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In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

Ningún trabajo sobre filosofía de la ciencia ha despertado tanta polémica en los años setenta como el Tratado contra el método de Paul Feyerabend. En esta nueva obra Feyerabend vuelve sobre esa polémica y amplía ,su crítica iconoclasta, más allá del problema de las reglas y los métodos científicos, a la orientación y la función social de la ciencia de nuestros días. En la primera parte del libro lanza un continuo e irreverente ataque contra el prestigio de la ciencia en Occidente. La noble autoridad del “experto” que para sí reclaman los científicos es, sostiene,...

A collection of important works dealing with such a new theme which is the study and management of water resources.

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