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La presente edición del "Herbarium Mutisianum" recoge el catálogo actualizado de un herbario colectado en el siglo XVIII en el Virreinato de Nueva Granada y que forma parte del Patrimonio Histórico Científico y Cultural de la Humanidad. Versa sobre las plantas que José Celestino Mutis (1732-1808) reunió desde su llegada a América en 1760 y, sobre todo, durante la expedición científica que dirigió en aquellos territorios entonces españoles (hoy Colombia) y que, a su muerte, su sobrino Sinforoso Mutis continuó dirigiendo hasta 1816.

Esta antología de críticas publicadas originalmente en el New York Review of Books por Stephen Jay Gould, célebre y combativo biólogo darwinista, se ocupa de asuntos como la sociobiología, las teorías raciales, la ingeniería genética y la genética molecular, así como de autores como Jeremy Rifkin o Barbara McClintock.

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 weather on planet Earth is a vital and sometimes fatal force in human affairs. Efforts to control or reduce the harmful impacts of weather go back far in time. In this, the latest National Academies' assessment of weather modification, the committee was asked to assess the ability of current and proposed weather modification capabilities to provide beneficial impacts on water resource management and weather hazard mitigation. It examines new technologies, reviews advances in numerical modeling on the cloud and mesoscale, and considers how improvements in computer capabilities might be...