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In Molecules bestselling author Theodore Gray demonstrates through stunning never before seen images and illustrations how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that make up our world Everything physical is made up of the elements and the infinite variety of molecules they form when they combine with each other In Molecules Theodore Gray takes the next step in the story that began with the periodic table in his best selling book The Elements A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe Here he explores through fascinating stories and trademark stunning photography the most interesting essential useful and beautiful of the millions of chemical structures that make up every material in the world Gray begins with an explanation of how atoms bond to form molecules and compounds as well as the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry He then goes on to explore the vast array of materials molecules can create including soaps and solvents goops and oils rocks and ores ropes and fibers painkillers and dangerous drugs sweeteners perfumes and stink bombs colors and pigments and controversial compounds including asbestos CFCs and thimerosal Big gorgeous photographs as well as diagrams of the compou

Capaces de colonizar todos los ambientes del planeta, con una gran diversidad de especies difícil de estimar, los hongos cumplen una función primordial como recicladores de la naturaleza, ejercen de parásitos y patógenos y forman alianzas con muchos grupos de organismos (bacterias, algas, plantas, insectos, etc.), contribuyendo al mantenimiento y desarrollo de los ecosistemas. En sus páginas, profusa y hermosamente ilustradas, M. Teresa Telleria realiza un apasionante recorrido que nos lleva al fondo del mar y a los parajes más inhóspitos de la Antártida; visita la cabaña de Shackleton y se asoma, también, a los paisajes plagados de volcanes y aguas someras en los que pudo surgir la vida en nuestro planeta.

¿De dónde vienen las palabras ‘bidé’ o ‘cosquillas’? ¿Quién dio nombre a ‘Nestlé’ o a ‘pilates’? Cómo se dice: ¿cociente o coeficiente intelectual, grupo 0 (cero) o grupo O, moretón o moratón? ¿Cuál

A New York Times Bestseller Co Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins outs and ethics of generative AI Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW Angela DuckworthConsumer AI has arrived And with it inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs lives and the future of humanity Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom mongers Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world In Co Intelligence he urges us to engage with AI as co worker co teacher and coach Wide ranging hugely thought provoking and optimistic Co Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era

Get the facts about the biggest beauty and skincare trends from Instagram s cosmetic science expert Dr Michelle Wong Will eating dairy give me acne Do I need to wear sunscreen every day How often should I wash my hair What s the best way to fade scars And is clean beauty really as healthy as it sounds The Science of Beauty reveals the truth behind the bold marketing claims and viral TikTok trends and tells you what you really need to know about the products you use every day Dr Wong will show you how to form good habits and learn what really works Decipher the ingredients that make up your make up find out the facts about botox and laser treatments and discover whether beauty brands can ever be truly sustainable Chemist and science educator Dr Michelle Wong aka Lab Muffin Beauty Science the face and voice of beauty science Wired answers over 100 frequently asked questions with no nonsense facts and informative graphics backed up by the latest research She empowers you to make the most of your beauty and body care routines

THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER es un libro del autor KURZWEIL, RAY editado por PENGUIN. THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER tiene un código de ISBN 978-1-84792-830-6, de la colección RANDOM HOUSE.

A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

a There is no author whose books I look forward to morea BILL GATES In this ambitious myth busting book leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today Why are some of the worlda s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations Why is food waste a colossal 1 000kcal per person daily and how can we solve that Could we all go vegan and be healthy Should we How will we feed the ballooning population without killing the planet How Food Really Works shows how we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from how our dietary requirements shape us and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways Ultimately this data based rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future a There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smila GUARDIAN

At the beginning of the 21st century physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important But mysteries remain One of the biggest involved black holes Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever For three decades Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem Finally in 2004 Hawking conceded THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind blowing science that finally won out and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues that the world your home your breakfast you is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space

Take flight with the secret life of owls

From the No 1 bestselling author of What If the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams blueprints if you want to be complicated about it that show how important things work from the nuclear bomb to the biro It s good to know what the parts of a thing are called but it s much more interesting to know what they do Richard Feynman once said that if you can t explain something to a first year student you don t really get it In Thing Explainer Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1 000 or the ten hundred most common words Many of the things we use every day like our food heating radio boxes microwaves our very tall roads bridges and our computer rooms datacentres are strange to us So are the other worlds around our sun the solar system the big flat rocks we live on tectonic plates and even the stuff inside us cells Where do these things come from How do they work What do they look like if you open them up And what would happen if we heated them up cooled them down pointed them in a different direction or pressed this button In Thing Explainer Munroe gives

This lucid and entertaining book presents compelling scientific evidence that proves what many of us have perhaps long suspected nature is really good for us I found it revelatory Richard Deverell Director of Kew A revolutionary science based look at the ways nature can help make us healthier Fifteen years ago University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural world The study revealed that hospital patients recovering from surgery improved three times faster when they looked out of their windows at trees rather than seeing walls Since then she has dedicated her research to proving this link between the amount of green space in our lives and our better health mood and longevity For the first time ever Good Nature brings together these recent scientific findings and shares the simple changes we can all make in our lives The book is full of surprising and practical ways that nature can improve our lives such as did you know that cedar enhances cancer fighting cells in our immune system Or that touching wood makes us feel calmer the woodier the knot ier the better Or that the scent of roses helps people drive more calmly and safely Even having a pot plant by your desk can make a

Luminous and straightforward Carlo Rovelli

An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision speech recognition machine translation and driverless cars Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision speech recognition in mobile phones machine translation AI games driverless cars and other applications When we use consumer products from Google Microsoft Facebook Apple or Baidu we are often interacting with a deep learning system In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series computer scientist John Kelleher offers an accessible and concise but comprehensive introduction to the fundamental technology at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution Kelleher explains that deep learning enables data driven decisions by identifying and extracting patterns from large datasets its ability to learn from complex data makes deep learning ideally suited to take advantage of the rapid growth in big data and computational power Kelleher also explains some of the basic concepts in deep learning presents a history of advances in the field and discusses the current state of the art He describes the most important deep learning architectures including autoencoders recurrent neural networks and long sh

Named A Best Book of the Year by World Magazine Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career engineer turned molecular biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence Now he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the design intuition the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can only be accomplished by someone who has that knowledge For the ingenious task of inventing life this knower can only be God Starting with the hallowed halls of academic science Axe dismantles the widespread belief that Darwin s theory of evolution is indisputably true showing instead that a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning He then explains in plain English the science that proves our design intuition scientifically valid Lastly he uses everyday experience to empower ordinary people to defend their design intuition giving them the confidence and courage to explain why it has to be true and the vision to imagine what biology will become when people stand up for this truth Armed with that confidence readers will affirm what once seemed obvious to all of us that living cre

Is it possible to heal by thought alonewithout drugs or surgery?The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo,best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinsons disease by believing in a placebo.Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curseor after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs.

¿Y si todo lo que creías saber sobre el envejecimiento fuera mentira? ¿Y si la vejez no fuera un destino inevitable, sino una oportunidad de transformación?En El mito de la vejez, Francisco Mora desmonta los extendidos prejuicios sobre el envejecimiento y nos invita a descubrir el verdadero potencial de la madurez. Con rigor cientifico y un enfoque profundamente humano, Mora revela que nuestra edad no esta dictada solo por el calendario, sino sobre todo por nuestras decisiones, habitos y entorno.A traves de los ultimos hallazgos en neurociencia y epigenetica, este libro demuestra que el cerebro puede seguir desarrollandose y adaptandose, que los genes pueden reescribirse y que la calidad de vida depende, en gran parte, de nosotros mismos. Mora expone como factores como la alimentacion, el ejercicio, la estimulacion mental y las interacciones sociales pueden modificar nuestra trayectoria biologica, convirtiendo el envejecimiento en un proceso dinamico y personalizado y no en un destino fatidico.Este libro nos invita a abandonar el miedo y los estereotipos sobre la vejez, presentandola como una etapa de potencial crecimiento en la que cada individuo puede gestionar activamente su vitalidad y calidad de vida, prolongando no solo los años vividos sino fundamentalmente su significado y sus posibilidades. Una obra esperanzadora que combate el edadismo y nos invita a reimaginar el potencial humano mas alla de cualquier limite temporal.

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge but an energy challenge Fascinating JAMES O BRIEN So interesting it ll answer all our questions JEREMY VINE Thrilling vividly written filled with fascinating facts and inspiring STEVEN PINKER A bold reframing of one of the most misunderstood technologies of the modern age This book stands out for its capacity to disarm Literary Review I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century HANNAH RITCHIE In this visionary book Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero He argues that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables but in fully embracing another energy source that emits zero carbon dioxide nuclear power Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables such as wind and solar are completely green and debunks myths surrounding nuclear waste and radiation demonstrating that nuclear power is not only reliable safe and potent but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy Going Nuclear calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty first century s Apollo programme By interweaving scientific optimism myth busting data

Damasio, el admirado maestro de Punset, expone con claridad el fascinante proceso por el cual un órgano físico, el cerebro, creó el yo y la mente humana, generadora de ideas y emociones.El lenguaje, la conciencia moral y la creatividad son tres rasgos del ser humano que no se habrian desarrollado si no tuviera consciencia. Pero ¿cual es el origen de la consciencia? ¿Como pudo el cerebro, un organo al fin y al cabo, elaborar pensamientos e ideas y generar emociones? Con un lenguaje claro, emotivo y a menudo poetico, Damasio aborda una cuestion tan compleja y a la vez tan fundamental como cual fue el instante preciso en que nuestro cerebro cobro conciencia de si mismo y surgio con ello todo lo bueno y lo malo de la condicion humana.

«Ningú no explica com Damasio que tot el que importa és al cervell». Eduard PunsetEl llenguatge, la consciència moral i la creativitat són tres característiques de l'ésser humà que no s'haurien desen

In Molecules bestselling author Theodore Gray demonstrates through stunning never before seen images and illustrations how the elements of the periodic table combine to form the molecules that make up our world Everything physical is made up of the elements and the infinite variety of molecules they form when they combine with each other In Molecules Theodore Gray takes the next step in the story that began with the periodic table in his best selling book The Elements A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe Here he explores through fascinating stories and trademark stunning photography the most interesting essential useful and beautiful of the millions of chemical structures that make up every material in the world Gray begins with an explanation of how atoms bond to form molecules and compounds as well as the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry He then goes on to explore the vast array of materials molecules can create including soaps and solvents goops and oils rocks and ores ropes and fibers painkillers and dangerous drugs sweeteners perfumes and stink bombs colors and pigments and controversial compounds including asbestos CFCs and thimerosal Big gorgeous photographs as well as diagrams of the compou

Capaces de colonizar todos los ambientes del planeta, con una gran diversidad de especies difícil de estimar, los hongos cumplen una función primordial como recicladores de la naturaleza, ejercen de parásitos y patógenos y forman alianzas con muchos grupos de organismos (bacterias, algas, plantas, insectos, etc.), contribuyendo al mantenimiento y desarrollo de los ecosistemas. En sus páginas, profusa y hermosamente ilustradas, M. Teresa Telleria realiza un apasionante recorrido que nos lleva al fondo del mar y a los parajes más inhóspitos de la Antártida; visita la cabaña de Shackleton y se asoma, también, a los paisajes plagados de volcanes y aguas someras en los que pudo surgir la vida en nuestro planeta.

¿De dónde vienen las palabras ‘bidé’ o ‘cosquillas’? ¿Quién dio nombre a ‘Nestlé’ o a ‘pilates’? Cómo se dice: ¿cociente o coeficiente intelectual, grupo 0 (cero) o grupo O, moretón o moratón? ¿Cuál

A New York Times Bestseller Co Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins outs and ethics of generative AI Drop everything and read it cover to cover NOW Angela DuckworthConsumer AI has arrived And with it inescapable upheaval as we grapple with what it means for our jobs lives and the future of humanity Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom mongers Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world In Co Intelligence he urges us to engage with AI as co worker co teacher and coach Wide ranging hugely thought provoking and optimistic Co Intelligence reveals the promise and power of this new era

Get the facts about the biggest beauty and skincare trends from Instagram s cosmetic science expert Dr Michelle Wong Will eating dairy give me acne Do I need to wear sunscreen every day How often should I wash my hair What s the best way to fade scars And is clean beauty really as healthy as it sounds The Science of Beauty reveals the truth behind the bold marketing claims and viral TikTok trends and tells you what you really need to know about the products you use every day Dr Wong will show you how to form good habits and learn what really works Decipher the ingredients that make up your make up find out the facts about botox and laser treatments and discover whether beauty brands can ever be truly sustainable Chemist and science educator Dr Michelle Wong aka Lab Muffin Beauty Science the face and voice of beauty science Wired answers over 100 frequently asked questions with no nonsense facts and informative graphics backed up by the latest research She empowers you to make the most of your beauty and body care routines

THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER es un libro del autor KURZWEIL, RAY editado por PENGUIN. THE SINGULARITY IS NEARER tiene un código de ISBN 978-1-84792-830-6, de la colección RANDOM HOUSE.

A compendium of sounds from this world and beyond from the author of A New Map of Wonders and The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

a There is no author whose books I look forward to morea BILL GATES In this ambitious myth busting book leading scientist and internationally bestselling author Vaclav Smil investigates many of the burning questions facing the world today Why are some of the worlda s biggest food producers also the countries with the most undernourished populations Why is food waste a colossal 1 000kcal per person daily and how can we solve that Could we all go vegan and be healthy Should we How will we feed the ballooning population without killing the planet How Food Really Works shows how we misunderstand the essentials of where our food really comes from how our dietary requirements shape us and why this impacts our planet in drastic ways Ultimately this data based rigorously researched guide explains how we will survive and thrive long into the future a There is perhaps no other academic who paints pictures with numbers like Smila GUARDIAN

At the beginning of the 21st century physics is being driven to very unfamiliar territory the domain of the incredibly small and the incredibly heavy The new world is a world in which both quantum mechanics and gravity are equally important But mysteries remain One of the biggest involved black holes Famed physicist Stephen Hawking claimed that anything sucked in a black hole was lost forever For three decades Leonard Susskind and Hawking clashed over the answer to this problem Finally in 2004 Hawking conceded THE BLACK HOLE WAR will explain the mind blowing science that finally won out and the emergence of a new paradigm that argues that the world your home your breakfast you is actually a hologram projected from the edges of space

Take flight with the secret life of owls

From the No 1 bestselling author of What If the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams blueprints if you want to be complicated about it that show how important things work from the nuclear bomb to the biro It s good to know what the parts of a thing are called but it s much more interesting to know what they do Richard Feynman once said that if you can t explain something to a first year student you don t really get it In Thing Explainer Randall Munroe takes a quantum leap past this he explains things using only drawings and a vocabulary of just our 1 000 or the ten hundred most common words Many of the things we use every day like our food heating radio boxes microwaves our very tall roads bridges and our computer rooms datacentres are strange to us So are the other worlds around our sun the solar system the big flat rocks we live on tectonic plates and even the stuff inside us cells Where do these things come from How do they work What do they look like if you open them up And what would happen if we heated them up cooled them down pointed them in a different direction or pressed this button In Thing Explainer Munroe gives

This lucid and entertaining book presents compelling scientific evidence that proves what many of us have perhaps long suspected nature is really good for us I found it revelatory Richard Deverell Director of Kew A revolutionary science based look at the ways nature can help make us healthier Fifteen years ago University of Oxford Professor Kathy Willis read a study that radically changed her view of our relationship to the natural world The study revealed that hospital patients recovering from surgery improved three times faster when they looked out of their windows at trees rather than seeing walls Since then she has dedicated her research to proving this link between the amount of green space in our lives and our better health mood and longevity For the first time ever Good Nature brings together these recent scientific findings and shares the simple changes we can all make in our lives The book is full of surprising and practical ways that nature can improve our lives such as did you know that cedar enhances cancer fighting cells in our immune system Or that touching wood makes us feel calmer the woodier the knot ier the better Or that the scent of roses helps people drive more calmly and safely Even having a pot plant by your desk can make a

Luminous and straightforward Carlo Rovelli

An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision speech recognition machine translation and driverless cars Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision speech recognition in mobile phones machine translation AI games driverless cars and other applications When we use consumer products from Google Microsoft Facebook Apple or Baidu we are often interacting with a deep learning system In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series computer scientist John Kelleher offers an accessible and concise but comprehensive introduction to the fundamental technology at the heart of the artificial intelligence revolution Kelleher explains that deep learning enables data driven decisions by identifying and extracting patterns from large datasets its ability to learn from complex data makes deep learning ideally suited to take advantage of the rapid growth in big data and computational power Kelleher also explains some of the basic concepts in deep learning presents a history of advances in the field and discusses the current state of the art He describes the most important deep learning architectures including autoencoders recurrent neural networks and long sh

Named A Best Book of the Year by World Magazine Throughout his distinguished and unconventional career engineer turned molecular biologist Douglas Axe has been asking the questions that much of the scientific community would rather silence Now he presents his conclusions in this brave and pioneering book Axe argues that the key to understanding our origin is the design intuition the innate belief held by all humans that tasks we would need knowledge to accomplish can only be accomplished by someone who has that knowledge For the ingenious task of inventing life this knower can only be God Starting with the hallowed halls of academic science Axe dismantles the widespread belief that Darwin s theory of evolution is indisputably true showing instead that a gaping hole has been at its center from the beginning He then explains in plain English the science that proves our design intuition scientifically valid Lastly he uses everyday experience to empower ordinary people to defend their design intuition giving them the confidence and courage to explain why it has to be true and the vision to imagine what biology will become when people stand up for this truth Armed with that confidence readers will affirm what once seemed obvious to all of us that living cre

Is it possible to heal by thought alonewithout drugs or surgery?The truth is that it happens more often than you might expect. In You Are the Placebo,best-selling author, international speaker, chiropractor, and renowned researcher of epigenetics, quantum physics, & neuroscience, Dr. Joe Dispenza shares numerous documented cases of those who reversed cancer, heart disease, depression, crippling arthritis, and even the tremors of Parkinsons disease by believing in a placebo.Similarly, Dr. Joe tells of how others have gotten sick and even died the victims of a hex or voodoo curseor after being misdiagnosed with a fatal illness. Belief can be so strong that pharmaceutical companies use double- and triple-blind randomized studies to try to exclude the power of the mind over the body when evaluating new drugs.

¿Y si todo lo que creías saber sobre el envejecimiento fuera mentira? ¿Y si la vejez no fuera un destino inevitable, sino una oportunidad de transformación?En El mito de la vejez, Francisco Mora desmonta los extendidos prejuicios sobre el envejecimiento y nos invita a descubrir el verdadero potencial de la madurez. Con rigor cientifico y un enfoque profundamente humano, Mora revela que nuestra edad no esta dictada solo por el calendario, sino sobre todo por nuestras decisiones, habitos y entorno.A traves de los ultimos hallazgos en neurociencia y epigenetica, este libro demuestra que el cerebro puede seguir desarrollandose y adaptandose, que los genes pueden reescribirse y que la calidad de vida depende, en gran parte, de nosotros mismos. Mora expone como factores como la alimentacion, el ejercicio, la estimulacion mental y las interacciones sociales pueden modificar nuestra trayectoria biologica, convirtiendo el envejecimiento en un proceso dinamico y personalizado y no en un destino fatidico.Este libro nos invita a abandonar el miedo y los estereotipos sobre la vejez, presentandola como una etapa de potencial crecimiento en la que cada individuo puede gestionar activamente su vitalidad y calidad de vida, prolongando no solo los años vividos sino fundamentalmente su significado y sus posibilidades. Una obra esperanzadora que combate el edadismo y nos invita a reimaginar el potencial humano mas alla de cualquier limite temporal.

What if climate change isn t an environmental challenge but an energy challenge Fascinating JAMES O BRIEN So interesting it ll answer all our questions JEREMY VINE Thrilling vividly written filled with fascinating facts and inspiring STEVEN PINKER A bold reframing of one of the most misunderstood technologies of the modern age This book stands out for its capacity to disarm Literary Review I challenge you to read this book and not be excited about how we get on and power the world with sustainable energy for the next century HANNAH RITCHIE In this visionary book Dr Tim Gregory urges us to rethink the path to net zero He argues that the solution to climate change lies not simply in replacing fossil fuels with renewables but in fully embracing another energy source that emits zero carbon dioxide nuclear power Gregory dismantles the conventional wisdom that renewables such as wind and solar are completely green and debunks myths surrounding nuclear waste and radiation demonstrating that nuclear power is not only reliable safe and potent but the most environmentally responsible way to harvest energy Going Nuclear calls for decarbonisation to be the twenty first century s Apollo programme By interweaving scientific optimism myth busting data

Damasio, el admirado maestro de Punset, expone con claridad el fascinante proceso por el cual un órgano físico, el cerebro, creó el yo y la mente humana, generadora de ideas y emociones.El lenguaje, la conciencia moral y la creatividad son tres rasgos del ser humano que no se habrian desarrollado si no tuviera consciencia. Pero ¿cual es el origen de la consciencia? ¿Como pudo el cerebro, un organo al fin y al cabo, elaborar pensamientos e ideas y generar emociones? Con un lenguaje claro, emotivo y a menudo poetico, Damasio aborda una cuestion tan compleja y a la vez tan fundamental como cual fue el instante preciso en que nuestro cerebro cobro conciencia de si mismo y surgio con ello todo lo bueno y lo malo de la condicion humana.

«Ningú no explica com Damasio que tot el que importa és al cervell». Eduard PunsetEl llenguatge, la consciència moral i la creativitat són tres característiques de l'ésser humà que no s'haurien desen