Agora mesmo, ao ler estas linas, estas a utilizar a habilidade mais sorprendente e extraordinaria da tua mente: a linguaxe, unha ferramenta unica que usamos os humanos modernos para elaborar o pensamento e para comunicar todo tipo de ideas dunha mente a outra.
El presente volumen aborda de una forma global, documentada y actual el impacto que las actividades humanas -y muy especialmente a lo largo de los dos ultimos siglos- vienen dejando en el planeta Tierra en su conjunto, un impacto cuya huella en su superficie ha dado lugar a lo que puede considerarse una nueva era geologica: el Antropoceno.
Redactado en la decada de 1980 en torno a las observaciones realizadas por Frans de Waal en la colonia de chimpances instalada al aire libre del Zoo de Arnhem (Paises Bajos), La politica de los chimpances conocio un exito inmediato y extraordinario.
El interés por la divulgación de los principios científicos lleva a Isaac Asimov a analizar en "Grandes ideas de la ciencia" las hipótesis y descubrimientos que destacados personajes llevaron a cabo a lo largo de la historia, y que hicieron posible la evolución de sus respectivos ámbitos de conocimiento: Tales y Pitágoras en las matemáticas, Hipócrates en la medicina, Linneo y Darwin en la biología, Galileo, Russell y Wöhler en la astronomía, Faraday, Rumford y Planck en el dominio de la física, son algunos de los casos que el autor utiliza para realizar un ameno recorrido por la evolución del saber científico.
Predichas hace un siglo de forma asombrosa por Albert Einstein en su Teoría de la relatividad general (publicada en esta colección) y buscadas a tientas y con escepticismo por los científicos desde entonces, las ondas gravitatorias -tenues y escurridizas vibraciones del tejido mismo de la realidad que abren una nueva ventana al cosmos- sólo fueron detectadas por primera vez en 2015 gracias al experimento estadounidense LIGO, reforzado en breve por el detector europeo VIRGO, en el cual Matteo Barsuglia, autor de este libro, desempeña un papel central.
O leitmotiv deste libro son os resultados matemáticos que chocan coas nosas ideas intuitivas previas e que nos producen sorpresa, admiración e asombro.
El inexorable agotamiento de los combustibles fosiles del planeta y el calentamiento global, ya admitido y asumido, hace que el estudio de las energias renovables -es decir, aquellas que se reponen de manera natural y de forma sostenible- cobre cada vez mas importancia.
The formulation, analysis, and re-evaluation of mathematical models in population biology has become a valuable source of insight to mathematicians and biologists alike.
Este libro brillante, de lectura facil y apto para lectores pertenecientes a cualquier esfera de interes, explica en que consiste el metodo cientifico -un modo de pensar y de dar sentido al mundo- y propone ideas para aplicarlo a la vida cotidiana.
In this fascinating book, John Charap offers a panoramic view of the physicist's world as the twenty-first century opens--a view that is entirely different from the one that greeted the twentieth century.
A beautifully illustrated history of the many inventive, poetic, and alluring ways in which color swatches have been selected and stagedThe need to categorize and communicate color has mobilized practitioners and scholars for centuries.
Ants come alive on this fabulously illustrated journey into the heart of a bustling colonyAnts share a vibrant and complex communal life and remarkable abilities to communicate with each other.
The essential illustrated guide to how birds design and build their nestsnow fully revised and expandedBirds are the most consistently inventive builders, and their nests set the bar for functional design in nature.
Timely and provocative reflections on the future of the wild in an increasingly human worldThe Heart of the Wild brings together some of today's leading scientists, humanists, and nature writers to offer a thought-provoking meditation on the urgency of learning about and experiencing our wild places in an age of rapidly expanding human impacts.
An international group of distinguished scientists presents an up-to-date survey of quantitative problems at the forefront of modern evolutionary theory.
An epic excursion into one of the last great frontiers on EarthThe deep ocean comprises more than 90 percent of our planet's biosphere and is home to some of the world's most dazzling creatures, which thrive amid extreme pressures, scarce food supplies, and frigid temperatures.
A pioneering new nonlinear approach to a fundamental question in algebraic geometryOne of the crowning achievements of nineteenth-century mathematics was the proof that the geometry of lines in space uniquely determines the Cartesian coordinates, up to a linear ambiguity.
The first comprehensive guide to the aquatic plants of the regionBeneath the surface of bodies of freshwatersprings, streams, rivers, ponds and lakesthere is a world of plants of great variety and beauty, a realm that is often poorly known and understood.
A richly illustrated guide to edible mushrooms by one of Europe's leading fungi expertsIn this beautifully illustrated introductory guide, Jens Petersen shows how to successfully identify and forage for edible mushrooms, and then how to prepare them for the table to ensure a delicious culinary experience, even if you're a first-time forager.
A new threshold for the existence of weak solutions to the incompressible Euler equationsTo gain insight into the nature of turbulent fluids, mathematicians start from experimental facts, translate them into mathematical properties for solutions of the fundamental fluids PDEs, and construct solutions to these PDEs that exhibit turbulent properties.
If you've ever lost your keys, missed an appointment or wasted hours because you were distracted by a frivolous text or email message, then this book is for you.
Recently a symbiotic relationship between particle and nuclear physics has developed, with techniques and ideas from one field fertilizing developments in the other.
Part of the Princeton Aeronautical Paperback series designed to bring to students and research engineers outstanding portions of the twelve-volume High Speed Aerodynamics and Jet Propulsion series.
After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "e;one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
A classic treatment of convergence and uniformity in topology from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Studies seriesPrinceton University Press is proud to have published the Annals of Mathematics Studies since 1940.
This edition, considerably revised since Russian publication in 1954, now includes the theories of thermal and chain explosion reviewed in the light of very recent work.
Salomon Bochner's classic lectures on Fourier integrals from the acclaimed Annals of Mathematics Studies seriesPrinceton University Press is proud to have published the Annals of Mathematics Studies since 1940.
