Social Sciences
Scientific, academic and didactic work, of great practical use in obtaining clinical psychodiagnosis in the different areas of applied psychology. It presents to the professional and student of psychology an inventory of functional, valid and reliabl..
₡2,000.00
This paper presents the development of education in Costa Rica between two important milestones: the creation of the House of Education of Santo Tomas in 1814, which enabled the initiation of formal training in the country beyond the first few letter..
₡1,500.00
This essay constitutes a first approach to the study of Palestinian immigrants in Central America from the late nineteenth century to the present. It also analyzes their economic and cultural contributions in the different Central American states and..
₡1,800.00
It analyzes the emergence and daily life of La Carpio, one of the largest binational communities in Central America, and discusses the images that circulate in the media and the ways in which this group responds to these images...
₡6,000.00
History of the building Enrique Macaya, in which the humanist ideas sketched at the dawn of the Institution and the need to provide shelter. The chronological account that reaches its restoration to celebrate 50 years, includes people and facts, whic..
₡9,000.00
This is a book aimed at workers who care mental health and provide treatment for survivors of child abuse is. the consequences of this abuse (physical, emotional, sexual) and principles, strategies and techniques for psychotherapy (long-term) exposed..
₡3,500.00
The book summarizes the memoirs of the union leader and politician Álvaro Montero Vega. The emphasis is on their contributions to the Costa Rican trade union movement and the conquests of the working class in the post-war 1948 era...
₡7,000.00
? T he aims to show the role of teaching the course of history of culture in humanistic studies and proposes that this should be articulated around a central axis: the importance of philosophy of education and philosophy the history...
₡1,000.00
The book is a compilation of twenty writings of eighteen economists, from William Senior to ECLAC. It includes a brief biography of each author, prepared by the editors, to facilitate the understanding of the circumstances in which the pieces were wr..
₡7,000.00
The book covers the different discourses and cultural products and Costa Rican art in the second half of the twentieth century, confrontation and dialogue with the history of Latin America and against the development of possible utopias, from an open..
₡800.00
This book covers the most common words used by preschool children in Costa Rica to communicate topics related to their life experience; Lexical acquisition measures to properly plan and adapt teaching pedagogical discourse, this implies a paradigm sh..
₡2,800.00
Costa Rica is experiencing a process of change in the party system, citizens are becoming increasingly disenchanted and distrustful of the performance of those engaged in politics and consistently decreases electoral participation...
₡6,000.00
The topics covered in this book provide a clear picture of discipline Guidance and their professional work. It also presents an extensive exhibition of rational emotive behavioral, cognitive and approaches that can enrich the orientation function...
₡4,300.00
Este libro presenta los resultados de una investigación sobre la construcción de espacios transnacionales formados por emigrantes, emigrantes en retorno y sus familias y comunidades en Los Santos y Pérez Zeledón, en San José, Costa Rica y Bound Brook..
₡5,500.00
Esta obra analiza las interacciones entabladas entre los indígenas de la antigua Nicaragua y Nicoya, entre el 800 d. C. y el siglo XVI. Es una historia dinámica que contempla a pueblos indígenas en la lucha por sobrevivir en un ambiente pluricultural..
₡4,000.00
They discuss some of the ideas of Antonio Gramsci about the relationship between civil society and state, reform and revolution, political and cultural hegemony, its connection with current issues such as governance and issues of political philosophy..
₡2,000.00
In this book, from different theoretical and methodological approaches, an analysis of evolution or cultural and social involution of Costa Rica in the late twentieth century is made. The study aims to shed some light on the processes and social mech..
₡5,500.00
The texts that make up this publication invite us to reflect and analyze, from different perspectives, the cultural transformations that our societies experience, in which material and symbolic goods are affected by constant innovation and periodic o..
₡800.00
This book delves into the world of cattle, oxen and carts, recording and analyzing the past and present singularities that make up this relevant tradition, which is the intangible cultural heritage of our humanity as Costa Ricans...
₡25,000.00
The book analyzes the sets of sarchiseña wagon and confirms that this type of decoration is a Costa Rican pictorial style. It is approached from the perspective of the designer, providing new data that can be checked with the images presented...
₡14,000.00
Este folleto presenta una visión general y actualizada de las tendencias de mediano y largo plazo que influyen en la integración centroamericana y condicionan su devenir contemporáneo. Es, por lo tanto, un texto que mira a la región en su conjunto, e..
₡800.00
This paper makes a balance of the period in which the literal reforms in Central America were developed. Try to understand the differentiated economic, social and political trajectory of the region, and share the opinion of several authors, in the se..
₡1,500.00
This book gives us one of the key bases for studies of the cultural transformations that have characterized Central American development, especially since the 1989 peace accords. The articles included review the past, but also analyze radical changes..
₡8,000.00
This book brings together the papers of the II Costa Rican Congress of Anthropology held in December 1999. The preparation of the report, despite budgetary constraints, was always keeping in mind contribute to the knowledge of anthropology and archeo..
₡4,500.00
Las alianzas entre diversas disciplinas ha demostrado ser una fórmula capaz de abrir opciones analíticas y, por ende, favorecer la construcción de conocimiento. En esos términos se estudia la comunicación desde la educación, las relaciones sociales, ..
₡5,500.00
In this study we use analytical tools of cognitive semantics and theoretical models of cultural and comparative psychology to address the experiences of childhood and adult social representations, in two different historical and cultural periods of c..
₡6,500.00
The book outlines the scope and limitations of the geopolitical game the United States and its allies have been pursuing through the training and infiltration of networks of political activists in countries that do not act in line with their "values"..
₡3,700.00
China, a lo largo de su historia, se ha mantenido como una potencia mundial; por lo que su rol en el sistema internacional es de gran importancia. Ante esto, en el siglo XXI se asiste con expectativa a la construcción de este imperio, líder de la eco..
₡4,000.00
This book describes and analyzes the institutional reform that has accompanied the process of reform and economic opening in the R.P. China over the last three decades. This description and analysis has been made from a neoinstitutionalist approach a..
₡5,500.00
Study of citizen participation in community organizations aimed to influence the living conditions of the towns through community work. protest mobilizations local, regional and national levels where a social plurality participates in order to influe..
₡2,000.00
This book is a lexicographical work that collects and defines an inventory of the lexicon used in the Costa Rican civil-electoral environment. words used are recorded in text production, written or oral, in our own civil-electoral system communicativ..
₡1,500.00
In this book three aspects of Virilla river basin combined, between 1840 and 1955: the environment, the cultivation and processing of coffee and society. The research focused on the framework of environmental history, which the media plays a leading ..
₡1,900.00
The purpose of this collection, organized in two volumes, is to become a diagnostic tool in the Costa Rican educational system for making pedagogical decisions in the process of stimulating and enriching the vocabulary of children from three years to..
₡15,000.00
The Institute of Psychological Research of the University of Costa Rica offers this series of twelve manuals with the purpose of helping parents and teachers in the early identification and appropriate management of their childrens learning problems...
₡41,000.00
In this work the communication is analyzed from an interdisciplinary perspective, so that the authors discuss, refer to politics, identity construction, communities, history and discourse analysis, providing a comprehensive picture of communication...
₡4,000.00
This self-instructional module has five modular units, and elements are developed from the conceptual and methodological framework to be applied in qualitative studies. Each modular unit has objectives as well as learning activities and self-assessme..
₡3,000.00
The book that the author has in his hands analyzes consumption from an interdisciplinary, interpretative and regional perspective, committed to the Central American environment. The objective is to provoke a debate that favors the opening of new spac..
₡3,500.00
a panoramic and typological analysis of contemporary political systems arises, from the perspective of political science. From key concepts such as political system and democracy, a typology that includes pluralists and monocratic systems, as well as..
₡1,100.00
The first edition of the Cuadernos Series History of the Institutions of Costa Rica consists of texts containing the basic themes of the course syllabus Costa Rica History of institutions. ..
₡2,500.00
Historian Iván Molina, to analyze the long-term response on the census of nationality made in 1904, provides an overview of the processes that led to the invention of national identity in Costa Rica in the 1880s and 1890s, and its complex redefinitio..
₡4,000.00
This work allows us to know and analyze from a historical perspective the recent evolution of the country in different fields: political, economic, environmental, cultural, educational and social investment and international relations...
₡16,000.00
This paper studies the war in 1856 and 1857 against the filibuster William Walker under the process of building the national state. It argues that the defense of sovereignty against the filibuster strengthened state institutions and nationalism...
₡2,500.00
In the pages of this book some of the highlights of the historical, social and labor development of Costa Rica twentieth century are summarized. In addition, the reflection here this contributes to strengthening the humanistic education...
₡1,500.00
This essay studies the contributions of Islamic Egypt to Muslim Spain with special emphasis on cultural aspects, law (with the work of al-Layth Ibn Sad) and mysticism influenced by Dhul-Nun al-Masri...
₡4,000.00
The three essays that compose this work constitute a serious effort to reflect from a national perspective -Costa Rica- and regional- Latin America-, on the cultural aspect of our societies and their relation with the future possibilities of developm..
₡1,400.00
This book explores the culture and urban society between 1914 and 1950. sociospatial differentiation of San Jose, the capital and seat of the agro-export bourgeoisie, the beginning of mass culture through cinema, radio, popular music is analyzed and ..
₡1,500.00
This book conveys a comprehensive approach to the reality that deaf people live in the realm of sound: family, educational, social and labor aspetos, thus improving the quality of life of this population with more respect as every citizen...
₡4,500.00
The book welcomes the most important presentations and discussions during the XII Latin American Congress of Sociology, particularly regarding the analytical value of the so-called "dependency theory", according to which underdevelopment comes from t..
₡10,000.00
