Caminos de Baja California: Geologia y Biologia para su Viaje

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Caminos de Baja California: Geologia y Biologia para su Viaje
John Minch , Edwin Minch , Jason Minch , and Jorge Ledesma-Vazquez
Manufacturer: John Minch and Associates
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Binding: Paperback

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Los transectos descritos kilómetro por kilómetro, son una reseña sobre la geología y biología a lo largo de la carretera. Además, se incorpora información que le permitirá entender el porqué y como de esta presencia. En la introducción sobre geología se presentan las 5 principales provincias geomorfológicas [relieve del terreno generado sobre la geología presente], de los bloques inclinados y fallados que conforman el núcleo de la península, así como de las superficies de erosión que se presentan aparentemente en todas partes en el estado norte de Baja California. Se presenta una breve reseña de la evolución geológica y la tectónica de placas involucradas en la formación de Baja California. En la introducción sobre biología, se presentan las provincias fitogeográficas así como sus plantas, incluyendo una sección sobre aves en Baja con detalles para cada provincia. Se presentan ilustraciones sobre las aves y plantas más comunes. Esta información se presenta también en cada localidad descrita en el volumen. Finalmente, se ofrece un glosario de términos ilustrado para familiarizarse con cuestiones tales como la escala del tiempo geológico, el ciclo de las rocas, para mostrar la interrelación entre las diferentes rocas, presentando tablas simplificadas para caracterizar rocas ígneas, metamórficas y sedimentarias. Se incluyen referencias más avanzadas para aquellos que estén interesados en los temas.

Nos es muy agradable saber que haremos que su viaje en la península sea mas interesante, disfrútenlo.

Femtosecond Technology for Technical and Medical Applications

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Femtosecond Technology for Technical and Medical Applications

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ASIN: 3540201149

Femtosecond technology, with its ultrashort light pulses, forms an innovative laser technology which can be used for multiple technical applications. The book gives a comprehensive overview of the principles and applications of femtosecond lasers, especially applied to medicine and to production technology. The principles and features of such femtosecond technology are described. The lasers, systems and technologies that are required in these potential fields of application are investigated. The advantages and problems of ultrashort laser pulses are discussed in more detail in the context of applications in the micro-machining of technical materials such as drilling, surface structuring and cutting, in medical use like dental, ophthalmologic, neurological and otolaryngological applications, in metrology, and in the generation of x-rays. Safety aspects are also considered.

Veronica Franco (whose life is featured in the motion picture Dangerous Beauty) was a sixteenth-century Venetian beauty, poet, and protofeminist. This collection captures the frank eroticism and impressive eloquence that set her apart from the chaste, silent woman prescribed by Renaissance gender ideology.

As an "honored courtesan", Franco made her living by arranging to have sexual relations, for a high fee, with the elite of Venice and the many travelers—merchants, ambassadors, even kings—who passed through the city. Courtesans needed to be beautiful, sophisticated in their dress and manners, and elegant, cultivated conversationalists. Exempt from many of the social and educational restrictions placed on women of the Venetian patrician class, Franco used her position to recast "virtue" as "intellectual integrity," offering wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life.

Franco became a writer by allying herself with distinguished men at the center of her city's culture, particularly in the informal meetings of a literary salon at the home of Domenico Venier, the oldest member of a noble family and a former Venetian senator. Through Venier's protection and her own determination, Franco published work in which she defended her fellow courtesans, speaking out against their mistreatment by men and criticizing the subordination of women in general. Venier also provided literary counsel when she responded to insulting attacks written by the male Venetian poet Maffio Venier.

Franco's insight into the power conflicts between men and women and her awareness of the threat she posed to her male contemporaries make her life and work pertinent today.

It is however a rather interesting story of the dual coming of age of a woman and a society in a time of dramatic social change. This book provides the missing link between Jane Austen's era where the notion of an independent woman encompassed little more than a woman who did not automatically marry the first man of means who proposed to her and our modern era where we fully accept the notion of a "man-equal" female character like Heinlein's Friday. And the transformation is a most interesting, exciting, and at times enlightening one. As Ann Veronica wanders through the political and social landscape of Victorian England we are exposed to the rather startling sentiments of the time and the rather harrowing and bold adventures she undertakes in her journey to freedom, as well as to a panoply of interesting characters (like the man hating Mrs. Miniver and the absolute cad Mr. Ramage).

This book is not for everyone, but it is a very worthwhile and entertaining read if you can get into it.