If you have ever shined a flashlight into the woods at night and seen a pair of glowing eyes staring back at you, you have witnessed one of evolution's most brilliant optical engineering feats. That eerie glow is not a trick of the light; it is the Tapetum Lucidum, a microscopic mirror hidden just behind the retina. This biological retroreflector bounces photons back through the visual cortex a second time, effectively doubling the light available to nocturnal predators like wolves, cats, ...

Comunidades digitales. Perspectivas interdisciplinarias desde y sobre América Latin@ ofrece una mirada innovadora a cómo lo digital configura la vida cotidiana, los vínculos sociales, el activismo y las identidades en la región. A través de estudios de caso que abarcan temas como género, sexualidad, raza, etnicidad y redes sociales, el libro reúne voces de investigadores de distintas disciplinas—desde los estudios culturales hasta la sociolingüística—para explorar cómo se construy...

She looked at me attentively, and I think that she perhaps guessed that instead of feeling like a good-for-nothing, I was beginning to get angry. I saw that her gorgeous green eyes blinked too much. She gave me the impression that she thought for an instant just what she was going to say to me and then changed her strategy. Now, the tone of her voice and her attitude were less hostile and more amiable. She went from the hard and merciless character to that of an ingenious and tender negoti...

Artists in San Miguel and Other Stories is a collection of short stories where animals are the main characters. Some are lighthearted and fun, others explore nature and how we interact with the world. Others are filled with sorrow and grief as loves go unrealized, hearts are broken, and myths are explored. Each story focuses on an aspect of life that mirrors our own and shows readers that nature is not so different from what we endure. Most of the stories are based in Mexico and provide a ...

With a focus on Chile, Pinochet’s Economic Accomplices: An Unequal Country byForce uses theoretical arguments and empirical studies to argue that focusing onthe behavior of economic actors of the dictatorship is crucial to achieve basic objectivesin terms of justice, memory, reparation, and non-repetition measures. Thisbook makes visible a number of cases of economic complicity with the Chileandictatorship and explains their links with the radical inequal...

Solid state physics, the study and prediction of the fundamental physical properties of materials, forms the backbone of modern materials science and has many technological applications. The unique feature of this text is the MATLAB®-based computational approach with several numerical techniques and simulation methods included. This is highly effective in addressing the need for visualization and a direct hands-on approach in learning the theoretical concepts of solid state physics. The co...

Sharpen your Spanish language skills through readings about its speakers' daily lives and cultureBetter Reading Spanish offers you entertaining, "real world" texts to help you understand and learn more Spanish vocabulary and phrases. Each chapter features articles that cover a specific topic, such as cuisine, music, sports, film and theater, art, the family, today's lifestyle, or politics and history. Along the way, you will find instruction and exercises ...

Feynman Simplified gives mere mortals access to the fabled Feynman Lectures on Physics.Quantum mechanics is rarely taught well in introductory physics courses. Here more than anywhere else, Feynman excels. Here more than anywhere else, Feynman Simplified can help you learn from the very best, but at a humane pace.Feynman Simplified: 3B covers the second third of Volume 3 of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. The topics we explore include:Particle Exchange Model ...

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Immerse yourself in Spanish readings and build your comprehension skillsUsing short authentic texts from the Spanish-speaking world, Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Reading and Comprehension enables you to enhance your vocabulary with new terms and expressions. Each unit featu...

SERS was discovered in the 1970s and has since grown enormously in breadth, depth, and understanding. One of the major characteristics of SERS is its interdisciplinary nature: it lies at the boundary between physics, chemistry, colloid science, plasmonics, nanotechnology, and biology. By their very nature, it is impossible to find a textbook that will summarize the principles needed for SERS of these rather dissimilar and disconnected topics. Although a basic understanding of these topics ...

That’s it! No more mysteries! The deepest secrets of physical nature are now completely revealed! Did you ever wonder how everything came into existence? What is matter made of? What are, in fact, space and time, and why do elementary particles interact? And the one I like most: what is gravity and how does it exert its force throughout the Universe? Look no further: all the answers to these "big" questions are right here, put as simply as possible. No more hiding behind formulas and theor...

Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica es un libro de texto imprescindible para los estudiantes de pregrado que cursan sociolingüística hispánica. Cada capítulo está redactado en un lenguaje sencillo y accesible. Sobre la base de un enfoque pedagógico, cada capítulo incluye una introducción, una lista de los temas a ser discutidos, el desarrollo de tales temas, un resumen, una lista de términos claves, un glosario de la terminología clave, una sección de ejercicios y pregunt...