Mapas y civilización

Edmundo De Amicis viajó a España en 1872, como corresponsal del periódico florentino La Nazione, para escribir una serie de reportajes sobre el país y el reinado del príncipe italiano, es decir sobre la primera experiencia democrática española. Sus crónicas, inicialmente publicadas por entregas, se reunieron luego en un volumen que alcanzaría gran popularidad, donde el autor, además de jugosos comentarios políticos, nos ofrece un apasionado fresco del estado de España en el último tercio del siglo XIX.

Presents a guided tour of the nine planets within the solar system. Also discusses the Milky Way galaxy, comets, and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.

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