd 9,34
Available for the first time in Spanish, Political Romanticism is a powerful, insightful, and thought-provoking volume. Schmitt’s criticism and interpretation of Romanticism have led him to suggest that the romantic person’s focus lies only on his own self, ironic and ingenuous, yet light and inconsistent. Therefore, in the historical relationship between Liberalism and this basic feature of Romanticism, which also characterizes the bourgeois world that proclaimed said movement, the role of the romantic intellectual has been to cast an ironic look on the bourgeois order from an aesthetic perspective that always fails to commit to any substantive political position.
Sobre la individualidad y las formas sociales Escritos escogidos Original title: On Individual and Social Forms Georg Simmel Introduction by Donald N. Levine (ed.) isbn 987-558-006-6 2002 | 464 p. | 540 g $ 31 | usd 8,28
This book includes a selection of writings by one of the most prolific and original intellectuals in the history of sociology, whose work anticipated over a hundred years ago the main concepts of contemporary sociology, such as “social distance”, “marginality”, “urbanism as a way of life”, “role-playing”, “social behavior as exchange”, “conflict as an integrating process”, “dyadic encounter”, “reference groups”, and “sociological ambivalence”.
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Historia y representación
Para leer a Raymond Williams
[History and Representation]
Original title: Para ler Raymond Williams
José Sazbón
María E. Cevasco
isbn 987-558-005-8 2002 | 424 p. | 480 g $ 28 | usd 7,48
The framework for the articles collected in this volume is contemporary intellectual history, a discipline that has increasingly pushed the limits to give rise to a flourishing number of discourse modules and to broaden its own intellectual horizons. The authors draw upon different lines of thought, but they all converge, whether they consider those lines as subjects of study, or they adopt them as methodological approaches.
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Translated from Portuguese into Spanish by Alejandra Maihle isbn 987-558-012-0 2003 | 312 p. | 360 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
Brazilian scholar María Elisa Cevasco provides an account of Raymond William’s work in an attempt to find the tools that will lead to committed criticism of literature and culture. Therefore, her book is not a celebration of this great British intellectual, but an essay aimed at contributing to “construct a cognitive map” of our current situation.
Vidas beligerantes Dos mujeres argentinas, dos protestas y la búsqueda de reconocimiento Original title: Contentious Lives.Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition Javier Auyero Translated into Spanish by Claudia Gilman isbn 987-558-026-0 2004 | 304 p. | illus. | 360 g $ 27 | usd 7,21
Nana and Laura are two young women leading different lives in God-forsaken areas of Argentina, who do not belong to any political party, organization, or union. Javier Auyero connects them to focus on their roles in two uprisings that took place in Argentina in the 1990s (a twoday protest in the northwestern city of Santiago del Estero and a six-day road blockade in the southern oil towns of Cutralco and Plaza Huincul), while he also focuses on the roles of the protests in their lives. While Nana was an activist in the former, the latter turned a teacher like Laura into a spokesperson of the so-called picketeers. The author joins two major concerns in anthropology of practice and sociological study of protests: an examination of social phenomena from an “agentic” perspective and an analysis of social struggle that focuses on self-understanding among the contending actors.
La política en las calles Entre el voto y la movilización. Buenos Aires, 1862-1880 [Politics on the Streets. Buenos Aires, 18621880: Voting Rights and Demonstrations] Hilda Sabato isbn 987-558-039-2 2004 | 304 p. | 340 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
According to the author, this book is an inquiry “into the relationship between the few that rule and the many who are ruled, into the political conflict and links between them at a given moment and in a given place: the city of Buenos Aires during the period known as National Organization (18621880)”. Hilda Sabato’s work, praised by critics since it was first published in 1998, covers a clearly-defined place and period, which allows her to examine different forms of political action and representation, relations between ruling elites and their popular followers, political parties and the role of electoral machinery, street demonstrations, and the public sphere as a space of mediation between civil society and the state.
Memorias de la pampa gringa Recuerdos de Primo Rivolta, Luis Bellini y Camila Cugino de Priamo [Memories of the “gringo” pampas. Recollections by Primo Rivolta, Luis Bellini, and Camila Cugino de Priamo] Luis Priamo With a photographic appendix by Fernando Paillet isbn 987-558-047-3 2005 | 248 p. | illus. | 320 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
Since the publication of Argentine writer Gastón Gori’s early work in the 1950s, European immigration to the central area of the province of Santa Fe, resulting in the agricultural revolution that transformed Argentina, has been the subject of prolific historical literature. However, there is not much published work on the same issue in the tradition of oral memories. Including three interviews with descendants of Italian immigrants that reached the “gringo” pampas in the late19th Century, this book intends to fill such gap.
Sobre los principios Los intelectuales caribeños y la tradición [On Principles. Caribbean Intellectuals and Tradition] Arcadio Díaz Quiñones isbn 987-558-102-X 2006 | 528 p. | 600 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
This book revolves around the Caribbean region, and its protagonists are Caribbean poets, writers, and intellectuals. So far, modern historiography has failed to adopt the Caribbean as a subject of study, since it has mainly focused on the emergence of “nations” and independent states rather than multiple cultural exchanges, which remain largely unknown. Indeed, the Caribbean is an archipelago with no clear-cut borders or frontiers, whether geographical, political, or linguistic. It is the area where the European conquest of the Americas started. In addition, it has experienced America’s superpower policy since the late-19th Century. The author examines the early years of Caribbean writers Pedro Henríquez Ureña, José Martí, Fernando Ortiz, Ramiro Guerra y Sánchez, and Antonio S. Pedreira in this historical context of exile and diasporas.
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Lenguaje, política e historia Original title: Visions of Politics. Volume I: Regarding Methods Quentin Skinner Translated into Spanish by Cristina Fangmann isbn 978-987-558-116-6 2007 | 340 p. | 420 g $ 36 | usd 9,61
Over the last two decades, intellectual history has seen a series of crucial redefinitions which have distinguished it from the old “history of ideas” tradition. Thus, it has managed to define new subjects of study and new approaches to those subjects, which, in turn, has transformed it into one of the most dynamic and productive human disciplines today. Indeed, its impact will soon reach beyond the realm of history itself. Quentin Skinner is regarded as one of the founders of the “Cambridge School”, best known for having started this transformation process. The articles gathered in this book serve as a key resource for a better understanding of the leading lines of thought in intellectual history nowadays, as well as a closer approach to the deepest implications of the transformations they have introduced.
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Imperio de las obsesiones
Los mundos del arte
Los siete locos de Roberto Arlt: un grotexto
Sociología del trabajo artístico
[An Empire of Obsessions. Los siete locos by Roberto Arlt: A “Grotext”]
Original title: Art Worlds
Rocco Carbone isbn 978-987-558-121-0 2007 | 512 p. | 600 g $ 43 | usd 11,48
This book offers a deep analysis of Roberto Arlt’s novel, Los siete locos, and the 1920s in Argentina, mostly swimming against the tide of concepts that have been coined and widely used by specialized critics. Additionally, the author includes in his study the aesthetic category of the grotesque, which enables him to discuss both Arlt’s novel and its times. Indeed, this category also enables him to draw the lines for a “third area” in Argentine literature in the 1920s, one which is not covered by the Boedo and Florida groups, seemingly the dominant literary forces of such culturally effervescent period. The literary works that make up this alternative corpus concern both social and aesthetic issues, thus creating the “real” avant-garde literature of the period, due to its radical, daring attempts at both political and aesthetic intervention in society.
Howard S. Becker Translated into Spanish by Joaquín Ibarburu isbn 978-987-558-147-0 2008 | 440 p. | illus. | 520 g $ 50 | usd 13,35
The main idea in this book by noted American sociologist Howard S. Becker is that works of art are produced by cooperation, as most human practices. Therefore, art is a result of collective action. This cooperation may be either ephemeral or stable, i.e., carried out through previously established patterns and rules. At any rate, the work of art that we see, read, or listen to becomes real and enduring through cooperation. Becker defines art worlds are those interconnected networks for cooperation, and he follows no traditional artistic hierarchies when he studies those networks, as he draws comparisons between works from different backgrounds and degrees of prestige.
new title
nietzsche en Francia
Perspectiva sociológica
y otros estudios sobre historia intelectual
Una introducción a la sociología no obvia
[Nietzsche in France, and Other Essays on Intellectual History]
Original title: Sociological Insight. An Introduction to Non-Obvious Sociology
José Sazbón
Randall Collins
isbn 978-987-558-170-8 2009 | 440 p. | 510 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
Although he was an eminent publisher, José Sazbón never published his own work, as if he had intended his papers to be scattered to the four winds and later gathered by those lucky or wise enough to find them. In his work, he addresses a wide array of issues, including semiology, Marxism, structuralism, philosophy of history, modern and contemporary history, intellectual history, and Latin American thought.
Translated into Spanish by Lelia Gándara isbn 978-987-558-177-7 2009 | 240 p. | 300 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
The aim of any discipline ought to be two things: to be clear and to be non-obvious. Real knowledge ought to be communicable. It should be possible to say it so that it can be understood. And there should be something to say, something that makes a difference once you know it, something you didn’t already know before.
Los hermanos Wagner: entre ciencia, mito y poesía Arqueología, campo arqueológico nacional y construcción de identidad en Santiago del Estero, 1920-1940 [The Wagner Brothers: Science, Myth, and Poetry. Archeology and the National Identity Reserve in the Argentine Province of Santiago del Estero, 1920-1940] Ana Teresa Martínez Constanza Taboada Alejandro Auat This book provides an overview of the work by brothers Emilio and Duncan Wagner, two French archeologists who undertook several excavations in the province of Santiago del Estero over the 1930s and 40s, later publishing La civilización chacosantiagueña y sus correlaciones con las del Viejo y Nuevo Mundo, which proposed the existence of an ancient Chaco-santiagueña civilization. Although the brothers’ work was not acclaimed by the local scientific community at their time, the authors suggest that it served as a turning point for a crucial period in the history of Santiago del Estero.
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la ideología argentina [THE ARGENTINIAN IDEOLOGY] A series edited by Oscar Terán (1938-2008) This series is comprised of classic works on Argentine thought and culture which were mostly unavailable, and some other major sources for understanding said thought and culture that had so far gone largely unnoticed. While some volumes reproduce complete works, some others contain selected fragments, always following an introduction by experts that includes an overview on the current status of the issue and some interpretive remarks by those experts, as well as historical information, biographical data, and an updated bibliography. To sum up, this series not only aims at making those works available, but it also intends to provide a haute vulgarisation of them and/or a new outlook on them, considering recent concerns and theoretical orientations. Paperback | 15.5 x 23 cm
Orden y virtud El discurso republicano en el régimen rosista
Escritos de Juan Bautista Alberdi El redactor de la ley
[Order and Virtue. Republican Discourse during the Rosas Regime]
[Some Writings by Juan Bautista Alberdi. Drafter of the Law]
Jorge Myers
Juan Bautista Alberdi
(Preliminary study and selected fragments) isbn 978-987-99746-3-6 1995, 1st edition | 2011, 2nd reimp. 312 p. | 460 g $ 52 | usd 13,88
Through an insightful analysis of ideological trends in the political movement led by Juan Manuel de Rosas, these writings account for an understudied phenomenon in Argentina: the development of a Republican discourse and/or ideology, which has turned out to be undeniably essential in the revolutionary processes that have shaped the current social and political features of Latin American nations.
Introduction and selection by Oscar Terán isbn 987-9173-03-1 1996 | 334 p. | 500 g $ 26 | usd 6,94
This selection of writings by Juan Bautista Alberdi includes some complete versions and some fragments of his major works, such as El fragmento preliminar y otros trabajos de tenor filosófico, La omnipotencia del Estado, Palabras de un ausente, and La República Argentina consolidada.
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Freud en Buenos Aires 1910-1939 [Freud in Buenos Aires, 1910-1939] Hugo Vezzetti (Preliminary study and selected fragments) isbn 987-9173-04-X 1996 | 264 p. | 400 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
Sigmund Freud’s was a multifaceted presence in Buenos Aires between 1910 and 1940, when psychoanalysis was finally institutionalized. Whether in psychiatry, psychology, or literary criticism, his influence has given rise to a number of intertwining approaches which, in turn, reflect a renewal process in scientific and clinical paradigms, as well as the conditions created by a cultural environment typical of crisis periods.
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La Montaña
La voz de la mujer
Periódico socialista revolucionario –1897–
Periódico comunistaanárquico
Edited by
isbn 987-9173-08-2 1997, 1st edition | 2002, 1st reprint 164 p. | 280 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
isbn 987-9173-02-3 1996, 1st edition | 1998, 2nd edition 300 p. | 440 g $ 35 | usd 9,34
“No God, No Boss, No Husband”, signed a follower of La Voz de la Mujer, an anarchofeminist newspaper that was published in Argentina from 1896 to 1897. This volume gathers all the available, readable material that has been preserved from the nine issues of this publication, which represented a highly radical group in the Argentine socialist movement, at the crossroads between feminism and anarchist communism. In addition, this book features an ed note by María del Carmen Feijóo and an introduction by Maxine Molyneux.
José Ingenieros and Leopoldo Lugones
This volume compiles a collection of newspaper articles with true historical value mostly unavailable in public libraries nowadays. This material provides an outline on the profile of a large share of the Buenos Aires political-intellectual circles in the late-19th Century. La Montaña, periódico socialista revolucionario was first published in that province on April 1, 1897, and it was discontinued on September 15, 1897.
Campaña en el Ejército grande [A Campaign by Ejército Grande] Domingo F. Sarmiento Edited, introduced, and annotated by Tulio Halperin Donghi isbn 987-9173-07-4 1998, 1st edition | 2004, 1st reprint 308 p. | 480 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
A noteworthy piece in the history of Argentine thought, this book narrates the author’s failure in his attempt to support Governor Justo José de Urquiza’s crusade to defeat Commander Juan Manuel de Rosas. It was late 1852, and Sarmiento found himself at a singular point in his political and intellectual career, where he realized that he was increasingly at odds with Governor Urquiza’s proposals for a new order, which he deemed too similar to the regime they had just managed to overthrow.
Un funcionario en busca del Estado Pedro A. García y la cuestión agraria bonaerense. 1810-1822 [A Public Official in Search of the State. Pedro A. García and Agriculture in Buenos Aires. 1810-1822] Jorge Gelman (Introduction and selected documents) isbn 987-9173-15-5 1997 | 200 p. | 300 g $22 | usd 5,87
The role of Pedro Andrés García, who served as a farm advisor for several Buenos Aires governors after the May Revolution, may be taken as an example of the difficulties faced by the new regime in an attempt to build consensus on a new legitimate order for the Rio de la Plata area, including both traditional landowners and agricultural workers.
La grilla y el parque Espacio público y cultura urbana en Buenos Aires 1887-1936 [Grids and Parks. Public Spaces and Urban Culture in Buenos Aires. 18871936] Adrián Gorelik isbn 978-987-9173-27-5 1998, 1st edition | 2010, 2nd reprint 456 p. | illus. | 680 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
This book offers an insight into the formation of Buenos Aires as a big city in the Pampas area, connecting the gradual occupation of the plains (and the issue of suburban neighborhoods as cultural constructions) with production of global networks of meaning that have modified city representation. This connection between public space and urban culture has resulted in different representations of the city over the years, which the author compiles in his comprehensive study on urban history.
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Noticias históricas sobre el origen y desarrollo de la enseñanza pública superior en Buenos Aires. 1868 [Historical News on the Origins and Development of Public Higher Education in Buenos Aires – 1868] Juan María Gutiérrez isbn 987-9173-24-4 1998 | 632 p. | 900 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
This book intends to trace back the origins of philosophy, mathematics, exact and natural sciences in Argentina, providing an analysis of the social, political, and cultural barriers that prevented them from getting established in the Rio de la Plata area. Juan María Gutiérrez, a distinguished member of the so-called Generation of 1937, was the first historian of Argentine education institutions and ideas.
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Revista de filosofía 1915-1929 Cultura – Ciencias – Educación José Ingenieros and Aníbal Ponce (editors) Introduction and selection of fragments by Luis Alejandro Rossi
Jesús, el templo y los viles mercaderes Un examen de la discursividad yrigoyenista [Jesus, the Temple, and the Vile Merchants. An Inquiry into Yrigoyen’s Discourse]
isbn 987-9173-42-2 1999 | 664 p. | 900 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
Preliminary study and selection by
In 1914, when he returned to Argentina, José Ingenieros went into an organizing frenzy in an attempt to establish a national culture. Revista de Filosofía, Cultura, Ciencias, Educación was a journal which resulted from that huge individual effort. First published in 1915, the journal was one of a kind, as it became the first philosophical publication to be released on a bimonthly basis for a 15-year period.
isbn 987-558-003-1 2002 | 244 p. | 360 g $ 24 | usd 6,41
Marcelo Padoan
From an intellectual history perspective, and based on the theory that ideas and representations are insufficient but necessary to describe historical events, Marcelo Padoan’s preliminary study draws on the discursive dimension of Yrigoyenism to shed light on the constitution of its own political identity. Thus, the author provides an outlook of the transformation from late19th Century political style into a new set of styles and values driven by Hipólito Yrigoyen, which have redefined the nature of Radicalism, conceiving of it as a movement identified with the whole nation, while they have also endowed the movement’s leader with some apostolic and messianic features.
Inicial Revista de la nueva generación (1923-1927) Preliminary study by
Fernando Diego Rodríguez
isbn 987-558-021-X 2004 | 808 p. | illus. | 1.180 g $ 70 | usd 18,69
Intellectual history describes the 1920s in Argentina as a period when economic bonanza halted the irruption of avant-garde theoretical and aesthetic movements, such as those which were emerging in Europe. However, this seemingly accurate description turns out to be relative under the light of Inicial Journal. Indeed, this publication carries the mark of the foundational in a messy yet consistent incorporation of new theories and aesthetics. In this volume, readers will find the full contents of the eleven issues published from October 1923 to May 1927, which will enable them to navigate the dense, heterogeneous waters of this period in Argentine cultural history.
Travesías intelectuales de Paul Groussac
Contra
[The Intellectual Journeys of Paul Groussac]
Introduction by
Preliminary study and selection by
Paula Bruno
isbn 987-558-041-4 2004 | 376 p. | 560 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
At the turn of the 19th Century, Paul Groussac played an essential role in the development of an intellectual realm in Argentina through his work as a writer, journalist, historian, polemicist, and director of the country’s National Library. This book gathers some short essays, newspaper articles, lectures, obituaries, brochures, bibliography bulletins, travel notes, and other writings that serve as evidence for the wide variety of issues and genres he approached throughout his career as a public figure. At the same time, these pieces comprise a multiple repertory that places Groussac’s discourse within a specificity framework, while it also enables readers to take stock of the shared issues of concern in the intellectual atmosphere that surrounded him.
La revista de los francotiradores Sylvia Saítta isbn 987-558-052-X 2005 | 488 p. | illus. | 700 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
Between April and September, 1933, Argentine poet, writer, and journalist Raúl González Tuñón edited a magazine called Contra. La revista de los francotiradores. It was a highly innovative publishing experience, since there had been no previous attempts at launching a collective aesthetic-political program seeking to link the political vanguard with an aesthetic avant-garde. Reading the articles published in Contra magazine over those crucial times for ideological debate means discovering the arena where avant-garde artists from Argentina and Latin America joined social scientists and reformists to discuss aesthetic responses to the issues raised by political intervention. In their public statements, testimonies, poems, short-stories, and narratives, which resorted to experimental literary forms, these artists managed to renew the topics that had been exhausted by social art.
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Juan Agustín García La ciudad indiana, Sobre nuestra incultura y otros ensayos [Juan Agustín García. La ciudad indiana, Sobre nuestra incultura and Other Essays] Juan Agustín García Preliminary study by Fernando Devoto isbn 987-558-067-8 2006 | 464 p. | 700 g $ 42 | usd 11,21
Juan Agustín García (18621923) was a lawyer, judge, university professor, and writer who lived in Buenos Aires and left a unique legacy. A witness to the rapid transformations that took place in Argentina at the turn of the 19th Century, he portrayed them (in his excellent prose) from a disenchanted, yet intelligent and insightful perspective, with a hint of irony and false naiveté. His portrayals took different shapes, from essays, historical novels and plays to university courses and newspaper articles. As he was not really given to undertaking long, systematic efforts, his works are scattered in a number of drafts and notes that have been later compiled into books. Just a few exceptions stand out as complete pieces, including La ciudad indiana (1900), his most renowned work, which provides a picture of social life in the colonial period, in the quest for long-term keys that may contribute to a better understanding of Argentine history. 54 | la ideología argentina
Gino Germani La renovación intelectual de la sociología [Gino Germany. Intellectual Renewal in Sociology] Preliminary study by
Alejandro Blanco isbn 987-558-099-6 2006 | 376 pp. | 560 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
Gino Germani was a member of that new generation of sociologists who gave rise to a broad turnaround in Latin American social science in mid-20th Century. He actually had a strategic role in that process, as he edited one of the main book series on social sciences over those years, while he also created the first Sociology Department in Argentina’s higher education system. Thus, in his effort to turn around that discipline, he transformed its intellectual and organizational culture. At the theoretical level, he produced one of the most creative syntheses in social theory, combining empirical contributions from the American tradition with the “one big theory” approach from the European tradition. However, his project for modern social science is still stereotypically portrayed as either a simple introduction of modern methods and techniques for social research, or an intellectual shift towards an alternative academic genre that departs from traditional essays.
Revista Crisis (1973-1976) Antología Del intelectual comprometido al intelectual revolucionario [Revista Crisis (19371976). An Anthology. From Committed to Revolutionary Intellectuals] Introduction and selection by
María Sonderéguer
isbn 978-987-558-139-5 2008, 1st edition | 2011, 1st reprint 592 p. | 860 g $ 78 | usd 20,83
Crisis magazine was first published in Buenos Aires in May 1973, and it was discontinued in March 1976, after the military coup in Argentina. For a period of forty months, it was issued on a monthly basis. This anthology provides a selection of its main topics and positions. It has been divided into three sections: “Historical Readings” (featuring interviews, testimonies, and reports for historiography review), “Communication and Culture: Redefining Symbolic Hierarchies” (featuring essays, research papers, and articles on cultural production conditions), and “Models and Portrayals” (featuring interviews with and biographical sketches of some significant figures for the political-cultural intervention sought by the magazine).
La ideología argentina y latinoamericana [The Argentinian and Latin American Ideology] A series edited by Jorge Myers This series seeks to follow the path of the Ideology in Argentina series, created and edited by Oscar Terán (1938-2008). Paperback | 15.5 x 23 cm
new title
El otro desierto de la nación argentina
new title
Entre cócteles molotov y música beat
Antología de narrativa expedicionaria argentina del siglo xix
Cultura y política en el movimiento estudiantil uruguayo de 1968
[The Other Desert in the Argentine Nation. A Collection of Expedition Narratives in 19th Century Argentina]
[Among Molotov Cocktails and Beat Music. Culture and Politics in the 1968 Uruguayan Student Movement]
Preliminary study and selection by Claudia Torre
Vania Markarian
Expedition narratives portray an experience of the border that may cover the whole 19th Century and before. This collection gathers a specific number of samples from such vast genre: those narratives that describe expeditions in the military campaign aimed at conquering the Patagonia region in 1879. As this book shows, the so-called Conquest of the Desert was not only part of a war, but it was also part of a broader nation-building plan which involved distributing the excluded, granting land to major landowners, and setting the borders of the Pampas. Pursuing a territorial dream, Argentina sought to project itself towards the world and the future.
In the 1960s, a whole generation of Latin American youth got involved in politics through a heroic vision of political activism which coexisted with new cultural standards coming from Europe and the us. This paper addresses the impact of those ideas and those global cultural practices on political identity formation at the local level, especially on the 1968 Uruguayan student movement and its debate on “revolutionary paths” and the conditions for revolutionary struggle.
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Las ciudades y las ideas [CITIES AND IDEAS] A series edited by Adriรกn Gorelik This series focuses on cultural history of cities and territories. By adopting a unifying historical-cultural perspective, it addresses some issues revolving around material reality and the human environment, at the crossroads of different disciplines, such as architecture, urbanism, geography, art history, social history, urban sociology, and demographics. Such approach focuses on how material reality creates meaning in different cities and territories, and on how that cultural process can result in said reality. Paperback | 15.5 x 23 cm
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Serie Nuevas aproximaciones [New Approaches] This collection gathers current research conducted in Argentina and Latin America, as well as other international papers which can contribute to the formation of a new perspective for historiography.
El color del río Historia cultural del paisaje del Riachuelo [The River’s Color. A Cultural History of the Riachuelo Landscape] Graciela Silvestri isbn 987-558-016-3 2004 | 374 p. | illus. | 580 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
How is an industrial landscape created? This book tells the story of the Riachuelo (Matanza River) as an urban landscape through material as diverse as its subject of study. The author discusses canalization projects; debates on port issues; immigrant settlement processes; the impact of surrounding slaughterhouses, metal factories, and power plants; transportation along and across the stream; and the Riachuelo as portrayed in literary works, architecture, and paintings. Indeed, art has condensed the meaning of this landscape in that corner of the river that bohemian artists used to call rive gauche, which has now turned into a typical postcard picture representing Buenos Aires.
Las huellas de la política
La ciudad regular
Vivienda, ciudad, peronismo en Buenos Aires, 1943-1955
Arquitectura, programas e instituciones en el Buenos Aires posrevolucionario, 1821-1835
[The Traces of Politics. Housing, Urban Issues, and Peronism in Buenos Aires, 1943-1955]
[A Regular City. Architecture, Programs, and Institutions in Buenos Aires, 1821-1835]
Anahi Ballent
Fernando Aliata
isbn 978-987-558-055-8 2005, 1st edition | 2009, 1st reprint 280 p. | illus. | 420 g $ 45 | usd 12,01
isbn 987-558-062-7 2006 | 304 p. | illus. | 460 g $ 37 | usd 9,88
Housing projects developed during President Perón’s first term in office and social programs introduced by the Eva Perón Foundation still linger in Argentina’s memory as symbols of government-driven social welfare. This book explores how those pictures, created by Peronism, have managed to remain in our minds, preserving their political strength. In addition, it addresses the representation of public works in architecture, public housing, and urban spaces in an effort to understand how such symbolic universe has been built and promoted.
This study challenges the traditional view of Buenos Aires in the mid-19th Century as a small city, almost a quaint village that only served as the stage for the dramatic events of the May Revolution. For the first time, the capital city of Argentina in that period is shown as a complex urban geometrical structure whose presence is noticed both in the revolutionary elite’s discourse and in the sophisticated urban management processes adopted under President Rivadavia’s administration, which shape a picture of Buenos Aires based on the typical late Enlightenment model for architecture: a regular city.
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Paisajes urbanos de la modernidad
La vida cultural del automóvil
Exploraciones críticas
Rutas de la modernidad cinética
Original title: Cityscapes of Modernity. Critical Explorations David Frisby Translated into Spanish by Lilia Mosconi isbn 978-987-558-125-8 2007 | 336 p. | 520 g $ 45 | usd 12,01
The most ambitious goal of this book is to explain how social theory of modernity is connected with the construction and experience of the modern metropolis. Drawing on a wide array of contrasting dimensions in urban experience, David Frisby discusses the city as an observed, detected, interpreted, compared, designed, dissolved, and rationalized subject. Thus, he examines Benjamin’s account of the flaneur, the detective’s representation and vision of the city in archive material from the legendary Pinkerton National Detective Agency; Simmel’s interpretation of Berlin; Werner Sombart’s contrasting views of cultural Vienna and Americanized Berlin; Otto Wagner’s design work for a New Vienna and Martin Wagner’s plans for a New Berlin; and the points of contact between Expressionism and social theory in their outlook on cities.
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[The Cultural Life of the Automobile. Roads to Kinetic Modernity] Guillermo Giucci isbn 978-987-558-123-4 2007 | 240 p. | illus. | 360 g $ 42 | usd 11,21
Is it possible to draw a picture of the 20th Century and our times without cars? Ever since it started to roll around Europe in the late-19th Century, the automobile has traveled the world, it has conquered most cities, and it has become an essential part of our daily lives. This book examines the rise of automobility as a key element in the emergence of kinetic modernity between 1900 and 1940. The automobile has had an enormous impact on industrial work organization, as well as social and urban life patterns. As a powerful epitome of the 20th Century, it has made a defining contribution to strengthening the widespread scientific and technological revolution still in course. It is for those reasons that the car has inflamed the imagination of 20th Century society.
La red austral Obras y proyectos de Le Corbusier y sus discípulos en la Argentina (1924-1965) [The Southern Network. Works and Projects by Le Corbusier and his Disciples in Argentina (1924-1965)] Jorge Francisco Liernur Pablo Pschepiurca isbn 978-987-558-157-9 2008 | 432 p. | illus. | 660 g $ 60 | usd 16,02
Le Corbusier had a long, fruitful, and sometimes rough relationship with Argentina. Although this great architect is the main character here, this book is not a biography. Rather than narrating his experience or describing his disciples’ careers in Argentina, this volume focuses on a number of projects, works, and actions which have been determined by a sort of network created among them. Thus, La red austral can be read as a tale of spies, since all characters know each other, but they will never know everything about each other.
Serie clásicos latinoamericanos [Latin American Classics] This collection gathers a number of books that have proven to be essential in the creation of so-called “Latin American urban culture”.
Objetos para transformar el mundo Trayectorias del arte concreto-invención, Argentina y Chile, 1940-1970 [World-Transforming Objects. Concretism and Inventionism in Argentine and Chilean Art (19401970)] Alejandro Crispiani isbn 978-987-558-213-2 2011 | 402 p. | b&w and color illus. 650 g $ 98 | usd 26,17
This book introduces an insightful study on the history of Inventionism as a radical engine for architecture and industrial design in a territory where it was not originally born: Chile in the 1950s and 60s. For the first time, the author explores the influence of Argentine interventionist art on the School of Architecture at Valparaíso and on Gui Bonsiepe’s Design Group, two experiences that coexisted in the late 60s and early 70s.
Ensayos sobre cultura y territorio De la estructura mediterránea argentina y Teoría de la ciudad argentina [Essays on Culture and Territory. On Argentina’s Mediterranean Structure & Theory of the Argentine City] Bernardo Canal Feijóo Preliminary study by Ana Teresa Martínez isbn 978-987-558-203-3 2010 | 256 p. | 400 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
This volume compiles two previously unavailable works by Bernardo Canal Feijóo (Santiago del Estero, 1897 - Buenos Aires, 1982): On Argentina’s Mediterranean Structure (1948) and Theory of the Argentine City (1951). What makes a difference in these works is that the author manages to adopt an off-center position facing master narratives of national culture. It is from this position that he reaches a clear understanding of historical and cultural reasons for an imbalanced development of Argentine territory towards coastal areas, as he explains the need to do so in the early years of national formation.
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Música y Ciencia [MUSIC & SCIENCE] A series edited by Oscar Pablo Di Liscia This series intends to explore the state of the art in current relations between sound/music and science/technology, filling an increasing, long-existing need for literature in Spanish on these issues, which grows daily at the pace of technology breakthroughs. Paperback | 15 x 21.5 cm
Generación y procesamiento de sonido y música a través del programa Csound [Sound & Music Generation and Processing with Csound] Oscar Pablo Di Liscia isbn 987-558-035-X 2004 | 248 p. | illus. | 360 g $ 26 | usd 6,94
This book is intended to introduce some basic notions on essential resources for computer music and sound design through Csound software (Barry Vercoe, mit, us). Csound is one of the most popular and widely-used computer programs for music and sound purposes. Available free on the Web, Csound can be run on most platforms; it is profusely documented, and constantly updated by producers, musicians, and software programmers. This volume will appeal to both musicians who are seeking to learn the basics of sound programming and sound engineers who are interested in computer music.
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Percepción auditiva [Audio Perception] Gustavo Basso isbn 978-987-558-082-4 2006, 1st edition | 2009, 1st reprint 288 p. | illus. | 400 g $ 42 | usd 11,21
This book seeks to introduce the principles, processes, and elements that are present in sound perception from an acoustic science perspective. It has been designed as part of a broader program on acoustics for musicians and researchers. The subject of study for traditional psychoacoustics is the relationship between acoustic input signals and resulting sounds, but it never sheds light on the processes that lead to such results. On the other hand, neurobiology and the physiology of perception are especially interested in the transduction processes that serve as interface between acoustic signals and associated mental representations. In this case, the authors have mostly adopted the first approach, even though physiological features are described when deemed necessary.
Hacia un dispositivo hipermedial dinámico Educación e investigación para el campo audiovisual interactivo [Towards a Dynamic Hypermedia System. Education and Research in Interactive Audiovisual Media] Patricia San Martín isbn 978-987-558-134-0 2008 | 208 p. | illus. | 280 g $ 36 | usd 9,61
This book explores virtual environment education, research, and production perspectives in the framework of the huge interactive possibilities available for IT users nowadays, focusing on sound and audiovisual applications. It spawns from research conducted by the author and her team under a project that aims at creating a research and learning system for organizational virtual environments. Such project simultaneously addresses three issues: higher education research, learning, and production in virtual environments; interactive features in dynamic hypermedia systems; and relationships among actors in a context-aware hypermedia system.
Música y espacio Ciencia, tecnología y estética [Music and Space. Science, Technology, and Aesthetics] Gustavo Basso Oscar Pablo Di Liscia Juan Pampin (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-184-5 2009 | 328 p. | illus. | 440 g $ 62 | usd 16,55
This book discusses the current state of the art in sound and music spatiality. Given the extensive nature of the issue and its many ramifications in several disciplines –such as acoustics, psychoacoustics, audio perception, audio technology, sound art, and music– it has been essential to establish a set of approaches that would ensure full, systematic coverage. Therefore, the book is divided into three sets of chapters. Firstly, it features a number of articles dealing with spatial audition. Secondly, it presents a series of chapters addressing technologies for simulation and implementation of spatial sound. And last, it introduces a set of writings that discuss spatiality in sound and music production, considering music creation, evaluation, and analysis from aesthetic and technical viewpoints.
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Nuevos enfoques en ciencia y tecnología [NEW APPROACHES IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY] A series edited Florencia Mabel Rembado This series was initially created to cover the needs of the Science & Techology Department at unq in its quest for new approaches or new knowledge in different disciplines and socio-economic frameworks. Thus, the books in this series seek to make available the latest developments and innovations that result from collaboration among teachers and professors from several fields of study and institutions. Paperback | 15.5 x 22.5 cm
Las levaduras Y sus productos derivados como ingredientes en la industria de alimentos [Yeast and Yeast Byproducts as Ingredients in the Food Industry] Jorge R. Wagner Miguel Á. Otero Rambla Isabel Guerrero Legarreta (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-156-2 2008 | 248 p. | illus. | 400 g $ 40 | usd 10,68
The impact of yeast on human life dates back to the earliest years of our species. Due to its special ability to carry out fermentation, yeast was haphazardly used in the Ancient World to produce alcoholic drinks and bread. Later, more sophisticated techniques were developed for the same purposes. Today, it is also used to improve quality, taste, texture, appearance, and stability in perishable food production. Indeed, yeast never ceases to astound us in its potential to offer new food products with outstanding properties. The aim of this book is to reveal new opportunities arising from the use of yeast in food science and technology.
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new title
Biotecnología en la Argentina Desarrollo y usos sociales [Biotechnology in Argentina. Development and Social Uses] Alberto Díaz Pablo Maffia (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-214-9 2011 | 256 p. | illus. | 300 g $ 46 | usd 12,28
What are we talking about when we talk about biotechnology in Argentina? The answer is that we mostly talk about molecular biology, rather than products, engineering, markets, product development, patents, stock, or equity. Technology has an increasingly strong impact on society as a whole. Some technological developments, such as IT, reach our own lives and homes immediately, catching everyone’s attention, but few notice that there are also breakthroughs taking place in the so-called “life sciences”. When we talk about biotechnology, we must refer to bioproducts and bioprocesses in general, such as isolation, fermentation, animal and plant cell cultures, gene testing, and enzyme immunoassays. Biotechnology is actually giving rise to new industries, products, plants, animals, biomaterials, and disciplines.
Nutrición
Biocatalizadores
Fundamentos energéticos y metabólicos
Del laboratorio a la industria
[Nutrition. Its Energetic and Metabolic Aspects]
[Biocatalysts. From the Research Lab to the Manufacturing Industry]
Anahí Virginia Cuellas Jorge Ricardo Wagner isbn 978-987-558-209-5 2011 | 216 p. | illus. | 340 g $ 44 | usd 11,75
This book seeks to introduce the principles of human nutrition and metabolism for a better understanding of those processes which involve nutrients in the human diet. It is intended for food science and technology students and professionals. It presents an innovative analysis of bioenergetic principles, as well as the metabolic/nutritional role of carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids. The authors thoroughly address such processes as digestion, absorption, and assimilation, enabling readers to understand which factors influence nutritional quality.
Elizabeth Lewkowicz (ed.) The ever-increasing need to use innovative, clean processes in the manufacturing industry and the rising demand for new products has led to growing development of biocatalysts and enzyme technology to complement or replace traditional industrial processes in an effort to foster sustainability. White biotechnology encompasses the use of natural biocatalysts, such as cells and enzymes, to protect the environment through biotechnological industrial processes. Current strategies to find new, eco-friendly chemoenzymatic approaches and to use state-of-the-art molecular biology and protein engineering applications play a major role in the quest for more effective biocatalysts. The articles in this book have been written by academic experts on the issue, who describe the essential steps for biocatalyst development, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of biocatalysis research.
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PolĂtica [POLITICS] A series edited by Claudio Amor This series aims to include both political philosophy classics and new approaches on the subject. Through the titles in this series, we seek to foster an informed debate on some central issues of public concern from a critical perspective.
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Serie Clásica [Classics Approaches] This collection includes annotated translations into Spanish of some titles that belong to political philosophy’s canon. Each volume features a preface, an index, and selected bibliography. Paperback | 12.5 x 20 cm
Ensayo sobre el gobierno civil Original title: The Second Treatise of Government John Locke Translation, selection, and notes by Claudio Amor and Pablo Stafforini isbn 978-987-558-058-9 2005, 1st edition | 2010, 1st reprint 296 p. | 320 g $ 39 | usd 10,41
An Essay Concerning Civil Government is one of the two treatises where John Locke (1632-1704) discusses government power and subject counterpower. Published in 1690, after Locke’s return from his retirement in the Netherlands, this work, which took him over 10 years to finish, will take readers to the turbulent times of Stuart England, when Parliament was at war with the King, the struggle between Whigs and Tories was at its height, the Exclusion Crisis had led to the Glorious Revolution, the Poor Laws and the Settlement Act had been enacted, and Puritans were leaving for New England, their promised land in the Americas.
Hacia la paz perpetua
Sobre la libertad
Un proyecto filosófico
Original title: On Liberty
Original title: Zum ewigen Frieden. Ein philosophischer Entwurf
John Stuart Mill
Immanuel Kant Translation from German into Spanish, bibliography selection and notes by Macarena Marey and Juliana Udi isbn 978-987-558-112-8 2007 | 120 p. | 140 g $ 22 | usd 5,87
This piece was written by Kant in the later years of his intellectual career. In a short essay, the author introduces the basic principles of his political philosophy, which he would develop more extensively two years later, in his Metaphysics of Morals. To Perpetual Peace remains to be of current relevance to those concerned with global justice issues, while it will also be a source of inspiration for anyone who believes that humanity is not doomed to commit Walzer’s “crime of war” once and again.
Translated into Spanish by Lucas Bidon-Chanal. Revised by Pablo Stafforini and Claudio Amor. Preface, notes, and bibliography selection by Pablo Stafforini isbn 978-987-558-197-5 2010 | 256 p. | 280 g $ 55 | usd 14,68
The origins of this book date back to a volume of writings on miscellaneous issues that John Stuart Mill and his wife, Harriet Taylor, developed in 1853. Mill submitted the final version to his publisher in November, 1858, and it was published in February, 1859. This translation is based on the fourth and last edition of the book to be published while Mill was alive (London, Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1869), which was reprinted in Vol. XVIII of the Collected Works of John Stuart Mill (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1977).
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Serie Contemporánea [Contemporary Approaches] This collection combines recent interventions in the field and original research studies with readings and remarks on primary sources. Paperback | 15 x 21.5 cm
Rawls post Rawls [Rawls Post Rawls] Claudio Amor (ed.) isbn 987-558-064-3 2006 | 184 p. | 260 g $ 30 | usd 8,01
A lot has been said about John Rawls. Above all, he is said to have revitalized the study of normative political philosophy, which, in Isaiah Berlin’s words, was moribund after five decades of lethal analytic meta-ethics, diluted in pseudo-issues on substantive questions regarding the just society and the good society, lost in a linguistic spiral. This revival, which has brought back ancient vitality into the academic world, has also triggered a boom of readings, readers, and lecturers, enriching public debate through an inexhaustible stock of arguments, conjectures, and refutations. Is it possible to say something that has not already been said? The authors and editor seem to think it is: contemporary though he was, John Rawls’ work has been and will always be a timeless classic. Indeed, the title of this volume reflects such conviction: there is Rawlsian philosophy post Rawls.
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Ensayos sobre el fascismo [Essays on Fascism] Norberto Bobbio Translation from Italian into Spanish, selection and introduction by Luis Rossi isbn 978-987-558-097-8 2006, 1st edition | 2008, 1st reprint 176 p. | 260 g $ 45 | usd 12,01
The articles gathered in this volume are Norberto Bobbio’s main pieces on Italian fascism. They were written between 1964 and 1975, but it was not until the 1990s that their author decided to include them in two different publications. They clearly reveal Bobbio’s analytic approach, which aims at reconstructing the concept of “fascism” on the basis of the oppositions it is involved in within a political theory framework, while it also provides an historical study of the process that led to the emergence of fascism as a political regime, i.e., its actual institutional embodiment. In addition, some of his writings also show a picture of life and ideas during two decades of Italian fascism, as seen through the eyes of a contemporary.
Hobbes y la libertad republicana Original title: Hobbes and Republican Liberty Quentin Skinner Translated into Spanish by Juliana Udi isbn 978-987-558-204-0 2010 | 192 p. | illus. | 280 g $ 60 | usd 16,02
Quentin Skinner examines Thomas Hobbes’ poignant intervention strategies in his strong defense of royal authority for an ideological debate that surrounds the English Civil War (1642-1649), as belligerent as the actual battles in the military arena. The author’s analysis revolves around a controversy between two rival theories about the nature of liberty: one which, in Pettit’s traditional conception, defines freedom as the “absence of relations of domination” and draws an opposition between liberi homines and slaves; and one which, initially shaped under Hobbes’ mechanistic patterns and later reshaped under liberal thought, defines liberty as Isaiah Berlin’s “absence of interference”. Cogent and accessible, this book by Professor Skinner reveals a complex interlocutionary situation which includes such previously disparate pieces as The Elements of Law, De cive, Leviathan, and Behemoth.
Textos y lecturas en Ciencias Sociales [SOCIAL SCIENCES Writings and Readings] A series edited by Eduardo Gosende The purpose of this series is to provide clear, educational sources on some of the issues included in Social Sciences curricula at unq, in an attempt to contribute to students’ learning through quality material that combines accuracy in contents with a plain approach that enables readers to better understand the discussed topics. Paperback | 15 x 21.5 cm
Lecturas de economía, gestión y ciudad [Readings on Economics and City Management] Gabriel Fernández Germán Leva (eds.) isbn 987-558-040-6 2004 | 256 p. | 380 g $ 27 | usd 7,21
This book addresses new socioeconomic scenarios that place contemporary cities in the need to adopt sustainable development strategies and to legitimize urban public policy as innovative in its contents as in its operational procedures. It seeks to make a contribution to further analysis of some new issues involving city planning and management. The book gathers six articles by renowned Latin American researchers, consultants, and city planners.
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Cultura y política en etnografías sobre la Argentina [Culture and Politics in Ethnographies of Argentina] Sabina Frederic Germán Soprano (eds.) isbn 987-558-054-6 2005 | 344 p. | 480 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
This book compiles ten articles presenting a methodology approach that is inextricable from the theoretical perspective the authors have embraced. They involve new reflections on how ethnographic issues are shaped, contributing to the debate on the relationship between social issues on the public agenda and the way social anthropology deals with those issues.
Estructura de la industria pyme en Florencio Varela [Small-Sized Company Structure in Florencio Varela] Germán Dabat Néstor Le Clech isbn 978-987-558-107-4 2007 | 120 p. | 200 g $ 15 | usd 4
This book intends to make a contribution to university students’ education regarding territory’s impact on productive and business competitiveness. Through a case study of small-sized companies based on the city of Florencio Varela, the authors seek to provide some tools that may help identify the elements to design a development strategy in different territories. This publication results from a research project conducted by a unq team in an attempt to offer strategic information to technical departments at the City’s Institute for the Local Economy (Instituto Económico Local).
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Cartografías de la voz en el teatro contemporáneo El caso de Buenos Aires a fines del siglo xx [The Use of Voice in Contemporary Drama: A Roadmap. A Case Study of Theater Plays in Buenos Aires in the Late 20th Century] Silvia Davini isbn 978-987-558-127-2 2007 | 264 p. | 380 g $ 32 | usd 8,54
The purpose of this book is to expand the horizons for consideration of stage voice and speech. Implementing this project has involved greatly modulating concepts and approaches regarding the performing body, which has been conceived of as the main scenario for vocality and its origin, a major territory for this roadmap to drama and performer training. The author explores Western vocal styles and their connection with power relations and technology development, while she addresses some prevailing notions in contemporary drama, and she discusses the opinions of highly influential artists and scholars on late 20th Century drama. These contributions are combined with some present trends of thought in an attempt to ask new questions and shed some different light on old ones.
Keynes, poskeynesianos y keynesianos neoclásicos Apuntes de economía política [Keynes, Post Keynesians, and Neoclassic Keynesians. Some Notes on Political Economics] Rolando Astarita
Doce cuentos para leer en el tranvía
Politicidad, comunicación y territorios
Una antología de La Novela Semanal
Miradas desde América Latina
[Twelve Stories to Be Read on the Tram. An Anthology from La Novela Semanal]
[Politicalness, Communication, and Territories. Latin American Perspectives]
Preliminary study and selection by
Alfredo Alfonso Magalí Catino (eds.)
Margarita Pierini
isbn 978-987-558-185-2 2009 | 168 p. | 220 g $ 45 | usd 12,01
isbn 978-987-558-137-1 2008, 1st edition | 2009, 1st reprint 272 p. | 400 g $ 39 | usd 10,41
isbn 978-987-558-171-5 2009 | 328 p. | 460 g $ 55 | usd 14,68
This book provides an introduction to both John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and Post Keynesian thought, while it offers an in-depth analysis of major differences between Keynesianism and Marxist theory. It also discusses current interpretation of Keynes’ ideas as shown in handbooks and undergraduate courses on macroeconomics.
This book gathers 12 short stories which have been carefully selected from over 500 small pocket-sized volumes that comprised a popular fiction series called La Novela Semanal, published in Buenos Aires from 1917 to 1927. The selected stories reveal a wide array of issues and genres, such as immigration, life in Patagonian lands, science fiction narrative, historical novel, and romance fiction.
Curious readers may walk into these pages uninvited if they intend to rethink our times through their density, their paths and narratives. New readings are suggested on the basis of cultural patterns, openly introducing different issues, crossings, redefinitions, and points of contact. Thus, readers will be left without chronologies, logics, or safety nets, facing an appealing night map of questions. This is the road we have chosen to introduce some critical reflections on politicalness and communication in Latin America’s symbolic territories.
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Desarrollo y gestión de destinos turísticos
Economía política de la dependencia y el subdesarrollo
Políticas y estrategias
Tipo de cambio y renta agraria en la Argentina
[Tourism Development and Management. Policies and Strategies] Noemí Wallingre Alejandro Villar (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-186-9 2009, 1st edition | 2011, 1st reprint 320 p. | 420 g $ 65 | usd 17,35
This book seeks to introduce new approaches on tourism development and management, and it will appeal to students and tourism managers alike. The authors present some ideas that may enable professionals to develop new tourist spots and attractions, and to effectively manage existing sites. Focusing on regional and local areas, this volume discusses theoretical and practical issues that range from strategy development to applications for specific tools. In addition, the authors address development opportunities, political definitions, economic and territorial dynamics, and strategy creation. Examples include strategic definitions, projects, products, public policy management, project stages, local administration, and urban quality planning and management.
[The Political Economics of Dependence and Underdevelopment. Currency Exchange Rates and Agricultural Income in Argentina] Rolando Astarita isbn 978-987-558-202-6 2010 | 312 p. | 440 g $ 62 | usd 16,55
The theory of dependence has become a major intellectual and political movement in the last five decades. Its basic categories and principles remain alive in a high number of critical essays nowadays. However, there is widespread consensus on the fact that dependence thought has entered an “impasse”. This book comprises three sections. Section number one discusses theoretical issues, focusing mainly on writings by Ruy Mauro Marini and Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Section number two addresses the connection between currency exchange rates and underdeveloped economies. And section number three analyzes agricultural income on the basis of Argentina’s soy and grain industries.
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otras colecciones [OTHER SERIES] ADMINISTRACIÓN Y ECONOMÍA [BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION & ECONOMICS SERIES] Edited by Fernando Porta
¿Qué fue del buen samaritano? Naciones ricas, políticas pobres Original title: Bad Samaritans Ha-Joon Chang Translated into Spanish by Jordi Vidal Published jointly by unq-AEDA ISBN 978-987-558-179-1 | 2009 | 296 p. | paperback | 15 x 21.5 cm | 420 g $ 70 | usd 18,69
In this book, renowned Korean economist Ha-Joon Chang explains how some institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization, governed by the world’s wealthiest countries, are actually being “bad samaritans”, dictating a route of neoliberalism and liberalization to the world’s poorer nations, while in fact those powerful nations themselves have reached economic success and development on the basis of protectionist strategies and mixed-economy theories. How can these bad samaritans be discouraged from inflicting this kind of harm on poorer nations, whatever their intentions? What else should they do? This rigorous, cogent, accessible study provides some answers through a combination of history, current world analysis, some forecasts, and suggestions for change.
COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA [COMMUNICATION & CULTURE SERIES] Edited by Nicolás Casullo (1944-2008)
La investigación periodística en la Argentina [Journalistic Research in Argentina] Martín Becerra and Alfredo Alfonso (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-113-5 | 2007 | 200 p. | paperback | 15 x 20 cm | 280 g $ 25 | usd 6,67
This book seeks to introduce some reflections on research methods and practices in Argentine journalism. It spawns from a seminar where several renowned journalists and journalism professors, such as Eduardo Anguita, Miguel Bonasso, Miriam Lewin, Daniel Santoro, María Seoane, Susana Viau, Germán Rodríguez, and Martín Becerra, presented their views on the issue. The aim of this volume is to contribute to further insight into the journalistic field in Argentina from a research perspective.
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PUBLICACIONES ELECTRÓNICAS [ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS] Serie Digital [DIGITAL SERIES] A series edited by Mariano Belaich and Margarita Pierini unq’s Digital Series publications are based on the idea that Internet tools provide higher availability of and easier access to academic and scientific material. Thus, unq has managed to take advantage of its e-Learning programs to make the results of academic and scientific research conducted by teachers, researchers, and senior students from its Departments available to the international community. At the same time, this series intends to provide university students with a forum where they can begin their own academic production, complying with the standards that have been established by the publishing industry for different disciplines and areas of knowledge.
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Digital Series 1. Science & Technology
Digital Series 5. Science & Technology
Promoviendo la transferencia de conocimientos a la sociedad. Premio Río Universitario / unq 2003 [Promoting Knowledge Transfer. Río University/ unq Awards 2003] Alberto Díaz (Project Director)
Leis et investigare. La bioquímica del estudiante [Student Biochemistry] Sandra Goñi, Mario Lozano (Project Coordinators)
ISBN 978-987-558-225-5
Digital Series 6. Social Science
Digital Series 2. Social Science
La hora del Juicio. Mansilla, Quiroga, Arlt, Di Benedetto, cuatro escritores argentinos ante la prensa de su época [Judgement Day: Mansilla, Quiroga, Arlt, Benedetto. Four Argentine Writers Facing their Contemporary Press] Margarita Pierini (Project Coordinator) ISBN 978-987-558-226-2 Digital Series 3. Science & Technology
Programa de Becas para Jóvenes Destacados del Polimodal. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / Fundación Antorchas [unq/Antorchas Foundation Grant Program for Outstanding High School Students] Volume I Florencia Mabel Rembado (Project Coordinator) ISBN 978-987-558-227-9 Digital Series 4. Social Science
Programa de Becas para Jóvenes Destacados del Polimodal. Universidad Nacional de Quilmes / Fundación Antorchas [unq/Antorchas Foundation Grant Program for Outstanding High School Students] Volume II Margarita Pierini (Project Coordinator) ISBN 978-987-558-228-6 72 | publicaciones electrónicas
ISBN 978-987-558-229-3
Tres miradas en torno a infancia y sociedad. Seminarios de investigación en Ciencias Sociales [Three Outlooks on Childhood and Society. Research Seminars on Social Science] Patricia Festini (Project Coordinator) ISBN 978-987-558-231-6 Digital Series 7. Science and Technology
Reseñas en Ingeniería Genética [Reviews on Genetic Engineering] Marcela Gabriela Pilloff, María Laura Migliori, Pablo Daniel Ghiringhelli (Project Coordinators) ISBN 978-987-558-233-0 Digital Series 8. Science & Technology
Déjala correr… Entrevistas, informes y relatos acerca del agua y sus implicancias [Let it Run… Interviews, Reports, and Stories on Water and its Implications] Bruno De Angelis (Project Coordinator) ISBN 978-987-558-230-9 Digital Series 9. Social Science
Recrear las representaciones sociales. Apuntes de evaluación [Recreating Social Representations. Evaluation Notes] María Cristina Chardon (Project Coordinator) ISBN 978-987-558-232-3
Publicaciones periódicas [JOURNALS] Prismas Revista de historia intelectual [Intellectual History Journal] issn 1666-1508 Nº 1 al 10: $ 15 | usd 4 Nº 11: $ 22 | usd 5,87 Nº 12–14: $ 40 | usd 10,68 Paperback | 17.5 x 25.5 cm
Even though there are many approaches to intellectual history, historical analysis seems to have begun focusing again on meanings (ideas, frames of mind, cultural artifacts, etcetera). That is the reason why the field of study we have come to know as “history of ideas” has regained interest at the international academic level. unq’s project for development of intellectual history studies has found expression through Prismas journal.
redes Revista de estudios sociales de la ciencia [Journal of Social Studies in Science] issn 0328-3186 Nº 1–26: $ 5 | usd 4 Nº 27–31: $ 20 | usd 5,34 Paperback | 15.5 x 23 cm redes is a science and technology publication that focuses on the social, political, historical, cultural, ideological, economic, and ethical dimensions of the issue. It seeks to offer some room for research, debate, and reflection on processes associated with scientific and technological knowledge production, use, and management, both today and in the past. redes has a strong Latin American background, and it appeals to decision-makers, intellectuals, researchers, and general readers who might be interested in the rich, complex relations among science, technology, and society.
Revista de Ciencias Sociales Segunda época [Social Sciences Journal. Second Series] issn 0328-2643 Nº 1–15: $ 10 | usd 2,67 Nº 16–19: $ 45 | usd 12,01 Paperback | 17 x 26 cm
This journal was created by unq in 1994 in an attempt to promote scientific academic production in social science, on topics from anthropology, sociology, political science, and economics. For a whole decade, under editor Ernesto López, fifteen consecutive issues were published. Now the journal’s second series, edited by Carlos Hugo Fidel, has sought to preserve the same purpose as the first one, i.e., to introduce a comprehensive discussion on current issues in social science, holding an interdisciplinary perspective that fosters critical thinking through healthy debate and confrontation among different approaches and positions for the sake of social science development.
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ediciones especiales [SPECIAL EDITIONS] Intérpretes e interpretaciones de la Argentina en el bicentenario [Interpreters and Interpretations of Argentina in its Bicentennial Year] Gustavo E. Lugones | Jorge Flores (eds.) Illustrations by Nora Iniesta isbn 978-987-558-199-9 2010 | 276 p. | illus.| 1.060 g| hardcover | 23 x 23 cm $ 120 | usd 32,04
The articles by unq’s scholars, researchers, and professors that have been gathered in this volume represent institutional production in a public university, while they provide different readings on Argentina’s Bicentennial from historical, sociological, political, economic, pedagogic, and epistemological points of view, that is to say, from the perspective of social practices as expressed in the academic realm. The essays that make up this book are meshed with these concepts on the basis of the great variety of existing issues and outlooks about this 200-year period. This narrative revolves around three major subjects: “A citizenship under construction”, “Tools for democracy”, and “A country in the making”. Authors: Alfredo Alfonso, Javier Araujo, Dora Barrancos, Martín Becerra, María Bjerg, Roque Dabat, Carlos Fidel, Jorge Flores, Sabina Frederic, Noemí M. Girbal-Blacha, Adrián Gorelik, Bernardo Kosacoff, Pablo Kreimer, Ernesto López, Margarita Pierini, Fernando Porta, María Sonderéguer, Ernesto Villanueva, and Alejandro Villar
Poesía argentina Selección del Instituto Torcuato Di Tella [Argentine Poetry. A Selection by Instituto Torcuato Di Tella] Introduction by Jorge Flores Preface to this edition by Rodolfo Alonso Preface by Enrique Oteiza A new edition of the anthology published in 1963 by Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, including poems by Raúl Gustavo Aguirre, Rodolfo Alonso, Edgar Bayley, Alberto Girri, Julio Llinás, Francisco Madariaga, Enrique Molina, H. A. Murena, Olga Orozco, and Aldo Pellegrini. isbn 978-987-558-201-9 2010 | 368 p. | 540 g| paperback | 23 x 15 cm $ 70 | usd 18,69
In 1963, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella published this selection of poems by ten contemporary Argentine writers, namely: Raúl Gustavo Aguirre, Rodolfo Alonso, Edgar Bayley, Alberto Girri, Julio Llinás, Francisco Madariaga, Enrique Molina, H. A. Murena, Olga Orozco, and Aldo Pellegrini. This new edition by unq intends to rescue a piece of work that has condensed in its contents and context an unprecedented aesthetic experience in a scenario of shocking transformations, such as Argentina in the 1960s. 74 | ediciones especiales
Libros de arte [ART BOOKS] Hermenegildo Sábat Hermenegildo Sábat is an Uruguayan-Argentine visual artist, illustrator, poet, journalist, teacher, and music lover who has worked for such renowned publications as Primera Plana, La Opinión, and Crisis. Since 1973, he has had a running commission with Clarín, a popular newspaper where he illustrates a daily political column. For some years now, unq has been publishing part of his invaluable work.
Siguen las firmas Inventario apócrifo de falsedades, mentiras y algunas certidumbres [Signatures Follow. Apocryphal Inventory of Fabrications, Lies, and Some Certainties] Hermenegildo Sábat Published jointly by unq | Fondo de Cultura Económica (Arg.) isbn 987-558-061-9 2006 | 96 p. | collor illus. | 580 g | paperback | 23 x 30 cm $ 64 | usd 17,09 (Distributed and commercialized by fce)
Que no se entere piazzolla Contribución a la iconografía apócrifa del gran músico [Don’t Let Piazzola Know. Contributions to an Apocryphal Iconography of a Great Musician] Hermenegildo Sábat Published jointly by unq | Fondo de Cultura Económica (Arg.) isbn 978-987-558-141-8 2008 | 48 p. | color illus. | 560 g | paperback | 23 x 30 cm $ 70 | usd 18,69 (Distributed and commercialized by fce)
This book is a visual rendering of Argentine tango bandoneonist and composer Astor Piazzola’s life and work. It includes 41 illustrations covering his birth in the coastal city of Mar del Plata, his childhood in New York, and his following years through his final concert in Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires’ renowned opera house. This volume also contains some apocryphal testimonies that complete Uruguayan caricaturist Hermenegildo Sábat’s illustrations. Awards:
21° Concurso “Los libros mejor impresos y editados en la Argentina 2008” de la Cámara Argentina de Publicaciones Argentine Chamber of Publications’ 21st Contest for the Best-Published Books in Argentina, 2008]: • First place in General Books • First place in Paperback Art, Design, Architecture, and Photography Books.
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Pesimista militante Una interpretación gráfica de Juan Carlos Onetti [A Pessimistic Activist. A Visual Interpretation of Juan Carlos Onetti] Hermenegildo Sábat Published jointly by unq | Fondo de Cultura Económica | Universidad de la República isbn 978-987-558-189-0 2009 | 48 p. | color illus. | 320 g | paperback | 23 x 30 cm $ 70 | usd 18,69 (Distributed and commercialized by fce)
This book includes 22 pictures and caricatures by Hermenegildo Sábat on Uruguayan writer and Cervantes prize-winner Juan Carlos Onetti. It has been published as a commemorative edition on the 100th anniversary of his death.
Imágenes latentes [Latent Pictures] Hermenegildo Sábat isbn 987-9173-51-1 2001 | 98 p. | illus. | 1.060 g | hardcover | 27 x 27 cm $ 48 | usd 12,82
Dos dedos Una interpretación gráfica de Django Reinhardt [Two Fingers. A Visual Interpretation of Django Reinhardt] Hermenegildo Sábat isbn 987-558-037-6 2004 | 48 p. | color illus. |530 g | paperback | 25 x 25 cm $ 40 | usd 10,68
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El pájaro murió de risa Una interpretación gráfica de Charlie Parker [A Bird that Laughed to Death. A Visual Interpretation of Charlie Parker] Hermenegildo Sábat isbn 978-987-558-132-6 2007 | 48 p. | color illus. | 310 g | paperback | 23 x 30 cm $ 40 | usd 10,68
This book contains a graphic rendering of jazz musician Charlie Parker’s life and work, including illustrations and brief narratives. The author’s paintings and watercolors create a visual ride through this saxophonist’s career.
Anónimo transparente Una interpretación gráfica de Fernando Pessoa [Transparent and Anonymous. A Visual Interpretation of Fernando Pessoa] Hermenegildo Sábat isbn 978-987-558-109-8 2007 | 48 p. | collor illus. | 360 g | paperback | 23 x 30 cm $ 50 | usd 13,35
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Noé Jitrik One of Argentina’s foremost literary critics, his writings are peaceful, shy, and ironic, while they also catch the eye of the reader.
Luis Felipe Noé One of Argentina’s greatest 20th-Century visual artists, his paintings are violent, overwhelming, caustic, while they overflow their canvass and disturb the eye of the beholder.
En el nombre de Noé [In the Name of Noé] Noé Jitrik Luis Felipe Noé isbn 978-987-558-166-1 2009 | 88 p. | color illus. | 530 g | paperback | 26 x 26 cm $ 100 | usd 26,70
The texts and illustrations comprised in this book are the result of a friendly, random fact: Noé Jitrik and Luis Felipe Noé share three letters, which at the same time joins them and makes them different (as in the former they make up a first name, and in the latter, a last name). When they realized that fact, it led them to a new venture: Noé Jitrik would write something inspired in that name, while Luis Felipe Noé would in turn paint a series inspired by those writings. The result was an exhibition, which later turned into a book gathering their imaginations, a book that can be read and observed, a book that expresses both the original idea and the authors’ creative, delirious freedom. Awards:
22° Concurso “Los libros mejor impresos y editados en la Argentina 2009” de la Cámara Argentina de Publicaciones [Argentine Chamber of Publications’ 22nd Contest for the Best-Published Books in Argentina, 2009]: • First place in Paperback Art, Design, Architecture, and Photography Books.
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Jornadas académicas [ACADEMIC CONFERENCES] Paperback | 12 x 20 cm
Tradición y renovación en las ciencias sociales y humanas Acerca de los problemas del Estado, la sociedad y la economía [Tradition and Renovation in Social Science and Humanities. On State, Society, and Economy] Noemí Girbal-Blacha (ed.) isbn 987-558-029-5 | 2004 | 184 p. | 200 g $ 14 | usd 3, 74
This book gathers the papers presented at the academic conference on Tradition and Renovation in Social Science and Humanities, which was held at unq on November 4-5, 2003. Some of the authors that participated in the conference were Guillermo O’Donnell, Jacques Revel, Larry Laudan, Enrique Tándeter, and Oscar Terán.
El campo diverso Enfoques y perspectivas de la Argentina agraria del siglo xx [Diversity in the Agricultural Industry. Approaches and Perspectives on Agriculture in 20th-Century Argentina] Guido Galafassi (ed.) isbn 987-558-032-5 | 2004 | 364 p. | 380 g $ 19 | usd 5,07
This book gathers the experiences of a social science research team that has set out to study different features of the agricultural industry in 20th Century Argentina. The published papers were first presented and discussed in a conference held at unq in December, 2003, under the Priority Research Program on Continuity and Change in 20th Century Argentina.
Editorial de la unq: construcción y consolidación de un proyecto editorial en la universidad pública [unq Press: Construction and Consolidation of a Publishing Project at a Public University] isbn 978-987-558-194-4 | 2010 | 40 p. | 12 x 25 cm (For non-commercial use)
This publication includes contributions by Gustavo Lugones, Carlos Altamirano, Leandro de Sagastizábal, Patricia Piccolini, and Anna Mónica Aguilar, who participated in a round table held to celebrate the University’s 20th Anniversary on October 8, 2009.
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Ediciones en educación en entornos virtuales [Virtual Environment Education] La educación superior en entornos virtuales El caso del Programa Universidad Virtual de Quilmes [Higher Education in Virtual Environments. Quilmes Virtual University Program: A Case Study] Jorge Flores and Martín Becerra (eds.) isbn 987-558-057-0 | 2002, 1st edition | 2005, 2nd edition (updated) 330 p. | 420 g | paperback | 12 x 20 cm $ 25 | usd 6,67
This book is an updated edition of the case study on the early years of our virtual learning environment project, including comments and reflections by teachers, researchers, tutors, students, and directors who have participated in the Quilmes Virtual University Program, unq’s online academic campus.
Actas del I foro internacional de educación superior en entornos virtuales: “Perspectivas sobre la docencia y la investigación”, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, 3 y 4 de noviembre de 2005
[Proceedings of the First International Forum on Higher Education in Virtual Environments: “Perspectives in Teaching and Research”, unq, November 3-4, 2005] Sara Pérez and Adriana Imperatore (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-162-3 | 2008 | 392 p. | 400 g | paperback | 12 x 20 cm $ 15 | usd 4
This book gathers lectures, paper presentations, and discussions held at the First International Forum on Higher Education in Virtual Environments, a turning point in the development of the Quilmes Virtual University Program.
Comunicación y educación en entornos virtuales de aprendizaje Perspectivas teórico-metodológicas [Communication and Education in E-Learning Environments. Perspectives in Theory and Methodology] Sara Pérez and Adriana Imperatore (eds.) isbn 978-987-558-181-4 | 2009 | 512 p. | 580 g | paperback | 12 x 20 cm $ 35 | usd 9,34
This book results from a rich discussion and research process, but it also stems from our institutional and academic experience with the Quilmes Virtual University Program, which in 2009 celebrated 10 years of successful work at a public university committed to provide academic excellence in a plural, democratic environment, seeking to serve society through its education, research, and extension activities. 80 | jornadas académicas