Desafíos del futuro

Francis Hallé analiza el ecosistema tropical de nuestro planeta: la uniformidad climática, la exótica flora y fauna silvestres, todo en interacción con las actividades del hombre. Lo anterior, apunta Hallé, nos permite observar en los trópicos una mezcla sorprendente de riqueza humana y desastres naturales: la deforestación, la degradación de los suelos, las hambrunas esporádicas y las enfermedades endémicas.

Esta obra pretende cubrir un curso basico de quimica analitica desde una perspectiva eminentemente practica. El objetivo es que el alumno adquiera una formacion basica sobre los equilibrios ionicos basicos en disolucion, asi como sus principales aplicaciones gravimetricas y volumetricas.

This book provides a comprehensive, self-contained introduction to one of the most exciting frontiers in astrophysics today: the quest to understand how the oldest and most distant galaxies in our universe first formed. Until now, most research on this question has been theoretical, but the next few years will bring about a new generation of large telescopes that promise to supply a flood of data about the infant universe during its first billion years after the big bang. This book bridges the gap between theory and observation. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers on...

With a new afterword, Why You Are Here- A speech on the opening of the COP26 climate summit As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet contains my witness statement, and my vision for the future - the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake, and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have...