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True stories (Children's/YA)August 2018Niños
by María Jose Ferrada, María Elena Valdez
Thirty-four poems, one for each of the young children (all under the age of 14) that were executed, arrested or disappeared during the Chilean dictatorship. A book dedicated to all those little Chilean victims, but also to all the children that each day suffer the consequences of violence.
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May 2018The Pinochet Plot
by David Myles Robinson
Successful San Francisco attorney Will Muñoz has heard of the brutal former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, of course, but it's not until he receives his mother's suicide letter that he has any inkling Pinochet may have had his father, Chilean writer Ricardo Muñoz, assassinated thirty years earlier.Her suspicions spur Will on to a quest to discover the truth about his father's death–and about the psychological forces that have driven his mother to her fatal decision. His journey takes him deep into unexpected darkness linking his current step-father, the CIA, drug-experimentation programs, and a conspiracy of domestic terrorism. The Pinochet Plot is not just a story of a man seeking inner peace; it is also a story of sinister history doomed to repeat itself.
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FictionSeptember 2023Perlas de araña (Spider pearls)
by Valentina Winocur
Nona and Catalina, grandmother and granddaughter, have to flee to Mexico because of the Argentine dictatorship. The two land in a new place where they will have to reconfigure themselves in many ways. To begin with, as happens in exile, families are reorganized in unique sizes and structures. Catalina is just a child, she understands it at her own pace. Her seemingly innocent gaze observes a Chilean city that opens into a country with a life of its own. La Nona, who wields a singular wisdom, is an identity star. Questions about history and the present, arrive in time. Mexico and Argentina are distant countries on the map, but space-time merges them in a notion made of pain but also a lot of love, the argenmex, which throbs and has taken root in the south and north of the continent. This book does not stop there, but develops, reaching other geographies as well. As if it were a spider's web, it is carefully woven, captures and, above all, crosses threads of multiple meanings, from the historical, political and national, to those of childhood, the family and the individual.
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Technology, Engineering & AgricultureOctober 2016Strawberry
Growth, Development and Diseases
by Amjad M. Husaini, Davide Neri
Methods of strawberry cultivation have undergone extensive modification and this book provides an up-to-date, broad and balanced scientific review of current research and emerging challenges. Subjects covered range from plant propagation, architecture, genetic resources, breeding, abiotic stresses and climate change, to evolving diseases and their control. These topics are examined in three sections: - Genetics, Breeding and Omics - covering genetic resources, breeding, metabolomics, transcriptomics, and genetic transformation of strawberry. - Cultivation Systems and Propagation - discusses plant architecture, replanting problems and plant propagation techniques. - Disease and Stress Management - deals with traditional and emerging fungal diseases, their diagnosis and modern biocontrol strategies, and biotechnological interventions for dealing with the challenges of climate change. Strawberry: Growth, Development and Diseases is written by an international team of specialists, using figures and tables to make the subject comprehensible and informative. It is an essential resource for academics and industry workers involved in strawberry research and development, and all those interested in the commercial cultivation of strawberries. ; This book includes up-to-date information on all aspects from plant propagation, architecture, genetic resources, breeding, abiotic stresses and climate change, to evolving diseases and their control. It is written by an international team of specialists and covers current knowledge and emerging challenges. ; 1: Strawberries: a General AccountPART I: GENETICS, BREEDING AND OMICS2: Genetic Resources of the Strawberry3: Strawberry Breeding4: Chilean White Strawberry: Phenolic Profiling of its Different Parts5: Role of Fungal Avirulent Pathogens in the Defence Response of Strawberry6: Agrobacterium-mediated Genetic Transformation of StrawberryPART II: CULTIVATION SYSTEMS AND PROPAGATION7: Plant Architecture in Different Cultivation Systems8: Strawberry Root Growth and Architecture in Relation to Organic Residues and Replanting Problems9: Plant Propagation Techniques and Type of PlantsPART III: DISEASE AND STRESS MANAGEMENT10: Fungal Diseases of Strawberry and their Diagnosis11: New Biocontrol Strategies for Strawberry Fungal Pathogens12: Emerging Diseases in Strawberry Crop: Charcoal Rot and Fusarium Wilt13: Induced Systemic Resistance to Fusarium Wilt and Antioxidative Ability in Mycorrhizal Strawberry Plants14: Challenges of Climate Change to Strawberry Cultivation: Uncertainty and Beyond15: Molecular and Physiological Responses of Strawberry Plants to Abiotic Stress
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RAMÓN QUE SE LE PERDIÓ EL PANTALÓN
by Israel (Puchu) Wiesler
RAMÓN QUE SE LE PERDIÓ EL PANTALÓN (En medio del baile) por Israel (Puchu) Wiesler Este es un cuento acerca de un niño flaco, que al principio no le apetecía comer y que era muy delgado, pero que después, cuando al fin comenzó a comer, no podía parar. Era horrible: cuando era flaco se le caían los pantalones y al subir de peso le reventaban las costuras. ?Que se podía hacer? Preguntad a su madre, que tenía una solución para cada problema. Este libro, que en los últimos diez años ha registrado ventas muy buenas en Israel, se ha vuelto últimamente de mayor aceptación, gracias a la creciente conciencia tanto de padres como de niños sobre el problema de la obesidad en la infancia. Aun cuando este relato tiene una moraleja, su gran éxito (?hasta ahora se han publicado 12 ediciones!) deriva principalmente de lo divertido que es para los lectores jóvenes. El autor, Israel Wiesler, cuyo apodo es “Puchu”, nació en Tel Aviv y publicó su primer libro, “Qué pandilla” a los 26 años. Desde entonces ha escrito Wiesler más de treinta libros y docenas de libretos para series de televisión destinados a niños y a adultos jóvenes. Las obras de Wiesler, escritas con un cálido y especial sentido del humor, fueron galardonadas con seis premios literarios en Israel. El acreditado “Léxico Ofek” de literatura para niños en hebreo, describe a Wiesler como “como el mejor escritor humorista para niños y adultos jóvenes de Israel”. Puchu ha sido uno de los tres únicos escritores israelíes que fueron honrados el año pasado con la emisión de un sello de correo que muestra la portada de uno de sus libros.
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Zoology & animal sciencesMay 2021Nutrition and Feeding Organic Cattle
by Robert Blair
Organic cattle farming is on the increase, with consumer demand for organic milk and meat growing yearly. Beginning with an overview of the aims and principles behind organic cattle production, this book presents extensive information about how to feed cattle so that the milk and meat produced meet organic standards, and provides a comprehensive summary of ruminant digestive processes and nutrition. Since the publication of the first edition, global consumers have increasingly become concerned with the sustainability of meat production. Here, Robert Blair considers the interrelationships of sustainable practices and profitability of organic herds, reviewing how to improve forage production and quality, and minimizing the need for supplementary feeding using off-farm ingredients. This new edition also covers: - Managing a recurrent shortage of organic feed ingredients, due to increased GM feed crop cultivation worldwide - Current findings on appropriate breeds and grazing systems for forage-based organic production - Diet-related health issues in organic herds and the effects of organic production on meat and milk quality. Required reading for animal science researchers, advisory personnel that service the organic milk and beef industries and students interested in organic milk and meat production, this book is also a useful resource for organic farming associations, veterinarians, and feed and food industry personnel.
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Poetry (Children's/YA)August 2018Animal
Poemas breves salvajes
by María José Ferrada, Ana Palmero
"Hidden in his horn he guards the secret of the jungle”. This might be as well the beginning of a novel, but it's an inspired riddle about wild animals. The illustrations in high varnish of this edition highlight the different skin textures of each animal and invites the reader to discover a new way of reading in a tactile and playful way.
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Picture books2008Animales en el aire de papel (Paper's animals in the air)
by Manuel Marín
Paper is not a boring surface if the chicharreta, lilibela, or totoleta wait to be detached, folded and bent to reveal their tridimensional volume, their balance and dimension in space. They allow us to reflect on and understand the role they play in the artistic creation of space and shape. It’s an experience that brings us closer to the basic elements of modern art.
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May 2016La mujer de la guarda
by Sara Bertrand, Alejandra Algorta
Jacinta wants to know how her mother is able to breathe inside the coffin, but her aunts tell her it’s better if she concentrates in taking care of her brothers. Jacinta remembers some things about her mum, like the sound of the spoon in the cup when she stirred the milk until it was smooth. When her father arrives early, Jacinta and her brothers eat together and laugh at dessert time when he draws milk toffees and chewing gum from behind their ears. Jacinta is a weirdo in a world where other children have a mother. Jacinta has no guardian angel, but a woman traveling on a blue horse watches over her.
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MedicineSeptember 2018Nutrition and Feeding of Organic Poultry
by Robert Blair
Organic poultry production has increased significantly in recent years to keep up with increasing consumer demand for organic eggs and meat. There are many guidelines and restrictions on what should go into the feed of organically-farmed poultry, from which difficulties arise when trying to ensure a well-balanced nutritious diet without the use of any unapproved supplements. This, the second edition of Robert Blair's classic and bestselling book on the nutrition and feeding of organic poultry, presents advice for organic producers, and the agencies and organizations serving them. It covers: - Selecting suitable ingredients. - Preparing appropriate feed mixtures and integrating them into organic poultry production systems. - International standards for organic feeding. - Breeds that are most suitable for organic farming. - Examples of diets formulated to organic standards. Completely updated and revised to address how to formulate organic diets in situations where there is a declining supply of organic feed, this new edition also includes up-to-date information on the nutritional requirements of poultry and feed-related disease incidence in organic flocks. Also including the feasibility of utilizing novel feed, such as insect meal, and their acceptability by consumers of organic meat products, this book forms a comprehensive reference for students, organic farmers, veterinarians and researchers.
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Children's & YATHE CHILEAN FOREST
by Written by: Pablo Neruda /Illustrations: Antonia Lara /Original script and editing: Juan Francisco Bascuñán
“Whoever does not know the Chilean forest, does not know this planet”. This profound and radical message by Neruda regards the wonderful forests of southern Chile, home to countless living beings: some who come out to meet those who enter it, others that always remain hidden. “A rotten log: what a treasure!”: the poet finds the point where life and death are one, the forest soil, where the cyclical becomes a reality, what dies will return in time to be part of the living again. “It is a vertical world: a nation of birds, a crowd of leaves”. Neruda does not say directly that we have to take care of the forests, but he helps us to know them, to discover them, to love them. And in this path what naturally follows is to protect them... This text is part of the memories of Neruda, I confess I have lived (Memoirs).
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The ArtsOctober 2016Magdalena Atria
by Gerardo Mosquera, Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Cristián Silva, Ricardo Loebell, Rodrigo Canala
This publication displays the evolution of the Chilean artist Atria's work from the last twenty years, revealing a deeply personal way of addressing a wide range of references, from modernist abstraction to handcrafts and design. Going from the intimate to the monumental, her work offers in each case a specific encounter with objects, materials, and images visually compelling, open to multiple levels of meaning. The book includes essays by renowned curators and artists, throw light on different aspects of Atria's work.
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May 2023Souza
by Nina Avellaneda
Souza lays carpet in apartments and Luiza is an actress; their lives are dominated by precarity, failure, and sacrifice. After a chance meeting they feel a mutual interest. It’s hard to say if they fall for each other because that’s not how they move through the world. Still, this is a story, and Souza and Luiza are the gravitational center of a narrator writing about them while sitting in a crowded cafe; she’s interested in exploring people, feelings, but principally, the art of fiction.Souza is a refreshing work situated between ambiguity and voraciousness, it’s exquisite and subtle, intelligent and poetic, and Nina Avellaneda is an author to keep a close eye on.
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The ArtsMouth Full of Silence
by Sigismond de Vajay, Kimberlee Cole, Pedro Donoso, Nathalie Goffard, Cristóbal Joannon
Mouth Full of Silence, compiles a series of works made by the Chilean artist Alejandro Quiroga, between 2016 and 2019, paintings that speak with their lights and shadows of a lost paradise, of a one must be recovered, and another that must be preserved; around different edges of Chilena landscape-nation, through portrayed places that reflect the results of man's action in the environment. As well as speaks of the transformation of Quiroga as an artist and as a person. The publication includes texts by the art historian and curator Kimberlee Cole, the theorists Pedro Donoso and Nathalie Goffard, and the journalist Cristóbal Joannon. Who with their own point of view, they address themes such as landscape, neoliberalism and the journey through the territory, creating a poetic and acute analysis of the current state of Chilean geography and its transformation. "I have been developing this work for several years, which makes a survey of the territory and the incidence of capitalism in it. From there, everything that is addressed has to do with our society and how we project ourselves as a country into the future. It is a purely political and visual work, which aims at a social reflection committed to natural resources, sustainable economy and ecology,” Alejandro Quiroga.
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Isabelísima. The Divine Antichrist’s Monologues
by Rafael Rubio
In the text is Rafael Rubio “as a whole”, in flesh and blood, who, by using a unique and virtuous poetic prose is able to present a universal approach to death, to the relation with God, to madness, to dreams, to love. The work is complemented by the prodigious vision of photographer Hernán Azócar, also Chilean, who opens a free dialogue with Rafael’s poetic prose, creating a work made of a same text that is expressed both in words and images.
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The ArtsDecember 2016Marcela Correa. Sculptures 1986-2015
by Patricio Mardones, Smiljan Radic, Alberto Sato
Marcela Correa, sculptor, graduated in Art at Universidad Católica de Chile. Her work is based on the various materials such as wood, stone and collected metal pieces that she combines, taking advantage of their own shapes and characteristics to achieve harmonious compositions that refer to the organic and the natural environment. Throughout her career, she has worked in partnership with the architect Smiljan Radic. Among his exhibitions are: Sculptures (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago, 1998), Natural Sintético (Natural Synthetic (Galería Animal, 2002), El Niño Escondido en un Pez (The Boy Hidden in a Fish) (XII Venice Architecture Biennale, 2010), Peso Muerto (Dead Weight) (Galería Animal, 2011 ), The Wardrobe and the Mattress (Hermes Tokyo Japan Gallery, 2013), and Difunta Correa (Galería AFA, 2014), Corral (Galería Patricia Ready, 2016). Her works form part of the collection of various museums and are located in public places.
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The ArtsApril 2021Altered Views. Voluspa Jarpa
by Voluspa Jarpa, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Sabine Breitwieser, Charles Esche, Andrea Giunta, Alberto Mayol, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Adriana Valdés
Altered Views. Voluspa Jarpa is the publication of the Chilean Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale of Art, presented by Voluspa Jarpa and curated by Agustín Pérez Rubio. The project originates in a question the artist seeks to answer: how is the modernist, Eurocentric and colonial gaze configured? The gaze that later expands from Europe to the U.S. and constructs a symbolic contempt that is imposed as political, cultural and economic subjugation in non-hegemonic regions?Altered Views is an unprecedented research project that works as a cross-reference between various instances of European history from the 17th to the 20th Century, full of social manifestations, ethnographic searches and dominant powers, attempting to restore the conquered awe of the coloniser. The work seeks to rescue concepts coined from a Eurocentric perspective that shed light on the violence with which the world is reduced to an expansionist, developmentalist and hegemonic model. Altered Views is an invitation to reflect on issues that prevail and are still visible in our contemporary society. The volume contains a general text from the Chilean pavilion´s curator and editor of this book, Agustín Pérez Rubio explaining each part of the project; along with six different texts by Charles Esche, Sabine Breitwieser, Andrea Giunta, Adriana Valdés, Alberto Mayol and Cuauhtémoc Medina. These texts talk about the historical and contemporary repercussions of the hegemonic model.
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FictionUna música futura
by María José Navia
In "Una música futura" ("A future music"), awarded Best Literary Works 2019 in the category of unpublished short stories, María José Navia delves into intimate relationships mediated and sometimes infected by technology. Screens and screen-families, women who take refuge in the excess of information or try to completely disconnect from the world, foreigners who face fierce self-demanding or frankly violent scenarios. Seven stories that reflect on the possibilities of a threatening future where the uncertainty of our time seems to sing a secret and disturbing melody from which perhaps books can save us.
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FictionOctober 2018Kintsugi
by María José Navia
How can a family be told? What are the pieces that make up your memory? What do we know about someone, beyond what they decide to show us? In Kintsugi, a family breaks down and those who make it up look for ways -sometimes subtle, sometimes extreme- to repair it. Characters who take refuge in their jobs or in caring for others, who need technology as a way to organize their affections, to perform small gestures of vigilance or even to survive in a precarious world. In the manner of the Japanese art that gives this book its title, María José Navia recomposes in this novel-in-stories the broken lives of its characters, beautifully highlighting the scars of those who leave and those who remain.
