50 temas cruciales sobre el mar

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of current researches on science in the Muslim-Arab world. The papers deal with the religious and institutional context, mathematics, optics, astronomy, mechanics, natural philosophy, and pharamacology.The present volume also includes a general author index of the 21 volumes that make up the proceedings of the XXth International Congress of History of Science.

El volumen dos del libro Introducción a la Química Orgánica, comprende 10 capítulos que van desde aldehídos y cetonas hasta las biomoléculas: lípidos, carbohidratos, proteínas y ácidos nucleicos. Esta versión está actualizada y aumentada con respecto a la última edición. Es de resaltar la actualización del capítulo de polímeros que incluye la presentación de los catalizadores tipo Ziegler-Natta homogéneos, denominados metalocenos, descubiertos en los años 80, que han permitido la síntesis de nuevos materiales con excelentes propiedades. En el tema de las biomoléculas se...

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

This book is a collection of 50 review talks given in the morning sessions of the July 1986 Santa Cruz Summer Astrophysics Workshop on Nearly Normal Galaxies. The two-week workshop presented an up-to-date, comprehensive review of galaxy formation and evolution. This topic was given greater coverage than in any previous conference on galaxies. A unique feature of the workshop was the treatment of galaxy formation from the earliest density fluctuations in the early universe up to the latest phases of formation and evolution at present. Each carefully written review gives an up-to-date summary...