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Hormones and Reproduction of Vertebrates, Volume 2: Amphibians is the second of five second-edition volumes representing a comprehensive and integrated overview of hormones and reproduction in fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The book includes coverage of endocrinology, neuroendocrinology, physiology, behavior, and anatomy of amphibian reproduction. It provides a broad treatment of the roles of pituitary, thyroid, adrenal, and gonadal hormones in all aspects of reproduction, as well as descriptions of major life history events. New to this edition is a concluding assessment of the effect of environmental influences on amphibians. Initial chapters in this book broadly examine...
Doomed to hell, Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca is confronted by two different versions of his former self.
Roving vigilantes, fear-mongering politicians, hysterical pundits, and the looming shadow of a seven hundred-mile-long fence: the US–Mexican border is one of the most complex and dynamic areas on the planet today. Hyperborder provides the most nuanced portrait yet of this dynamic region. Author Fernando Romero presents a multidisciplinary perspective informed by interviews with numerous academics, researchers, and organizations. Provocatively designed in the style of other kinetic large-scale studies like Rem Koolhaas's Content and Bruce Mau’s Massive Change, Hyperborder is an exhaustively researched report from the front lines of the border debate.
El volumen que ahora presentamos se muestra por tanto no sólo como una vía para conocer, con sus aciertos y sus limitaciones, sus virtudes y sus carencias, cuáles son las líneas temáticas y las perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas que se siguen en el momento actual entre quienes cultivan la Historia de la Medicina dentro de nuestras fronteras, sino también, cómo éstos se plantean sus relaciones con otras áreas y disciplinas, qué pueden ofrecer a ellas y qué es lo que esperan que éstas puedan aportar para mejorar la historiografía médica. Primera parte: EL SABER MÉDICO Género y saber médico La adquisición del saber y sus aplicaciones. Saber médico y construcción de la e...
The development and implementation of new technology devices to help professionals, athletes, and non-athletes improve their physical fitness, performance, health, and well-being have emerged in the last few years. This book briefly overviews the current state of the art in technology applied to sports, providing examples, literature syntheses, and recent applications to sports, focused on the most important evidenced-based developments in this area. Attention is drawn to issues and unusual matters that may arise when it comes to technological innovation applied to sport. For the reader, this could be a different perspective on technological progress in physical activity.
This is the first English translation of Federico Garci· Lorc·'s Impressions and Landscapes published in 1918 in which the Spanish writer shows his early promise as a young artist. In this work he reveals the ideas and experimental stylistic features that characterize his later writings. The introduction provides historical, literary, and cultural background of Lorc·'s time, and the notes supply explanations about uncommon Spanish and foreign references in these essays.
Includes entries for maps and atlases.