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- MIT Press, 2019
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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The Feeling of Life Itself
Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed
- MIT Press, 2019
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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The AI Advantage
How to Put the Artificial Intelligence Revolution to Work
- MIT Press, 2019
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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Evolution or Revolution?
Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy after the Great Recession
- MIT Press, 2019
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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Double Jeopardy
Combating Nuclear Terror and Climate Change
- MIT Press, 2019
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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- MIT Press, 2019
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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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03997-0
EAN 9780262039970
A catalog of wonders, from walking fish to self-medicating chimpanzees. This Atlas of Poetic Zoology leads readers into a world of wonders where turtles fly under the sea, lizards walk on water, insects impersonate flowers, birds don't fly, frogs come back from the dead, and virgin sharks give birth. Animals, writes Emmanuelle Pouydebat, are lyric ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53732-2
EAN 9780262537322
An introduction to issues of sexual consent, covering key strands of feminist thought, how sexual consent is negotiated in practice, the influence of popular culture, and more. The MeToo movement has focused public attention on the issue of sexual consent. People of all genders, from all walks of life, have stepped forward to tell their ...
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The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 208 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03995-6
EAN 9780262039956
How a team of researchers, led by the author, discovered our home galaxy's location in the universe. You are here: on Earth, which is part of the solar system, which is in the Milky Way galaxy, which itself is within the extragalactic supercluster Laniakea. And how can we pinpoint our location so precisely? For twenty ...
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The craft of dying
The Modern Face of Death
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53734-6
EAN 9780262537346
The fortieth-anniversary edition of a classic and prescient work on death and dying. Much of today's literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland's The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission.Lofland identifies, critiques, ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 344 páginas
PVP: 32,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03957-4
EAN 9780262039574
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades. How does social change happen? When do social movements take off? Sexual harassment was once something that women had to endure; now a movement has risen up against it. White nationalist sentiments, on the other hand, were largely kept out of ...
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Brown, Jpat; Lipton, B.C.D.; Morisy, Michael
Scientists under surveillance
The FBI Files
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 24,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53688-2
EAN 9780262536882
Cold War era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary.Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on scientists in disciplines ranging from physics to sex research. If the Bureau surveilled writers because of ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53701-8
EAN 9780262537018
A guide to understanding the inner workings and outer limits of technology and why we should never assume that computers always get it right. In Artificial Unintelligence, Meredith Broussard argues that our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed systems. We are ...
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Sympahty for the Traitor
A translation manifesto
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53702-5
EAN 9780262537025
An engaging and unabashedly opinionated examination of what translation is and isn't. For some, translation is the poor cousin of literature, a necessary evil if not an outright travesty-summed up by the old Italian play on words, traduttore, traditore (translator, traitor). For others, translation is the royal road to cross-cultural understanding and literary enrichment.In this ...
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IBM
The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 752 páginas
PVP: 45,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03944-4
EAN 9780262039444
A history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century. For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe.It was "Big Blue, " an icon. And yet ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53668-4
EAN 9780262536684
An accessible introduction to 3D printing that outlines the additive manufacturing process, industrial and household markets, and emerging uses. The use of 3D printing-digitally controlled additive manufacturing-is growing rapidly. Consumer models of 3D printers allow people to fabricate small plastic objects, from cabinet knobs to wedding cake toppers.Industrial uses are becoming widespread, as businesses use ...
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- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 27,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03874-4
EAN 9780262038744
An argument in favor of finding a place for humans (and humanness) in the future digital economy. In the digital economy, accountants, baristas, and cashiers can be automated out of employment; so can surgeons, airline pilots, and cab drivers. Machines will be able to do these jobs more efficiently, accurately, and inexpensively.But, Nicholas Agar warns ...
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