Download or read book Auge y ca da de los dinosaurios written by Steve Brusatte and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La historia de los dinosaurios como jamás te la han contado. Tiranosaurios primitivos del tamaño de un ser humano, bestias carnívoras de dimensiones descomunales, misteriosos reptiles emplumados... Los dinosaurios, las criaturas más formidables de la Tierra, se desvanecieron hace ya sesenta y seis millones de años, pero siguen siendo uno de los misterios más intrigantes de todos los tiempos. En Auge y caída de los dinosaurios, la joven estrella de la paleontología Steve Brusatte repasa la evolución de estos extraordinarios seres mientras nos hace partícipes de sus apasionantes expediciones alrededor del mundo y sus recientes descubrimientos, que ponen en entredicho todo cuanto creíamos saber sobre la evolución de los dinosaurios. Desde los inicios del Triásico hasta su repentina y catastrófica extinción al final del Cretácico, esta electrizante obra redefine la historia de un mundo perdido y desentierra los enigmáticos orígenes, la enorme diversidad y el apasionante legado de unas criaturas legendarias. Apadrinado por la Scientific American, éste no es otro libro más sobre saurios extinguidos, sino la prueba definitiva de que la saga continúa.
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Download or read book Auge y ca da de los dinosaurios La nueva historia de un mundo perdido The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs Dinosaurs as they have never been told before written by Steve Brusatte and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los dinosaurios, como jamás te los habían contado. Tiranosaurios primitivos del tamaño de un ser humano, monstruos carnívoros de dimensiones descomunales, misteriosos reptiles emplumados... Los dinosaurios, las criaturas más formidables de la Tierra, se desvanecieron hace ya sesenta y seis millones de años, pero siguen siendo uno de los misterios más intrigantes de todos los tiempos. En Auge y caída de los dinosaurios, la joven estrella de la paleontología Steve Brusatte repasa la evolución de estos extraordinarios seres mientras nos hace partícipes de sus apasionantes expediciones alrededor del mundo y sus recientes descubrimientos, que ponen en entredicho todo cuanto creíamos saber sobre la evolución de los dinosaurios. Desde los inicios del Triásico hasta su repentina y catastrófica extinción al final del Cretácico, este electrizante libro redefine la historia de un mundo perdido y desentierra los enigmáticos orígenes, la catastrófica extinción, la enorme diversidad y el apasionante legado de unas criaturas legendarias. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Primitive human-sized tyrannosaurs, monstrous carnivores of gigantic dimensions, and mysterious feathered raptors . . . Dinosaurs, the most fearsome and spectacular creatures on Earth, vanished sixty-six million years ago, but they are still one of the world’s most intriguing mysteries of all time. In The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, young paleontologist Steve Brusatte traces the evolution of these extraordinary beings while making us part of their exciting globe-trotting expeditions and their recent discoveries, which call into question everything we thought we knew about the evolution of the dinosaurs. From the beginning of the Triassic period until their sudden and tragic extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, this electrifying book redefines the history of a lost world and unearths these legendary creatures’ enigmatic beginnings, their catastrophic extinction, their great diversity, and their exciting legacy.
Download or read book Auge y reinado de los mam feros written by Steve Brusatte and published by DEBATE. This book was released on 2024-02-15 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La arrolladora historia de los animales que sobrevivieron al apocalipsis y han heredado la Tierra. « Auge y reinado de los mamíferos es nada menos que un thriller que revela la suerte, los giros evolutivos y las catástrofes casi apocalípticas que han permitido a los mamíferos, nosotros incluidos, llegar hasta hoy en día». The Guardian Tras su exitoso Auge y caída de los dinosaurios, calificado como «la biografía definitiva de los dinosaurios» por Scientific American, el paleontólogo estadounidense Steve Brusatte retoma el pulso de la historia explorando la extraordinaria familia que sobrevivió al asteroide: los mamíferos, entre los cuales nos incluimos. Esta trepidante narración, que recorre casi sesenta y seis millones de años de enormes cataclismos y glaciaciones, comienza con un invierno nuclear que duró dos años. Entre sus protagonistas encontramos a tigres dientes de sable, mamuts lanudos, armadillos del tamaño de un coche, osos de las cavernas que pesan tres veces más que un oso pardo e incluso algunos tipos de humanos, como los neandertales. El increíble y variado linaje de los mamíferos no solo se apropió del mundo, sino que también desarrolló los rasgos característicos que han sustentado su historia de éxito. Pero también de fracaso, ya que Brusatte recrea asimismo los mundos perdidos que habitaron nuestros predecesores, desde glaciaciones hasta catástrofes volcánicas. En este increíble relato, casi una novela de suspense, se entrelaza el trabajo detectivesco que el autor y otros científicos, gracias a los registros fósiles y a técnicas de la tecnología más vanguardista, han realizado para reconstruir nuestros conocimientos de una historia que llega hasta nosotros. La crítica ha dicho: «La primera película de Jurassic Park, en 1993, creó la vocación de un buen puñado de futuros paleontólogos que aún estaban en el colegio. Brusatte fue uno de ellos. No se sorprendan si en las próximas décadas este libro hace que más chicos y chicas decidan centrarse en un mamífero del tamaño de un ratón en lugar de en el megalosaurio». The Times «Brusattees un gran narrador... Da vida a la curiosa variedad de primeros mamíferos». The Explorers Journal. «Como Indiana Jones, pero con fósiles». Coyote and Thunder «La lectura de este libro me ha recordado lo que más me gusta de la geología, la paleontología y la evolución de la vida en la Tierra: este planeta tiene historias épicas». Science News «Increíble. A través de una prosa lúcida y abundantes ilustraciones describe la explosión de los mamíferos que siguió a la desaparición de los dinosaurios. Imprescindible en cualquier lista de los mejores libros de divulgación científica del año». Kirkus Reviews «Una saga a gran escala: la historia de cómo nuestros antepasados sobrevivieron a un apocalipsis y cómo su progenie se alzó para gobernar el mundo... maravillosamente contada». The Times Book of The Week «Destaca por su brillante equilibrio entre los detalles científicos y una narración ágil y eficaz». New Scientist
Download or read book Auge y reinado de los mam feros written by Steve Brusatte and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tras su exitoso Auge y caída de los dinosaurios, calificado como «la biografía definitiva de los dinosaurios» por Scientific American, el paleontólogo estadounidense Steve Brusatte retoma el pulso de la historia explorando la extraordinaria familia que sobrevivió al asteroide: los mamíferos, entre los cuales nos incluimos.Esta trepidante narración, que recorre casi sesenta y seis millones de años de enormes cataclismos y glaciaciones, comienza con un invierno nuclear que duró dos años. Entre sus protagonistas encontramos a tigres dientes de sable, mamuts lanudos, armadillos del tamaño de un coche, osos de las cavernas que pesan tres veces más que un oso pardo e incluso algunos tipos de humanos, como los neandertales.El increíble y variado linaje de los mamíferos no solo se apropió del mundo, sino que también desarrolló los rasgos característicos que han sustentado su historia de éxito. Pero también de fracaso, ya que Brusatte recrea asimismo los mundos perdidos que habitaron nuestros predecesores, desde glaciaciones hasta catástrofes volcánicas. En este increíble relato, casi una novela de suspense, se entrelaza el trabajo detectivesco que el autor y otros científicos, gracias a los registros fósiles y a técnicas de la tecnología más vanguardista, han realizado para reconstruir nuestros conocimientos de una historia que llega hasta nosotros.
Download or read book El sentido de la existencia humana written by Edward O. Wilson and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿Cuál es el origen de la humanidad? ¿Por qué existe una especie como la nuestra en el planeta Tierra? ¿Gozamos de una posición privilegiada, cuál es nuestro destino en el universo? ¿Adónde nos dirigimos? Y quizás la pregunta más difícil de todas: ¿Por qué? En El sentido de la existencia humana, su obra más filosófica hasta la fecha, el biólogo Edward O. Wilson se lleva a sus lectores de viaje para disfrutar qué es lo que nos hace tan especiales del resto de especies, pero también nos invita a un ejercicio de humildad que nos capacite para apreciar la fascinación que ocultan el resto de especies y el mundo natural. Autor de inmenso prestigio —es ganador de dos premios Pulitzer y ha acuñado conceptos como «biodiversidad»—, a la par que polémico expone en este último libro sus teorías más acabadas sobre nuestra existencia, y tiende un valioso puente entre las ciencias y las humanidades para crear un tratado sobre la existencia humana propio del siglo XXI, desde nuestros orígenes más lejanos hasta una mirada sugestiva sobre lo que nos depara el futuro.
Download or read book Of Ants and Dinosaurs written by Cixin Liu and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alliance between ants and dinosaurs created a veritable Age of Wonder! But such magnificent industry comes at a price - a price paid first by Earth's biosphere, and then by all those dependent on it. A satirical fable and ecological warning.
Download or read book A New Reference Grammar of Modern Spanish written by John Butt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (abridged and revised) This reference grammar offers intermediate and advanced students a reason ably comprehensive guide to the morphology and syntax of educated speech and plain prose in Spain and Latin America at the end of the twentieth century. Spanish is the main, usually the sole official language of twenty-one countries,} and it is set fair to overtake English by the year 2000 in numbers 2 of native speakers. This vast geographical and political diversity ensures that Spanish is a good deal less unified than French, German or even English, the latter more or less internationally standardized according to either American or British norms. Until the 1960s, the criteria of internationally correct Spanish were dictated by the Real Academia Espanola, but the prestige of this institution has now sunk so low that its most solemn decrees are hardly taken seriously - witness the fate of the spelling reforms listed in the Nuevas normas de prosodia y ortograjia, which were supposed to come into force in all Spanish-speaking countries in 1959 and, nearly forty years later, are still selectively ignored by publishers and literate persons everywhere. The fact is that in Spanish 'correctness' is nowadays decided, as it is in all living languages, by the consensus of native speakers; but consensus about linguistic usage is obviously difficult to achieve between more than twenty independent, widely scattered and sometimes mutually hostile countries. Peninsular Spanish is itself in flux.
Download or read book In security in Colombia written by Josefina A. Echavarría and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on geo- and biopolitical analyses, this book reconsiders how security policies and practices legitimate state and non-state violence in the Colombian conflict. Using the case study of the official Democratic Security Policy (DSP), Echavarría examines how security discourses write the political identities of state, self and others. She claims that the DSP delimits politics, the political, and the imaginaries of peace and war through conditioning the possibilities for identity formation. In/security in Colombia offers an innovative application of a large theoretical framework on the performative character of security discourses and furthers a nuanced understanding of the security problematique in a postcolonial setting. This wide-reaching study will benefit students, scholars and policy-makers in the fields of security, peace and conflict, and Latin American issues.
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Download or read book David and Solomon written by Israel Finkelstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exciting field of biblical archaeology has revolutionized our understanding of the Bible -- and no one has done more to popularise this vast store of knowledge than Israel Finkelstein and Neil Silberman, who revealed what we now know about when and why the Bible was first written in The Bible Unearthed. Now, with David and Solomon, they do nothing less than help us to understand the sacred kings and founding fathers of western civilization. David and his son Solomon are famous in the Bible for their warrior prowess, legendary loves, wisdom, poetry, conquests, and ambitious building programmes. Yet thanks to archaeology's astonishing finds, we now know that most of these stories are myths. Finkelstein and Silberman show us that the historical David was a bandit leader in a tiny back-water called Jerusalem, and how -- through wars, conquests and epic tragedies like the exile of the Jews in the centuries before Christ and the later Roman conquest -- David and his successor were reshaped into mighty kings and even messiahs, symbols of hope to Jews and Christians alike in times of strife and despair and models for the great kings of Europe. A landmark work of research and lucid scholarship by two brilliant luminaries, David and Solomon recasts the very genesis of western history in a whole new light.
Download or read book Understanding Heritage written by Marie-Theres Albert and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication is the first in a new series on existing and innovative paradigms in Heritage Studies. The series aims at systematising and developing the academic discourse on heritage, which has yielded a wealth and breadth of contributions over the past few years. The publication offers its own emphasis by developing heritage studies with a perspective towards and as a contribution to human development. It thus offers a vision for the construction and establishment of a new discipline. The academic mainsprings and research interests of this repositioning of heritage studies as an academic discipline are discussed by internationally renowned thinkers and heritage practitioners. The publication thus establishes first important points for discussion. Central to this publication are questions concerning the sustainable protection and use of heritage, focussing on the world cultural heritage and intangible cultural heritage, but equally questions on the relation of heritage and memory and how these could mutually enrich our understanding of heritage.
Download or read book Distant Neighbors written by Alan Riding and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Mexico - political, social, cultural, economic - by a journalist who was for the past 6 years the NYT bureau chief in Mexico City. With portraits of Mexico's top leaders, about a nation whose stability is vital to our national well-being.
Download or read book Ordinary Places Extraordinary Events written by Clara Irazábal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-01-17 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clara Irazábal and her contributors explore the urban history of some of Latin America’s great cities through studies of their public spaces and what has taken place there. The avenues and plazas of Mexico City, Havana, Santo Domingo, Caracas, Bogotaì, SaÞo Paulo, Lima, Santiago, and Buenos Aires have been the backdrop for extraordinary, history-making events. While some argue that public spaces are a prerequisite for the expression, representation and reinforcement of democracy, they can equally be used in the pursuit of totalitarianism. Indeed, public spaces, in both the past and present, have been the site for the contestation by ordinary people of various stances on democracy and citizenship. By exploring the use and meaning of public spaces in Latin American cities, this book sheds light on contemporary definitions of citizenship and democracy in the Americas.
Download or read book The Question Concerning Technology in China written by Yuk Hui and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-09-02 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics. Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one—originally Greek—type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics.
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Download or read book Recursivity and Contingency written by Yuk Hui and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an investigation of algorithmic contingency and an elucidation of the contemporary situation that we are living in: the regular arrival of algorithmic catastrophes on a global scale. Through a historical analysis of philosophy, computation and media, this book proposes a renewed relation between nature and technics.
