28.000 Años, un abrir y cerrar de ojos en el tiempo geológico, el último de los neandertales murió en su último puesto, en cuevas cerca de Gibraltar. Gracias a los dibujos animados y populares cuentas tenemos una visión distorsionada de estos otros seres humanos - para que es lo que eran. Pensamos de ellas como Burda y torpe y no muy brillantes, fácilmente conducido a la extinción por los humanos modernos ágiles, inteligentes que salieron de África hace unos 100.000 años.
Pero ¿es realmente tan simple como eso? Clive Finlayson nos recuerda que los neandertales eran otro tipo de humano, y su cultura no era muy diferente de la de nuestros propios antepasados. En este libro, presenta una visión más amplia de los acontecimientos que condujeron a la migración de los modernos en Europa, lo que podría haber ocurrido durante el contacto de las dos poblaciones, y lo que finalmente condujo a los neandertales a la extinción. Es una visión que considera clima, ecología y las migraciones de poblaciones,
así como la cultura y la interacción.
Su conclusión es que el destino de los neandertales y los modernos fue sellado por contingencias y los factores ecológicos. Fue cuestión de suerte que sobrevivió y extensión mientras que los neandertales se redujo y perecieron. No había cambiado el clima en nuestro favor unos 50 millones de años, las cosas habría sido muy diferentes.
Hay mucho interés de investigación actual en neandertales, muchos de ellos impulsados por intentos para asignar algunos de su ADN. Pero no es sólo una cuestión de estudiar el ADN. El ascenso y caída de las poblaciones se moldea profundamente por las fuerzas más grandes de la escala de clima y ecología. Y es sólo por tomar este punto de vista más amplio, que podemos comprender el curso de los acontecimientos que condujeron a nuestra supervivencia y su desaparición. El hecho de que el hombre de Neandertal sobrevivió hasta prácticamente ayer hace que nuestra relación con ellos
y su tragedia aún más conmovedor. Casi hicieron, después de todo. Mostrar más Mostrar menos
miércoles, 24 de abril de 2013
martes, 23 de abril de 2013
Finally!: powerful minds, Alexandra Bracken
Day 16 may finally have this book so we expected some. It is "powerful minds" of the author Alexandra Bracken translated to the Spanish finally. The cover is the same that the American original that only changes the title in Spanish:
When has Ruby wakes up on his tenth birthday, something it changed. Something alarming enough so her parents locked her up in the garage and call immediately the police looking for help. It has happened. An unexplained phenomenon booted you life has always known, which has disowned it Thurmond, chilling field of rehabilitation of the Government where are for the survivors. Ruby has not succumbed to the mysterious disease that has wiped out the majority of children in the United States, but she and the other prisoners have become something much worse: because they have developed powerful mental abilities that they can not control.
lunes, 22 de abril de 2013
Apprentice of goddess, Aimée Carter
The publishing house Darkiss brings us this novelty for the month of may 2013. It is the book "apprentice of goddess" of Aimée Carter:
ALL THE GIRLS THAT HAD MADE THE TEST HAD DIED. NOW IT IS THE TURN OF KATE.
Kate had always lived alone with his mother, and it was dying. His last wish? Return to the place where it had spent his childhood. So Kate was going to start the course in a new school, no friends, no family and fear that her mother died before the end of the autumn. Then she met Henry.
Mysterious, tormented. And fascinating. He claimed to be Hades, the God of the underworld and, if Kate accepted the deal that offered him, he would keep his mother alive while she was trying to pass seven tests. Kate thought he was crazy... until he saw him resurrect a girl. Suddenly, save her mother seemed to him possible. And if it exceeded the tests, became the wife of Henry. In an immortal goddess
IMM 94: 5 books
These last 3 weeks, there have been few books purchased, but they are well, 5 books (one of them does not appear in these first two photos because you did not have it already, but I made the photo to the book only in the same library, because once read and reviewed there donated it and made happy a girl that took him well happy on loan).
Forgive my dissertation at the end of the entry :)
1. Love will save us from life, David Escamilla
It is my current reading and is quite entertaining and enjoyable read. Thanks to the publishing house "La Galera" by the book.
2 Uhlma. The cycle of force, Miguel Angel Jordan
I read in his day the first and I liked it. This is the second of the series. Thanks to Amber Publisher for the book.
3. The book of the portals, Laura Gallego
This book is read and reviewed on the blog. Thanks to the Minotaur Publisher for the book.
4. Disconnect, Neal Shusterman
The book is read and soon you'll have the review on the blog. I liked enough. Thanks to the editorial Anaya for the book.
5. Claudia, Miriam Dubini
The book is read and reviewed also in the blog. A book recommended for youth aged 10-14. Thanks to Admiral Publisher for the book.
And that's it. As you can see, I'm reading very slowly lately, and as we approach the summer I'm reading less, a more leisurely pace, because at work I already have too much stress to take it in a hurry. But anyway, I enjoy more of the readings if I read in a calmer way.
And once again, thanks to all the publishers for sending me books, because as I'm now ruined, since we only live from my salary and I have a mortgage to pay all your expenses (gas, light, telephone, internet, water, pool, car, food, community of neighbors... etc) does not give me more to eat and pay the floor. And thank you that I still work. So thank you very much to the publishers for giving me enough to continue my hobby which is reading. And by the way, thanks to which we have still libraries, despite the closure of many of them among other places in Madrid, which have this year 2013 budget for purchase of books "0 euros", Yes, you read well, this bad things are going in the public administration and beyond. Libraries, including the mia, several years ago that we live in the 'donations' of users who bring us books, among them I also have enough mine I've already read. But there will always be generous people to pass the bumps...
Anyway, how I roll it up... things librarian frightened...: S
HOLLOW PIKE, James Dawson
On May 7, is published by editorial Anaya book "Holllow Pike" of the author James Dawson. Personally cover I don't like anything with all those spikes, but I imagine that it will have to do with the content of the book, so sure I read it because the subject matter appeals to me quite:
LIS London decides to start a new life and moved to his sister, who lives in Hollow Pike's. However, not everything there is new for her: the forest of this mysterious small village, that hides a disturbing history, is the same one that appears in his chilling dreams of last night: bloody dreams that someone tries to kill her.
She wants to escape its worst nightmares, fears that they can come true...
He did not believe in the local legends about witchcraft and thought that it would be safe..., but in the dark forest of Hollow Pike, evil never rests.
Books in Spanish for Kindle
Hello this place is designed or created, for all that we are lovers of reading and own a kindle (e-book) I hope that we will be able to share books and tricks to get the most out of the Kindle.
To start I am going to recommend a very good site where you can find all kind of literature for the Kindle:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/ebooks-tutoriales/8135271/Libros-Kindle.html
With that direction can access a large number of books of all kinds, only to see the intrusion and are entered in the page. Let me clarify I am not the crador that page but it is very good.
in this another link can find a small bliblioteca:
To start I am going to recommend a very good site where you can find all kind of literature for the Kindle:
http://www.taringa.net/posts/ebooks-tutoriales/8135271/Libros-Kindle.html
With that direction can access a large number of books of all kinds, only to see the intrusion and are entered in the page. Let me clarify I am not the crador that page but it is very good.
in this another link can find a small bliblioteca:
The guest (Stephenie Meyer)Caliber PDF to mobi converter
This program is very good at being able to convert books from PDF format to ideal .mobi for kindle, only when the book has drawings content is a little mess.
Download it here:
http://calibre-ebook.com/
Download it here:
http://calibre-ebook.com/
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