Bogotá, nacimiento de una metrópoli

"Discussion by academics, government officials, and private sector leaders on the virtues of reducing the role of the Colombian State in favor of private interests, with the objective of increasing economic efficiency. Although a selective process of privatization has long been praised as beneficial for economies such as Colombia's, major sales of nationalized industries have not yet been achieved and successive governments have failed to elaborate a comprehensive privatization plan. The authors describe the benefits of moving in this direction and point out that the new Constitution opens...

En el 2016 se conmemoran doscientos años de la ejecución en el patíbulo, y por la espalda, de Francisco José de Caldas, primer científico colombiano, intelectual que no solo estudió la naturaleza, la geografía, el clima, las plantas y las poblaciones humanas de la nación, sino que, como ciudadano, se comprometió con la revolución política y la independencia. La Universidad del Rosario convocó a destacados historiadores, nacionales y extranjeros, que han investigado el proceso de independencia en sus distintas facetas.

Illustrated and annotated guide of the public sculptures and monuments located in 3 sectors of the city of Bogotá: Downtown (61); North (19); West (22). This is the first volume of an editorial project that will document the 500 works of public art patrimony that are part of the urban history of the capital city. The guide includes biographical notes of each featured artist, historic photographs on each sector and referential maps. Includes public art by noted 19th and 20th century artists and sculptors like Pietro Tenerani, Edgar Negret, Jim Amaral, Fernando Botero, Alejandro Otero,...

Afirmaciones y negaciones contiene los trazos de cinco figuras de la vida intelectual del siglo XX: Baldomero Sanín Cano, Gerardo Molina, Jaime Jaramillo Uribe, Max Weber, y Robert K. Merton. Ellos dejaron huella en la política, en las humanidades y en la investigación social, afirmando un camino de transformación y análisis.