Some Recomended BOOKS
001. Sagan, Carl. Cosmos.
New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
002. Descartes, René. Discours de la méthode.
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1999.
003. Asimov, Isaac. El monstruo subatómico.
Esplugas de Llobregat (Barcelona): Plaza & Janes, 1986.
004. Asimov, Isaac. La búsqueda de los elementos.
Esplugas de Llobregat (Barcelona): Plaza & Janes, 1986.
005. Lodders, Katherina and Bruce Fegley, Jr. The Planetary
Scientist’s Companion. Oxford University Press, 1998.
006. Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe. New
York: Random House, 1st ed. 2000.
007. García Barreno, Pedro ed. La ciencia en tus
manos. Madrid: Espasa, 3rd ed. 2001.
008. Jonas, Ann Rae. Las preguntas y respuestas de la ciencia.
Barcelona: Crítica, 1999.
009. Miller, Ron and William K. Hartmann. The Grand Tour:
A Traveller’s Guide to the Solar System. New York: Workman Publishing,
2nd ed. 1993.
010. Lightman, Alan. Einstein’s Dreams.
New York: Warner Books, 1994.
011. Vaquero, José María. La nueva física:
Galileo. Madrid: Nivola, 2003.
012. Bodanis, David. The Secret House: 24 Hours in the Strange
and Unexpected World in Wich We Spend Our Nights and Days. NewYork:
Simon & Schuster, 1986.
013. Rybczynski, Witod. La major herramienta del milenio:
La fascinante historia del tornillo y el destornillador. Barcelona:
Planeta, 2001.
014. Burke, James. El efecto carambola: Cómo los
jardines del Renacimiento hicieron possible el carburador y otros viajes
sorprendentes a través de los descubrimientos de la ciencia y la
técnica. Barcelona: Planeta, 1998.
015. Deulofeu, Jordi. Una recreación matemática:
historias, juegos y problemas. Barcelona: Planeta, 2001.
016. Sagan, Carl. Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future
in Space. New York: Random House, 1997.
017. Levy, Joel. Really Useful: The Origins of Everyday
Things. Buffalo (New York): Firefly, 2002.
018. Greene, Brian. The Fabric of Cosmos: Space, Time, and
the Texture of Reality. New York: Random House, 2004.
If you have a recommendation
for a good book for your
classmates (related
or sort of related to the contents of the course), send me an email!
Some recommended MOVIES
Movies or documentaries recommended
for Span313:
001. Cosmos.
002. Los orígenes de la vida.
003. La odisea de la especie.
004. Dentro de la Estación Espacial.
Movies or documentaries recommended for Span314:
001. Cosmos.
002. En construcción.
003. La odisea de la especie.
004. Dentro de la Estación Espacial.
005. Los orígenes de la vida.
If you have a recommendation
for a good movie for your
classmates (related
or sort of related to the contents of the course), send me an email!
You may want to check the movies will watch this
semester using this link.
Some recommended RESOURCES
001. If you want to watch some
news from other countries on your own computer, just check SCOLA. Available only
on campus. News programs from many countries!
002. If you want to hear authentic Spanish recorded in several
countries and for different contets, go to LangMedia and try their
videos and conversations.
003. When having questions or doubts about grammar and wanting
to try something different, try the virtual professor who explains things
to you checking out the Gramática viva cd-rom at the front desk
of the LRC.
004.
You can have a look at the list
of the Spanish movies, cd-roms and other resources we have at the LRC.
005. If you are interested, you can watch the Telediario
(the main daily news program in Spain) on a weekly basis because the LRC records
this program from Scola once a week.
If you
have a recommendation for your
classmates (related
or sort of related to the contents of the course), send me an email!
Previous generations of this class
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