La ocupación cazadora-recolectora durante la transición Pleistoceno-Holoceno en el oeste de Rio Grande do Sul - Brasil: geoarqueología de los sitios en la formación sedimentaria Touro Passo

This is the Spanish edition of "Growing Better Cities". The United Nations predicts that over the next 25 years nearly all population growth will be in the cities of the developing world. At current rates, 60% of the world's total population will live in cities by 2030. As the cities grow, so does the number of urban poor. Unemployment, hunger, and malnutrition are commonplace. In the big city, most of any cash income the poor might bring home goes to feeding themselves and staying alive; any food that does not have to be bought is a bonus. As a result, more and more people are attempting to...

As much a storyteller as an ethnographer, Lydia Cabrera was captivated by a strange and magical new world revealed to her by her Afro-Cuban friends in early twentieth-century Havana. In Afro-Cuban Tales this world comes to teeming life, introducing English-speaking readers to a realm of tenuous boundaries between the natural and the supernatural, deities and mortals, the spiritual and the seemingly inanimate. Here readers will find a vibrant, imaginative record of African culture transplanted to Cuba and transformed over time, a passionate and subversive alternative to the dominant Western...

Texto clásico de Modernismo hispánico y la literatura finisecular hispanoamericana, que recoge los apartados tanto de la edición original de 1896 como los añadidos de la de 1901. Se acompaña de un estudio introductorio y un aparato crítico realizado por un especialista en la materia.

El camino hacia las sociedades industriales avanzadas; Las nuevas sociedades informacionales; Los ordenadores y la evolución de la sociedad informacional; Internet: la red de redes; Las nuevas tecnologías de la información; Más allá de un tratamiento crítico de las nuevas tecnologías.