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Los fundamentos esenciales de la biología de las plantas: su evolución, biodiversidad, anatomía, fisiología y taxonomía, los ecosistemas y la contaminación, la agricultura y la obtención de materias primas, los organismos transgénicos, las drogas y los avances de la biotecnología. ¿Hay alas en mi helado? ¿Hace cuánto que la Humanidad se droga? ¿Cómo saben las semillas cuándo germinar si no tienen cerebro? ¿Las plantas pueden defenderse? ¿Cómo escaparon las plantas de pasados cambios climáticos? Si se destruye un bosque ¿vuelve a crecer?
One animal left India in 1515, caged in the hold of a Portuguese ship, and sailed around Africa to Lisbon—the first of its species to see Europe for more than a thousand years. The other crossed the Atlantic from South America to Madrid in 1789, its huge fossilized bones packed in crates, its species unknown. How did Europeans three centuries apart respond to these two mysterious beasts—a rhinoceros, known only from ancient texts, and a nameless monster? As Juan Pimentel explains, the reactions reflect deep intellectual changes but also the enduring power of image and imagination to shape our understanding of the natural world. We know the rhinoceros today as “Dürer’s Rhinoceros,”...
Biomedical Diagnostics and Clinical Technologies: Applying High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing disseminates knowledge regarding high performance computing for medical applications and bioinformatics. This critical reference source contains a valuable collection of cutting-edge research chapters for those working in the broad field of medical informatics and bioinformatics.
Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
"Soure of information on conditions and life in the Hispanic Southwest during the last years of the colonial regime."--From the translator's preface.
Provides a new perspective and focus on the human dimension Offers a new critical approach to the subject, drawing on a range of theories from cognitive to social and psychological Provides empirical evidence of what the technologization of the workplace means to translators
In this second edition of The Sociology of Food and Agriculture, students are provided with a substantially revised and updated introductory text to this emergent field. The book begins with the recent development of agriculture under capitalism and neo-liberal regimes, and the transformation of farming and peasant agriculture from a small-scale, family-run way of life to a globalized system. Topics such as the global hunger and obesity challenges, GM foods, and international trade and subsidies are assessed as part of the world food economy. The final section concentrates on themes of sustainability, food security, and food sovereignty. The book concludes on a positive note, examining alter...