Los diez grandes inventos de la evolución

Is arsenic the deadliest element on the periodic table? Is there arsenic in Spain? Could a green dress kill you in Victorian England? Was Napoleon Bonaparte poisoned with arsenic? Can we find arsenic in our food? In this book you will find the answers to these and many other questions about this poison.

En estos dias -nos dicen los autores-, todo el mundo habla del efecto invernadero y de los peligros de los agujeros de la capa de ozono, y se especula en que medida estos cambios son de origen antropogenico. Por eso, facilmente se olvida que nuestro planeta esta sujeto a cambios ambientales de origen "natural." Uno de estos fenomenos es El Nino. Esta corriente tiene consecuencias ecologicas profundas, a veces catastroficas, en los ecosistemas marinos y terrestres del Pacifico.

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.

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