El universo en expansión

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

Making knowledge about evolution available to everyone, this simple and entertaining book offers answers to the most frequently asked questions. Throughout the text, the reader is reminded of the importance of understanding evolutionary processes in order to approach present day human behavior, including social conduct, as well as the difficulty of trying to decipher the nature of modern human beings without going back to their zoological origin. Divided into two sections, the first one builds the foundation for the latter, which explains the evolution of life, beginning at the physical...

Here is an intimate glimpse of the greatest scientist of our day, the brilliant physicist confined to a wheelchair whose "A Brief History of Time" has become the first worldwide scientific bestseller of the century. The story of Stephen Hawking's relentless quest for the secret of the origins of the universe will change forever the way you look at the stars . . . and your place among them.

Todavía hoy, cuando han transcurrido casi veinte años de su muerte, Richard Feynman (1918-1988) es recordado como un personaje mítico de la ciencia del siglo XX. Fue un físico extraordinario y extraordinariamente original, como muestran sus versiones de la electrodinámica cuántica (con sus celebres diagramas, llamados “de Feynman”) o de la propia mecánica cuántica. Pero también, y de ahí el cariño, casi veneración, que sus colegas sintieron por él, un hombre con un amor por la vida que traspasaba todas las fronteras, incluida la que separa a la ciencia y a los científicos de ...