Vergara: 35 books

While the energy sector is a primary target of efforts to arrest and reverse the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and lower the carbon footprint of development it is also expected to be increasingly affected by unavoidable climate consequences from the damage already induced in the biosphere. Energy...

Climate change is beginning to have effects on climate weather and resource availability in ways that need to be anticipated when planning for the future. In particular changes in rainfall patterns and temperature may impact the intensity or schedule of water availability. Also the retreat of tropical...

The wind regime in Colombia has been rated among the best in South America. However, under the current circumstances, and on its own, the interconnected system would not likely promote wind power. This report is targeted to analysts, planners, operators, generators and decision makers in Colombia and...

This book illustrates the plethora of security concerns of the Americas in the 21st century. It presents the work of a number of prolific scholars and analysts in the continents of America. The book provides one of the only expansive applications of theory to a wide geographical area. It offers new...

In Lost in the Long Transition, a group of scholars who conducted fieldwork research in post-dictatorship Chile during the transition to democracy critically examine the effects of the country's adherence to neoliberal economic development and social policies. Shifting government responsibility for...

This book provides a socio-historical analysis of the 2002 massacre at Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó, Colombia. The author examines how the concepts of forced displacement and migration could be formulas for historical erasure. These concepts are used to name populations, such as the survivors of this...

Esta colección de ensayos del premio nacional de historia 2006 viene a dar cuenta del progreso intelectual que ha tenido Gabriel Salazar a lo largo de los últimos treinta y cinco años de escritura sobre la historia y el sentido de su oficio. Gabriel Salazar ha sido durante los últimos treinta...

The most complete collection of easy-understanding didactic material for the profound study of the rhythms of Cuban and Afro-Cuban percussion. (bilingual edition English - Español) Método didáctico más sencillo y práctico para el aprendizaje de los ritmos de la percusión cubana y afrocubana. (edición...

The Amazon basin is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Not only is the old-growth rainforests in the basin huge carbon storage with about 120 billion metric tons of carbon in their biomass but they also process annually twice the rate of global anthropogenic fossil fuel emissions through respiration...

Marcelo's story really began some 300 years before his birth when medieval Spain had the world’s single largest Jewish community. This was the “Golden Age” of Spain’s secular and Jewish achievements. Some hundred thousand Jews lived and worked with Christians and Moors in an almost peaceful...

The more we learn about bees, the more extraordinary they seem. They have five eyes and beat their wings at almost 200 cycles per second. And to communicate with each other bees do make sounds but also dance. This book, packed with over 30 figures, gives a fascinating insight into the extraordinary...

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos es una invitación para reflexionar sobre los conceptos de análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas, así como su relación y posibles tensiones. Esta propuesta responde a la necesidad de explorar los alcances y límites de una relación que todavía...

Este libro reúne las ponencias del seminario Nuevas formas de democracia (CLACSO, 2007) y del coloquio Nuevos y viejos populismos (Universidad Javeriana y Goethe Institut, 2008) En total son 23 autores que reflexionan, plantean ideas teóricas y hacen estudios de caso específicos relacionados con...

Una contundente y relevante investigación del Premio Nacional de Historia El orden portaliano ha sido la piedra angular con la que se ha trazado la historia oficial de Chile. Ese origen esencial ha sido asumido, al mismo tiempo, como norte trascendental: es la estrella solitaria que...