La coleccion Delito, Conducta Criminal y Victimas tiene como objetivo fundamental ofrecer una cobertura cientifica -academica y aplicada- a diversas demandas sociales relacionadas con tipos penales especificos, los modus operandi criminales y las victimas de delitos.
En el corazon del Pacifico Oriental, la isla Malpelo alberga una de las comunidades herpetologicas mas singulares del Neotropico: Anolis agassizi, Diploglossus millepunctatus y Phyllodactylus transversalis, tres especies de lagartos endemicos moldeados por el aislamiento extremo, la escasez de recursos y condiciones ambientales adversas.
This comprehensive guide transforms abstract sustainability theory into practical, real-world solutions, offering readers the proven policy frameworks, case studies, and green infrastructure strategies needed to balance urban economic growth with environmental stewardship.
Taking French participation in the Seven Years War as a case study, this book examines the effects of war on the economy and on government finance, finding that the economic toll has usually been exaggerated and the financial toll seriously underestimated.
Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical arrangement of land expresses American ideals, assumptions, and beliefs.
A Geological Miscellany is an entertainment: a book of anecdotes, epigrams, documents, and cartoons, all illustrating (although not all intentionally) the humorous side of the profession.
This book, based on papers from a symposium at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, shows the necessity of developing a new philosophy in place of the classical uniformitarianism based only on processes familiar in human experience.
The famous geological research ship Glomar Challenger was a radically new instrument that revolutionized earth science in the same sense that the cyclotron revolutionized nuclear physics, and its deep-sea drilling voyages, conducted from 1968 through 1983, were some of the great scientific adventures of our time.
This volume is a compendium of the rich archeological and literary evidence on the Iranian world in its larger sense, comprising part of what is now Soviet Central Asia and Afghanistan as well as Iran proper.
After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues of urban life: the political uses of the streets; verbal assaults and the defamation of racial groups; the legitimate restriction of public speech; segregation, busing, and the use of racial quotas; education, housing, and the problem of the ghetto"e;; prostitution, gambling, and the "e;regulation of vices.
In an attempt to understand the political history of the German middle class in the nineteenth century, Jeffry Diefendorf studies in detail the political, social, and economic behavior of three business communities on the Left Bank of the Rhine between 1789 and 1834.
A pioneer in American social history, Jackson Turner Main presents the first continuous and detailed picture of the economic and social structure of an American colony from its founding up to the Revolution.
Focusing on mountain ranges that are relatively unfamiliar to most geologists, this work expands our view of tectonics beyond a standardized textbook approach and illustrates both the extraordinary variety of mountain ranges over the world through time and many of the basic similarities they display.
Here twenty-one leading paleontologists use important refinements in fossil diversity data to provide critical evaluations of older hypotheses of diversification and extinction processes and to propose fresh interpretations.
The book shows that earlier studies exaggerated the effects of rural land scarcity, foreign capital inflows, and population growth on Third World urbanization.
The rise of Japan from agrarianism to a position as one of the leading industrial powers is one of the most dramatic and meaningful phenomena in economic history.
Christopher Scholz, an internationally recognized expert in the geological fields of seismology and tectonics, here offers a captivating memoir of a three-month-long field expedition to northern Botswana.
This important volume reviews the status of investigations aimed at deciphering the geologic, biogeographic, and archaeological records for the Quaternary Era-the last million years of geologic time-for the area of continental United States.
Approximately 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, the three kilometers of ice that covered Canada, the large European glaciers in Fennoscandia and Siberia, and many other minor glaciers melted quickly.
Planear desde los hechos territoriales propone una forma de planear y gestionar el territorio a partir de las transformaciones y transiciones de las aglomeraciones urbanas, de las regiones y territorios rurales en Colombia, y America Latina.
This is a richly illustrated reference book that provides a unique, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the rocks and structures of fault and shear zones.
A Comprehensive Book on Industrial Waste and Its Management is a practical reference that explains the sources, characteristics, treatment, and disposal of industrial wastes generated by various industries.
The purpose of this book is to acquaint the geoscientist with issues associated with the debate over orientation and magnitude of stress in the lithosphere.
As economic adviser and manager of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski observed at first hand the crisis that preceded the overthrow of the Belaunde administration on October 3, 1968.
Este libro es una compilacion de ensayos que abordan las migraciones y desplazamientos provocados por razones climaticas y otras causas socioambientales, con un enfoque particular en las realidades latinoamericanas.
Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "e;protected"e; for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries.
This book sets forth the physical, mathematical, and numerical foundations of computer models used to understand and predict the global ocean climate system.
