De Humanos y Gonfoterios

This book is a Spanish translation of Faecal Sludge Management: Systems Approach for Implementation and Operation It is estimated that literally billions of residents in urban and peri-urban areas of Africa, Asia, and Latin America are served by onsite sanitation systems (e.g. various types of latrines and septic tanks). Until recently, the management of faecal sludge from these onsite systems has been grossly neglected, partially as a result of them being considered temporary solutions until sewer-based systems could be implemented. However, the perception of onsite or decentralized...

The only comprehensive treatment available, it will be the definitive resource for amateur naturalists as well as professionals with an interest in this rapidly changing biogeographical region.

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current researches on science in the Muslim-Arab world. The papers deal with the religious and institutional context, mathematics, optics, astronomy, mechanics, natural philosophy, and pharamacology.The present volume also includes a general author index of the 21 volumes that make up the proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science.

Se recogen en el presente volumen distintos trabajos sobre textos técnicos antiguos, medievales y renacentistas, que abordan la transmisión de la Ciencia desde la Antigüedad al Renacimiento estudiada desde la perspectiva de la Filología Clásica. En disciplinas como la Zoología, la Botánica y la Fitoterapia, la Medicina y la Astronomía, se abordan cuestiones relativas, por un lado, a los orígenes griegos y latinos de las ideas, a la pervivencia o el cambio de las mismas, y a su asimilación en la Edad Media y el Renacimiento. Por otro lado, se atiende a la creación y características ...