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A survey of the last 100 years of science fiction, with representative stories and illuminating essays by the top writers, poets, and scholars, from Edgar Rice Burroughs and Samuel Butler to Robert A. Heinlein and and Jack Vance, from E.E. "Doc" Smith and Clifford D. Simak to Ted Chiang and Charles Stross-- and everyone in between. More than one million words of classic fiction and essays!

Vivimos en un país y en una región que, sin duda alguna, reclama a sus universidades públicas acciones y reflexiones que den respuesta a los grandes desafíos sociales, económicos, políticos y culturales propios de la región latinoamericana. Uno de estos desafíos corresponde a la construcción...

In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier...

Diez apasionantes historias que diseccionan diferentes aspectos de la enfermedad. Unos personajes que afrontan dificultades que ponen a prueba su verdadera naturaleza. Situaciones impactantes, inciertas y dolorosas que sacuden al lector y le muestran lo mejor y lo peor de la condición humana. Diez...

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El exceso de voluntad de verdad que protagonizó buena parte de la historia de nuestro pensar convirtió la literatura y sus géneros en subordinados de lujo de una racionalidad huérfana, solitaria y deshumanizante. Esta crisis se refleja muy especialmente en la quiebra de las fronteras entre verdad...

Reviews key advances and best practice in cultivation techniques across the value chain of organic farming  Discusses ways of monitoring and improving the environmental impact of organic crop production  Particular focus on ways of supporting organic farming in the developing world

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2016. Includes stories by Charlie Jane Anders, Nina Allan, Tara Isabella Burton, Monica Byrne, Rebecca Campbell, P. Djèlí Clark, Indrapramit Das, Alix E. Harrow, N. K. Jemisin, Margaret Killjoy,...

Las políticas públicas con enfoque de derechos humanos son las acciones del Estado orientadas a la prevención, protección y garantía de todos y cada uno de los derechos, que de manera explícita se diseñan e implementan para cumplir con obligaciones nacionales e internacionales del Estado en...

This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...

Politics in Europe, Seventh Edition introduces students to the power of the European Union as well as seven political systems—the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Russia, Poland—within a common analytical framework that enables students to conduct both single-case and cross-national analysis....

Diseases remain a serious problem in wheat and barley cultivation. It has been estimated that around 20% of global crop production is lost to diseases. Leading fungal diseases affecting wheat and barley include rusts, Septoria blotches, powdery mildew, tan spot, spot blotch, net blotch, scald and...

"Vladimir Vernadsky was a brilliant and prescient scholar-a true scientific visionary who saw the deep connections between life on Earth and the rest of the planet and understood the profound implications for life as a cosmic phenomenon." -DAVID H. GRINSPOON, AUTHOR OF VENUS REVEALED "The...