Ordenación forestal. Ejercicios resueltos

El objetivo de este libro es cubrir las enseñanzas de la disciplina de la termodinámica en los alumnos de física, química e ingeniería. El texto está escrito fundamentalmente en unidades SI y contiene abundantes ejemplos resueltos, ejercicios y problemas.

Libro póstumo de Oliver Sacks, con diez ensayos imprescindibles que demuestran su erudición y su capacidad divulgativa. Dos semanas antes de fallecer, Oliver Sacks dejó preparado para su publicación este volumen, que reúne diez textos de temáticas diversas unidos en torno de una pregunta central cuya respuesta persiguió el autor a lo largo de toda su obra: qué es lo que nos configura como humanos. El libro es una perfecta muestra de las virtudes de Sacks como ensayista: sus profundos conocimientos e innovadoras ideas en el campo de la neurología; la erudición nunca pedante que le...

The rapid growth of the discipline of aquatic ecology has been driven both by scientific interest in the complexities of aquatic ecosystems and by their enormous environmental importance and sensitivity. This book focuses on the remarkably diverse roles played by underwater plants, and is divided into three parts: 10 thematic chapters, followed by 18 case studies, and rounded off by three integrative chapters. The topics range from macrophytes as fish food to macrophytes as mollusc and microbe habitat, making this of interest to aquatic ecologists as well as limnologists, ecosystem...

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...