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¿Qué es una imagen corporal? ¿Qué es el arte? ¿Qué es el libre albedrío? ¿Qué es el sí mismo? Hasta hace poco estas cuestiones eran patrimonio de la filosofía, pero los estudios sobre el cerebro han empezado a darnos explicaciones.
V. S. Ramachandran, destacado experto en el campo de la neurociencia, nos lleva en Los laberintos del cerebro directamente al corazón de quienes somos.
V.S.Ramachandran es director del Center for Brain and Cognition y Catedrático de psicología y neurociencia de la Universidad de California, así como profesor adjunto de biología en el Salk Institute. Ramachandran, formado como médico, se licenció posteriormente en el Trinity College en la Universidad de Cambridge.
Ha publicado más de un centenar de artículos en revistas científicas y es autor del aclamado libro Phantoms in the Brain. Recientemente la revista Newsweek lo nombró miembro del Club del Siglo, considerándolo una de las cien personas más destacadas a tener en cuenta del Siglo XXI.

The Advances in Earthquake Engineering series is intended primarily for the transformation of frontier technologies and research results and state-of-the-art professional practices. This volume comprehensively explores seismic design aids and nonlinear properties of RC elements in a form that is useful for practicing engineers and researchers to readily use without solving complex equations. With step-by-step numerical procedures and supplemental online material, the text clarifies the complexities involved in estimating basic input parameters required for nonlinear analysis of RC beam and frame structures under seismic loads until collapse. With several case examples of beam and frames, this superior reference is ideal for academicians and graduate engineering students.
• Advances in Earthquake Engineering
Concrete Structures
Georisk & Hazards
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Essentials of Food Process Engineering provides basics and fundamentals of engineering subjects to students with a non-mathematical background who are perusing graduation and post-graduation career in Food Science and Engineering. This book is also useful as a handy refresher text for those involved in plant science and managers in the food processing and dairy industries. Beginning with engineering calculations, it covers the important topics like mass and energy balance, heat and mass transfer, psychrometry and refrigeration, etc., which are extensively used in Food Process Industry. A separate chapter on instruments for measurement of various parameters including measurement of food parameters is included.
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Industrial Chemistry
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This book critically analyzes and discusses production issues for the rice-wheat cropping system of South Asia, focusing on the questions of soil depletion, pest control, and irrigation. It compiles information gathered from research institutions, government organizations, and farmer surveys to analyze the condition of this regional system, suggest policy changes, and predict directions for future growth.
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Crop Science
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Gathering contributions from globally recognized specialists in electrodynamics and quantum optics, this volume continues the debate on the definition of a photon and the concept of wave-particle duality. After covering the mainstream view of the nature of light and photons, it presents a new and challenging scientific epistemology that explains how to overcome the prevailing paradoxes and confusions arising from the accepted definition of a photon as a monochromatic Fourier mode of the vacuum. It concludes with an array of experiments that demonstrate the innovative thinking needed to examine the wave-particle duality of photons.
• Optical Science and Engineering
Optics & optoelectronics
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Professional

Refuting misconceptions about using low-enthalpy geothermal resources for electricity generation, this book explores low-enthalpy resources as a solution for power generation and global warming mitigation. It touches on geochemical and geophysical methods for geothermal exploration in addition to power generation techniques, the economics of power plants using low-enthalpy resources, and small geothermal projects for rural electrification. It is an important source for all scientists working on geothermal energy development, specifically for those researching in developing countries rich in such thermal resources as well as for agencies involved in bilateral and international cooperation.
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Geophysics
Power Engineering
Renewable & Sustainable Energy
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Designed to provide a common platform for sharing knowledge and experience, this book presents state of the art developments in the field of groundwater. Recognizing the importance of integrated water resources management, the text covers technical, environmental, legal, economic, and social aspects of groundwater resources management, contamination, and protection. The multidisciplinary flavor of the chapters and the multinational constellation of authors, make the book an authoritative and comprehensive resource for the diverse problems associated with groundwater resources.
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Water Management and Sustainability
Ground Water
Surface Water
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Basándose en cientos de entrevistas y documentos internos, Chandrasekaran cuenta la historia de los habitantes de la Zona Verde de Bagdad durante la ocupación del virrey L. Paul Bremer III a la flota de veinteañeros contratada para demostrar que los americanos pueden construir una democracia jeffersoniana en un país de Oriente Medio asediado por la guerra.En el vacío de la planificación de la posguerra, Bremen pasa por alto aquello que los iraquíes quieran o necesitan y, en su lugar, persigue objetivos neoconservadores irrelevantes y el final del racionamiento de alimentos. Sus subordinados pasan sus días creando medidas políticas como castillos en el aire entre ellas una nueva ley de tráfico y una ley protectora de los diseños de microchips, en lugar de reconstruir edificios saqueados y restablecer la producción de la electricidad. Sus iniciativas casi cómicas encolerizan a los residentes y contribuyen a cebar la insurrección.Éste es un retrato fastuoso de un lugar con cierto aire a Mundo de Oz, donde se perpetró el disparate de la política estadounidense.