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| la sexta extincion libro: The Sixth Extinction Elizabeth Kolbert, 2014-02-11 ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Resumen Completo - La Sexta Extincion (The Sixt Extinction) - Basado En El Libro De Elizabeth Kolbert Libros Maestros, 2024-02-24 RESUMEN COMPLETO: LA SEXTA EXTINCION (THE SIXT EXTINCTION) - BASADO EN EL LIBRO DE ELIZABETH KOLBERT ¿Estás listo para potenciar tu conocimiento sobre LA SEXTA EXTINCION? ¿Quieres aprender de manera rápida y concisa las lecciones clave de este libro? ¿Estás preparado para procesar la información de todo un libro en tan solo una lectura de aproximadamente 20 minutos? ¿Te gustaría tener una comprensión más profunda de las técnicas y ejercicios del libro original? ¡Entonces este libro es para ti! CONTENIDO DEL LIBRO: ¿Cuál Es La Extinción Que Preocupa Al Ser Humano? ¿Es Un Simple Diente O El Gran Descubrimiento Que Le Da Paso A Las Teorías Evolutivas? ¿Qué Acabó Con Los Dinosaurios? ¿Cuál Es La Era Del Antropoceno? ¿Qué Impacto Generó La Aparición De La Especie Humana? ¿Cuál Es La Importancia Del Dióxido De Carbono En La Extinción? ¿Qué Fatores Ocasionan Las Dispersiones De Las Especies? ¿Los Grandes Cambios Físicos Que Ha Sufrido La Tierra En La Actualidad Se Deben A La Evolución O La Devastación Humana? ¿Cuáles Son Las Señales Que Necesitamos Para Entender Que La Extinción Se Acerca? |
| la sexta extincion libro: La sexta extinción Elizabeth Kolbert, 2015 Kolbert explora cómo la actividad humana, el consumo de combustibles fósiles, la acidificación de los océanos, la contaminación, la deforestación y las migraciones forzadas amenazan contra formas de vida de todo tipo. «Se estima que un tercio de todos los corales que forman arrecifes, un tercio de todos los moluscos de aguas dulces, un tercio de los tiburones y las rayas, un cuarto de todos los mamíferos, un quinto de todos los reptiles y un sexto de todas las aves están cayendo en el olvido», escribe Kolbert. «Las pérdidas se están produciendo en todas partes: en el Pacífico Sur y en el Atlántico Norte, en el Ártico y el Sahel, en lagos e islas en la cima de las montañas y en los valles». |
| la sexta extincion libro: Tap Dancing to Work Carol J. Loomis, 2013-12-31 Warren Buffett built Berkshire Hathaway into something remarkable— and Fortune journalist Carol Loomis had a front-row seat for it all. When Carol Loomis first mentioned a little-known Omaha hedge fund manager in a 1966 Fortune article, she didn’t dream that Warren Buffett would one day be considered the world’s greatest investor—nor that she and Buffett would quickly become close personal friends. As Buffett’s fortune and reputation grew over time, Loomis used her unique insight into Buffett’s thinking to chronicle his work for Fortune, writing and proposing scores of stories that tracked his many accomplishments—and also his occasional mistakes. Now Loomis has collected and updated the best Buffett articles Fortune published between 1966 and 2012, including thirteen cover stories and a dozen pieces authored by Buffett himself. Loomis has provided commentary about each major article that supplies context and her own informed point of view. Readers will gain fresh insights into Buffett’s investment strategies and his thinking on management, philanthropy, public policy, and even parenting. Some of the highlights include: The 1966 A. W. Jones story in which Fortune first mentioned Buffett. The first piece Buffett wrote for the magazine, 1977’s “How Inf lation Swindles the Equity Investor.” Andrew Tobias’s 1983 article “Letters from Chairman Buffett,” the first review of his Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters. Buffett’s stunningly prescient 2003 piece about derivatives, “Avoiding a Mega-Catastrophe.” His unconventional thoughts on inheritance and philanthropy, including his intention to leave his kids “enough money so they would feel they could do anything, but not so much that they could do nothing.” Bill Gates’s 1996 article describing his early impressions of Buffett as they struck up their close friendship. Scores of Buffett books have been written, but none can claim this work’s combination of trust between two friends, the writer’s deep understanding of Buffett’s world, and a very long-term perspective. |
| la sexta extincion libro: La sexta extinción Richard Leakey, Roger Lewin, 1997-01 |
| la sexta extincion libro: Field Notes from a Catastrophe Elizabeth Kolbert, 2015-02-03 First published in hardcover by Bloomsbury USA in 2006 ... updated with new material in 2015--Title page verso. |
| la sexta extincion libro: The Sixth Extinction Richard E. Leakey, 1996-10-01 Richard Leakey, One Of The World's Foremost Experts On Man's Evolutionary Past, Now Turns His Eye To The Future And Doesn't Like What He Sees. To the philosophical the earth is eternal, while the human race -- presumptive keeper of the world's history -- is a mere speck in the rich stream of life. It is known that nothing upon Earth is forever; geography, climate, and plant and animal life are all subject to radical change. On five occasions in the past, catastrophic natural events have caused mass extinctions on Earth. But today humans stand alone, in dubious distinction, among Earth's species: Homo Sapiens possesses the ability to destroy entire species at will, to trigger the sixth extinction in the history of life. In The Sixth Extinction, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin consider how the grand sprawl of human life is inexorably wreaking havoc around the world. The authors of Origins and Origins Reconsidered, unimpeachable authorities on the human fossil record, turn their attention to the most uncharted anthropological territory of all: the future, and man's role in defining it. According to Leakey and Lewin, man and his surrounding species are end products of history and chance. Now, however, humans have the unique opportunity to recognize their influence on the global ecosystem, and consciously steer the outcome in order to avoid triggering an unimaginable upheaval. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Ten Years in the Tub Nick Hornby, 2016-04-12 How often do you begin reading a book that makes you—immediately, urgently, desperately—want to read more books?” (Booklist). Nick Hornby has managed to write just such a book in this hilarious, insightful, and infectious volume. Ten Years in the Tub chronicles Hornby's journey through a decade’s worth of books, as related in his wildly popular Believer column “Stuff I’ve Been Reading.” Ten Years in the Tub is a one-way ticket into the mind of one of the most beloved contemporary writers on his favorite pastime, but it's also a meditation on what Celine Dion can teach us about ourselves, a warning about how John Updike can ruin our sex lives, and a recommendation for the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days. This decade-long addiction for many... makes standing in line at the bank a blessed interval for snorting another page.” (the New York Times Book Review) |
| la sexta extincion libro: Life in the Balance Niles Eldredge, 2000-02-20 In Life in the Balance, Niles Eldredge argues that the Earth is confronting an ecological disaster in the making. He reviews compelling evidence for this biodiversity crisis, showing that species are dying out at an unnaturally rapid rate. This book explores the same themes that illuminate the American Museum of Natural History's new Hall of Biodiversity, for which Eldredge is Scientific Curator. An eloquent and passionate account by one of today's leading scientists, Life in the Balance draws attention to one of the most pressing problems now facing the world. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Big Questions in Science HARRIET. SWAIN, 2017-11-27 What is life about? How are men and women different? How did the universe begin? We all ponder these questions from time to time but some scientists spend their lives investigating them. Are they anywhere near finding answers? In this exciting new book, leading scientific thinkers address twenty of the really big questions that people have been asking for hundreds of years. The contributors include: John Sulston, who led the British side of the Human Genome Project and who offers his views on whether we can ever end disease; Susan Greenfield, Oxford University professor of pharmacology, who describes what she thinks is a thought; John Barrow, Cambridge professor of mathematical sciences, who tells us what is time; and American psychologist David Buss, who suggests why we fall in and out of love. Their answers are each put into context by more general commentaries discussing the differing views of other leading contemporary scientists and looking at how people have tackled the question in the past. The result is a breathtaking tour of scientific thought through the ages and a peek at some of the most cutting-edge and controversial research today. Packed with fascinating insights, it shows how science is investigating problems that affect us all on a large scale and suggests that we are closer to finding solutions to some of life's big questions than we might think. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers Ian Stewart, 2015-04-07 Renowned mathematician Ian Stewart uses remarkable (and some unremarkable) numbers to introduce readers to the beauty of mathematics. At its heart, mathematics is about numbers, our fundamental tools for understanding the world. In Professor Stewart's Incredible Numbers, Ian Stewart offers a delightful introduction to the numbers that surround us, from the common (Pi and 2) to the uncommon but no less consequential (1.059463 and 43,252,003,274,489,856,000). Along the way, Stewart takes us through prime numbers, cubic equations, the concept of zero, the possible positions on the Rubik's Cube, the role of numbers in human history, and beyond! An unfailingly genial guide, Stewart brings his characteristic wit and erudition to bear on these incredible numbers, offering an engaging primer on the principles and power of math. |
| la sexta extincion libro: The Silence of Animals John Gray, 2013-06-04 A searching, captivating look at the persistence of myth in our modern world By nature volatile and discordant, the human animal looks to silence for relief from being itself while other creatures enjoy silence as their birthright. In a book by turns chilling and beautiful, John Gray continues the thinking that made his Straw Dogs such a cult classic. Gray draws on an extraordinary array of memoirs, poems, fiction, and philosophy to re-imagine our place in the world. Writers as varied as Ballard, Borges, Conrad, and Freud have been mesmerized by forms of human extremity—experiences that are on the outer edge of the possible or that tip into fantasy and myth. What happens to us when we starve, when we fight, when we are imprisoned? And how do our imaginations leap into worlds way beyond our real experiences? The Silence of Animals is consistently fascinating, filled with unforgettable images and a delight in the conundrum of human existence—an existence that we decorate with countless myths and ideas, where we twist and turn to avoid acknowledging that we too are animals, separated from the others perhaps only by our self-conceit. In the Babel we have created for ourselves, it is the silence of animals that both reproaches and bewitches us. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays Paul Kingsnorth, 2017-08 Offers a collection of non-fiction essays exploring the state of the world as ecosystems, economies and assumptions collapse around us. Kingnorth's essays chart the change in his thinking as he grew disenchanted with the environmental movement he once embraced and articulate a new vision, one that stands firmly in opposition to the belief that technology can save us. He argues for a renewed balance between the human and nonhuman worlds. --Adapted from publisher description. |
| la sexta extincion libro: A Neotropical Companion John C. Kricher, 1997 Widely praised, A Neotropical Companion is an extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their rainforests and other ecosystems, and the creatures that live there. 177 color illustrations. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Applied Behavior Analysis John O. Cooper, Timothy E. Heron, William L. Heward, 2013-07-15 The long-awaited second edition of the classic textbook, Applied Behavior Analysis, provides a comprehensive, in-depth discussion of the field, providing a complete description of the principles and procedures needed to systematically change socially significant behavior and to understand the reasons for that change. The authors' goal in revising this best-selling text was to introduce students to ABA in as complete, technically accurate, and contemporary manner as possible. As a result, the book's scope, treatment of various principles, procedures, and issues suggest that it is intended for concentrated and serious study.Readers of the new second edition will appreciate the inclusion of: more than 1,400 citations to primary-source literature, including both classic and contemporary studies; a glossary of more than 400 technical terms and concepts; more than 100 graphs displaying original data from peer-reviewed research, with detailed descriptions of the procedures used to collect the data represented; five new chapters written by leading scholars in the field of behavior analysis; and the addition of The Behavior Analyst Certification Board(r) BCBA(r) and BCABA(r) Behavior Analyst Task List, Third Edition. First published in 1987, Applied Behavior Analysis remains the top-choice primary text for appropriate courses at universities in the United States and abroad with leading programs in behavior analysis. This comprehensive text, best-suited for all upper-level courses in basic principles, applications, and behavioral research methods, helps students, educators, and practitioners appreciate and begin to acquire the conceptual and technical skills necessary to foster socially adaptive behavior in diverse individuals. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Biophilia Edward O. WILSON, 2009-06-30 Biophilia is Edward O. Wilson's most personal book, an evocation of his own response to nature and an eloquent statement of the conservation ethic. Wilson argues that our natural affinity for life—biophilia—is the very essence of our humanity and binds us to all other living species. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Security Analysis: Sixth Edition, Foreword by Warren Buffett Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, 2008-09-14 A road map for investing that I have now been following for 57 years. --From the Foreword by Warren E. Buffett First published in 1934, Security Analysis is one of the most influential financial books ever written. Selling more than one million copies through five editions, it has provided generations of investors with the timeless value investing philosophy and techniques of Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd. As relevant today as when they first appeared nearly 75 years ago, the teachings of Benjamin Graham, “the father of value investing,” have withstood the test of time across a wide diversity of market conditions, countries, and asset classes. This new sixth edition, based on the classic 1940 version, is enhanced with 200 additional pages of commentary from some of today’s leading Wall Street money managers. These masters of value investing explain why the principles and techniques of Graham and Dodd are still highly relevant even in today’s vastly different markets. The contributor list includes: Seth A. Klarman, president of The Baupost Group, L.L.C. and author of Margin of Safety James Grant, founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, general partner of Nippon Partners Jeffrey M. Laderman, twenty-five year veteran of BusinessWeek Roger Lowenstein, author of Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist and When America Aged and Outside Director, Sequoia Fund Howard S. Marks, CFA, Chairman and Co-Founder, Oaktree Capital Management L.P. J. Ezra Merkin, Managing Partner, Gabriel Capital Group . Bruce Berkowitz, Founder, Fairholme Capital Management. Glenn H. Greenberg, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chieftain Capital Management Bruce Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia Business School David Abrams, Managing Member, Abrams Capital Featuring a foreword by Warren E. Buffett (in which he reveals that he has read the 1940 masterwork “at least four times”), this new edition of Security Analysis will reacquaint you with the foundations of value investing—more relevant than ever in the tumultuous 21st century markets. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Computational Gasdynamics Culbert B. Laney, 1998-06-28 Numerical methods are indispensable tools in the analysis of complex fluid flows. This book focuses on computational techniques for high-speed gas flows, especially gas flows containing shocks and other steep gradients. The book decomposes complicated numerical methods into simple modular parts, showing how each part fits and how each method relates to or differs from others. The text begins with a review of gasdynamics and computational techniques. Next come basic principles of computational gasdynamics. The last two parts cover basic techniques and advanced techniques. Senior and graduate level students, especially in aerospace engineering, as well as researchers and practising engineers, will find a wealth of invaluable information on high-speed gas flows in this text. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Caliban and the Witch Silvia Federici, 2004 Women, the body and primitive accumulation--Cover. |
| la sexta extincion libro: The Last Tree María Quintana Silva, 2019-06-04 Winner at the 2019 Independent Press Awards. A beautiful story, printed on stone paper, about the importance, care, and preservation of trees, and the small steps we can all take to care for the planet. One night, the trees in the forest decided it’s time to uproot and leave. They yanked out their roots and dragged themselves off across the fields. On his way to school, Goran soon realized what is happening... All the trees had disappeared and holes could be seen where they used to be. Bewildered, he rushed home to find if the tree in his garden had vanished as well. He loved that tree, it used to be his friend during springtime when he swung from his branches, and also in summer when its leaves protected him from the hot sun. Understanding the consequences this would have for animals, humans, and the environment, he set off to counteract the damage that had already been done. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Stop Garbage: The Truth about Recycling Alex Pascual, 2019-02-28 #1 Bestseller in waste management Stop Garbage sheds some light on the world of waste and recycling, topics often filled with questions for most readers. Do we really know why it's important to recycle and the consequences of not doing it? What environmental impact does our behavior have? What trends will prevail in waste management during the next decade? Far from being a technical book, Stop Garbage introduces us to the field of waste and recycling in a clear and enjoyable way. It deals with garbage or waste, whatever you want to call it, but in it you will also find a kidnapping, a destroyer, successes, food waste, the biggest dump in the world, the first incinerator, questions about money and employment or riddles: how many times can you fill the Camp Nou Stadium with one year's waste? How many trees do we save from felling if we recycle paper? What's the best waste in the world? Added to this, multimedia content, articles and videos make up a didactic book of reading which is, without a shadow of a doubt, entertaining. After years of experience in the sector, Alex Pascual (Barcelona, 1976) brings us closer to the key concepts that can help us to formulate our own opinion on the subject. A book full of vital data as well as funny anecdotes that will trigger successive reflections on waste management, undoubtedly one of the pillars of the contemporary and future commitment to the environment. About the author Industrial Engineer specialist in waste management, street cleaning and public services. He has been working in the private sector for many years and now, after more than nine years works as a public services chief for a city council. He also writes on a blog about the same subject www.stopgarbage.com, Twitter profile @stopbasura1 and on Instagram as @stopbasura. Readers reviews It is a very affordable book for anyone who wants to know how the recycling system works in Spain. With a simple language and away from the technicalities, step by step the writer introduces you to why it is important to recycle, the main magnitudes in our country and the recycling process of each container . Nicolás This is a good book to understand the garbage and what represents in our society. It is impressive to read the data and interpretation that the author gives us ...Luis Very good book, practical, with a surprising data that reveals and the clarity of the explanation. Despite containing a large amount of information, its reading is enjoyable and facilitated by numerous graphics, links to websites, etc. The book really opens your eyes to the world of recycling! Highly recommended. Dani |
| la sexta extincion libro: Biology Teresa Audesirk, Gerald Audesirk, Bruce E. Byers, 2011 Includes 45 case studies and essays under the topics: Earth watch; Health watch; A closer look at ...; Scientific inquiry; Links to everyday life. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Fields, Strings, and Duality Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics 1996, Boulder, Colo, Brian Greene, 1997 The past year has witnessed truly remarkable developments in our understanding of string theory. Fields, Strings and Duality - TASI 96 is an invaluable collection of review papers on the subject, contributed by the most prominent researchers in the field. This volume is a scientific treasure for graduate students, researchers and all others who are interested in the progress of theoretical physics.--Publisher's website |
| la sexta extincion libro: The Origins of Creativity Edward O Wilson, 2018-11-27 “Brimming with ideas. . . . The Origins of Creativity approach[es] creativity scientifically but sensitively, feeling its roots without pulling them out.”—Economist In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a “luminous” (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson argues, have their roots in human creativity—the defining trait of our species. By studying fields as diverse as paleontology, evolution, and neurobiology, Wilson demonstrates that creative expression began not 10,000 years ago, as we have long assumed, but more than 100,000 years ago in the Paleolithic Age. A provocative investigation into what it means to be human, The Origins of Creativity reveals how the humanities have played an unexamined role in defining our species. With the eloquence, optimism, and pioneering inquiry we have come to expect from our leading biologist, Wilson proposes a transformational “Third Enlightenment” in which the blending of science and humanities will enable a deeper understanding of our human condition, and how it ultimately originated. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Origins Reconsidered Richard Leakey, Roger Lewin, 2008-06-26 Reassesses human prehistory, incorporating ideas from philosophy, anthropology, molecular biology, and linguistics to explore how humans acquired the qualities of consciousness and humanity. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Letters to a Young Scientist Edward O. Wilson, 2013-04-15 Weaves together more than twenty letters that illuminate the author's career and his motivations for becoming a biologist, explaining how success in the sciences depends on a passion for finding a problem and solving it. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Perdidos. La extinción de las especies (y las lecciones que nos dejan) Fernando Gabriel Sica, 2020-12-30 “Perdidos” aborda el problema de la Extinción de las Especies desde un enfoque singular. Se toman ejemplos seleccionados de animales extintos, maravillosos en muchos aspectos, que hemos perdido para siempre, y se analizan exhaustivamente los factores que condujeron a esa pérdida. En cada caso, se releva y actualiza toda la información disponible de las especies analizadas, incluso aquellas que surgieron de investigaciones posteriores a su desaparición, reconstruyendo los hechos para tratar de comprender la cadena de sucesos, poniendo en manos del lector los datos que nos permiten averiguar qué pasó, cuáles fueron los elementos decisivos que condujeron a la tragedia del final. Porque de eso se trata, de una tragedia natural, que se acelera de manera fulminante abarcando a todos los seres que habitan nuestro planeta. Cerca de un millón de especies están amenazadas hoy, de manera directa o indirecta, por el avance humano sobre los ambientes naturales, y en el transcurso de lo que lleva leer este libro, algunas de ellas se habrán ido definitivamente, incluso sin que lo advirtamos, dejando al planeta más pobre y frágil. Los expertos aún no pueden definir con precisión el conjunto de efectos que tiene cada partida, pero es frecuente que cada especie arrastre a otras a la desaparición, en la medida en que toda la naturaleza está interconectada en extraordinarias y complejas relaciones, que en muchos casos apenas entendemos. Este libro es un llamado a la reflexión, pero también un grito desesperado de alerta. Algo hay que hacer. La humanidad en conjunto ha acorralado, con sus premisas egocéntricas de explotación y dominio, a animales que hasta hace poco tiempo atrás prosperaban pacíficamente. Los hemos dejado sin hogar, sin alimento, les hemos extraído las pieles, los colmillos, la carne, les hemos arrebatado las crías, los hemos encerrado y enfermado. Los hemos tratado sin piedad y sin respeto. En muchos casos, nos ha guiado en esta irracional conducta una gran indiferencia, pero también una profunda ignorancia, que no nos permitió actuar a tiempo. Por estas páginas pasarán dodos nada tontos, inquietos delfines rosados, guacamayos azules deslumbrantes, poderosos rinocerontes y elefantes, insignificantes caracoles, brillantes sapos dorados, lobos misteriosos, y muchas otras formas de vida increíblemente adaptadas a ambientes que invadimos y saqueamos. Por eso es que estas historias tienen que conocerse, para que muchas personas sepan que el conocimiento es poder, y que solo entendiendo lo que pasa en el mundo natural podemos contribuir con su protección y conservación. Hay muchas iniciativas de personas que dan su tiempo por el cuidado de estas vidas animales, las que frecuentemente languidecen por falta de recursos y apoyos. Para ayudar, hay que entender qué es lo que está pasando. Las historias aquí presentadas han sido elegidas por los mensajes que pueden darnos, sobre las diversas condiciones que pueden llevar a la extinción a una especie, así como por su capacidad para explicar de manera más amplia lo que le ocurre a otras especies relacionadas con la extinta. También, por las posibilidades de aportar ideas para la salvación y recuperación de otros animales amenazados. Están dirigidas a todos los que aman la naturaleza, y muy especialmente a los educadores que tienen la tarea esencial de formar una nueva conciencia colectiva en las generaciones venideras sobre el cuidado medioambiental. El futuro llega muy rápido. Para algunas especies en peligro crítico, es un futuro incierto, escrito con la sangre de víctimas inocentes. Están en nuestras manos. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Bucles De Extinción José Miguel Esteban, 2019-09-12 Según J. Miguel Esteban, las nuevas tecnologías del capitalismo cognitivo permiten calcular la magnitud de la sexta extinción y al mismo tiempo impulsar exponencialmente la expansión de los mercados globales del planeta. La extinción antropogénica de la biodiversidad revela también las psicopatologías de un mundo domesticado económica y tecnológicamente en el que se desvanece la necesaria otredad biológica. De modo que, como advertía Heidegger, allá donde mire el hombre no se encuentra más que a sí mismo. Bucles de extinción explora estas y otras psicopatologías sistémicas realimentadas por el cambio climático y la sexta extinción. Esteban se propone así robustecer su propuesta de una educación ambiental experiencial y transdisciplinar, ya defendida en sus últimas publicaciones, con otras aportaciones de las ciencias naturales, sociales y humanas dispuestas a establecer un recorte interdisciplinar y sistémico del ambiente que problematizan, en el que rige la incertidumbre y la exponenciación de las preguntas allí donde apenas hemos empezado a bosquejar respuestas situadas, incompletas, provisionales y sensibles al contexto. El libro Bucles de extinción, del Doctor José Miguel Esteban, ha sido sometido a dictamen por una comisión académica de expertos de la Unión de Científicos Comprometidos con la Sociedad (UCCS), institución de profesionales mexicanos de la ciencia que avala resueltamente la calidad del libro y se enorgullece de que el trabajo importante e innovador de un miembro activo de la UCCS pueda finalmente ser publicado también bajo su sello. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies Edward O. Wilson, 2019-03-19 “The book bursts to life with [Wilson’s] observations of nature, from fire ants and social spiders to starlings.”—Aarathi Prasad, New York Times Book Review An “endlessly fascinating” (Michael Ruse) work of scientific thought and synthesis, Genesis is Edward O. Wilson’s twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Wilson demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species. At least seventeen of these species—among them the African naked mole rat and the sponge-dwelling shrimp—have been found to have advanced societies based on altruism and cooperation. Braiding twenty-first- century scientific theory with the lyrical biological and humanistic observations for which Wilson is beloved, Genesis is “a magisterial history of social evolution, from clouds of midges or sparrows to the grotesqueries of ant colonies” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). |
| la sexta extincion libro: Cockfight Maria Fernanda Ampuero, 2020-06-23 This Ecuadorian short story collection explores domestic horrors and everyday violence, a grotesque, unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America (Publishers Weekly). “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” —Yuri Herrera, author of Signs Preceding the End of the World Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight is the debut work by Ecuadorian writer and journalist María Fernanda Ampuero. In lucid and compelling prose, Ampuero sheds light on the hidden aspects of the home: the grotesque realities of family, coming of age, religion, and class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, characters spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Heralding a brutal and singular new voice, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. |
| la sexta extincion libro: The Life of the Skies Jonathan Rosen, 2008-02-19 Aerial delights: A history of America as seen through the eyes of a bird-watcher John James Audubon arrived in America in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was president, and lived long enough to see his friend Samuel Morse send a telegraphic message from his house in New York City in the 1840s. As a boy, Teddy Roosevelt learned taxidermy from a man who had sailed up the Missouri River with Audubon, and yet as president presided over America’s entry into the twentieth century, in which our ability to destroy ourselves and the natural world was no longer metaphorical. Roosevelt, an avid birder, was born a hunter and died a conservationist. Today, forty-six million Americans are bird-watchers. The Life of the Skies is a genre-bending journey into the meaning of a pursuit born out of the tangled history of industrialization and nature longing. Jonathan Rosen set out on a quest not merely to see birds but to fathom their centrality—historical and literary, spiritual and scientific—to a culture torn between the desire both to conquer and to conserve. Rosen argues that bird-watching is nothing less than the real national pastime—indeed it is more than that, because the field of play is the earth itself. We are the players and the spectators, and the outcome—since bird and watcher are intimately connected—is literally a matter of life and death. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Antropoceno : la huella humana Ernesto Guhl Nannetti, 2022-04-29 La humanidad ha llegado a ser la más poderosa fuerza trasformadora del planeta, con lo cual ha creado un nuevo periodo: el Antropoceno o la “era humana”. En él lo normal son, y serán, los paisajes cambiantes, la incertidumbre y las condiciones inestables, como las que estamos experimentando. Hemos generado unas nuevas condiciones climáticas y ambientales, que han puesto en peligro de extinción a muchas de las especies con las que compartimos el planeta. Además, estamos alterando el clima y el delicado funcionamiento de los sistemas terrestres y marinos al contaminar las aguas y los suelos y al adoptar un modelo económico insostenible que nos ha conducido a una crisis socioambiental de tal magnitud que puede hablarse de una crisis civilizatoria. Sin embargo, este libro no pretende unirse al coro catastrofista alrededor de la crisis que hemos producido. Por el contrario, busca contribuir a superarla a partir de una revisión de cómo hemos llegado hasta el punto de amenazar la civilización y la existencia de la humanidad, describiendo los intentos por comprenderla y mitigarla, identificando las causas de su fracaso e invitando a utilizar para ello las excepcionales capacidades y los maravillosos logros de la humanidad. Asimismo, propone rescatar el principio de sostenibilidad como fi n último de las sociedades, mediante un profundo cambio de valores y de estilos de vida, que permitan una nueva relación más respetuosa y comprensiva con la naturaleza. El lector encontrará no solo una mirada global y generalista del problema, puesto que el libro también se enfoca en Colombia como un ejemplo que ilustra la gravedad de desconocer las múltiples realidades territoriales del planeta, como lo hacen las fallidas y vagas políticas ambientales vigentes. Para ello, por una parte, describe el recorrido que ha seguido el país hasta convertirse en un territorio social y ambientalmente empobrecido y, por otra, propone cambios para abandonar este equivocado rumbo y construir colectivamente un país equitativo y pacífico, es decir, sostenible. |
| la sexta extincion libro: A Brief History of Timekeeping Chad Orzel, 2022-01-25 2022 NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER — HISTORY: GENERAL . . . inherently interesting, unique, and highly recommended addition to personal, professional, community, college, and academic library Physics of Time & Scientific Measurement history collections, and supplemental curriculum studies lists.” —Midwest Book Review A wonderful look into understanding and recording time, Orzel’s latest is appropriate for all readers who are curious about those ticks and tocks that mark nearly every aspect of our lives. —Booklist “A thorough, enjoyable exploration of the history and science behind measuring time.” —Foreword Reviews It’s all a matter of time—literally. From the movements of the spheres to the slipperiness of relativity, the story of science unfolds through the fascinating history of humanity’s efforts to keep time. Our modern lives are ruled by clocks and watches, smartphone apps and calendar programs. While our gadgets may be new, however, the drive to measure and master time is anything but—and in A Brief History of Timekeeping, Chad Orzel traces the path from Stonehenge to your smartphone. Predating written language and marching on through human history, the desire for ever-better timekeeping has spurred technological innovation and sparked theories that radically reshaped our understanding of the universe and our place in it. Orzel, a physicist and the bestselling author of Breakfast with Einstein and How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog continues his tradition of demystifying thorny scientific concepts by using the clocks and calendars central to our everyday activities as a jumping-off point to explore the science underlying the ways we keep track of our time. Ancient solstice markers (which still work perfectly 5,000 years later) depend on the basic astrophysics of our solar system; mechanical clocks owe their development to Newtonian physics; and the ultra-precise atomic timekeeping that enables GPS hinges on the predictable oddities of quantum mechanics. Along the way, Orzel visits the delicate negotiations involved in Gregorian calendar reform, the intricate and entirely unique system employed by the Maya, and how the problem of synchronizing clocks at different locations ultimately required us to abandon the idea of time as an absolute and universal quantity. Sharp and engaging, A Brief History of Timekeeping is a story not just about the science of sundials, sandglasses, and mechanical clocks, but also the politics of calendars and time zones, the philosophy of measurement, and the nature of space and time itself. For those interested in science, technology, or history, or anyone who’s ever wondered about the instruments that divide our days into moments: the time you spend reading this book may fly, and it is certain to be well spent. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Breve Historia del Homo Sapiens Fernando Diez Martín, 2011-10-01 Una carrera, con demasiados obstáculos a veces, que nos ha llevado a ser la especie dominante en nuestro planeta; la que ha dejado atrás a otros congéneres, también humanos, que no pudieron adaptarse a las condiciones cambiantes de nuestro planeta. Se trata de un libro entretenido y ameno para comprender por qué somos como somos. Desde que vivía colgado de los árboles hasta que pisó la luna, el camino de la especie humana para dominar el planeta que le vio crecer no ha sido fácil. Ha habido demasiados callejones sin salida, adaptaciones que terminaron por extinguirse, hasta conseguir los cambios necesarios para dominar a las otras especies. Fernando Diez no sólo se limita a contarnos la historia de la evolución humana, también nos habla del difícil camino que ha seguido en la consecución de su propio conocimiento hasta alcanzar la comprensión de sí misma. La historia de una especie que, luchando contra el clima, los accidentes geográficos y el resto de especies, se ha convertido en la especie hegemónica en la Tierra: la única especie del género Homo que sigue aún con vida. La historia evolutiva del ser humano es relativamente reciente, nace en el S. XIX con la teoría de la evolución de Darwin, además ha tenido que sortear no pocos obstáculos doctrinales, ha tenido que chocar con los más aferrados dogmas religiosos y con las teorías científicas más reaccionarias. Breve Historia del Homo Sapiens nos presenta dos epopeyas paralelas, la aventura de la evolución humana desde los primates hasta la actualidad y la aventura de la investigación paleontológica. La investigación sobre los orígenes del hombre nunca está exenta de controversia e incluso en la actualidad los dogmas más arcaicos de la humanidad siguen pugnando y presentando batalla al origen animal del ser humano. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Paleobotany and the Evolution of Plants Wilson N. Stewart, Gar W. Rothwell, 1993-02-26 This 1993 textbook describes and explains the origin and evolution of plants as revealed by the fossil record. |
| la sexta extincion libro: La brújula del valor Eleodoro Ventocilla, 2014-01-01 Una guía para desarrollar y sostener en el tiempo la capacidad de crear riqueza. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Monsieur Proust Céleste Albaret, 2003-10-31 Céleste Albaret was Marcel Proust's housekeeper in his last years, when he retreated from the world to devote himself to In Search of Lost Time. She could imitate his voice to perfection, and Proust himself said to her, You know everything about me. Her reminiscences of her employer present an intimate picture of the daily life of a great writer who was also a deeply peculiar man, while Madame Albaret herself proves to be a shrewd and engaging companion. |
| la sexta extincion libro: Prophet of Love Elizabeth Kolbert, 2006-01 |
| la sexta extincion libro: Why Save Endangered Species? , 1991 |
| la sexta extincion libro: How to Read a Book Mortimer Jerome Adler, 1963 |
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