Coloreando países de Oceanía

Las innovaciones tecnológicas a menudo son consecuencia del uso inteligente de nuevos materiales, pero también muchos desastres en ingeniería están causados por un mal uso de los mismos. Por ello es vital que el ingeniero profesional conozca cómo se seleccionan los materiales y sepa cuáles se ajustan a las demandas de un diseño en particular; es decir, demandas económicas, estéticas, de resistencia y de durabilidad. El ingeniero debe comprender las propiedades de los materiales y sus limitaciones, y esta obra resulta una guía útil. Este libro es adecuado para un curso de Materiales ...

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

Behind the appearance of an innovative vaccine there is a history of determination and struggle, of breaking established models, and of overcoming the mistrust that generates a new theory. In this book we are going to learn about those stories, the stories of great scientists who fought to prove new theories and are now behind vaccines that save or will save millions of lives. We will experience with them the moment when they discovered that they had defeated a virus. We will travel inside the infectious agents to learn about their ability to gain ground in humans, the biological tools they...

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