Última actualizacón: 17 septiembre 2017 a las 15:49
Ficha Técnica
Título: Disecciones: diez relatos sobre la enfermedad
Autores: José Ramón Alonso Peña, Fátima Casaseca, Juan Gracia Armendáriz, Marta Macho-Stadler, Xurxo Mariño, Javier Peláez Pérez, Angélica Pérez, Natalia Ruiz Zelmanovitch, Miguel Santander, César Tomé López.
Edita: Next Door Publishers, 2016
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda con solapas
Número de páginas: 125 p.
ISBN: 9788494443510
Diez apasionantes historias que diseccionan diferentes aspectos de la enfermedad. Unos personajes que afrontan dificultades que ponen a prueba su verdadera naturaleza. Situaciones impactantes, inciertas y dolorosas que sacuden al lector y le muestran lo mejor y lo peor de la condición humana. Diez de los mejores divulgadores científicos del panorama actual ponen su talento al servicio de la ficción para tratar la enfermedad a través de sus personales y variados estilos narrativos. Se han inspirado en la ciencia para alcanzar un objetivo común: no dejar a nadie indiferente y obligarnos a mantener la mirada frente al espejo.
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Título: Journals: Captain Scott’s Last Expedition
Autor: Robert Falcon Scott (autor), Max Jones (editor)
Edita: OUP Oxford, 2008
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Número de páginas: 592 p.
ISBN: 0199536805
In January 1912, Britain’s Captain Robert F. Scott reached the South Pole, only to find he had been beaten by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. Scott and his companions faced an 850-mile march to safety. All perished on the return. A few months later, a search party found Scott’s body and the journals that told his tragic story.
Scott’s own account was published to extraordinary acclaim in 1913. This new edition draws on ninety years of reflection on the Antarctic disaster to illuminate Scott’s journals, publishing for the first time a complete list of the changes made to Scott’s original text. Drawing on previously unused papers from the John Murray archive, Max Jones tells the story of this remarkable book and charts the changing fortunes of Scott’s reputation. The first fully annotated edition, it also includes appendixes on J. M. Barrie’s Biographical Introduction‘ and The Finding of the Dead, plus a glossary of names and a full index.
The story of Captain Scott and his team is sure to captivate modern readers just as much as it did almost one-hundred years ago.
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Título: Scott of the Antarctic: A biography
Autor: David Crane
Edita: Vintage, 2007
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Número de páginas: 608 p.
ISBN: 1400031419
If ever a man needed saving from the enthusiasm of his admirers,» Crane begins, «it was Scott.» But although this hefty biography strips away much of the legend and mystique surrounding the polar expeditions of Robert Falcon Scott, it’s still infused with hero worship. In addition to his leadership skills, Crane claims Scott was the only polar explorer to possess significant literary talent, and his writings—especially the final message scrawled as he lay dying in the Antarctic wastelands—»extend our sense of what it is to be human.» The twin centerpieces of Scott’s story are, of course, his two expeditions to Antarctica, both of which are recreated here with meticulous detail. Crane understands, however, that Scott’s accomplishments in the polar region were shaped by his earlier experiences in the Royal Navy; thus the narrative is equally strong in recounting how Scott was able to overcome fierce opposition to his leadership of the first trip and how the rivalry with former crewmate Ernest Shackleton spurred the second. «Personality and character went on playing a decisive role in polar exploration long after it had been relegated to the margins of other history,» Crane writes, and for all the dramatic action, it is Scott the man who most captivates the author—and readers.
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Título: The Coldest March: Scott’s Fatal Antarctic Expedition
Autor: Susan Solomon
Edita: Yale University Press, 2002
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Número de páginas: 416 p.
ISBN: 0300099215
The icy deaths of Robert Falcon Scott and his companions on their return from the South Pole in 1912 made them English icons of courage and sacrifice. Soon, however, Scott’s judgments and decisions were questioned, and his reputation became one of inept bungler rather than heroic pioneer. Susan Solomon, senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Colorado, approaches Scott’s story from a meteorologist’s point of view. She shows that the three weeks from February 27 to March 19, during which the explorers fell further and further behind the daily distances they had to cover in order to survive, were far colder than normal. Unusual blizzards of wet snow had already slowed the party and depleted their provisions and strength. Without these once-in-a-decade phenomena, Solomon believes the party would have returned to its base on the Ross Sea–second after Roald Amundsen in the race to the Pole, but safely. She opens each chapter with comments from a hypothetical modern visitor to Antarctica, presumably to give a wider context to the human drama of the last century, though this reviewer finds them inappropriate. She enriches her narratives of Scott’s two Antarctic expeditions with vintage photographs and tables of meteorological data that highlight the explorers’ achievements. Their determination was pitted against the worst weather in the world. Scott’s story has been told many times before, but its weather information makes The Coldest March a useful addition to the literature.
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Título: Ciencia versus religión: Un falso conflicto
Autor: Stephen Jay Gould
Edita: Planeta. Madrid, 2012
Colección: Booket ciencia
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Número de páginas: 240
ISBN: 8408008587
Precio: 9,95 €
En este libro, Stephen Jay Gould, se enfrenta al viejo dilema que han tenido que afrontar los intelectuales desde el Renacimiento para proponernos que, en vez de seguir escogiendo entre ciencia y religión, optemos por un punto medio que reconozca la dignidad de ambos mundos. Es decir, que la ciencia defina el mundo natural y la religión, y que ambas puedan cohabitar respetuosamente. Para sustentar su propuesta, el autor se sumerge en la historia de la ciencia y asedia las figuras de científicos y líderes morales que, a lo largo de los tiempos tuvieron que enfrentarse a dilemas de fe y razón. Galileo o Darwin ejemplifican el argumento del autor de que los individuos y las culturas deben cultivar tanto la vida espiritual como una constante interrogación racional para experimentar plenamente las potencialidades de la condición humana.
