The purpose of this publication is to make available to listeners of the radio programs "Fréquence Ados Nouvelles Formule" and "Echos Francophones" a series of comprehension exercises whose objectives are to improve the oral comprehension skills of the different speakers...

This work analyzes the history of coffee in Costa Rica and its links with geopolitics, to reconstruct the development of German capital in the country, from the early twentieth century to the years preceding the Second World War. It answers a series of significant questions about the role that German businessmen played in Costa Rican coffee growing and their interaction with the national and international environment: How to explain the growth of their businesses despite the cancellation of German-owned coffee exports during World War I and the implications of the 1930 crisis? How did these coffee growers start their businesses again? How did you take advantage of the advantages of Costa Rican coffee due to its quality and good name in Europe to formulate competitiveness strategies in the international market? What role did geopolitics play as the background scenario in the Costa Rica-Germany coffee business?..

This Collection of very short stories contains a treasure trove of surprise endings, some cheery, some chilling most of them impossible to see coming. The author explores powerful and universal themes like unrequited love, revenge, treachery and the unequal battle between men equipped with nothing but hend tools and the savage strength of nature. And they all take place in a setting that is impleccably described and uniquely Costa Rican, like this passage from “The Gourd”, the most heart-breaking story this author has ever written: “March would bring sunsets featuring a sun as large as an ox cart wheel painted with red lead, and it would fill the house with a chromatic harmony;...” Long considered an icon of Costa Rican literature, this small book is a tour de force that weds graphic art with literary art in order to provide one unforgettable reading experience...

Un manual de materiales y ejercicios para enriquecer la capacidad en la comprensión de lecturas en inglés, con recursos técnicos y didácticos verdaderamente motivadores y eficaces que serán de gran ayuda a los estudiantes del idioma inglés...

The main objective of the play is to provide students with teaching material for English courses...

Numerous studies of José Martí's literary work assure that at the time of the writing of his only novel, the always latent memories of its author's Central American estancia were present, despite having been conceived and published in New York in 1885. Some prefer to affirm that Lucía Jerez's dramatic action recreates Guatemalan life at the end of the 19th century, while others prefer to think of Mexico...

Zambrano's writing resists analysis like the bird that always flies higher than the hunter's tricks. Perhaps for this reason, a path of access is the one presented here: the oblique path of the essay. This book therefore presents some attempts to approach Zambrano's work, contrasting it with that of his teacher Ortega Valente ... and trying to illuminate his spirit, his way of being in the world...

A useful manual for teaching French as a second language, consisting of a rich variety of work proposals for the teacher and the student. Its authors adopt and propose dynamic methodologies and resources, such as graphics, examples and practices, which make learning the language in its initial stage bearable and very pleasant...

This publication is contributing to the present historiography in presenting one of the first studies, which tries to explain the importance of the province of Limon to its Afro-Costa Rican population. The book is shifting the focus of earlier historiography, which mentions Afro- Caribbean immigrants of the railroad, and of banana cultivation, making visible and presenting the community of Afro-Caribbean and particularly Jamaican descendants in Costa Rica as active subjects of history.  Esta publicación está contribuyendo a la presente historiografía presentado uno de los primeros estudios que tratan de explicar la importancia de Limón para su población Afro-Costarricense. El libro cambia el enfoque de publicaciones anteriores que mencionan al inmigrante Caribeño y a sus descendientes únicamente dentro del contexto de la construcción del ferrocarril y las plantaciones de banano, haciendo a la comunidad Afro-Caribeña y a sus descendientes en Costa Rica visibles y sujetos activos de la historia...

1969 History of a house is the journey through the memories of five brothers who have been trapped in the house that saw them grow up and that witnessed a tragedy that marked them for the rest of their lives...

In July 2005, by chance, the Guatemalan National Police Archive was discovered in Guatemala City. They are millions of documents that are piled up in damp, dark rooms full of rats and cockroaches. They have been left there after the peace was signed in 1996 after more than 30 years of war...

El panorama global del siglo XXI está marcado por la consolidación de China como la segunda economía mundial. A medida que se afianza su penetración en Latinoamérica, Ecuador y Costa Rica alcanzan alianzas estratégicas con el gigante asiático. No obstante, tal relación comercial se caracteriza por una profunda asimetría...

Valuable compilation of studies and methodological proposals for the training of workers in organizational projects. As its title indicates, a set of proposals is put forward to allow socially excluded sectors to act from their own conditions, and thus actively rethink their fight against poverty...

Esta investigación brinda los elementos necesarios para que los lectores —especializados o no— puedan comprender de manera clara y amena los puntos de contacto y las diferencias que existieron entre los cultos mistéricos, atestiguados en el mundo grecorromano desde los siglos VII-VI a.C., y los cristianismos primitivos de los primeros siglos de nuestra era. Se presentan estos fenómenos, a decir de Piñero, por medio de las fuentes textuales e iconográficas de la época, toda la información está atestiguada con su correspondiente base histórico-filológica...

The proposal of this work lies in providing the working methodology that allows the museum to create the conditions for its own institutional sustainability, in human resources, infrastructure and logistics...

It is a novel in which the characters and historical times alternate in the dizzying plot that offers a fresco of the last fifty years of Guatemala. Taking seriously her hairdresser and pedicurist's reading of the lines on the sole of her foot, Fabiola, an upper-class woman in her fifties, begins the unbridled search for an old teenage love in which she pin her hopes of getting out of a cycle family oppression and violence. She is anxious and desperate, she finds herself in a parallel world but very different from her own, with which she without realizing it she has sometimes brushed against throughout life.The novel is a great metaphor for a divided and confronted country, which does not stop having hilarious and suspenseful moments that leave readers with smiles or wild-eyed disbelief at the unexpected twists of the plot...

Short stories, entertaining and easy to read, peppered with mischief and fantasy, intertwined with positive content.This collection of stories was made with the hope of becoming a good companion for parents and children, to share and educate both values and principles, in an entertaining way...

Los accidentes viales provocan una serie de afectaciones personales y materiales con diferentes grados de severidad. El análisis de estas situaciones, conocidas en lenguaje técnico como “hechos de tránsito”, es la labor de peritos especializados, quienes deben tomar en cuenta todos aquellos elementos que intervinieron en el accidente. El análisis de estos elementos es el objeto principal de esta obra: se explica con base en un análisis técnico riguroso qué elementos físicos y cuáles personas intervienen en un “hecho de tránsito”, cómo se estudia técnicamente dicho hecho y cómo se representa para comprensión de las autoridades...

Africanas, mulatas, horras, esclavas, indígenas e, incluso, blancas son las protagonistas de esta innovadora investigación que tiene como marco geográfico el istmo centroamericano. El eje central son las mujeres racializadas dentro del espacio colonial en el que se vieron inmersas. A lo largo de esta obra se analizan algunos de los diferentes mecanismos, tales como la sexualidad o las creencias mágicas, utilizados por ellas para sobrevivir. Desarrollando en consecuencia una gran capacidad de resiliencia que les permitió adaptarse a situaciones adversas y alcanzar, en muchos casos, espacios de poder...

Este libro provee un enfoque actualizado y novedoso en el abordaje de un área fundamental de la matemática, como lo es el Álgebra Lineal. Está dirigido especialmente a los estudiantes de los cursos de servicio que brinda la Escuela de Matemática de la Universidad Nacional, no obstante, abarca los temas usuales de un primer curso de esta temática, orientado a estudiantes de ingeniería, economía y computación, entre otras...