La Medicina Científica y el Siglo XIX Mexicano

In the 1930s a band of smart and able young men, some still in their twenties, helped Franklin D. Roosevelt transform an American nation in crisis. They were the junior officers of the New Deal. Thomas G. Corcoran, Benjamin V. Cohen, William O. Douglas, Abe Fortas, and James Rowe helped FDR build the modern Democratic Party into a progressive coalition whose command over power and ideas during the next three decades seemed politically invincible. This is the first book about this group of Rooseveltians and their linkage to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society and the Vietnam War debacle. Michael...

Charles Darwin stands as a towering figure in the history of science, who changed the direction of modern thought in establishing the basis of evolutionary biology. These letters offer a fascinating window onto his daily experience, scientific observations, personal concerns and friendships, affording a unique glimpse of Darwin as both naturalist and family man. From his early years at Edinburgh University up to the publication of The Origin of Species in 1859, the letters in this volume chart the most exciting years of Darwin's life, including the voyage of the Beagle and the subsequent...

El proposito de este libro es ofrecer un panorama general de lo que constituyen las relaciones del Sol con la Tierra y lo complicado de su caracter. En un sistema tan complejo como el que se da entre el astro rey y nuestro planeta, en el que intervienen ademas la heliosfera, la magnetosfera, la ionosfera y la atmosfera terrestre, que no integran un todo sencillo.

Esta obra re ne las experiencias y reflexiones de un grupo de editores y especialistas que participaron en el taller internacional del mismo nombre, realizado en noviembre de 1994 en Guadalajara, M xico, en el marco de la VIII Feria Internacional del Libro. Los autores coinciden sobre el importante papel que desempe an las publicaciones como instrumento efectivo de intercambio de conocimientos y recurso esencial Para la ense anza, y recomiendan la urgente cooperaci n regional e internacional destinada a promover la presencia internacional de la ciencia latinoamericana.