Máquinas vivientes

Provides an engaging and easy to use book with an innovative and interactive media program. It achieves a unique balance in emphasizing concepts without sacrificing scientific accuracy. The new MediaTutor, found at the end of each chapter, integrates the book and media by providing a brief description of the CD or WEB activity and the time requirement for completion. Earth Watch/Health Watch essays cover biodiversity, ozone depletion/prenatal diagnosis, and sexually transmitted diseases. Major topics include The Life Of A Cell, Patterns Of Inheritance, Evolution, Plant Anatomy And Physiology; ...

«Este libro habla sobre el cerebro, pero no solo sobre neuronas o sinapsis, sino también sobre temores, pasiones y anhelos, producto de la actividad cerebral, explorando el lado más apasionante de la ciencia.» Este libro quiere llevarte a un territorio sin fronteras donde la ciencia se entremezcla con la búsqueda de la Eterna Juventud o con una ropa interior antigravitatoria que permitía —decían— levitar y alejarte del suelo. Hay aquí música, pasiones, política, ambición y entrega. Un cóctel de historias asombrosas para aquellos que, como Sacks, viven la vida con curiosidad,...

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...

La invasion de las algas. Los lagos y el hombre. Los lagos estan hechos de agua. Como respira un lago. El fosforo, la estrella matutina. El medico del medio ambiente. Detergentes y lagos. El ano del NTA. Signos o soluciones?