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Entre la física que suele enseñarse en las aulas y la que se hace en los laboratorios. Media una distancia similar a la que separa un tratado gramatical de una novela. Pese a su indudable importancia, el enfoque cuantitativo arrastra el inconveniente de que la aplicación mecánica de las matemáticas, al poner en marcha un pensamiento instrumental ya formulado, impide que el alumno comprenda y asimile debidamente los conceptos.

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...

«El peligro que tienen las enfermedades infecciosas no se ha ido. Está empeorando. Aunque no sabemos dónde aparecerá el nuevo virus o la nueva bacteria, es seguro que habrá nuevos brotes». Robert Shope, epidemiólogo De la mano del autor de Superbacterias emprendemos un colosal viaje a la historia de la lucha contra el mayor enemigo de la humanidad: las bacterias patógenas. Las bacterias estaban aquí mucho antes de que los seres humanos poblaran la Tierra, y seguirán con sus minúsculos asuntos cuando nos hayamos extinguido. Desde hace más de 10.000 años, muchos de estos...

Following the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative worldviews. The Quantum Enigma begins with the major recognition that each of these suffers from a certain residual Cartesianism that has been smuggled in unconsciously. It turns out that the moment this hidden and problematic premise is discarded, quantum theory begins to make sense in a way that it never has before. As the author shows, it is now possible, for the first time, to integrate the findings of quantum physics into a worldview that...