El método en las ciencias

Vivimos una era de veloces cambios, alta incertidumbre y creciente complejidad tecnológica, cultural, social y económica. La paradoja es, por supuesto, que en esta época también padecemos una vida pública crecientemente simplista y maniquea. Así las cosas, es fácil caer en la perplejidad y desesperanza. Hacia un nuevo pacto propone un esquema y una estrategia para construir una salida. A partir de un diagnóstico sobre el agotamiento del modelo chileno en crecimiento y equidad, así como el reconocimiento de las amenazas políticas, ambientales y tecnológicas que se ciernen sobre...

In previous volumes in this series, Advances in Metal and Semiconductor Clusters, the focus has been on atomic clusters of metals, semiconductors and carbon. Fundamental gas phase studies have been surveyed, and most recently scientists have explored new materials which can be produced from clusters or cluster precursors. In this latest volume, the focus shifts to clusters composed primarily of non-metal molecules or atoms which have one or more metal atoms seeded into the cluster as an impurity. These clusters provide model systems for metal ion solvation processes and metal-ligand...

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

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