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Lo que Jurassic Park no te contó: la ciencia real detrás del comportamiento de los dinosaurios.¿Cómo cazaban realmente los grandes depredadores? ¿Cómo se cortejaban, combatían o criaban a sus crías? Durante decadas, los dinosaurios fueron poco mas que esqueletos: formas sin comportamiento ni vida interior, vestigios de un mundo perdido hace mas de sesenta y cinco millones de años. Hoy sabemos que esa imagen era solo el comienzo de una historia incompleta.Gracias al descubrimiento de nuevos fosiles, al desarrollo de tecnicas de vanguardia y a la comparacion con sus descendientes vivos las aves, los cientificos estan empezando a reconstruir, con sorprendente precision, como vivian realmente estos animales. En este libro, el paleontologo David Hone nos guia a traves de este fascinante proceso de descubrimiento y abre una ventana a la vida prehistorica como nunca antes habia sido posible.Una obra de referencia imprescindible para quienes desean comprender de verdad a estas criaturas legendarias, con fotografias, graficos e ilustraciones del paleoartista Gabriel Ugueto.El libro que hay que leer para entender como vivian los dinosaurios. Steve Brusatte, autor de Auge y caida de los dinosauriosUna mirada fascinante al pasado prehistorico y a los dinosaurios que cautivara a todos los lectores. Publishers Weekly¿Que aficionado a los dinosaurios no disfrutara aprendiendo sobre nidos y huevos, fuerza de mordida, colosales combates entre reptiles y un variado arsenal anatomico?. BooklistLa franqueza de Hone es bienvenida en un mundo posterior a Jurassic Park, donde los malentendidos siguen dominando el imaginario popular. Science NewsUn libro magnifico que deberia convertirse en la obra de referencia para una valoracion rigurosa de lo que sabemos sobre el comportamiento de los dinosaurios. The Inquisitive BiologistUn exhaustivo analisis, acompañado de magnificas ilustraciones y fotografias que atraeran tanto a especialistas como a aficionados de todas las edades. Michael J. Benton, autor de The Dinosaurs Rediscovered

El maestro de la divulgación y autor de La escritura de los dioses nos traslada a uno de los momentos cumbre de la historia de la ciencia: el descubrimiento de los dinosauriosA comienzos del siglo XIX, el mundo parecia un lugar previsible. La gente creia que la Tierra no tenia mas que seis mil años de antiguedad y que las enormes huellas fosilizadas que aparecian en la naturaleza pertenecian a dragones o a seres mitologicos. Fueron personajes como Mary Anning, una humilde mujer que tenia aficion por recoger fosiles, William Buckland, un excentrico geologo, o Richard Owen, el primero en acuñar la palabra dinosaurio, quienes permitieron que los cientificos de la epoca victoriana pudieran reconstruir la historia de unas criaturas que hoy todos conocemos.Con el rigor historico y el pulso narrativo propios de Edward Dolnick, este libro nos descubre como el hallazgo de los dinosaurios significo el nacimiento de la paleontologia como disciplina, sento las bases de la historia natural moderna y demostro que la edad de nuestro planeta no se media en miles de años, sino en millones, cambiando para siempre nuestra comprension del mundo.Dolnick demuestra un dominio total del tema y construye una historia exhaustiva y muy atractiva. ScienceVibrante, entretenido y plenamente recomendable. The Wall Street Journal

Una verdadera pieza de colección que invita a conocer y proteger nuestro patrimonio vegetal.Plantas endémicas de Chile mediterráneo es una obra de lujo que reúne arte y ciencia para homenajear la biodiversidad unica de la zona central de nuestro pais. Este volumen continua el legado del reconocido libro Plantas y arboles de los bosques de Chile, editado por el Jardin Botanico de Edimburgo en 2015, y ganador del Award of Excellence in Botanical Art and Illustration (2017).En colaboracion con la Fundacion Chilco y el Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, este libro busca resaltar la belleza, diversidad y caracteristicas ecologicas de 51 especies endemicas e iconicas de esta region, muchas de ellas hoy gravemente amenazadas. Cada una de estas plantas ha sido representada por ilustradores botanicos chilenos, y se acompaña de textos que exploran su ecologia, distribucion, etimologia, propagacion y usos tradicionales.Con un formato de gran tamaño, impresion de alta calidad y un diseño editorial cuidado, esta edicion es una verdadera pieza de coleccion que invita a conocer y proteger nuestro patrimonio vegetal.

Explores the characteristics, medicinal uses, and mythology of more than 570 species of cacti, including well-known species like Saguaro and Prickly Pear and entheogens such as San Pedro and Peyote Describes the ways that Indigenous peoples around the world have traditionally used cacti for healing, food, and ceremonial purposes Details scientific research on cactus compounds and alkaloids, including antidiabetic, anticancer, antimicrobial, antiviral, antidepressant, and analgesic properties More than 1700 species of the cactus family of plants can be found around the world, mainly in North and South America. They appear in a wide range of environments, from subarctic to extremely hot regions, speaking to their profound ability to adapt, survive, and thrive. In this full-color illustrated encyclopedia, Robert Dale Rogers explores the characteristics of more than 570 cacti species through the lenses of ethnobotany, folklore, chemistry, pharmacology, and their effective use in natural therapies. He details scientific research on the medicinal effects of cactus compounds and alkaloids, including their antioxidant, antidiabetic, anticancer, antimicrobial, antiviral, antidepressant, and analgesic properties. He also looks at the use of cacti in flower essences, herbal preparations, and homeopathic remedies. Rogers explains how Indigenous people such as the Cree have used cacti for healing, food, ceremony, and shamanic purposes for millennia and he shares myths centered on cacti, such as the legend of the Cactus Cat from the American Southwest. He also provides a psychopharmacological examination of the entheogenic alkaloid mescaline, which can be found in San Pedro and Peyote. This book showcases the benefits and unusual beauty of cacti, revealing how these plants have supported humanity for eons, from prehistory to the present day.

What is a folk tale, but a tangled woodland of words, where anything could happen? Ever since the last ice melted, trees have been our constant companions. Trees have transformed us, protected us, inspired us and created bridges for us. They will continue to shape our lives as we walk into an uncertain future.The islands of Britain and Ireland hold a rich heritage of folk tales, history, knowledge and song about trees. It is a living heritage, changing all the time through the circling year as oak and rowan are joined by spruce and plane, and as old stories are reworked and new ones created.Following the wheel of the year, storyteller and ecologist Lisa Schneidau brings our trees alive through their stories and songs, whether they are rooted in rural magic or modern myth. Take a fresh look at the tree-folk you share your life with, and discover their stories.

In Why Dont You Understand Me? behavioral scientist and clinical psychologist Yael Schonbrun shows that misunderstanding is a problem of perception, not of communication. Solving it means looking in places most of us never think to look.In an increasingly connected world, misunderstanding is disconnecting us more than ever. Too often, we solve for the wrong problem. Understanding happens inside people, in how we filter, interpret, and make meaning of what we hear, not between people in the exchange of words.In Why Dont You Understand Me?, youll sit beside the Exalted Cyclops of Durhams Ku Klux Klan and the citys prominent Black civil rights leader as understanding transforms their lifelong hatred into friendship. Youll join a detective, sitting alone in a room with a serial killer, and watch generous understanding extract a confession. Youll visit a therapy room where two people who love each other cant understand why they remember the same fight so differently, then discover why theyre both right. And youll discover how understanding and being understood by an octopus reveals something unexpected about connection itself.Drawing on two decades in the therapy room and powerful relationship science, Dr. Schonbrun traces the hidden forces that distort what we perceive, how we interpret it, and why we defend our version of events even when were wrongthen shows what to do about it. Readers will come away with practical strategies for the moments that matter most, from the personal fight that keeps happening to the socio-political divides that feel unbridgeable. The glitches that cause misunderstanding reside in each of us. But so do the tools for understanding better and healing our most painful disconnections.

A beautifully illustrated celebration of one of Britains most beloved birds: the charming, comical yet mysterious puffin - the perfect gift for nature lovers.The puffins bright orange bill and striking black-and-white plumage have made it one of our most iconic seabirds. It has charmed nature lovers and inspired countless fables and stories, as well as becoming an emblem for childrens literature.Follow the lifecycle of the puffin throughout a calendar year: from egg and nestling to juvenile puffling, to the adult birds courtship, breeding and feeding habits, and discover its place in popular and literary culture, in this richly illustrated and wonderfully insightful book that deserves a place on every birdwatchers bookshelf.A superb naturalist and writer Chris PackhamIt is a delight to share the company of such an upbeat wildlife guide Ben Hoare, BBC Countryfile

A daring and visionary new narrative of the emergence of life, one that refocuses our attention on the beautiful and mysterious tango between life and Earth itself, from Olivia Judson, the bestselling and award-winning author of Dr Tatianas Sex Advice to All CreationThese are questions as old as time itself: Where did we come from? What are we? What does it mean to be alive? And how do we fit into the grand planetary and cosmic tapestry unfolding across time and space all around us? With rare style and radical originality, Judson proposes a grand new theory of lifes evolution on earth, advancing a bold and dazzling argument about how Earth went from a barren, rocky wasteland pummeled by asteroids 4.2 billion years ago to a planet of riotous life today. She reveals how Earth does not merely host life, it creates life, and, in turn, how life itself became a powerful geological force, far mightier than volcanoes, on a par with the great tectonic plates as they grind and shudder their way around the Earth. This is a mind-blowing contention that reorients everything, linking us humans not only to all other lifeforms, but to the very fabric of the planet itself.Always accessible, Judsons prose is by turns erudite, philosophical, amusing, poetic, and preternaturally vivid. She divides planetary history into five epochsrock, light, oxygen, flesh, and fireeach unlocking of a new source of energy, which coincides with new organisms able to exploit that source and alter their planet. Judson calls it a stepwise construction of a life-planet system, explaining how these successive energy revolutions created the conditions for a rich array of life, from amoebas, to cabbages, to humans. There is an epic, stirring, and enduring symbiosis between life and Earth, in her telling, and we are all participants.

From the award-winning author of The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary comes an immersive and thought-provoking exploration of the modern zoo that confronts our fraught relationship with the animal world in the age of extinction.Most thinking on the modern zoo falls neatly into two camps: zoos are either vital institutions in the struggle against the Sixth Extinction, or cruel anachronisms that deny life and liberty to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures on Earth.In this deeply researched, elegantly written, and compassionately argued book, Andrew Westoll explores the many paradoxes of the modern zoo, while engaging readers in the practical and ethical quandaries that lie at the heart of the institution.Born to Be Wild takes us to some of the most iconic zoological parks in the world, where we meet extraordinary animalsfrom the Sumatran tigers of London to the giant pandas of Viennaand the humans who look after them. Along the way there is a death in Copenhagen, a shooting in Cincinnati, an elephant in a New York courtroom, and a fugitive owl in Central Park.As the climate emergency churns through the biodiversity of our planet, zoos struggle to remain relevant as they try to balance our need to connect with nature and our responsibility to protect it. In Born to Be Wild, Westoll grapples with the impossible question of whether the diminished lives of captive animals can ever be justified, at a time when the worlds wild places are nearing extinction.

A human history of birdscharting how our lives have been intimately connected with these winged creatures since we first evolved out of the treesFrom the ancient Egyptian mummified ibises to Yankee Doodles famous feathered cap, to the more obscure Arm and Hammer Company bird cards tucked within boxes of baking soda, this book charts our ongoing fascination with birds for thousands of years. Pete Dunneone of the most celebrated and recognized birders in North Americadoesnt shy away from the ugly parts of this history, from the astonishing numbers of avian fatalities as they attempt to migrate through a host of dangerous manmade obstacles twice a year, to the section hes called the hall of shame which covers the species weve made extinct in North America, to Your Bird Neighbors where he inventories the birds currently declining or facing extinction.Throughout, Dunne reminds us that as we are the problem, we can and must be the solution to protecting our avian kin and continuing to celebrate them and partner with them as we have throughout human history. This book is for history lovers, as well as for birders who will enjoy coming across their favorite species in new and surprising places throughout our shared time on this planet.

Squishy, sticky, and surprisingly helpfuldiscover how mud transforms animals lives in this messy, fun, and fact-filled adventure kids will love to dive into!A vibrant, playful nonfiction picture book for ages 4 to 7 that blends sensory fun with fascinating animal science and encourages hands-on exploration.Mud isnt just sticky and messyits magic for animals! Its a tasty milkshake for swallowtail butterflies, sticky glue for beavers, a cooling pool for hippos, and even sunscreen for rhinos. Meet eleven amazing animals who use mud in surprising ways, brought to life with vibrant art and fun mud splatters on every page.In the back matter, readers discover how humans have used mud tooand the best part? Playing with it! Plus, fun mud-tastic facts and creative ideas invite readers to dig in, build, bake, and make their own muddy masterpieces.

From New York Times bestselling authors Dr Josh Axe and Dr Will Cole, the essential guide to reversing your physical decline and regaining energyDid you know that nearly all your organs regenerate within a year?The stomach lining can heal in as little as two to nine days.Red blood cells, one hundred and twenty days.The kidneys, three to six months.Bones, six to eight weeks.INCLUDES A QUIZ TO DETERMINE THE AGE OF YOUR ORGANSOur bodies are intricately designed with an extraordinary ability to heal and renew. Yet we face chronic disease and shortened life and health spans because we are not helping the body at the root levelcreating new, healthy cells.Thanks to chronic stress, digital overload, consuming diets high in ultra-processed foods and being bombarded by environmental toxins, our cells are breaking down and so are we.Doctors Josh Axe and Will Cole draw on their combined four decades of clinical experience in functional medicine and cellular nutrition to uncover the threats behind cellular decline and share the lifestyle approaches, diet tips and mindset shifts that can restore energy, reverse disease, and promote longevity for all ages.Heal Your Cells distils complex science of into clear, practical principles and actionable protocols that challenge readers to take ownership of their cellular well-being. Using personal anecdotes, patient testimonials and scientific evidence, the authors reveal how to fuel the body with the right building blocks, eliminate environmental, nutrient, and emotional toxins, and energize cells for regeneration.

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a haltbut ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation.From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).In the 1870s, horses were the lifeblood of North American cities. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto relied on tens of thousands of workhorses to power daily life. Then, in late 1872 and into 1873, a devastating outbreak of horse fluknown as The Great Epizooticswept across the continent.In Nary a Horse Left Standing, Lee Dugatkin chronicles this little-known crisis, revealing how the epidemic disrupted nearly every aspect of urban life. From coast to coast, livelihoods collapsed as horses lay sick, or worse dying, on stable floors, fires raged unchecked without horse-drawn wagons, and city development stalled for lack of horsepower. Just as the Gilded Age was dawning and industrialists were poised to amass fortunes, the flu slowed progress to a crawl.Yet the tragedy also catalyzed revolutions in medicine, animal rights, and transportation. Veterinary science in the U.S. was still emerging, but detailed medical reports from the epidemic helped validate germ theory and discredit outdated beliefs. The crisis also spotlighted early animal welfare efforts, with fledgling groups like the ASPCA advocating for sick horses forced to work. Finally, the sheer vulnerability of relying on animals for transport spurred a shift toward mechanized systems.As illuminating as it is humbling, the book brings to life a critical account of a crisis that still speaks to the complex public health and transportation challenges we face today.

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Microworlds brings to life a whole new ecosystem populated by a bewildering array of forms living extraordinary lives. It is a remarkable eyeopener for all naturalists. For most of the history of life on Earth all life was microscopic, and even today most of biodiversity is still microscopic. Until the invention of the microscope in the seventeenth century all this diverse microworld was completely unknown. As well as dominating Earth for eons, microbes are still vital to the health of the planet. Microworlds, the new volume in the New Naturalist Library, reveals the incredible life forms that lie beyond our everyday perception. It focuses on protists, organisms an earlier generation of biologists called algae and protozoa, rather than the often much smaller bacteria and viruses. Concentrating on the extraordinary range that can be seen with at most a relatively basic microscope, the book reveals the biology of these miniscule life forms. Some of them notably Amoeba proteus and Paramecium are widely known to anyone who has peered down a microscope in a school science class. But the microworld is an extraordinary assemblage of a vast range of different species some of which have life-styles that seem very familiar to the larger life forms that they live amongst, while some of their lifestyles simply seem like science fiction. In describing this enthralling world, Microworlds brings to life a whole new ecosystem populated by a bewildering array of forms living extraordinary lives. It is a remarkable eyeopener for all naturalists.

Dr. Dino Martins, an awarding-winning entomologist of Kenyas Turkana Basin, where life was born, unspools the hidden, squirming world of parasites some of the most misunderstood, and important, creatures with whom we share the Earth (and our bodies). Your world will be larger for reading this book CHLOE DALTON author of Raising Hare When we think of parasites, we might think of terrifying tiny creatures who suck blood and steal food, and thats definitely a part of what these mysterious organisms are but, as Martins shows, its only a part. From the tapeworm, which can grow a remarkable 120 feet in length within the gut of a whale, to the tsetse fly, a notorious vector of disease that can pierce the skin even of crocodiles with its vicious, needle-like mouth, to perhaps the most universal symbol of parasitic behavior in our language, the much-mythologized leech, all parasites make a living by exploiting other living things. In each chapter, Martins takes us through gaping geological time to explain the history of a particular parasites evolution and its interactions with humans and animals alike. This is a journey across the world ten times over from Nairobi to New York, East Africa to the Amazon, Borneo to London public parks and to the outer reaches of the animal kingdom. Along the way, we meet the brilliant and eccentric experts who join Martins on his adventures and encounter not only parasites but their incredible variety of hosts, from hyraxes and hippos to, of course, the elusive human. Throughout history, parasites have been used to cure disease, seen as delicious delicacies, and feared among the most dangerous banes of existence. But there is much to learn about these critters yet, and Martins is just the person to take on the task. Immersive, entertaining, driven by a curiosity thats utterly infectious, Hidden Creatures has the magnetic force of a David Attenborough documentary and never ceases to surprise.