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HIELO

Bitácora de expedicionaria antártica

Spanish Edition

Explored by great adventurers like Roald Amundsen and Robert Scott, who staged a challenge of epic dimensions to see who would first get to the geographic South Pole, this incredible white land is still a great mystery that fascinates scientists and travelers.

Posada-Swafford, with the patience of someone who collects stories and anecdotes, useful data and legends, hundreds of notes and objects (stones, penguin feathers, expedition insignia, etc.), built a unique log filled with insightful reflections about the icy continent, a landscape that threatens to disappear due to global warming.

This lovely book is the result of a deep exploration of Antarctica, both literary and historical, scientific and geographical, aboard a luxury cruise, Navy frigates and scientific expeditions with several nations. Because of the beauty of his reflections and his careful design this will undoubtedly be one of the great books of Colombian adventurers.

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UN ENEMIGO INVISIBLE

AN INVISIBLE ENEMY

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK

• What is a virus and how it affects the cells

• Biosecurity Labs 4 (for lethal virus)

• Doctor´s work in Public Health

• Use of monkeys in viral investigations

• Gorillas sign communication

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The true invisible enemy:

These images show the behind scenes of my interviews and also the sites, investigations and real animals that inspires the adventure.(Not all the photos are mine)

EN BUSCA DEL CALAMAR DEL ABISMO

IN SEARCH OF THE SQUID OF THE ABYSS

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK

• Biology of the colossal squid

• Physiology of diving at great depths

• Geology of the seabed

• Biology of the abyss

• Submersible research of the abyss.

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TERROR EN EL COSMOS

TERROR IN THE COSMOS

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK

• How you live and work on board the Space Station

• Astronomy

• Astrononauts

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EN EL CORAZÓN DE LAS BALLENAS

IN THE HEART OF THE WHALES

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK
• Biology and ecology of the great whales
• Human and whale cardiology
• Behavior of the sound under water
• Physical oceanography and naval submarines
• Songs of humpback whales

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DETECTIVES DEL ADN

DNA DETECTIVES

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK
• Genetics (DNA, chromosomes, genes)
• The Human Genome Project
• Diseases and genetic therapies
• Cloning
• Population's genetics

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90 GRADOS DE LATITUD SUR

90 DEGREES OF SOUTH LATITUDE

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK
• Geography and geology of the Antarctic continent
• How you live and work in a polar research base
• Science that is made in Antarctica
• History of polar exploration
• Biology of penguins

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DINOSAURIOS SUMERGIDOS

SUBMERGED DINOSAURS

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK

• Geology

• Dinosaurs

• Climate change

• How you live and work on board an oceanographic vessel

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SUBMERGED DINOSAURS - First 36 pages...

EL DRAGON DEL ESPACIO

THE DRAGON OF SPACE

THE SCIENCE IN THIS BOOK

• Astronomy

• Astronauts

• Rocket construction

• NASA

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The Proyecto Ciencia Aventura is an initiative created by the Fundación Omar Dengo in Costa Rica. It proposes a learning experience, entirely based on the novels Juntos en la Aventura (formerly called Adventurers of Science) whose fundamental purpose is to stimulate scientific thinking and interest in science in elementary and secondary students. Use research, literature and narration digital as entry points to the understanding of complex concepts andproblems related to spatial exploration.

Reviews and concretes the understanding of concepts of physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology that underlie the understanding of astronomy and particularly the dynamics of space. In addition, the designed learning experiences stimulate the critical and creative construction of hypotheses and plausible explanations, based on scientific knowledge frameworks.

In this sense, curiosity, interrogation and construction are proposed as learning routines that are validated through the elaboration of spatial trajectories and trajectories that are produced with the support of the WorldWide Telescope software. The project has the support of scientific journalist Ángela Posada-Swafford and a network of national and international scientists specialized in different disciplines of Science. They will support the questions of students and teachers with the desire to favor more current and deeper learning.

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