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| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9788417547844 |
| Author | : Jorge Bolívar |
| Publisher | : Guadalmazán |
| Total Pages | : 383 |
| Release | : 2022-12-08 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 8419414506 |
En 1876 una corbeta inglesa, la HMS Challenger, arribaba al puerto de Portsmouth. Terminaba un viaje de tres años y medio durante los cuales recorrió 127 580 kilómetros estudiando los océanos de todo el mundo. Traía a bordo 4717 animales marinos antes desconocidos, algunos capturados a 5500 metros de profundidad. Esta extraordinaria aventura reveló por primera vez la riqueza biológica del mar, que antes se creía un espacio vacío más allá de la superficie. Desde entonces el estudio de los océanos se ha convertido en la clave para entender el milagro de la vida en nuestro planeta. Hoy sabemos que mares y océanos suman el noventa por ciento de las zonas habitables de la Tierra; allí viven ocho de cada diez seres vivos, entre ellos los más increíbles y extraños que conocemos. De los abismos submarinos a las arenas de las costas, de los arrecifes de coral a los bosques sumergidos, de los polos congelados a los desiertos de lodo, este libro revela los descubrimientos más recientes de la biología marina, muchos de ellos considerados imposibles hasta hace muy poco. En estas páginas conocerán la inteligencia extrema de los delfines, la trágica vida sexual de los pulpos, la majestuosidad de los tiburones o la importancia de los seres diminutos del plancton, en una narración que hace al lector cómplice de las aventuras y los exploradores que lograron desvelar esa realidad maravillosa. El mar sigue siendo la última frontera del conocimiento de la Tierra. Y cada hallazgo, cada ser nuevo que encontramos, consigue superar nuestra capacidad de asombro.
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| Total Pages | : 772 |
| Release | : 1923 |
| Genre | : Natural history |
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| Author | : Wade Davis |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2010-05-11 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1439126836 |
The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.
| Author | : Thomas B. F. Cummins |
| Publisher | : Getty Publications |
| Total Pages | : 198 |
| Release | : 2008-09-23 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 0892368942 |
Here is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical components--quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments--but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.
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| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 1958 |
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| Author | : Peter Uvin |
| Publisher | : Kumarian Press |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1998 |
| Genre | : Economic assistance |
| ISBN | : 1565490835 |
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| Author | : T.F Glick |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2012-12-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9401006024 |
I Twenty-five years ago, at the Conference on the Comparative Reception of Darwinism held at the University of Texas in 1972, only two countries of the Iberian world-Spain and Mexico-were represented.' At the time, it was apparent that the topic had attracted interest only as regarded the "mainstream" science countries of Western Europe, plus the United States. The Eurocentric bias of professional history of science was a fact. The sea change that subsequently occurred in the historiography of science makes 1972 appear something like the antediluvian era. Still, we would like to think that that meeting was prescient in looking beyond the mainstream science countries-as then perceived-in order to test the variation that ideas undergo as they pass from center to periphery. One thing that the comparative study of the reception of ideas makes abundantly clear, however, is the weakness of the center/periphery dichotomy from the perspective of the diffusion of scientific ideas. Catholics in mainstream countries, for example, did not handle evolution much better than did their corre1igionaries on the fringes. Conversely, Darwinians in Latin America were frequently better placed to advance Darwin's ideas in a social and political sense than were their fellow evolutionists on the Continent. The Texas meeting was also a marker in the comparative reception of scientific ideas, Darwinism aside. Although, by 1972, scientific institutions had been studied comparatively, there was no antecedent for the comparative history of scientific ideas.
| Author | : Ratana Chuenpagdee |
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| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Small-scale fisheries |
| ISBN | : 9783319949390 |
The importance of small-scale fisheries for sustainable livelihoods and communities, food security, and poverty eradication is indisputable. With the endorsement of the 'Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries', FAO member states recognize that governments, civil society organizations, and research communities all have a role to play in helping small-scale fisheries achieve these goals. This book argues that policies targeting small-scale fisheries need to be based on a solid and holistic knowledge foundation, and support the building of governance capacity at local, national, and global levels. The book provides rich illustrations from around the world of why such knowledge production needs to be transdisciplinary, drawing from multiple disciplinary perspectives and the knowledge that small-scale fisheries actors have, in order to identify problems and explore innovative solutions. Transdisciplinarity for Small-Scale Fisheries Governance: Analysis and Practice, edited by Ratana Chuenpagdee and Svein Jentoft, successfully demonstrates how small-scale fisheries are important and what social and political conditions are conducive to their wellbeing. The volume contributes tremendously to building capacity of fisheries communities and policy-makers to make the ideals of small-scale fisheries a reality. It establishes the ecological, social, and economic sense behind small-scale fisheries. A milestone reference for all those who believe in small-scale fisheries and are keen to defend them with quality evidence! -- Sebastian Mathew, Executive Director, International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) The Small-Scale Fisheries Guidelines guiding principles call for holistic and integrated approaches for their implementation. This book will help a new generation of scientists, policy-makers, and small-scale fisheries actors make the fundamental connections between different disciplines in science, traditional knowledge, and policy to guide a collective process towards sustainable small-scale fisheries. The book contains an inspiring collection of practical cases from around the world, complemented by deep dives into dimensions of small-scale fisheries, like food security, stewardship, climate change, and gender, which all call for transdisciplinary approaches. -- Nicole Franz, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Rome, Italy.--
| Author | : James Gleick |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 400 |
| Release | : 2011-03-01 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0307379574 |
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
