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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52584-8
EAN 9780262525848
A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the widely read Evolution in Four Dimensions has been revised to reflect the spate of new discoveries in biology since the book was first published in 2005, offering corrections, an updated bibliography, and ...
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Networked
The New Social Operating System
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52616-6
EAN 9780262526166
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking. Some worry that this new ...
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Synthetic Aesthetics
Investigating Synthetic Biology's Designs on Nature
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 35,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01999-6
EAN 9780262019996
Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovative drugs, these researchers aim to redesign existing organisms and even construct completely novel biological entities. Some synthetic biologists see themselves as designers, inventing new products and applications. But if biology ...
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Zizek's Jokes
(Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?)
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02671-0
EAN 9780262026710
"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes." -- Ludwig WittgensteinThe good news is that this book offers an entertaining but enlightening compilation of zizekisms. Unlike any other book by Slavoj Zizek, this compact arrangement of jokes culled from his writings provides an index to certain philosophical, political, and sexual ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 44,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52600-5
EAN 9780262526005
Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society -- and ethics -- change with robotics? ...
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Aluminum Dreams
The Making of Light Modernity
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02682-6
EAN 9780262026826
Aluminum shaped the twentieth century. It enabled high-speed travel and gravity-defying flight. It was the material of a streamlined aesthetic that came to represent modernity. And it became an essential ingredient in industrial and domestic products that ranged from airplanes and cars to designer chairs and artificial Christmas trees. It entered modern homes as packaging, ...
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In Praise of Reason
Why Rationality Matters for Democracy
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
ISBN 978-0-262-52605-0
EAN 9780262526050
Why does reason matter, if (as many people seem to think) in the end everything comes down to blind faith or gut instinct? Why not just go with what you believe even if it contradicts the evidence? Why bother with rational explanation when name-calling, manipulation, and force are so much more effective in our current ...
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Understanding Pain
Exploring the Perception of Pain
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52606-7
EAN 9780262526067
If you touch something hot, it hurts. You snatch your hand away from the hot thing immediately. Obviously. But what is really happening, biologically -- and emotionally? In Understanding Pain, Fernando Cervero explores the mechanisms and the meaning of pain. You touch something hot and your brain triggers a reflex action that causes you to ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 34,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02742-7
EAN 9780262027427
Although the pictogram-only narrative in Xu Bing's Book from the Ground can be read by anyone, there is much more to the story of Xu Bing's wordless book than can be gleaned from icons alone. This companion volume to Book from the Ground chronicles the entire project, mapping the history of Xu Bing's novel creation ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52549-7
EAN 9780262525497
Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno's. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo explores paradoxes and the strategies used to solve them. She finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can prompt new ways of thinking. A paradox can be defined ...
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Book from the Ground
From Point to Point
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 128 páginas
PVP: 34,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02708-3
EAN 9780262027083
Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible Chinese characters that no one could read. Now I have created Book from the Ground, a book that anyone can read.--Xu BingFollowing his classic work Book from the Sky, the Chinese artist Xu Bing presents a new graphic novel -- one composed ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52579-4
EAN 9780262525794
In our daily life, it really seems as though we have free will, that what we do from moment to moment is determined by conscious decisions that we freely make. You get up from the couch, you go for a walk, you eat chocolate ice cream. It seems that we're in control of actions like ...
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Open for Business
Conservatives' Opposition to Environmental Regulation
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
ISBN 978-0-262-52602-9
EAN 9780262526029
Since the 1970s, conservative activists have invoked free markets and distrust of the federal government as part of a concerted effort to roll back environmental regulations. They have promoted a powerful antiregulatory storyline to counter environmentalists' scenario of a fragile earth in need of protection, mobilized grassroots opposition, and mounted creative legal challenges to environmental ...
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In 100 Years
Leading Economists Predict the Future
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 216 páginas
PVP: 25,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02691-8
EAN 9780262026918
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection. Although perhaps not as screenplay-ready as a work of fiction, ...
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Big Ideas in Macroeconomics
A Nontechnical View
- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 464 páginas
PVP: 39,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01973-6
EAN 9780262019736
Macroeconomists have been caricatured either as credulous savants in love with the beauty of their mathematical models or as free-market fundamentalists who admit no doubt as to the market's wisdom. In this book, Kartik Athreya draws a truer picture, offering a nontechnical description of prominent ideas and models in macroeconomics, arguing for their value as ...
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Lonely Ideas
Can Russia Compete?
- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01979-8
EAN 9780262019798
When have you gone into an electronics store, picked up a desirable gadget, and found that it was labeled Made in Russia ? Probably never. Russia, despite its epic intellectual achievements in music, literature, art, and pure science, is a negligible presence in world technology. Despite its current leaders' ambitions to create a knowledge economy, ...
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- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 246 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52543-5
EAN 9780262525435
Taking "Gangnam Style" seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video "Gangnam Style" became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video-"Mitt Romney Style," "NASA Johnson Style," "Egyptian ...
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Hausmann, Ricardo; Hidalgo, Cesar A
The Atlas of Economic Complexity
Mapping Paths to Prosperity
- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 55,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52542-8
EAN 9780262525428
Why do some countries grow and others do not? The authors of The Atlas of Economic Complexity offer readers an explanation based on "Economic Complexity," a measure of a society's productive knowledge. Prosperous societies are those that have the knowledge to make a larger variety of more complex products. The Atlas of Economic Complexity attempts ...
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The Outer Limits of Reason
What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01935-4
EAN 9780262019354
Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot ...
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Economics after the Crisis
Objectives and Means
- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 14,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52516-9
EAN 9780262525169
The global economic crisis of 2008 2009 seemed a crisis not just of economic performance but also of the system's underlying political ideology and economic theory. But a second Great Depression was averted, and the radical shift to New Deal-like economic policies predicted by some never took place. Perhaps the correct response to the crisis ...
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