UCOPress News: «Árboles y arbustos autóctonos del Norte de África»

UCOPress, in collaboration with the universities of Granada, Seville and Huelva, has published the book Árboles y arbustos autóctonos del Norte de África (Native Trees and Shrubs of North Africa). The aim of this new publication is to provide up-to-date information, a practical field guide and a useful working tool for lecturers and students on degree courses in Forestry and Agricultural Engineering, Biology, Environmental Sciences, Geography and other Earth Sciences, as well as for those studying Medicine, Pharmacy and other scientific disciplines. It may also be very useful for technicians, naturalists and, in general, for all professionals and enthusiasts interested…

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Novedad UCOPress-EDUAL «Cancionero de Juan Alfonso de Baena»

UCOPress Editorial de la Universidad de Córdoba and the University of Almería Press (EDUAL) have jointly published a new critical edition of Cancionero de Juan Alfonso de Baena, a seminal work for the study of 15th-century Castilian poetry. The edition, prepared by professors Ana M. Rodado Ruiz, Carlos Mota Placencia, and Francisco Crosas López, offers a comprehensive revision of the text based on the sole manuscript preserved at the National Library of France (Paris). The work, presented in two volumes and totaling 2,090 pages, includes an extensive introduction, a detailed critical apparatus, explanatory notes, and indexes that facilitate consultation of…

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UCOPress has published “Del clasicismo a la modernidad. Historia de los movimientos cinematográficos (1915–1975)”

UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba has just published Del clasicismo a la modernidad. Historia de los movimientos cinematográficos (1915-1975) by Pedro Poyato Sánchez, Senior Professor at the University of Córdoba. Drawing on Bordwell’s concept of the cinematic movement, this work offers a coherent explanation of how to approach the history of cinema, moving beyond a mere jumble of names and dates. The aim is to construct a history centered on the classicism/modernity dialectic in order to provide an overview of cinema that transcends the rigid compartments adopted by most university textbooks in recent decades. The book is intended to foster…

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UCOPress has published “Actas del X Congreso de Investigadores Noveles”

UCOPress publishes academic papers presented by the University of Córdoba’s emerging researchers UCOPress has published in e-book format the papers that 12 female researchers and 8 male researchers—all in training and recipients of either a University of Córdoba Research Seed Grant or a MECD Collaboration Grant—presented at the University of Córdoba’s most recent Conference for Emerging Researchers, held in December. Titled Actas del X Congreso de Investigadores Noveles (Proceedings of the 10th Congress of Early-Career Researchers), the book is organized into five major areas (health sciences, exact and natural sciences, social, economic, and legal sciences, humanities, and engineering and technology),…

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The UCOPress has published “Vidas improvisadas”

UCOPress Editorial Universidad de Córdoba has just published Vidas improvisadas. Historias de menores infractores (Improvised Lives: Stories of Juvenile Offenders) by anthropologist Ignacio Alcalde, a professor at the University of Córdoba. The work, which straddles the line between fiction and ethnography, collects the life stories of former juvenile offenders and presents them through a narrator who engages with them, questioning and challenging some of the classic tenets of social theory. With a highly distinctive narrative style, the book invites readers to get to know these young people firsthand: how they ended up in a detention center, what transformations they underwent—if…

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