Guía de helechos de la Península Ibérica y Baleares

Preparado como una introducción a los problemas del orden biológico proporciona un resumen al día muy incisivo, ideal para que un amplio público esté al corriente del pensamiento más reciente en este campo de la ciencia.

Libro que presenta una selección de los más bellos jardines de España, clasificados según su diversa tipología (sitios reales, jardines botánicos, patios, cármenes, claustros, jardines hispanoárabes o contemporáneos). Cada uno de los jardines –cuidadosamente ilustrado- lleva incluida su correspondiente ficha y texto individual. Además, el libro se cierra con una bibliografía recomendada.

Charles Darwin spent the majority of his 1832-1833 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early experiences in the Cape Horn region may have triggered his first ideas on human evolution. Darwin was not only a field naturalist, but also a scholar of the observations of the European explorers who preceded him. This book illuminates the foundations of Cape Horn’s natural history records as they oriented Darwin’s own explorations and his ideas on natural selection. Richly illustrated with maps and color photographs, this book also offers a guide to the sites visited by...

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...