Sueños de ciencia

¿Quién inventó el número cero? ¿Por qué hay 60 segundos en un minuto? ¿Cómo es de grande el infinito? ¿Dónde se cruzan las líneas paralelas? ¿Es cierto que el aleteo de una mariposa puede causar una tormenta en la otra punta del mundo? 50 cosas que hay que saber sobre matemáticas desgrana uno a uno los cincuenta conceptos matemáticos -antiguos, modernos, cotidianos y esotéricos- que nos permitirán entender y dar forma al mundo que nos rodea. Empezando por el número cero, el libro nos introduce en los orígenes de las matemáticas, desde las fracciones egipcias hasta los...

Reúne más de 40 relatos acerca de la pesca y sus múltiples variantes. Su autor, Emilio Fernández, nos presenta una serie de situaciones y consideraciones fruto de su larga experiencia y práctica de este deporte

The fear and the desolation that evaporize from the asphalt and embankment from the neighbor city at El Paso, Texas has turn Ciudad Juarez in a city of notorious fame. The deads, -some of them with names, a lot others without them-, still waiting that someone reply her, deaf deads, dumb authorities. The public opinion has its turn. Is our time to talk, suppose and expose solutions, guilties, ideas. From the elucidations of Watson and Crick, as far as seventies with the genetic revolution and the advances in molecular biology, we reach the nineties, where the human reproduction occupy a niche...

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...