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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
ISBN 978-0-262-11322-9
EAN 9780262113229
Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but increasingly we experience technological nature. Children come of age watching digital nature programs on television. They inhabit virtual lands in digital games.And they play with robotic animals, purchased at big box stores. Until a few years ago, hunters could "telehunt" -- shoot ...
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- MIT Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01488-5
EAN 9780262014885
Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. The less happy news is that Earth's temperatures will continue to rise for decades. And evidence shows that climbing temperatures are already having serious consequences for vulnerable people and regions through droughts, extreme weather, and melting glaciers. In this book, climate experts ...
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- MIT Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 19,43 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01366-6
EAN 9780262013666
A wave of business innovation is driving the productivity resurgence in the U.S. economy. In Wired for Innovation, Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders describe how information technology directly or indirectly created this productivity explosion, reversing decades of slow growth.They argue that the companies with the highest level of returns to their technology investment are doing ...
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Akmajian, Adrian; Demers, Richard A.; Farmer, Ann K.
Linguistics
An introduction to Language and Communication
- MIT Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 630 páginas
PVP: 57,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51370-8
EAN 9780262513708
This popular introductory linguistics text is unique for its integration of themes. Rather than treat morphology, phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics as completely separate fields, the book shows how they interact. It provides a sound introduction to linguistic methodology while encouraging students to consider why people are intrinsically interested in language--the ultimate puzzle of the ...
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- MIT Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01418-2
EAN 9780262014182
There is nothing wrong with economics, Dean Baker contends, but economists routinely ignore their own principles when it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously and applied them consistently?In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker one of the few economists who predicted the ...
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- MIT Press, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01427-4
EAN 9780262014274
This book is a passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not. Arguing that post-9/11 legislation and foreign policy severed the executive branch from the will of the people, Elaine Scarry in Rule of Law, Misrule of Men offers a fierce defense of the people's role as guarantor ...
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Published by Semiotext(e) in 2005, Mark von Schlegell's debut novel Venusia was hailed in the sci-fi and literary worlds as a "breathtaking excursion" and "heady kaleidoscopic trip," establishing him as an important practitioner of vanguard science fiction. Mercury Station, the second book in Von Schlegell's System Series, continues the journey into a dystopian literary future. ...
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In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had written "just dreary and unproductive of anything"), he ...
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- MIT Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02683-3
EAN 9780262026833
The current conflict in Syria has killed more than 80,000 people and displaced four million, yet most observers predict that the worst is still to come. And for two years, the international community has failed to take action. World leaders have repeatedly resolved not to let atrocities happen in plain view, but the legacy of ...
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- MIT Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51268-8
EAN 9780262512688
The Parallax View is Slavoj i ek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; i ek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. i ek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between ...
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- MIT Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-01289-8
EAN 9780262012898
By the end of the twentieth century, sub-Saharan Africa had experienced twenty-five years of economic and political disaster. While "economic miracles" in China and India raised hundreds of millions from extreme poverty, Africa seemed to have been overtaken by violent conflict and mass destitution, and ranked lowest in the world in just about every economic ...
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- MIT Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 13,43 €
ISBN 978-0-262-51254-1
EAN 9780262512541
During the Dark Ages, the progress of Western civilization virtually stopped. The knowledge gained by the scholars of the classical age was lost; for nearly 600 years, life was governed by superstitions and fears fueled by ignorance. In this outspoken and forthright book, Lee McIntyre argues that today we are in a new Dark Age ...
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- MIT Press, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,94 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53270-9
EAN 9780262532709
Jacques Lacan claimed that his theory of feminine sexuality, including the infamous proposition, "the Woman does not exist," constituted a revision of his earlier work on "the ethics of psychoanalysis." In Imagine There's No Woman, Joan Copjec shows how Freud's ragtag, nearly incoherent notion of sublimation was refashioned by Lacan to become the key term ...
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