English 4-Competent-DGETI

The student participates in activities in which procedural contents identified as language functions and reading strategies are included. These are necessary to develop the competencies of reading, understanding, writing and expressing oneself in English.

Arising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of volcanology Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and...

Este libro nace de las clases que impartimos desde hace varios anos en cursos de Estadistica en los Grados en Biologia, Biologia Sanitaria y Quimica de la Universidad de Alcala. En el nos esforzamos en presentar la Estadistica dotandola de un "relato," de un hilo argumental. En particular tratamos de no contar la solucion antes de que el lector entienda cual es el problema. Nuestro interes en este libro, no es ser rigurosos en el sentido matematico, sino llegar al concepto, a la idea que dio lugar al formalismo y que, a veces, queda oculta en el proceso de formalizacion. A la vez, no...

Amenaza existencial. El cambio climático es la mayor crisis existencial a la que se ha enfrentado la humanidad. En los últimos 100 años, hemos arruinado el ciclo del carbono utilizando combustibles fósiles, es decir, carbón, petróleo y gas natural para construir nuestra civilización sin tener en cuenta los impactos catastróficos que el cambio climático puede causar. Ya estamos viendo un récord de inundaciones, huracanes, incendios forestales y sequías desde que el aumento de la temperatura ya está en 1,5 grados centígrados. Tenemos que reducir nuestro efecto invernadero a la...

'An ideal introduction [to Stephen Hawking]' - Independent 'Astonishingly comprehensive - clearer than Hawking himself' - Focus Stephen Hawking was a world-famous physicist with a cameo in The Simpsons on his CV, but outside of his academic field his work was little understood. To the public he was a tragic figure - a brilliant scientist and author of the 9 million-copy-selling A Brief History of Time, and yet spent the majority of his life confined to a wheelchair and almost completely paralysed. Hawking's major contribution to science was to integrate the two great theories of 20th-century...