Ciencia y Sociedad: pinceladas

In May of 2007 scientists conducted a rapid inventory in the Dureno Territory, part of the Cofan ancestral territories in the Amazon basin of eastern Ecuador. Presented primarily in Spanish but including sections in English and A’ingae, the language of the Cofan, this assessment collects those scientists’ research on the plants and animals of the region, as well as a history of the grassroots conservation efforts of the Cofan. The report closes with recommendations for long-term management of the area.

In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael...

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

¿Cómo obtenemos un conocimiento del infinito a partir de nuestra experiencia finita? ¿Cómo se ha llegado a dicha noción en las matemáticas y qué papel desempeña en ellas? El autor, filósofo y matemático, presenta en este libro un análisis de los avatares de la noción del infinito matemático en el siglo XX, en el cual considera aspectos históricos y filosóficos, a la vez que los puramente matemáticos, por lo cual algunos especialistas han considerado esta obra como una contribución enriquecedora y disfrutable a la filosofía de las matemáticas y una amalgama singular de...