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Edwards, Mike; Oppenheimer, Danny
Democracy Despite Itself
Why a System that Shouldn't Work at All Works so Well
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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- MIT Press, 2013
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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- MIT Press, 2013
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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Modes of Creativity
Philosophical Perspectives
- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51875-8
EAN 9780262518758
In this philosophical exploration of creativity, Irving Singer describes the many different types of creativity and their varied manifestations within and across all the arts and sciences. Singer's approach is pluralistic rather than abstract or dogmatic. His reflections amplify recent discoveries in cognitive science and neurobiology by aligning them with the aesthetic, affective, and phenomenological ...
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Factories of Knowledge
Industries of Creativity
What was once the factory is now the university. As deindustrialization spreads and the working class is decentralized, new means of social resistance and political activism need to be sought in what may be the last places where they are possible: the university and the art world. Gerald Raunig's new book analyzes the potential that ...
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- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01912-5
EAN 9780262019125
When Lee Kuan Yew speaks, presidents, prime ministers, diplomats, and CEOs listen. Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming Singapore into a Western-style economic success, he offers a unique ...
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- MIT Press, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51869-7
EAN 9780262518697
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After a long period in eclipse, documentary has undergone a marked revival in recent art. This has been spurred by two phenomena: the exhibition of photographic and video work on political issues at Documenta and numerous biennials; and increasing attention to issues of injustice, violence, and trauma in the war zones of the endemically conflict-ridden ...
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Learnability and Cognition
. The Acquisition of Argument Structure The Acquisition of Argument Structure
Before Steven Pinker wrote bestsellers on language and human nature, he wrote several technical monographs on language acquisition that have become classics in cognitive science. Learnability and Cognition, first published in 1989, brought together two big topics: how do children learn their mother tongue, and how does the mind represent basic categories of meaning such ...
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The story of how diesel engines and gas turbines, used to power cargo ships and jet airplanes, made today's globally integrated economy possible.
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- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-62163-2
EAN 9780262621632
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- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51823-9
EAN 9780262518239
A guide to ocean waves traces their evolution from wind-wave generation to coastal effects. Sitting on the beach on a sunny summer day, we enjoy the steady advance and retreat of the waves. In the water, enthusiastic waders jump and shriek with pleasure when a wave hits them.But where do these waves come from? How ...
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- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 120 páginas
PVP: 20,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01841-8
EAN 9780262018418
Buy local," "buy green," "buy organic," "fair trade" -- how effective has the ethical consumption movement been in changing market behavior? Can consumers create fair and sustainable supply chains by shopping selectively? Dara O'Rourke, the activist-scholar who first broke the news about Nike's sweatshops in the 1990s, considers the promise of ethical consumption -- the ...
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Texture
Human Expression in the Age of Communications Overload
- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51814-7
EAN 9780262518147
Our workdays are so filled with emails, instant messaging, and RSS feeds that we complain that there's not enough time to get our actual work done. At home, we are besieged by telephone calls on landlines and cell phones, the beeps that signal text messages, and work emails on our BlackBerrys. It's too much, we ...
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- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 34,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-61172-5
EAN 9780262611725
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- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51767-6
EAN 9780262517676
The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software, or the story of the Internet, or the story of smart hand-held devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers ...
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Consciousness
Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01749-7
EAN 9780262017497
What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap between the physics of the brain and phenomenal experience. This engaging book--part scientific overview, ...
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