El 25 de enero de 2020, Fang Fang comenzó un blog en el que documentaba la vida en Wuhan durante la cuarentena decretada por el coronavirus. Cada noche escribía sobre familiares y amigos y analizaba la evolución de la crisis y la resp...
Japón, primera mitad del siglo XX. El gobierno Meiji trata de modernizar un país que, a causa del aislacionismo, se ha quedado anclado en el pasado. Un país que en pocos años se convertirá en una potencia mundial.
This book focuses on environmental footprints that have attracted considerable interest and discussion within academia, policy makers and the public as a tool to assess anthropogenic effects on the environment. It begins with an overview which provides...
This volume explores label-free biosensors, advantageous in part because this technology bypasses the need of labels, reporters, and cell engineering, all of which are common to labeled techniques but may introduce artifacts in assay results. Addressing...
Coffee: Emerging Health Benefits and Disease Prevention presents a comprehensive overview of the recent scientific advances in the field. The book focuses on the following topics: coffee constituents; pro- and antioxidant properties of coffee constituents...
By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of...
This exciting new text traces the common themes in the long and complex history of mass communication. It shows how the means of communicating grew out of their eras, how they developed, how they influenced the societies of those eras, and how they have...