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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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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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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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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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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
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 what ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03939-0
EAN 9780262039390
An account of the concepts and intellectual structure of classical thermodynamics that reveals the subject's simplicity and coherence. Students of physics, chemistry, and engineering are taught classical thermodynamics through its methods-a "problems first" approach that neglects the subject's concepts and intellectual structure. In Thermodynamic Weirdness, Don Lemons fills this gap, offering a nonmathematical account of ...
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Ginsburg, Simona; Jablonka, Eva
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 69,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03930-7
EAN 9780262039307
A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, the sensitive soul ? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 152 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03926-0
EAN 9780262039260
How we filter out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we need to know. We are surrounded by a world rich with visual information, but we pay attention to very little of it, filtering out what is irrelevant so we can focus on what we think we need to know. Advertisers, web ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 26,10 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03946-8
EAN 9780262039468
How the scientific study of magic reveals intriguing-and often unsettling-insights into the mysteries of the human mind. What do we see when we watch a magician pull a rabbit out of a hat or read a person's mind? We are captivated by an illusion; we applaud the fact that we have been fooled. Why do ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53595-3
EAN 9780262535953
A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life. GPS is ubiquitous in everyday life. GPS mapping is standard equipment in many new cars and geolocation services are embedded in smart phones.GPS makes Uber and Lyft possible; driverless cars won't be able to drive without it. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 312 páginas
PVP: 27,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03840-9
EAN 9780262038409
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 · 296 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03871-3
EAN 9780262038713
What teeth can tell us about human evolution, development, and behavior. Our teeth have intriguing stories to tell. These sophisticated time machines record growth, diet, and evolutionary history as clearly as tree rings map a redwood's lifespan.Each day of childhood is etched into tooth crowns and roots-capturing birth, nursing history, environmental clues, and illnesses. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53607-3
EAN 9780262536073
Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, bringing readers tidings of mathematical topics from Markov chains to Sudoku. Hayes, a non-mathematician, argues that ...
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