It's an excellent field guide. The little maps with each bird showing the distribution area makes the identification fast and easy. Drawings are very good and so are id clues. I think that due to printing problems sometimes the colors are not so accurate (few cases). If you are coming to Argentina to watch birds, is a must (I'm not the author cousin).

This is a wonderful story of a little girl that misses her mother. The illustrations throughout the book are beautiful and eye catching to the target audience. The exposure to Chabelita's culture allows young readers to experience a little bit of life that might be different from their own. This is a sweet story that transcends culture.

This is a really good book about people from Argentina and wild horses. I had to read this book for a class, but I truly enjoyed the book. Not only is this book multicultural it's also informative about the culture and how these people deal with horses, their line of work. Anyone interested in horses and how they catch and tame wild horses would enjoy this book. The story is mainly about one boy's journey and his wild horse, Cucharo. After the little boy finds Chucaro, he must endure hardship and make tough decisions, all for the love of his horse.

Guillermo O'Donnell has since the early 1970s devoted his academic quest to analyze and understand Authoritarianism and Democratization.

Firmly grounded in the history of his native Argentina and neighboring Latin American countries, he has over the years added to our understanding of the more suppressive forms of political regimes and their move towards democracy.

Counterpoint gives an excellent overview of Guillermo O'Donnell's research and include more personal reflections on political violence and poverty in Argentina.

His approach is that of a political scientist with a strong bend towards political economy. Democratization is what he thinks is right and the topic is analyzed using various approached ranging from the stringent political science article to the less structured essay.

For a student of democratization processes, the book contains key articles and essays launching the new concept of "delegative" democracy to describe emerging democracies in Latin America, Asia and post communist countries.

Reading Counterpoint leaves one with a renewed hope for democratization. However, O'Donnell's sobering analysis makes it clear that political development processes take time. Furthermore, his analysis underscores the fact that there is no autopilot in the history of countries that will bring their political system safe into the harbour of human dignity.

Azara's book is still the most important description for the area of the governments of Buenos Aires and Asunciòn at the end of the XVIII century. Azara was a member of the boundaries expedition that followed the San Ildefonso treaty, whose explorations were a complement to those, much more well known and publicized, done by Von Humboldt in the NW area of the spanish colonies in about the same period. The southern explorations were by no means less relevant, but no funds were available for a publication of the results so comprehensive as that by V.H., so this book is the main source for that venture. Azara describes the history, geography, plants, animals, indian tribes of the area. His geographic measurements and maps are remarkably accurate. He was called back to Spain in 1801.

The Cornell's study will be considered an important and different view of the study of households in the Americas; specially in the Andean area. It's a new point of view of the marxist perspective; so distant to the mexican and latinamerican school.

Miron Burgin is an european who studied in Harvard, and who wrote for his doctorate thesis this great book, "The Economic Aspects of Argentine Federalism, 1820-1852".

Truth to be told, it is not overly entertaining, but that is not its aim. Burgin's ambition was to shed come light on the importance of the economic aspects of Argentine Federalism. He writes quite fluently, and even though he gives lots of data, he somehow manages to surprise the reader, from time to time, with an appreciably good remark. He thinks that there is a noteworthy connection between the original institutional problem and the deficient economic structure of the country, and supports that belief with facts and intelligent considerations.

On the whole, a very good book, that I can recommend to those that are interested in Argentina's history.

It's difficult to classify "Facundo" written by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (argentine thinker, politician and educator) in 1845: it is at the same time history, myth, essay, pamphelt and sociological discourse. It was published for first time as a newspaper serial in Chile where Sarmiento was in exile and written against Rosas'dictatorchip in Argentina. The text is influenced by the Enlightment and specially by the romanticism. Because of the romantic influence, it tells Facundo Quiroga's biography since for romantic'stream a "great man" (Facundo in this case) expresses an epoch. This book has the intention of solving an enigma: how independence's revolution in Argentina (1810) reached Rosas ' dictactorship (1835-1852) This drama, product of the revolution, was caused by the combination of 2 elements which shouldn't have been combined: the city, civilization's field, and the countryside, barbarism's field. The book can be read as the city and the countryside were the characters.

Esta obra tem importante relevância para o estudo de fungos macroscópicos, sendo aconselhado para estudantes de botânica e demais interessados em micologia.

Written by what I believe to be a historian, this book offers a very clear and organised account of the Catholic Church in Argentina from the 1800's until present day. The content is very true to its title, as the perspective of the analysis is very much those of political realities and implications. It deals very much with how the organisation within the church, with internal controversies and crisis, the different identities of the church and the constant struggle for power and position by the clergy. This is seen in relation to the political realities of every epoch, and consequently how different ideologies of rule have made the church respond or proact in various ways - and not least, how the church has experienced separation within. Do not expect to obtain alot profound insight into the social dimension of the church, i.e, the position it has held and holds today among the people of the different classes that make up this nation, or how it plays a role in daily life of individuals. Incidentally, Burdick uses theory by the social anthropologist Victor Turner in conceptualising and organising the different phases of change in the relationship between church and state. This has made the analysis more accessible and basically more enjoyable. Not at all overly academic in style, but well structured and seemingly very well researched. PS, Burdicks suggestions regarding Peron's brake with the Catholic Church seem better outlined and more plausible than those of Donna Guy in Sex and Danger in Buenos Aires, even though they treat different subject matters.