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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54286-9
EAN 9780262542869
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54254-8
EAN 9780262542548
An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics.It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The more connected our computer systems, the more exposed they are to cyber ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54296-8
EAN 9780262542968
How engineered materials and machines powered by living biological cells can tackle technological challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security.You are a biological machine whose movement is powered by skeletal muscle, just as a car is a machine whose movement is powered by an engine. If you can be built from the bottom up with ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54247-0
EAN 9780262542470
An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a clear and concise introduction to a topic often considered difficult and abstruse: deconstruction. David Gunkel sorts out the concept, terminology, and practices of deconstruction, ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54255-5
EAN 9780262542555
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54238-8
EAN 9780262542388
Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of ...
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Combating inequality
Rethinking Government's Role
- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 36,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04561-2
EAN 9780262045612
Leading economists and policymakers consider what economic tools are most effective in reversing the rise in inequality. Economic inequality is the defining issue of our time. In the United States, the wealth share of the top 1% has risen from 25% in the late 1970s to around 40% today. The percentage of children earning more ...
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- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 23,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53968-5
EAN 9780262539685
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's ...
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- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 54,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04467-7
EAN 9780262044677
Wine economics is a growing subfield that examines the economics of the production, distribution, and consumption of wine. In this book, Stefano Castriota takes a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of wine economics, drawing on literature from industrial organization, welfare economics, economic policy, political economy, management, finance, health economics, law, and criminology. Castriota ...
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Fire, Ice, and Physics
The Science of Game of Thrones
- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53961-6
EAN 9780262539616
Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters.Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R. Martin's ...
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- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 26,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53937-1
EAN 9780262539371
Imagining the history of the twenty-first century through its artifacts, from silent messaging systems to artificial worlds on asteroids.In the year 2082, a curator looks back at the twenty-first century, offering a history of the era through a series of objects and artifacts. He reminisces about the power of connectivity, which was reinforced by such ...
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- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53955-5
EAN 9780262539555
An argument that consciousness, more widespread than previously assumed, is the feeling of being alive, not a type of computation or a clever hack. In The Feeling of Life Itself, Christof Koch offers a straightforward definition of consciousness as any subjective experience, from the most mundane to the most exalted-the feeling of being alive. Psychologists ...
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Barbarian Invasions
A Genealogy of the History of Art
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 36,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04315-1
EAN 9780262043151
How the history of art begins with the myth of the barbarian invasion-the romantic fragmentation of classical eternity. The history of art, argues Eric Michaud, begins with the romantic myth of the barbarian invasions. Viewed from the nineteenth century, the Germanic-led invasions of the Roman Empire in the fifth century became the gateway to modernity, ...
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Energy and civilization
A history
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 568 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53616-5
EAN 9780262536165
A comprehensive account of how energy has shaped society throughout history, from pre-agricultural foraging societies through today's fossil fuel-driven civilization. "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next 'Star Wars' movie. In his latest book, Energy and Civilization: A History, he goes deep and broad to explain how innovations ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53750-6
EAN 9780262537506
A philosopher considers entertainment, in all its totalizing variety infotainment, edutainment, servotainment and traces the notion through Kant, Zen Buddhism, Heidegger, Kafka, and Rauschenberg. In Good Entertainment, Byung-Chul Han examines the notion of entertainment its contemporary ubiquity, and its philosophical genealogy. Entertainment today, in all its totalizing variety, has an apparently infinite capacity for incorporation: ...
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A Brain for Numbers
The Biology of the Number Instinct
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 36,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04278-9
EAN 9780262042789
How our intuitive understanding of numbers is deeply rooted in our biology, traceable through both evolution and development. Humans' understanding of numbers is intuitive. Infants are able to estimate and calculate even before they learn the words for numbers.How have we come to possess this talent for numbers? In A Brain for Numbers, Andreas Nieder ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 312 páginas
PVP: 19,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53797-1
EAN 9780262537971
Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs. The future is here: Self-driving cars are on the streets, an algorithm gives you movie and TV recommendations, IBM's Watson triumphed on Jeopardy over puny human brains, computer programs can be trained to play Atari games. But ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04289-5
EAN 9780262042895
A provocative argument that eating meat is not what made humans human and that the future is not necessarily carnivorous. Humans are eating more meat than ever. Despite ubiquitous Sweetgreen franchises and the example set by celebrity vegans, demand for meat is projected to grow at twice the rate of demand for plant-based foods over ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04307-6
EAN 9780262043076
Exploring the science in George R. R. Martin's fantastical world, from the physics of an ice wall to the genetics of the Targaryens and Lannisters.Game of Thrones is a fantasy that features a lot of made-up science-fabricated climatology (when is winter coming?), astronomy, metallurgy, chemistry, and biology. Most fans of George R. R.Martin's fantastical world ...
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The Lost Planets
Peter van de Kamp and the Vanishing Exoplanets around Barnard's Star
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04286-4
EAN 9780262042864
A fascinating account of the pioneering astronomer who claimed (erroneously) to have discovered a planet outside the solar system. There are innumerable planets revolving around innumerable stars across our galaxy. Between 2009 and 2018, NASA's Kepler space telescope discovered thousands of them.But exoplanets-planets outside the solar system-appeared in science fiction before they appeared in telescopes. ...
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