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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 664 páginas
PVP: 47,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04283-3
EAN 9780262042833
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. 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 ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 33,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04281-9
EAN 9780262042819
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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An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and driverless cars. Deep learning is an artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition in mobile phones, machine translation, AI games, driverless cars, and other applications. When we use consumer products from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, or ...
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Nihilism means, literally, "an ideology of nothing. " Is nihilism, then, believing in nothing? Or is it the belief that life is nothing? Or the belief that the beliefs we have amount to nothing? If we can learn to recognize the many varieties of nihilism, Nolen Gertz writes, then we can learn to distinguish what ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 20,85 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53800-8
EAN 9780262538008
Cutting through the hype, a practical guide to using artificial intelligence for business benefits and competitive advantage. In The AI Advantage, Thomas Davenport offers a guide to using artificial intelligence in business. He describes what technologies are available and how companies can use them for business benefits and competitive advantage.He cuts through the hype of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 392 páginas
PVP: 39,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03936-9
EAN 9780262039369
Leading economists discuss post-financial crisis policy dilemmas, including the dangers of complacency in a period of relative stability. The Great Depression led to the Keynesian revolution and dramatic shifts in macroeconomic theory and macroeconomic policy. Similarly, the stagflation of the 1970s led to the adoption of the natural rate hypothesis and to a major reassessment ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03730-3
EAN 9780262037303
Making the case that we can use nuclear power to combat climate change even as we reduce the risks of nuclear terror. Humanity faces two existential threats: nuclear annihilation and catastrophic climate change. Both have human origins, and both are linked to the use of nuclear energy.Inherent in the use of atomic fission is the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 29,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03983-3
EAN 9780262039833
An argument that what makes science distinctive is its emphasis on evidence and scientists' willingness to change theories on the basis of new evidence. Attacks on science have become commonplace. Claims that climate change isn't settled science, that evolution is "only a theory," and that scientists are conspiring to keep the truth about vaccines from ...
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