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      • ALTAIR

        Y LA LUZ DEL PODER "INSURRECCION"

        by LUIS SAAVEDRA

        Luego de meses, Altair y los habitantes de Ciudad Cúpula se encuentran en el Sawken Kreen después de haber huido del yugo al cual eran sometidos por el Orden Supremo, un gobierno totalitario que los mantenía aturdidos en una libertad controlada. Desde este nuevo lugar, donde la naturaleza ha comenzado su restablecimiento, Altair nos narra el inicio de la insurrección contra el Orden comenzada por Los Serpientes Blancas, un grupo de soldados sometidos inhumanamente a diversas pruebas genéticas con el fin de transformarlos en un grupo de élite. La Tierra ha comenzado a florecer en libertad.

      • Children's & YA
        2019

        ALTAIR

        "Y LA LUZ DEL PODER"

        by LUIS SAAVEDRA

        “En un futuro cercano, los últimos humanos sobreviven refugiándose en la Antártica. La ciudad fue sellada con fuertes vidrios y metales para mantenerla libre de cualquier peligro, pero en estos momentos, los recursos han comenzado a escasear. Altair, un joven que está a punto de cumplir la mayoría de edad, se ve enfrentado a grandes desafíos: descubrir el origen de sus extrañas capacidades, luchar por la libertad, y encontrar el camino hacia la restauración natural del planeta en un lugar llamado Sawken Kreen”“Altair y la luz del poder” es una Novela Gráfica infantil de ciencia ficción y fantasía para niños jóvenes lectores que toma la mitología de los Selknam y la Patagonia para presentarla de una forma entretenida y dinámica a través del dibujo, Cómic digital y un juego promocional para smart phones.

      • 2019

        SELK'NAM

        GENOCIDIO Y RESISTENCIA

        by JOSÉ LUIS ALONSO MERCHAN

        On a trip to Argentina, the author learned the fascinating but violent history of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. Among all the legendary Selk'nam people emerge, whose history sinks in the dawn of time. in the late 19th century the Selk'nam suffered the violent impact of colonization. In this specific case, it took on the characteristics of a terrible genocide suffered by men, women and children, when the large cattle ranchers invaded their lands with thousands and thousands of sheep. Now, at present, the Selk'nam people are carrying out a historical process of social and cultural mobilization, which corresponds to a growing role of indigenous communities, both in Chilean and Argentine society. We must banish once and for all the words extinction, extermination or disappearance from our language and instead demand that the authorities respect the rights of native peoples, their territories, their customs and their language. The Selk'nam exist and are alive.

      • April 2018

        Lectores, editores y cultura impresa en Colombia: siglos XVI- XXI

        by Editores académicos • Diana Paola Guzmán Méndez Paula Andrea Marín Colorado • Juan David Murillo Sandoval Miguel Ángel Pineda Cupa.

        El lector conocerá sobre la circulación de libros entre los siglos XVI y XVII; el dinamismo del mundo impreso durante el siglo XIX y el papel del Estado en ese periodo; la modernización y especialización de los oficios y la formación de comunidades lectoras; así como la edición “independiente” y digital, y la venta de derechos de autores de literatura colombianos en el extranjero.

      • May 2020

        Diseño latinoamericano: diez miradas a una historia en construcción

        by Marina Garone Gravier; Dina Comisarenco Mirkin; Juan Camilo Buitrago-Trujillo; Marisol Orozco-Álvarez; Alberto Sato; Ana Utsch; Bruno Guimarães Martins; Marcos da Costa Braga; Verónica Devalle; Horacio Caride Bartrons; Alejo García de la Carcova; Pedro Álvarez Caselli; Alejandra Neira Román.

        Este libro ha querido poner de relieve el cruce de caminos en la historia del diseño en Latinoamérica e interrogar ese lugar pleno de diversidades. Como resultado de un proceso consciente, se ofrecen diez ensayos escritos por autores provenientes de las instituciones universitarias más destacadas de la región que abordan, en primera instancia, la historiografía del diseño —en un sentido amplio— en México, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Brasil y Argentina.

      • Picture books, activity books & early learning material
        January 2021

        TOLINGA, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LOCOMOTIVE

        by Text: Juan Francisco Bascuñán / Illustrations: Carolina Monterrubio / Music: Marta Mearin

        Tolinga, a cheerful locomotive, travelled around the country transporting people and food. However one day she was unable to continue traveling, because the authorities decided to remove the rail lines, due to the arrival of buses and planes as a means of transportation. The inhabitants protested so as to save Tolinga from destruction and managed to extend its useful life as part of a museum in the city. In it Tolinga continues to transport people, but now through far away imaginary places. The final part of the book explains in simple terms the phenomenon of global warming and climate change. This book is an invitation to the youngest to act in a responsible manner, contributing to the path towards sustainability from early childhood.

      • Fantasy

        The spirit of water

        by Rafael Rubio

        The river that watered the vegetable fields has dried up, only stones are left. But the committed vegetables do not let themselves be beaten: they pull up their roots and leave in a procession in search of water. They climb hills, cross stony fields, avoid a hungry rabbit; finally they hear the voice of water and run happily to meet it... But it was not the water that spoke, but its spirit, which shows them the way to reach it. We are facing a global water crisis, which affects both wildlife and humans, including the very basis of our livelihood: everything we eat requires water. This book can help raise awareness of these issues among children, which is essential if we as, humanity, are to make the changes necessary to address this crisis. The path marked out by the spirit of water is ultimately the one that each of us must seek in our own hearts.

      • Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

        Juana and Gabriela. Silhouette of Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz

        by Gabriela Mistral

        Three centuries separate Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz and Gabriela Mistral,the two greatest poets of the Spanish language, according to Octavio Paz.But so much more unites them, building bridges through time to allowtheir meeting: the brilliant intellect, the love of nature, the writing , thededication to others, the critical look at the position of women in societyand lack of recognition of their intellectual capacity. Gabriela tells us, inthese writings published almost a century ago on her first trip to Mexico,about Juana’s life from her childhood near the Mexican volcanoes, untilher death by infection when taking care of the sick in the convent. Indescribing Juana’s profile, Gabriela puts herself in front of a mirror andallows us as readers to have a view into her own way of seeing the world.This is how Juana and Gabriela, two tremendously inspiring women, findthemselves together beyond time.

      • Children's & YA

        UMA AND THE WATER OF THE SEA

        Story based in an ancient Aymara ritual

        by Colomba Elton

        Uma is an Aymara girl who lives in the high Andean zone and dreams of seeing the sea. This becomes a reality thanks to the imperative need of her community: to obtain sea water for a ritual that allows the rains to return to her village. This story allows us to understand how some people from South America, whose ancestors occupied the territory long before the current borders were established, live. It shows how some communities have a close relationship with their geography and the cycles of nature, and thank through offerings to the Pachamama or Mother Earth. This helps us to remember that we all depend on nature, but we have moved away from it. The story also speaks to us of austerity, of a simple life, in the midst of an era of extreme consumerism; a simple life, but, precisely because of this, valuable and full of meaning.

      • Children's & YA

        Animal Emotionary

        For boys and girls in times of crisis

        by Paloma González and Juan Francisco Bascuñán

        What do two laughing chimps, an embarrassed puppy, an envious cat and two monkeys that hug each other with gratitude, have in common? They all show us emotions, those that are present throughout our lives, but that we don’t always know how to recognize. This book seeks to introduce children to this mysterious world, with photographs of animals that usually arouse their interest, accompanied by short texts that can help them recognize the emotions they feel and understand in what kind of situations this happens. Recognizing their own emotions will help them to know themselves better and also those around them. At the end of the book, the emotions addressed in it are briefly explained, so that adults can better accompany children in the discovery of their emotions, in “normal” times, but especially in times of crisis.

      • Myth & legend told as fiction
        October 2018

        On Homer and Other Gods

        by Irene Reyes-Noguerol

        In the remote past, the poets sang about love, war, loneliness, melancholy and oblivion, and Homeric poems were not an exception. Going back to this tradition, these tales talk about Hera’s jealousy, the wrath of Achilles, the pain of the Trojan women, the death of Hector, Hermes’ travels and Penelope’s long wait with a delicate and brilliant style. The myths are not re-written, but brought to the present with characters that could live in any urban space of our century.

      • Children's & YA

        The House of Dragons

        by Pablo C. Reyna, Mónica Armiño

        Marcos is obsessed with the book series "Dragon Races". However, he can't find the final installment of the series anywhere. For some unknown reason, the author J. T. Lekunberri hasn't published the book. The boy will have to go in search of the writer in order to find out why he stopped writing and help him to pick up the story where he left off. An exciting story in which the limits of reality and fantasy become intertwined and give way to a friendship between a writer and a reader that will go beyond the pages of the books that bind them.   A novel that mixes adventures and fantasy with more deep and delicate topics, such as depression.

      • July 2019

        Gestión por procesos y riesgo operacional

        by José Manuel Pardo Álvarez

        All organizations are involved in processes, for which in depth knowledge is essential to try to improve, be effective and gain in competitiveness. This book helps organizations in operational risk management and guides us towards continuous improvement, for our business and also our customers. In the undertaking of these processes, incidents arise that, by implementing certain tools and techniques, we can easily solve.

      • Fiction
        October 2021

        Borges in Stockholm

        A fiction that dismantles the bad habits of postmodernity.

        by Sonia Dalton

        Winning the Nobel Prize for Literature is the ambition of any self-respecting writer. Especially when he risks the glory of being the first to receive it in his country. After appearing in the favorites lists for several years, it seems that César Aira's time has come to enjoy that moment and that condition.   This fiction narrates the vicissitudes of the writer's journey from Buenos Aires to Stockholm, his dreamy stay in the Nordic city and his return to an Argentina where he is not expected. In the end, the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature seems to have been awarded to the Eldense writer, with a Galician pedigree, Cesárea Areas.   Through an extensive play on words, this parody tries to dismantle the remnants of postmodernity still in force in the literary and academic worlds. The key is humor, which, in order to be so, cannot fail to be corrosive. Also tenderness, because beneath the greatest ambitions the most insignificant motivations are usually to be found.   It will please whoever manages to laugh, without guilt (or with it), at the most deeply rooted vices on the altars of culture and at the most recalcitrant social stereotypes. In short, whoever wants to take a walk through the nonsense, lift the cobblestones of postmodernity and peek at whatever may be underneath. A new normal?

      • Fiction

        Cabaret Biarritz

        by José C. Vales

        NADAL PRIZE 2015 -   In the summer of 1925, the residents of Biarritz were shocked by a tragic event. The body of a young girl appeared dangling with a foot caught in one of the iron rings used for securing boats in the port. In 1938, the young, passionate writer Georges Miet receives what would turn out to be the most important assignment of his career. His editor asks him to write a ‘serious’ novel about what had taken place in Biarritz almost fifteen years earlier. Miet does not hesitate to travel to the vibrant, coastal city to speak to everyone who could have been linked to the event and comes upon people from all rungs of the social ladder; ranging from domestic employees to distinguished, high-society ladies, as well as reporters, two gendarmes, a photographer, artists, performers, a judge and even a nun. Miet interviews each person he believes to be involved, as if preparing a press feature, in order to meticulously transcribe their statements. He sketches an accurate and detailed portrait of sophisticated, outrageous Biarritz, which turns into the model setting for those golden years of the 1920s during which society sought to break with the most long-established and outdated conventions.

      • Picture books
        2019

        Pelusa has Died

        by Magdalena Rosas, Alejandra Saavedra

        Pelusa, the kitten, has died. This causes a great pain in her little human friend who, tries to understand the meaning of that loss, where her pet might have gone and why she still feels her close. Thus, she decides to follow her mother’s advice and starts to carefully look around for the traces Pelusa has left within the house, but most importantly, those remaining in her own memory. A story that explores the feelings and thoughts of a girl who has lost her pet and how she faces loss, showing us a way to deal with it by treasuring in our hearts and memories those who have left.

      • Picture books
        2019

        Matico

        by Macarena Roca, Pamela Martínez

        A picture book that tells the adventures of a girl and her herbalist grandmother in landscapes of exuberant nature in southern Chile. Together they will reveal secrets of the countryside and the power of nature and healing plants. The book teaches us about the trascendental of transferring traditions from generation to generation. This is one of the most important heritage that we can pass on to our children to preserve culture and identity. Matico returns to the memories from childhood. It portrays the life of individual cultists who represent a different lifestyle within the horizon of modernity.

      • Picture books
        2020

        The Girl and The Little Fish

        by Gabriela Mistral, Alberto Montt

        On a February night in 1938, Gabriela Mistral was visiting writer Emilio Oribe in Uruguay when, suddenly, his little daughter burst into the room carrying a precious hidden treasure: a little fish. Esther, the girl's name, had found it by the rocks near her house, in Montevideo. The next day, inspired by what had happened, Gabriela gave Oribe this poem as a gift. Ten years later, "The Girl and The Little Fish" was published in the Chilean newspaper La Nación as an unpublished poem, which version has been recovered by Escrito con Tiza in an edition with beautiful illustrations by of the most awarded Chilean artists, Alberto Montt.

      • Children's & YA

        The Secret of Cats

        by Marcelo Simonetti

        The poet was looking for a place to leave his words, A place where the wind won’t carry them away, A place where monsters won’t eat them.   If the cats are lovers of the moon, the night and roofs, they would know how to appreciate a verse, the poet thought. And almost whispering he told them: “This is how happiness was like: brief as the dream of a felt acacia, or the dance of the crazy single woman in front of a broken mirror”. This book talks about the importance that poetry has in our lives and, at the same time, it is also a tribute to these small furry creatures with whiskers that love purring as if they were true poets.

      • Children's & YA

        FOMALHAUT. Historia de una estrella

        by Marilú Ortiz de Rozas

        Fomalhaut es una estrella muy especial que nos va a contar su increíble historia, y a través de ella entenderemos un poco mejor cómo funciona el Universo. Fomalhaut es además una estrella muy sensible, ¡le encanta la poesía! "Yo no sé hablar ni escribir, pero brillo muy fuerte y de diferentes maneras. Gracias a una ciencia que se llama astronomía, que sabe leer esos cambios en mi luz, y por eso conoce mi vida, les voy a contar mi historia".

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