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José Ramón Alonso
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Del café a las galaxias, de las autopistas a los agujeros negros, todo el universo se puede describir con solo siete unidades de medida. ¿No lo creéis? Para demostrarlo bastarán las cautivadoras historias narradas por el profesor de física Piero Martin. Medimos el mundo desde siempre. Para conocerlo y explorarlo, para vivirlo, para interactuar con nuestros semejantes. La humanidad mide para conocer el pasado, comprender el presente, planificar el futuro. Sin embargo, se necesitaron milenios para que dos revoluciones, la científica iniciada con Galileo y la francesa, comenzaran el camino para hacer que el sistema de medición compartido no se basara ya en artefactos humanos perecederos,...
¿Qué son los recuerdos? ¿Para qué sirven? ¿Cómo se construyen y logran persistir mientras la materia que los sustenta cambia sin cesar? Los recuerdos son las huellas que la vida deja al pasar, trazos fugaces que convierten el ayer en algo tangible. Este libro parte de esta idea esencial para adentrarse en los fragmentos de la memoria, explorando cómo el pasado se reencarna en el presente. Andrea Levi desvela el misterioso nexo entre lo más etéreo de nuestro ser —la memoria— y lo más diminuto —nuestras células—. A través de la neurobiología, el libro revela la vida secreta de los recuerdos, tejidos por neuronas que dialogan, conservan, transforman e incluso transmiten mem...
This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector, which exceeded the relative economic and political clout of the country at the time, reflects the combination of domestic and foreign interests. Each contribution inserts the Spanish case within the international development of nuclear energy, but also shows how the Spanish nuclear program came about, how it was financed, and who the main architects and beneficiaries at the industrial, financial, commercial and banking levels were; all without losing sight of the energy policy aspects such as energy mix and energy security. The volume provides useful analysis and sources for a variety of core fields across the social sciences including economic history of post-war Europe, industrial and energy policy, international relations and history of technology.
This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the ‘nationalization’ efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific na...