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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 50,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02680-2
EAN 9780262026802
This introduction to neuroscience is unique in its emphasis on how we know what we know about the structure and function of the nervous system. What are the observations and experiments that have taught us about the brain and spinal cord? The book traces our current neuroscientific knowledge to many and varied sources, including ancient ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 27,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52598-5
EAN 9780262525985
Many disciplines, including philosophy, history, and sociology, have attempted to make sense of how science works. In this book, Paul Thagard examines scientific development from the interdisciplinary perspective of cognitive science. Cognitive science combines insights from researchers in many fields: philosophers analyze historical cases, psychologists carry out behavioral experiments, neuroscientists perform brain scans, and computer ...
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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Edwards, Mike; Oppenheimer, Danny
Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people. Elections can be determined by the design of the ballot and the gerrymandered borders of a district. And yet, despite voters who choose candidates according to the boxer brief ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52525-1
EAN 9780262525251
In this latest version of humanity, we are equipped with a fully re-engineered immune system; the latest set of cultural assumptions about gender, ethnicity, and sexuality; and a suite of customized enhancements, including artificial joints, neurochemical mood modulators, and performance-boosting hormones. In The Techno-Human Condition, Braden Allenby and Daniel Sarewitz explore what it means to ...
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A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view. Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the fundamentally cooperative structure ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 14,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51847-5
EAN 9780262518475
Ever since the term crowdsourcing was coined in 2006 by Wired writer Jeff Howe, group activities ranging from the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary to the choosing of new colors for Mx{0026}Ms have been labeled with this most buzz-generating of media buzzwords. In this accessible but authoritative account, grounded in the empirical literature, Daren ...
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