Patrimonialismo y modernización

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

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...

Estas cartas nos recuerdan que la paciencia es reina y que hay un arte de mirar las cosas. Este arte, el de la botánica, nos permite reconciliarnos con nosotros mismos y con el mundo. «A cualquier edad, el estudio de la naturaleza debilita el gusto por las diversiones frívolas, previene el tumulto de las pasiones y lleva al alma un alimento que la aprovecha, llenándola del más digno objeto de sus contemplaciones». Un delicioso texto de Rousseau, en edición de José Tito Rojo.

Since when do we find dinosaur bones? Who came up with calling them that? Francesc Gascó addresses the complete history of our relationship with dinosaurs, from that love story that were the first fossil remains found and scientifically interpreted to the latest recent discoveries, accompanied by myths, legends, and a lot of pop culture.