El legado de Darwin

The International Atomic Energy Agency has had a leading responsibility in preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and misuse of materials intended for nuclear energy across the world. Originally published in 1987, in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 which proved the utmost importance of the agency, Scheinman explores the function of the IAEA and the challenges it faced. This report also lists ways that the agency could be strengthened touching on topics such as leadership roles, support for safeguarding functions and prevention from the agency being overwhelmed by international...

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

En un estilo claro, despojado de trminos tcnicos, Alberto Clemente de la Torre traza un recorrido por los principales temas de la fsica cuntica destinados a los filo-sofos, es decir, a todos aquellos que quieren descubrir uno de los temas ms sugerentes de la ciencia contempornea, sin requerir para ello conocimientos previos.

'La fisica en preguntas' se centra en el enfoque cualitativo previo a los análisis teóricos, obligando así al estudiante (y al profesor) a pensar antes de recurrir automáticamente a las ecuaciones.