In this book, John Gribbin tells the story of the people who made science and the turbulent times they lived in. As well as famous figures such as Copernicus, Darwin and Einstein, there are also the obscure, the eccentric, even the mad. This diversecast includes, among others, Andreas Vesalius, landmark 16th-century anatomi...

En la ciudad castellana en la que trascurre esta novela, de temática muy singular dentro de la obra de Miguel Delibes, hay hombrestransformados en perros que otros hombres tirotean sin piedad y trabajadores dedicados a sumar cantidades infinitas de números sin sentido. Cualquier rastro de humanidad ha desaparecido. Jacinto ...

A comparative European perspective on aspects of nineteenth-century Italian politics and social history.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A...

The field of Cosmology is currently undergoing a revolution driven by dramatic observational progresses and by novel theoretical scenarios imported from particle physics. This book contains lectures by world experts in the various branches of this field corresponding to lectures presented during the School "Frontiers of the Universe" at the IESC...

Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels, and why stones fall to...

How do women experience the vast, arid, rugged land of the American Southwest? The Story Circle...

El granadino universal Ángel Ganivet (1865-1898) publica Granada la bella dos años antes de suicidarse en el río letón Dvina, paisajes nórdicos a los que le llevó su quehacer diplomático. Obra maestra del pesimismo y de la angustia, reeditada en 1920 en Madrid, es considerada, junto a su autor, precursora de aquellos ideale...

Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this highly successful textbook continues to represent...