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This book is an answer to teenagers’ morefrecuent questions about the issues that canconcern their physical and mental integrity:their health. At the same time it invites them to think about the responsibility of their own care, involving those who share with young people their road towards adulthood: parents and teachers.

254 pages

I TAKE CARE OF MYSELF… ALONE? HEALTH AND PREVENTION IN THE ADOLESCENCE

Liliana Elizabet Mosso / María Marta Penjerek

CHILDHOOD CHRONICLESREFLECTIONS ON CULTURES AND EXPERIENCES OF CHILDREN IN THE WORLD

Héctor Barreiro

Childhood Chronicles is a research work based on journalistic � le sources that for over twenty years have been collected. This research is about the practices and experiences involving children in the world.

“When we talk about human rights, we refer to the rights of people and this means right to a digni� ed life. For this we need strength, endurance in hope; to resist in hope.”

From the prolog of Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

168 pages

THE ANCIENT WORDORAL TRADITION STORIES IN SCHOOL CONTEXT

Gabriela Álvarez

With the aim of discovering new observables on the stories of oral tradition and the problematic of their decontextualization and re-signi� cation, a case study was conducted in two linguistic areas of indigenous communities in Mexico. This was to capture the vision that the people had on the speeches that are part of a tradition named by them as the ‘ancient word’, or the word of their ancestors. This word, throughout the years has become part of our own tradition as popular and folk knowledge and has today emerged as tales, legends and myths.

144 pages

ALEJANDRO HEREDIA, CAUDILLO & LAWYER

Alejandro Heredia

MARIANO MORENO, OPPRESSION TIMES

Antonio Elio Brailovsky NEW RELEASE

Alejandro Heredia, relative and namesake of the governor of Tucumán, argues that “History is made by the victors; something that Argentinians have been able to learn better than any other people. Moreover, one might add that is read by the vanquished”. In this work, the author seeks to explain who the caudillos were, and to see what role the General Heredia played in Argentinian history. His aim is to reveal the personality of a General of the Independence. As a founder of towns and schools; author of laws and regulations at the forefront of those times justice: Alejandro Heredia was one of the best men our history gave us.

In the summer of 1802, a law student of Chuquisaca visits the hill of Potosi. That young man is no other than Mariano Moreno who, by this time, experiences his process of intellectual and spiritual formation. During the trip, many partners tell him stories and, while listening, he discovers the reality of local people: the policy of the Spanish crown to the natives and slaves; the amount of blood and tears shed for coining the silver. Mariano Moreno realizes that under oppression, men lose their voice and hope, their material goods and perhaps their lives.

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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY 1700-2005 SOCIETIES, CULTURES, POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROCESSES

Marisa Gallego, / Teresa Eggers-Brass / María Fernanda Gil Lozano

What means to be Latin American? We provide, by way of response, an account of the changes that affect this continent, its cultural aspects and thought, and we introduce the historiographical discussion. To avoid being asum of names and facts, we don’t tell the story of each country in a diachronic way. On the other hand, we deal with common problems of the region: national organizations in the nineteenth century, the dependence on GreatBritain or the United States, revolution, populism, guerrilla’s organizations, dictatorships, peasant movements and new democracies.

520 pages

ARGENTINE HISTORY: A CRITICAL LOOK (1806-2006)

Teresa Eggers-Brass

All history is written from a particular point of view. To introduce ourselves in an analysis to better understand argentine history, we have synthesized the prevailing historical tendencies, both universal and argentine.Trying to interpret the complex history of this country, which is rich but has many contradictions, this book helps the reader to become acquainted with the developement of the last two hundred years: its political, social and economic history, its ideas and culture, together with texts written by historians of different tendencies, documents of the time and a summary of the international situation.

766 pages

TEN YEARS OF REVOLUTION IN VENEZUELA HISTORY, EVALUATION AND PROSPECTS (1999-2009)Mario Ayala / Pablo Quintero (comps.)

The discussion around the nature of the political process in Venezuela and the importance and appreciation of the politics of the Boliviarian government have not ceased since Hugo Chávez became president. It has become a permanent � eld of controversy in the international public opinion whose comments usually copes between the hope of Latin-American liberation and the evil danger of populism. Diez años de revolución en Venezuela. Historia, balance y perspectivas (1999 - 2009)gathers texts of authors who have a wide experience in social investigation about Venezuela, who have analyzed its economic, ideological and social-political points of view. The central aim of the compilation is to contribute to the global comprehension of the Bolivarian process and to deepen practices in analysis, investigation and teaching.

382 pages

THE PERONIST PROPAGANDA (1943-1955)

Guillermo E. D’Arino Aringoli

Why, after 60 years of been born, is a politicalmovement still in the power? How to explain itwithout considering the use of the propagandaas a basic element in the construction andpermanence of a model? With the arrival to thepower, Perón will have the whole potential of theState to structure an unavoidable propagandato reach every citizen of the epoch, in orderto create - with the valuable help of Evita - theauthentic Peronist reality. This text analyzesthe stages, procedures and resources of thepropaganda as a phenomenon of the massivecommunication, and studies this mechanismof psychological manipulation in a historicalconcrete case and in a certain society

ERIC HOBSBAWM AND THE CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL HISTORY

Marisa Gallego

Eric Hobsbawm combines, as no other historian, the ability to be at the same time a protagonist, witness and interpreter of the wonderful and tormented twentieth century. The historian Marisa Gallego offers us in her work a tour through the life and work of this brilliant British historian. This tour is brought to life by a careful and profound analysis of the contributions and perspectives that make the work of Hobsbawm, an essential material for understanding the contemporary world.

112 pages

476 pages

Symbols of Buenos Aires covers much more than the simple reference to the architectural and urban legacy of this city. It is an observation about its unique cultural patrimony of works -and their makers - during the studied period (1503-1943). Moreover, they are products that clearly show its ideological reasons. Furthermore, their message explains an economic model and also a de� nite intention of propaganda because a city is always a political act.

SYMBOLS OF BUENOS AIRES THE EMBLEMATIC CONSTRUCTION

Guillermo D´Arino Aringoli

368 pages

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ORAL HISTORY, TALES AND MEMORIES

Laura Benadiba

The transmission of the past is the key tounderstand the present, and above all, toappreciate it from an active and critical attitude.The book offers the chance to work in theclassroom with the recollection and memoryof common persons (people),who, throughstatements, begin to recognize “their” ownplace in the history.Oral History not only allows giving responseto the problems that derive from the absenceof written sources referred to a certain periodor a certain subject, but in addition to this itallows, at the same time, to initiate new tasksof investigation from a new vision of the events.

144 pages

SOUNDS AND SILENCESIN THE FORMATION OF THE MUSIC TEACHERS

Silvia M. Carabetta

The work that gathers the investigationrealized by the authoress in the area of themusic conservatoires, in which she puts inevidence unsuspected contradictions andlimitations in the preparation of the futureteachers.Sounds and silences it is a text that analyzes,from the contributions of the sociology, thepedagogy and the anthropology, the model offormation and the existing tension betweenacademic and general knowledge, and theimpact that this tension has on the professionalidentity of the music teacher.156 pages

CONSTRUCTIVISM IN HIGH SCHOOL A SYSTEMATIC APPLICATION EXPERIENCE

Mariela Morales

Piagetian constructivism is used in the classroom through a concrete experience carried out for eight years at the secondary level education. Actual Boys and girls and not laboratory subjects shows us how appropriate the knowledge. An epistemological assumption, the notion of structural axis, supports this proposal. The objective: the revaluation of knowledge as a way to generate ethics in the same learning process. It means, to generate conscious and responsible people, able to intervene creatively in the media that they will perform.

276 pages

SPACES AND PRACTICES IN THE ORAL HISTORY AN EXPERIENCE FROM THE COMMITMENT

Laura Benadiba

NOISES IN THE MUSIC EDUCATION

Silvia M. Carabetta

“This book testi� es the nature of the bottom of oral history as a practice of listening –a dialogic listening, critical, but listening at last- always from the word and another person’s subjectivity to transform ours and to contribute reasoning, writing, wondering to change even if it is just a little bit, but never leaving the widespread awareness of the society in which we live.”

Alessandro Portelli

128 páginas

Why if music joins us from birth, the music area in schools is shown as low-impact area, such as free time and as an often forgettable space? How music educators are formed in music conservatories? In this model of training, how is the tension of classical versus popular music built? What epistemological value gives one to the other? This book formulates questions that intend to allow thinking if there will be something in the training of teachers to hinder the fact that all boys, girls and children of all ages and of any social stratum they come from, can appropriate this knowledge, because it is their right and they deserve it.

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NANOTECHNOLOGY DISCOVERING THE INVISIBLE Ana María Andrada

Nanotechnology gives us the tools to experiment with the vastest toy box: atoms and molecules. Everything is made from there... The possibility of creating new things seems to be limitless (Störmer, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1998). From Nano machines and Nano materials to new products and applications, the entire fascinating Nano world is open to us in an easy-to-understand text. We enter the amazing properties of what is tiny, where the laws of classical physics no longer govern.

192 pages

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BARBARIAN INVASIONS IN THE CONTEMPORARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Fabio Nigra / Pablo Pozzi (comps.)

364 pages

We must build our knowledge about theUnited States from the questions generatedby our needs, be able to learn of the struggleof their people and understand theircontradictions.The compiled papers go from USA´s emergingimperialism in 1898 to Vietnam’s war. Mostof the papers were written by Argentineanresearchers but you can also � nd someAmerican authors, those that never “reach us”.Far from af� rming that this is the “untoldhistory” about the USA, this work sets thebase to begin to do “our own” history of thiscountry.

AN ECONOMIC HISTORY (UNCONFORMIST) OF THE UNITED STATES 1865-1980

Fabio Nigra

“The only way of been able to understand to the great imperial power is across a deep knowledge of its historical process, social structure and economic formations.Fabio Nigra is outlined for being one of the few ones who studies, investigates and knows the North American historical process. That turns this one into a book of indispensable reading to be able to elaborate regional policies at the present .” Pablo Pozzi

264 páginas

HOLLYWOODIDEOLOGY AND CONSENSUS IN THE HISTORY OF THEUNITED STATES

Fabio Nigra / Pablo Pozzi

One of the initial hypotheses of the book consists of the fact that the movies produced in Hollywood chase more than a commercial end: they transmit a message of strong ideological stamp. The movies seek in � rstterm to achieve a vision of domestic consensus to claim it later in the exterior.The analysis of certain speci� c � lms has theintention of understanding the form of production of a particular way of understanding the past and of developing an interpretation of the formulae appliedto construct their own history.

190 pages

THE DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATESFROM THE CRISIS OF 1979 TO THE MEGACRISIS OF 2009

Fabio Nigra / Pablo Pozzi

320 pages

LEO TAVELLA, an art workerARGENTINEAN SCULPTOR & CERAMIST

Vilma Villaverde

Leo Tavella is a complete artist, unlimited in an absolute artistic practice. On one hand this practice is a purely rational exercise. On the other, it is the poetic action which is also the expression of a feeling, the sensations made language. Furthermore, it is impossible to deny the charge of vitality and humanity that this artist possesses at the time of creating fragile events extracted from the contemplation of everyday life as a true artistic content. This is the artistic look of Leo Tavella, a gesture of elegance that is reenacted in a bright and wonderful world, showing the meaning of spirituality in his material world.

200 pages

For northamerican voters, the triumph of the “� rst black candidate” Barak Obama in the 2008 elections, was a signal that the worst of racial discrimination had been left behind, and rati� ed that the United States was “the land of the great promise”. For the majority of the world what it best showed was an extensive rejection to George W. Bush. As usual, everyone was mistaken. To try to understand this crisis in a global consideration it is necessary to comprehend the � uctuations of the internal and external policies of the imperial centre that becomes the United States and its incapacity to dominate the world through its economic power, which leads it to depend all the more in its military force.

CERAMIC ART IN ARGENTINA AN OVERVIEW OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Vilma Villaverde

With a pleasant prose that invites reading, Vilma Villaverde summarizes life and work of twenty � ve ceramists of considerable in� uence in Argentina in the past century.With warm interviews, Vilma rescues the human being behind the artists, their struggles, their sorrows, and the spirit that is put into their works without detracting from the exhausting effort of learning, arduous experimentation and the essential theoretical knowledge.

192 pages

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GREEN BONDSOUR RELATION WITH NATURE

Adriana Anzolín

320 pages

Albert Einstein used to say: “we are all ignorant,but we ignore different things”. A great truthwhen we talk about environment issues. To think about the complex relationship between human being and nature, the knowledge from all the different separate disciplines is not enough. Green Bonds pretends to be a bridge between those knowledges(informations), developing every aspect deeply, holisticaly, but with a very simple lenguage.

THIS, OUR ONLY EARTHAN INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT

Antonio Elio Brailovsky

232 pages

Each society, having a different social organization, interacts in a different way with Nature. This book, with great conceptual clarity, realizes a tour on the history of the relationship between human being and the environment, and it constitutes an invitation to think differently the above mentioned correspondence. This, our only Earth, inhabited by all living beings, is our Great House and therefore, we must take care of it.

NEIGHS AND WHISPERS

La autora (veterinaria, entrenadora y amazona), dedica este libro a todas aquellas personas que aman a los caballos y disfrutan cuando están con ellos. Permite al lector aprender a leer los signos y las señales que se vinculan con el mundo de los caballos, conocer su lenguaje silencioso, sus formas de comunicación y cómo es su vida social en determinadas circunstancias. La descripción de los distintos tipos de aprendizaje del caballo conduce hacia un camino de enseñanzas sin violencia, matizada con anécdotas, experiencias vividas y casos prácticos de atención y rehabilitación de caballos con di� cultades. 194 pages

The hand brushes the back, mane, face. The voice whispers in the ear, the horse moves his head stating. This image, which I always have in my mind, is like an endearing synthesis of tireless dedication, boundless perseverance and love with which Anahí Zlotnik works with these animals. Now, immersed in reading her book, From foals, a friendship for life, I am amazed again. She has even written to the smallest each word about her passion and transmits her experience in a very poetic, existential and scienti� c way.

(Carolina Menapace)

FROM FOALSA FRIENDSHIP FOR LIFE

Anahí Zlotnik

288 pages

ECOLOGY IN THE BIBLE AND IN ANOTHER RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

Antonio Elio Brailovsky

230 pages

“Like a Chinese box, this is a book about another book. There is a good reason to do so: the Bible is a foundational book, the cornerstone of our civilization, initiator and a reference to one way of thinking and feeling. Its in� uence over us goes far beyond a mere collection of beliefs. We do not ask to the biblical text which is the truth, the ultimate reality, unequivocal, of the world. What interests us is its historical way of approaching ecology. Every age and every social group has a particular relationship with nature; it is precisely about this historicity that interests us here to re� ect about. But that vision makes us wonder: how does it differ from other cultures? In which measure the ecosystems, inhabited by men, affect the characteristics of the Gods that they build? Or is the religious gaze only social and humans rebuilt atop the society they inhabit?Talk about the ecology in religious beliefs is another way of retaking the oldest topics of interest to mankind: our place in the world, the bond with the earth that feeds us; earth to which we will be back sometime.”

Antonio Elio Brailovsky

A STUDY ON THE RELATION AND COMMUNICATION WITH HORSES

Anahí Zlotnik

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MYTHS TO THINK ABOUTA START TO PHILOSOPHY

Marianela Arrobas / Gabriela Purita / Ignacio Testasecca

Philosophy, childhood, youth and mythology are intertwined in an enabling environment for the genuinely thoughtful and pedagogical task. The proposal aims to make readers rethink themselves from their own context and present from the identi� cation on archetypal themes that appear in the Greek, American and Celtic mythical stories. Thus, we see that philosophy can become a powerful development tool for both teachers and students, and also a cultural bridge that allows us to address the major issues of humanity: love, family and social relationships, responsibilities, talents, the search for wisdom and fairer social organizations, among others.

GREEK MYTHS AMERICAN MYTHS CELTIC MYTHS

96 pages 104 pages 100 pages

A pepperine porcupine lived in the lea� est tree of as forest. He was rather peculiar. He used to lose things from time to time…The story re� ects a problem of young children, the dif� cult task of caring for personal belongings, and analyses the importance of friendship and accepting others. Lost and Found is a book meant for kids up to 8 years old. It is an attempt to complement the need to expose children to certain linguistic structures, without sacri� cing the richness of the English language as well as the pleasure of reading or listening to a captivating story.

LOST AND FOUND

Verónica Hendel / María Laura Buceta Ilustraciones de Mariana Gabor

16 pages

CARDINAL NARRATIONSARGENTINEAN STORYTELLERS FROM THE SECOND HALF

OF THE 20th CENTURY

Selección, estudio preliminar y notas:María Alicia Vaccarini

‘Cardinal narrations, Argentinean storytellers from the second half of the twentieth century’ brings together the production of a very important group of Argentinean storytellers from across the country. The selection is not random. Although they tell different stories with very different styles in comparison, they exhibit a close-up unit, which are daily life topics: family con� icts, relationships between parents and children, the elderly, childhood, lust and love.“The story is a moment, is to catch a moment, usually a very decisive moment of life, critical; sometimes truculent.” (Angélica Gorodischer)

THE ARGENTINEAN FABLESTUDY AND ANTHOLOGY

Juan Carlos Dido

If this work brings something valuable to the reader, is the checking of the presence of fable writers in different historical periods and in different cultural movements in Argentina expressed since the dawn of independent living. By the authors and works included in this work, the Argentinean fable claims its literary space, because it has amply earned it. Furthermore, the history of literature should incorporate to each period a chapter or a section for the apologue, along to the reserved spaces for poetry, drama, novel or story.

100 pages 264 pages

“The New Kid” is a story in poems, inspired by the pursuit of American identity. The child protagonist, invited by the wind, in a magical � ight to America, reaches ten communities of his indigenous past looking for the New Kid. With his brothers, native american children, share games and songs, to recognize himself.The pedagogical objective points to the acceptance of differences and identity. Tries to be a song of fellowship, hope in the future of American children, proud of their origins.

THE NEW KID

Magda Bellizio Ilustraciones de Magdi Kelisek

48 pages