La ciudad menguada

Los estudios de la historia familiar, nacidos por el interés de aclarar el eterno dilema "de dónde venimos y adónde vamos", induce a multitud de personas a indagar sobre los antepasados. Ante esta situación se comienza por preguntar a padres y abuelos nombres, oficios, anécdotas familiares, a encontrarse con documentos diversos que puede haber en cada casa, para luego ir a investigar en archivos civiles y eclesiásticos lo que a cada uno le interesa de su propia familia, iniciando así un árbol genealógico. Cuando se ha conseguido hacer acopio de papeles y de los respectivos nombres,...

Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems – how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology". What’s more, he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with...

Primera guía ilustrada de la flora del Sistema Ibérico oriental y áreas vecinas (centro-este de España) que permite identificar, mediante claves dicotómicas

Of all the different areas in computational chemistry, density functional theory (DFT) enjoys the most rapid development. Even at the level of the local density approximation (LDA), which is computationally less demanding, DFT can usually provide better answers than Hartree-Fock formalism for large systems such as clusters and solids. For atoms and molecules, the results from DFT often rival those obtained by ab initio quantum chemistry, partly because larger basis sets can be used. Such encouraging results have in turn stimulated workers to further investigate the formal theory as well as...