The Canary: Natural History, Science and Cultural Significance covers the ecology, evolution and conservation of the canary and related species, along with the history and cultural significance of the domestic canary worldwide and various scientific disciplines in which canaries have played a key role as a model species. The book synthesizes the multiple ways in which the canary and its relatives have been, and continue to be, an important scientific model in diverse areas and have influenced human culture. Each chapter is written by international experts in areas such as biogeography, animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, conservation, neurobiology, genetics, or ethnology. In covering this eclectic array of topics, while always focusing on the canary and its close relatives, this book uses the immense appeal of the canary as a vehicle to present notions of ecology, evolution, biodiversity conservation, and so on, to a wide audience.

Es una obra magistral como complemento al libro Productividad, aqui el autor detalla con un lenguaje sencillo la importancia que tiene conocer el metodo de la productividad para la superacion personal y el desarrollo organizacional; expone que existe una incongruencia entre el conocimiento y la conducta egoista del poder, al comparar los adelantos tecnologicos con la pobreza y desigualdad que hay en el subdesarrollo, y que la principal causa de este problema es por utilizar informacion falsa o maquillada, en lo social, en lo politico y en lo economico; porque es inutil o esteril, plagada de mentiras y enganos hacia los mas necesitados, como resultado de la ausencia de valores humanos, por falta de etica y de moral de forma generalizada. Lo que presenta es conocimiento de dominio publico o universal, el que se ha destilado y refinado a traves de los tiempos, con un enfoque de vida, en particular de la humana; esto indica que no existe ninguna excepcion, el libro esta dirigido a todos los que poblamos este maravilloso mundo para disfrutarlo; donde el dinero es el unico elemento comun que utilizamos directa o indirectamente, dia a dia, los cerca de siete mil millones de personas que actualmente habitamos el planeta; es usado desde el polo norte hasta el polo sur y de oriente a occidente. Bajo ese entendimiento, recomienda conocer la esencia y el significado del dinero para crear la riqueza, saber de donde surge o nace, y al conocer su origen entender su acceso; porque este es abundante y escaso dependiendo del interes en obtenerlo. Analiza que el conocimiento esta estrechamente vinculado al dinero y a la eficiencia y a la productividad, para desarrollar los diversos campos de la economia, de la politica y la sociedad civil. El metodo de la eficiencia-productiva, es un conocimiento de aplicacion universal, es el buen manejo del dinero para tener rentabilidad en toda la extension del concepto.

Es una obra magistral como complemento al libro Productividad, aqui el autor detalla con un lenguaje sencillo la importancia que tiene conocer el metodo de la productividad para la superacion personal y el desarrollo organizacional; expone que existe una incongruencia entre el conocimiento y la conducta egoista del poder, al comparar los adelantos tecnologicos con la pobreza y desigualdad que hay en el subdesarrollo, y que la principal causa de este problema es por utilizar informacion falsa o maquillada, en lo social, en lo politico y en lo economico; porque es inutil o esteril, plagada de mentiras y enganos hacia los mas necesitados, como resultado de la ausencia de valores humanos, por falta de etica y de moral de forma generalizada. Lo que presenta es conocimiento de dominio publico o universal, el que se ha destilado y refinado a traves de los tiempos, con un enfoque de vida, en particular de la humana; esto indica que no existe ninguna excepcion, el libro esta dirigido a todos los que poblamos este maravilloso mundo para disfrutarlo; donde el dinero es el unico elemento comun que utilizamos directa o indirectamente, dia a dia, los cerca de siete mil millones de personas que actualmente habitamos el planeta; es usado desde el polo norte hasta el polo sur y de oriente a occidente. Bajo ese entendimiento, recomienda conocer la esencia y el significado del dinero para crear la riqueza, saber de donde surge o nace, y al conocer su origen entender su acceso; porque este es abundante y escaso dependiendo del interes en obtenerlo. Analiza que el conocimiento esta estrechamente vinculado al dinero y a la eficiencia y a la productividad, para desarrollar los diversos campos de la economia, de la politica y la sociedad civil. El metodo de la eficiencia-productiva, es un conocimiento de aplicacion universal, es el buen manejo del dinero para tener rentabilidad en toda la extension del concepto.

YO SOY JESUCRISTO 2000 En este mundo nuestro, de tiempo y espacio, lo que t llamas destino ha puesto en tus manos este escrito, y, a partir del presente momento, no podr s negar jam s que te est sucediendo lo que nunca te atreviste a pensar que te pasara, ni siquiera en sue os. Jesucristo cumple su Palabra de estar vigente en tu vida y quiere dialogar contigo, hoy y aqu, de temas de nuestra problem tica diaria, que discutimos en la calle personas comunes y al mismo tiempo completamente diferentes como eres t y yo soy.

Lo valioso de la obra es que integra conocimientos para la superaci n individual y organizacional, de tal forma que las claves puedan ser asimiladas por gente sin preparaci n acad mica, y por directores corporativos o presidentes de cualquier mbito. Destacando que el m todo de creaci n de la riqueza, es el mismo en cualquier parte del mundo, aqu el autor lo esclarece de forma simple y de aplicaci n inmediata; donde prevalece el significado del dinero, con su relaci n que tiene con la eficiencia y la productividad, para la competitividad en los campos; econ mico, social, y pol tico. El autor plantea que los pa ses de las econom as emergentes para que puedan desarrollarse, tienen que llevar el progreso sostenido y sustentable a todos sus habitantes, como desarrollo social. Establece que es un error que los beneficios de la tecnolog a se limiten al campo industrial o empresarial, porque su campo es la civilizaci n y la cultura. Y aclara porque los valores humanos y la tica, son los pilares de las sociedades, y en combinaci n con el desarrollo econ mico, generan la prosperidad de las naciones. E invita a los individuos y a las sociedades, a mejorar sus pensamientos, para decidir en que y, como quieren vivir y convivir, para realizar las acciones necesarias, porque de la forma de pensar germina la conducta del crecimiento integral contin o."

From the Preface The world of spectroscopy began its development in the second half of the XX century and has been constantly evolving ever since. From being a set of specialized techniques available only to a few, spectroscopy -in its many facets- has now become a tool chest in demand by engineers and scientists of different backgrounds. Unfortunately, the physics concepts underlying the spectroscopic techniques remain in the field of physics and most users -being from backgrounds other than physics- learn to use commercial spectroscopy devices without ever learning much about their operational principles. In the University of Texas at El Paso, just like in many other Institutions, students from engineering and science fields come to interact with x ray fluorescence, x ray spectroscopy, Auger electron spectroscopy, to name a few, without ever taking a modern physics course that would teach them, for instance, how x rays are produced, detected or how they interact with atomic electrons. This deficiency, which can be easily remedied with a set of carefully designed lecture notes and exercises, tends to propagate into the realm of applications turning spectroscopy into an obscure subject mastered only by experts; this needs not to be the case. It is with the goal of providing the minimum physics background needed to understand spectroscopy in its more general terms that we write these lecture notes. They are aimed at an audience of science and engineering students at the senior and graduate level, and mostly composed of chemists, geologists, metallurgists, mechanical and electrical engineers and, yes, physics students, all interested in studying materials through the use of spectroscopic tools. Assuming only a background of basic classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and thermodynamics, these notes focus on explaining how radiation (particles and electromagnetic) interact with matter, and how this is taken advantage of to study materials through the use of spectrometers. Because of the narrowly defined audience, the book is equally limited in scope, most physics processes will be presented more from a phenomenological point of view than from a first-principles fully-theoretical approach. Students ready for more profound treatises will be directed throughout the book to other more complete sources. Designed as a teaching textbook, a large number of exercises and problems have been included to illustrate concepts and applications. Instructors are encouraged to contact the authors to obtain a complimentary file with the solutions, a test bank and powerpoint files of the chapters expanded with instructive animations and progressive presentation of the examples for in-class use. From the Foreword: One of the most important fields of modern physics is the study of surfaces, key to many important industrial applications as well as XXI century developments such as plasmonics, sensors and optical devices. Lopez Gallardo and Castro Colin present a remarkable vision of surface science from the physicist point of view emphasizing the quantum mechanics and complementing chemistry-based books. This is a great tool for the education of graduate students of materials, nanotechnology, physics and chemistry interested in surface science. Miguel Jose Yacaman Lutcher Brown Professor University of Texas at San Antonio

Proceedings of a 2006 conference held in Madriad. The 11 papers explore aspects of the archaeology of death and burial in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages focusing on the Iberian Peninsula and on Christian sites. Essays in Spanish, with one in French and one in English.

21 papers delivered at a conference in Madrid in 2006 which look at various aspects of the archaeology of early medieval monasticism. The essays focus as one might expect on monasteries in Spain. Essays mostly in Spanish with some in French and Italian.

La poblacion mundial, estimada en unos mil millones de personas alla por el 1800 ha alcanzado, en poco mas de doscientos anos, la estremecedora cifra de 7000 millones de almas. El Legado de Glenn Sturgeon es solo una novela de ficcion, pero estas cifras son reales. Que sucederia si alguien, al margen de la idea mas elemental de Democracia, Libertad, Valores y Derechos Humanos decidiera controlar la poblacion humana a su antojo? Imposible? Esta es la estremecedora premisa de la que parte este relato.

This fourth volume (Proceedings 4) presents the results of an international conference held at the Museo de los Origenes (Casa de San Isidro) in December 2008. The work is divided into three parts: Four studies on general aspects of the 'rock world' in the Iberian Peninsula, the chronology of the caves artificially created, the 'troglodyte' in the Greco-Roman tradition, and the chronology of rock-cut tombs. The second part looks at eleven studies of various regions and 'rock complexes' in the Iberian Peninsula ('San Vitor', in San Lorenzo da Barxacova, Parada del Sil, Ourense; 'El Bierzo'; the upper valley of the Ebro; 'San Martin de Albelda', in 'La Rioja'; the middle valley of the Cidacos river; the high valley of the Arlanza river; 'San Frutos del Duraton', Segovia; the suburbium and territory of Ercavica in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages; the territory of Sierra Magina; and finally, the Almagruz caves, in Purullena, Granada. The third part examines parallels in other Mediterranean regions, such as the 'rock city' of Matera (Italy), the valley of the Euphrates (northern Syria); the churches built on the rock of Lalibela (Ethiopia), and the 'rock world' in the provinces of 'Arabia' and Palestina Tertia in Jordan."

This volume collects the results of the archaeological excavations made in the so-called domus tancinus, in Conimbriga (Condeixa-a-Velha, Portugal). The work in part is based the 'Spanish Archaeological Mission' interdisciplinary research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Culture, in Portugal between 2004 and 2008. Over 5 years a Spanish and Portuguese team worked in an intramural sector of the ancient city to understand the evolution and transformation of a Roman domus during Late Antiquity and beyond. The archaeological excavations show a very different picture of Conimbriga in post-Roman times and presents further information on the so-called 'Christian basilica' built in the domus tancinus.

La renovacion urbana es un proceso mediante el cual la decadente situacion de un barrio es revertida para generar dinamicas que permitan un mejoramiento en la calidad de vida de sus habitantes. El fenomeno llamado gentrificacion ha sido considerado como el resultado de la especulacion que, despues de una renovacion exitosa, hace atractiva una zona previamente decaida a una poblacion con mas recursos economicos, creando un proceso donde los precios de la tierra y del contexto urbano aumentan, por lo tanto dejan de ser asequibles para los habitantes actuales. El campo de estudio es en tres ciudades europeas, Londres, Berlin y Barcelona, en la zona que no es el centro ni tampoco los suburbios, sino es un espacio transicional que alguna vez tuvo un importante papel en las funciones urbanas pero que con el tiempo y un cambio en el sistema productivo perdio importancia y se ha mantenido como una zona intersticial. En este trabajo se analiza como una renovacion y una gentrificacion controlada ocurrio, enumerando los potenciales que han permitido una transformacion particularmente beneficiosa para sus habitantes."

Fifteen papers from a conference held in Madrid in 2005 on the subject of Gaul and Spain from the 5th to 7th century AD, looking especially at evidence for the migration and influence of various cultural groups across Europe. The contributors examine the problems within this subject, especially interpreting the material culture evidence, and go on to look in more detail at funerary assemblages in both Gaul and Spain for evidence of the presence and influence of other cultures at the time of the disintegration of the Roman Empire. Text in Spanish, French and German.

This practical book examines how teaching media in high school English and social studies classrooms can address major challenges in our educational system. The authors argue that, in addition to providing underserved youth with access to 21st-century learning technologies, critical media education will help improve academic literacy achievement in city schools. Critical Media Pedagogy presents first-hand accounts of teachers who are successfully incorporating critical media education into standards-based lessons and units. The book begins with an analysis of how media have been conceptualised and studied; it identifies the various ways that youth are practicing media, as well as how these practices are constantly increasing in sophistication. Finally, it offers concrete examples of how to develop a rigorous, standards-based content area curriculum that embraces new media practices and features media production.

This practical book examines how teaching media in high school English and social studies classrooms can address major challenges in our educational system. The authors argue that, in addition to providing underserved youth with access to 21st-century learning technologies, critical media education will help improve academic literacy achievement in city schools. Critical Media Pedagogy presents first-hand accounts of teachers who are successfully incorporating critical media education into standards-based lessons and units. The book begins with an analysis of how media have been conceptualised and studied; it identifies the various ways that youth are practicing media, as well as how these practices are constantly increasing in sophistication. Finally, it offers concrete examples of how to develop a rigorous, standards-based content area curriculum that embraces new media practices and features media production.