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El presente libro “Ferrocarril, turismo y sostenibilidad” recopila una serie trabajos que pretenden adentrar al lector en el fascinante mundo que combina los tres aspectos. Estructurado en dieciséis capítulos, a cargo de más de una treintena de profesores procedentes de más de una decena de universidades españolas y europeas, el libro repasa diferentes aspectos de gran interés y actualidad en el ámbito de su amplio título. El libro ha sido coordinado por los profesores José Manuel Hernández Mogollón, Juan Antonio Mondéjar Jiménez, Francisco Javier Ortega Rosell y Esteban Pérez Calderón.
The guide is for those directly involved in MSPs to provide both the conceptual foundations and practical tools that underpin successful partnerships. This work has been inspired by the motivation and passion that comes when people dare to "walk in each other's shoes" to find new paths toward shared ambitions for the future.
This book reconfigures the study of the origins of the Enlightenment in the Spanish Empire. Challenging dominant interpretations of the period, this book shows that early eighteenth-century Spanish authors turned to Enlightenment ideas to reinvent Spain’s role in the European balance of power. And while international law grew to provide a legal framework that could safeguard peace, Spanish officials, diplomats, and authors, hardened by the failure of Spanish diplomacy, sought instead to regulate international relations by drawing on investment, profit, and self-interest. The book shows, on the basis of new archival research, that the Diplomatic Enlightenment sought to turn the Spanish Empire into a space for closer political cooperation with other European and non-European states and empires.
From 1900 to 1924 Spain experienced a stage of vigorous academic freedom and unfettered scientific inquiry that strikingly contrasted with the repressive atmosphere of the periods before and after. Thomas Glick explores this "recovery of science" by focusing on the national discussion provoked by Einstein's trip to Spain in 1923. His visit stimulated a debate on the nature and social value of science that was remarkable in a society so recently awakened to the scientific role in the process of modernization. Einstein's universal appeal created the unlikely occasion for a fascination with science that cut across social classes and previously established domains of discourse. The political Rig...
About Trees considers our relationship with language, landscape, perception, and memory in the Anthropocene. The book includes texts and artwork by a stellar line up of contributors including Jorge Luis Borges, Andrea Bowers, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Lovelace and dozens of others. Holten was artist in residence at Buro BDP. While working on the book she created an alphabet and used it to make a new typeface called Trees. She also made a series of limited edition offset prints based on her Tree Drawings.
"Wildlife in a Changing World" presents an analysis of the 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Beginning with an explanation of the IUCN Red List as a key conservation tool, it goes on to discuss the state of the world s species and provides the latest information on the patterns of species facing extinction in some of the most important ecosystems in the world, highlighting the reasons behind their declining status. Areas of focus in the report include: freshwater biodiversity, the status of the world s marine species, species susceptibility to climate change impacts, the Mediterranean biodiversity hot spot, and broadening the coverage of biodiversity assessments."
Este primer volumen comprende dos partes bien diferenciadas. La primera esta dedicada a los elementos de fisica de las radiaciones y la segunda a los metodos de deteccion y de dosimetria de las radiaciones. La obra, que se completa con un segundo volumen, esta dirigida tanto a profesionales como a estudiantes que deseen ampliar sus conocimientos en el campo de las radiaciones ionizantes, su utilizacion y sus riesgos