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Blaming Islam
Boston Review
- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 112 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01758-9
EAN 9780262017589
In the United States and in Europe, politicians, activists, and even some scholars argue that Islam is incompatible with Western values and that we put ourselves at risk if we believe that Muslim immigrants can integrate into our society. Norway's Anders Behring Breivik took this argument to its extreme and murderous conclusion in July 2011. ...
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Edwards, Mike; Oppenheimer, Danny
Democracy Despite Itself
Why a System that shouldn't Work at All Works so Well
- MIT Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01723-7
EAN 9780262017237
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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Bentley, Alex; Earls, Mark; O'Brien, Michael J.
I'll have what she's Having
Mapping Social Behaviour
- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01615-5
EAN 9780262016155
Humans are, first and foremost, social creatures. And this, according to the authors of I'll Have What She's Having, shapes and explains most of our choices. We're not just blindly driven by hard-wired instincts to hunt or gather or reproduce; our decisions are based on more than nudges exploiting individual cognitive quirks.I'll Have What She's ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 644 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-104-7
EAN 9781584351047
The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described "student of the air," reinterprets the ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 20,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01621-6
EAN 9780262016216
What is the first thing to learn in art school? "Art can be anything." The second thing? "Learn to draw." With 101 Things to Learn in Art School, artist and teacher Kit White delivers and develops such lessons, striking an instructive balance between technical advice and sage concepts. These 101 maxims, meditations, and demonstrations offer ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51679-2
EAN 9780262516792
How a flexible and creative approach to intellectual property can help an organization accomplish goals ranging from building market share to expanding an industry. Most managers leave intellectual property issues to the legal department, unaware that an organization's intellectual property can help accomplish a range of management goals, from accessing new markets to improving existing ...
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Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only four percent for innovation initiatives. Can we significantly increase our ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01588-2
EAN 9780262015882
The atom, a tuna, laziness, love the everyday elements and essences of human experience glow in the translucent language of Neruda's odes. Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) wrote three books of odes during his lifetime. Odas elementales was published in 1954, followed in subsequent years by Nuevas odas elementales and Tercer libro de las odas. ...
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The Obama administration promises to take on comprehensive immigration reform in 2010, setting policymakers to work on legislation that might give the approximately eleven million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States a path to legalization of status. Commentators have been quick to observe that any such proposal will face intense opposition. Few issues ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 17,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51620-4
EAN 9780262516204
In this corner, philosopher Slavoj i ek, who represents the critical-materialist stance against religion's illusions; in the other corner, "radical orthodox" theologian John Milbank, an influential and provocative thinker who argues that theology is the only foundation upon which knowledge, politics, and ethics can stand. In The Monstrosity of Christ, i ek and Milbank go ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01570-7
EAN 9780262015707
As New York State Attorney General from 1998 to 2006, Eliot Spitzer successfully pursued corporate crime, including stock price inflation, securities fraud, and predatory lending practices. Drawing on those experiences, in this book Spitzer considers when and how the government should intervene in the workings of the market. The 2009 American bank bailout, he argues, ...
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Cold War Kitchen
Americanization, Technology, and European Users
- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 18,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51613-6
EAN 9780262516136
Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev's famous "kitchen debate" in 1958 involved more than the virtues of American appliances. Both Nixon and Khrushchev recognized the political symbolism of the modern kitchen; the kind of technological innovation represented in this everyday context spoke to the political system that produced it. The kitchen connects the "big" politics of ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 22,05 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51615-0
EAN 9780262516150
The Islamic scientific tradition has been described many times in accounts of Islamic civilization and general histories of science, with most authors tracing its beginnings to the appropriation of ideas from other ancient civilizations the Greeks in particular. In this thought-provoking and original book, George Saliba argues that, contrary to the generally accepted view, the ...
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Conservation Refugees
The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
How native people - from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africa - have been displaced from their lands in the name of conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the urging of five international conservation organizations. About half of these areas were ...
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Multitude
Between Innovation and Negation
The publication of Paolo Virno's first book in English, A Grammar of the Multitude, by Semiotext(e) in 2004 was an event within the field of radical political thought and introduced post-'68 currents in Italy to American readers. Multitude between Innovation and Negativity, written several years later, offers three essays that take the reader on a ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 148 páginas
PVP: 12,95 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-102-3
EAN 9781584351023
Translated by Kristina Lebedeva and Jason Francis Mc GimseyThe 2010 English-language edition of Christian Marazzi's The Violence of Financial Capitalism made a groundbreaking work on the global financial crisis available to an expanded readership. This new edition has been updated to reflect recent events, up to and including the G20 summit in July 2010 and ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01343-7
EAN 9780262013437
What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough--or should we look further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital media function, is essential.
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In an age of proliferating media and news sources, who has the power to define reality? When the dominant media declared the existence of WMDs in Iraq, did that make it a fact? Today, the "Social Web" (sometimes known as Web 2.0, groupware, or the participatory web)--epitomized by blogs, viral videos, and YouTube--creates new pathways ...
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