Social Sciences
From the North Huetar Region case, this book seeks to explore the relationship between the rise of neoliberalism at the global level, with the process of structural adjustment in Costa Rica and its materializations in the north of the country...
₡5,000.00
Aimed at people involved in preparedness, prevention, municipal administration or groups of organized society, assistance and administration in the field of civil defense disaster as well as the general public...
₡7,000.00
The article analyzes the general trends of development that qualify and differentiate in ele period 1948-1979. the role and functions fulfilled by the State, the type of dominant economic activities and the ways the country is linked to international..
₡2,000.00
Two manuscripts of the defender of Castillo Viejo in the war against the filibusters bring us closer to the events that led to our soldiers. The Costa Rican triumph in defending the San Juan River and not allowing Walker to receive new filibusterers,..
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Esta obra pretende recuperar y comprender el vocabulario de las fuentes coloniales de Costa Rica y Nicoya. Los términos que contiene fueron seleccionados con el propósito de buscar la definición que la palabra tuvo en su momento histórico...
₡3,500.00
Compiles the definition of about 500 names of mythical entities bribris. The motivation of the authors has been to answer some basic questions Sibö apart from the central axis of the Bribri mythology...
₡5,500.00
In this paper, how the tension between tradition and modernity are involved in the formation of cultural identity is analyzed. Some key concepts are defined and an analysis of three founding myths which refer to the birth of the waters, the fertile l..
₡4,000.00
Study and analysis of the life and work of Dr. Eusebio Figueroa Oreamuno, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, considered one of the most enlightened jurists of the most outstanding politicians and citizens in the history of Costa Rica...
₡7,700.00
The author works in two maquiladoras and two constructions, and from there seeks to recognize daily life, lifestyle and imaginary of urban workers and workers of our day. There is a creative use of participant observation as a research style, which c..
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This essay tries to explain what is essentially economic globalization ?, what is the relationship between the policies of market deregulation and globalization? And it can conceive of a globalization of solidarity among human beings? ..
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With the Napoleonic invasion of Spain the collapse of the old Spanish regime began and started the independence movement in America. In Costa Rica significant changes in the way of political modernity. Product of that mutation, education ceased to in..
₡5,000.00
Descriptive Statistics introductory book also includes some basic notions of inferential statistics. It is aimed at students of Social Sciences who need statistics to better understand society. Main topics: probability sampling, data collection, rela..
₡14,000.00
Precoffee Costa Rica, far from being an arcadia of egalitarian poverty is a dynamic, contradictory and social inequalities society; where power, based on law, models a type of individual and community by creating subjectivities as respect for the law..
₡2,000.00
According to this article, it is necessary to analyze in depth the changes in legislative arguments and perceptions in favor or against women in politics and other fundamental factors to understand why reform was passed to the female vote after thirt..
₡1,500.00
This paper studies the relationship between business, marketing and globalization, as it becomes relevant in the present historical juncture, where we talk about free trade, and the world manifests itself as a global village where economics seem obsc..
₡600.00
Seven short essays dealing primarily of theory and methodology of history; a final test, considerably longer addresses the science fiction literature, film and other vehicles, in order to study the imaginary of the twentieth century...
₡2,800.00
This work presents the story of the conquest of Nicaragua and Nicoya from the perspective of interethnic relations. In its pages the reader can find information about the daily life of the inhabitants of the region, conflicts and changes brought abou..
₡5,000.00
This book includes a collection of articles related to the negotiation of the Association Agreement between the European Union and Central America, these articles are the result of the seminar entitled European Union-Central American Relations, in th..
₡6,000.00
This book critically analyzes the literary and cinematographic representations of Eva Perón from the 1950s to the present, to understand how it has been interpreted and, at the same time, how the Argentine identity has been debated through it...
₡8,000.00
In this book on democracy the main processes through which the people choose their representatives and political leaders are analyzed. The author analyzes six seasons and seven elections in recent history of Costa Rica. Despite the many changes that ..
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Based on this analysis, this paper aims to show the current changes in Costa Rican Public Law, and to reflect on the consequences that these changes have on our rule of law and democratic governance...
₡2,500.00
This text aims to analyze, from an interdisciplinary perspective, the construction of Mesoamerican identities through the prism of the production and consumption of food, specifically the derivatives of corn and coffee as companion...
₡5,500.00
Can developing countries use high-tech foreign direct investment (FDI) to rapidly expand local capacities and thus avoid stages traditionally considered necessary for development? Using the cases of Ireland and Costa Rica, the author shows how the dy..
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La publicación comprende, en un solo documento y de la manera más simple, las fórmulas estadísticas para el cálculo de medidas cuantitativas para analizar conjuntos de datos y un grupo de tablas con las distribuciones de probabilidades más usadas...
₡2,000.00
This work is written with an own method called mathematical laboratories, which tries to break with the traditional teaching schemes, inducing the student to the reflection and the analysis through the use of the maieutics...
₡1,700.00
Negotiating a Free Trade Agreement between Central America and the United States is a proposal that has enabled Central American society take sides for or against approval. The work is divided into eight sections in which the problems that has been g..
₡800.00
This paper is the presentation of certain features and attributes of Anancy, spider whose origins are located on the West African coast. African oral tradition shown, called Ifa divination yoruba ritual and the role of storytellers as depositories of..
₡550.00
This paper analyzes the main economic and social changes experienced by Costa Rica between the end of the colony and the beginning of World War II. The emphasis is on explaining how, from a peasant economy dominated by commercial capital, an early ag..
₡1,100.00
This book presents the results of research carried out on women and men in ICE, the Judiciary and Comex, to learn about their ideas about sexes and genders, in a context of economic, social and cultural change...
₡5,000.00
This work revalues ??the history of the Zambezos and mosquitoes of Nicaragua and Honduras in the XVII and XVIII centuries, in the context of the Anglo-Spanish imperial conflict, when the English occupied the coasts of Central American territory denom..
₡7,500.00
Una investigación realizada en tres empresas del Régimen de Zona Franca -una productora de software, un contact center y una manufacturera de componentes electrónicos, revela las ventajas y desventajas de la fuerza de trabajo costarricense, según las..
₡5,000.00
The Chechen war has its roots in the Russian-Chechen historical dispute. Moscows interest to continue to dominate the Caucasus region for more than two centuries ago has collided with the desire of the Chechens to have an independent nation. Islam ve..
₡1,200.00
The aim of this study is to observe, from a historical perspective, how democracy has evolved in some countries of Latin America, the problems faced and international reality that surrounds and influences. ..
₡500.00
The text analyzes the debate has revolved around the theme of globalization, whether a complete and total economic integration will be achieved, but the result of the will of the political leaders of the various nations, especially those that have a ..
₡600.00
In this book, nine short texts written by the author of history, as a form of knowledge and human experience par excellence meet. These essays are invited to approach the historical knowledge by recognizing its limits and possibilities...
₡1,200.00
The purpose of this book is to offer national and foreign readers a synthetic and up-to-date view of the history of Costa Rica from ancient times, when the tropical forest concealed the fleeting pace of the first hunters; To the present, increasingly..
₡5,000.00
This volume analyzes the political history of Costa Rica during the period between 1870 and 1914. This book analyzes the legal-administrative organization and the dynamics of power and its legitimation...
₡2,250.00
En este documento se plantea el estudio de los derechos humanos como un tema en continua evolución histórica. Se señalan las tres generaciones de derechos humanos, los derechos humanos en un mundo multicultural y los retos a los que se enfrentan...
₡1,700.00
Esta obra analiza diferentes enfoques humanistas-existenciales que sirvan como marco de referencia para fundamentar la labor de orientación. Además, ofrece un modelo ecléctico que integra principios y estrategias de diferentes enfoques a lo largo del..
₡4,500.00
In a period of intense reflection on identity constructions, this book explores discursivity about gender and sexuality in both the hegemonic and subaltern world, as well as in those politically articulated proposals for social change...
₡10,000.00
El texto forma parte de una investigación desarrollada con el fin de generar una perspectiva amplia la migración en Costa Rica. El foco de la búsqueda se centra en la población nicaragüense y colombiana, específicamente en sus características y viven..
₡7,500.00
Este libro analiza la arquitectura, los espacios interiores y la vida cotidiana de los habitantes de barrio Amón, primer residencial de la élite urbana de San José, entre los años 1900 y 1935, con el objetivo de caracterizar una cultura urbana burgue..
₡5,500.00
From a critical position, the author analyzes some essential theoretical and conceptual categories addressed in the study of the social work profession, as well as important historical-contextual in its global constitution and the Latin American cont..
₡3,500.00
An introductory work that describes and places each one of the periods of the development of the Anthropology between 1880 and the present in the political and socioeconomic context of the region. In addition, it analyzes the most representative work..
₡4,000.00
This book studies the term referring to the Middle East and all that this encompasses: its historical and cultural context, its importance in building civilizations, their lifestyles, their religion, their implications for modernity and globalization..
₡1,500.00
In an effort to strengthen national citizenship comes to light the Citizenship Papers series. It is aimed especially secondary teachers and the public concerned about matters of national interest; It also aims to be a useful decision-making at the co..
₡1,200.00
The text is an introduction to the basic beliefs of Islam as jihad and sharia; the relationship with other religions, among others; also it presents a description of the main political expressions of contemporary Islam as Islam, Salafism, Jihadism an..
₡3,500.00
Islamic fundamentalism is one of the most important phenomena in the contemporary Middle East and one of the issues that most impact has been both regionally and globally. Although the causes of the various fundamentalist movements in different Islam..
₡5,000.00
The book portrays newsrooms and Costa Rican journalists, and provides a general analysis of journalistic work in our country at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century...
₡3,000.00
