Nicolás Steno, los estratos del Diluvio universal

First Published in 1984, this set offers a comprehensive insight into thermolumiscence. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, diagrams, and references this book serves as a useful reference for radiobiologists and physicists and other practitioners in their respective fields.

Galaxies have a history. This has become clear from recent sky surveys which have shown that distant galaxies, formed early in the life of the Universe, differ from the nearby ones. New observational windows at ultraviolet, infrared and millimetric wavelengths (provided by ROSAT, IRAM, IUE, IRAS, ISO) have revealed that galaxies contain a wealth of components: very hot gas, atomic hydrogen, molecules, dust, dark matter ... A significant advance is expected due to new instruments (VLT, FIRST, XMM) which will allow one to explore the most distant Universe. Three Euroconferences have been...

"La metafísica esclarecida. De De Chirico a Carrà, de Morandi a Savinio", analiza detenidamente el marco y desarrollo de la que se denominó “pintura metafísica”, fijándose en especial en la obra de De Chirico, Carrà y Savinio, así como en sus relacines con el pensamiento y la literatura de la época, horizonte en el que destaca la figura de Papini. Calvesi estudia la obra pictórica y los escritos de los artistas, en cuya relación se configura el espacio que hará posible el desarrollo del arte de vanguardia en Italia. El libro se completa con un apéndice que recoge el...

Offers a concise and thorough presentation of engineering mechanics theory and application. The material is reinforced with numerous examples to illustrate principles and imaginative, well-illustrated problems of varying degrees of difficulty. The book is committed to developing users' problem-solving skills.