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In August of 2005, scientists conducted a rapid inventory in Sierra del Divisor, a mountain range that rises up dramatically from the lowlands of central Amazonian Peru. This assessment, presented here in English and Spanish, collects their research on the plants and animals of the region as well as the social and cultural assets of local villages and their use and management of natural resources. The report includes recommendations for conservation and management, including steps to safeguard the voluntarily isolated indigenous people living in the region. Corine Vriesendorp is a...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

progress and happiness - however these terms may be understood in detail - as a significant and constitutive element of scientific inquiry. In this sense the question of the way in which sport really benefits people and contributes to their happiness, and under which individual and social conditions, is a scientific question. It assumes special significance when the fact is taken into account that in the field of sport science a general scepticism is shown towards those dogmas and pedagogical theses which take such an interpretation for granted in the absence of a firm empirical foundation...

¿Nunca te has preguntado cómo será el siglo XXII? ¿Qué pasará cuando la gente corriente despierte el 1 de enero de 2100? Michio Kaku te ofrece un ensayo relatado que te dará unas cuantas pistas sobre lo que será la vida en la Tierra (y fuera de ella) el próximo siglo. «La humanidad es como un ser cuyos brazos se alargan hasta tocar las estrellas, y cuyos pies están atascados en el barro. Por una parte, este siglo verá una nueva era de exploración espacial robótica, porque enviaremos satélites cuya misión será localizar en el espacio planetas gemelos de la Tierra, explorar las ...