Notas de clase. Manual de farmacognosia

Des de tiempos remotos los humanos han observado el comportamiento animal, primero para sobrevivir, luego para cazarlos y después para domesticarlos. Hoy en día, en el mundo natural y urbano en el que vivimos ¿quién no ha visto un ave alzar sus coloridas alas y aletearlas vigorosamente hacia una hembra, o a una ardilla comiendo semillas? Por un motivo u otro, los seres humanos han estado y siguen interesados en la conducta animal. La etología, la ciencia que estudia el comportamiento animal, permite aproximarnos de una perspectiva sistemática a responder cuáles son las causas...

Behind the appearance of an innovative vaccine there is a history of determination and struggle, of breaking established models, and of overcoming the mistrust that generates a new theory. In this book we are going to learn about those stories, the stories of great scientists who fought to prove new theories and are now behind vaccines that save or will save millions of lives. We will experience with them the moment when they discovered that they had defeated a virus. We will travel inside the infectious agents to learn about their ability to gain ground in humans, the biological tools they...

El tema que trata este libro persigue dos objetivos principales. Por una parte, estudiar los saberes en el Renacimiento y en el Barroco, acercándose, entre otros autores, a Werner Rolewinck, Alfonso de la Torre, Pico de la Mirándola, Tomás Moro, Francisco de Vitoria y la escolástica, el Brocense, Montaigne, Descartes-San Agustín, Sebastián Izquierdo, Hobbes, hasta llegar a Leibniz.

Following the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative worldviews. The Quantum Enigma begins with the major recognition that each of these suffers from a certain residual Cartesianism that has been smuggled in unconsciously. It turns out that the moment this hidden and problematic premise is discarded, quantum theory begins to make sense in a way that it never has before. As the author shows, it is now possible, for the first time, to integrate the findings of quantum physics into a worldview that...