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Placing crucial information at patients' fingertips, this series provides the necessary knowledge, compiled by expert doctors, for patients to approach their healthcare prepared and informed. Written for a general audience these guides include information on symptoms, medications, treatments, side effects, pain management, and how to live with various chronic illnesses that often alter daily activities.

This book describes the 91 known Peruvian species of Inga (Leguminosae-Mimosoideae). Each species has a short botanical description, a superb full-page line illustration, a distribution map and information on phenology, ecology, actual and potential uses. There is an account of the ecology and vegetation of Peru and a chapter on utilization, species selection, seed collection and storage, propagation and management. Also included is a key for the identification of species, glossary of botanical terms, list of herbarium specimens studied and indexes of scientific and vernacular names. The text ...

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

¿Hay vida en otros planetas? Esta obra trata esta cuestión desde diferentes puntos de vista, pero siempre de un modo rigurosamente científico, según el enfoque de un gran experto en geología planetaria que se dedica de manera activa a la investigación y la enseñanza en el novedoso campo de la astrobiología. De manera exhaustiva y clara, al nivel de la alta divulgación, Jakosky analiza los aspectos científicos relevantes para considerar las posibilidades de vida extraterrestre: la vida en ambientes extremos de nuestro propio planeta, condiciones de habitabilidad en nuestro Sistema...

Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of volcanology Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and...