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Thermodynamic Weirdness
From Fahrenheit to Clausius
- MIT Press, 2019
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
The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul
Learning and the Origins of Consciousness
- MIT Press, 2019
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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How attention works
Finding Your Way in a World Full of Distraction
- MIT Press, 2019
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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Experiencing the impossible
The psychological processes that underpin our experience of magic
- MIT Press, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 296 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
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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- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2018
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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Tales teeth tell
Development, Evolution, Behavior
- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2018
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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How history get things wrong
The Neuroscience of our Addiction to Stories
- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03857-7
EAN 9780262038577
Why we learn the wrong things from narrative history, and how our love for stories is hard-wired. To understand something, you need to know its history. Right? Wrong, says Alex Rosenberg in How History Gets Things Wrong.Feeling especially well-informed after reading a book of popular history on the best-seller list? Don't. Narrative history is always, ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 16,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53591-5
EAN 9780262535915
The vast majority of scientists agree that human activity has significantly increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere most dramatically since the 1970s. Yet global warming skeptics and ill-informed elected officials continue to dismiss this broad scientific consensus. In this updated edition of his authoritative book, MIT atmospheric scientist Kerry Emanuel outlines the basic science of ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03888-1
EAN 9780262038881
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 246 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53608-0
EAN 9780262536080
A series of conversations about science in graphic form, on subjects that range from the science of cooking to the multiverse. Physicist Clifford Johnson thinks that we should have more conversations about science. Science should be on our daily conversation menu, along with topics like politics, books, sports, or the latest prestige cable drama.Conversations about ...
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Plato and the Nerd
The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology
- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53642-4
EAN 9780262536424
How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership. In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination.Writing for both literate technologists and ...
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Badiou, Alain; Nancy, Jean-Luc
German Philosophy
A dialogue vol. 11
- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53570-0
EAN 9780262535700
Two eminent French philosophers discuss German philosophy-including the legacy of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno, Fichte, Marx, and Heidegger-from a French perspective. In this book, Alain Badiou and Jean-Luc Nancy, the two most important living philosophers in France, discuss German philosophy from a French perspective. Written in the form of a dialogue, and revised and expanded ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53598-4
EAN 9780262535984
Why companies need to move away from a "product first" orientation to pursuing innovation based on customer need. In the past, companies found success with a product-first orientation; they made a thing that did a thing. TheInversion Factor explains why the companies of today and tomorrow will have to abandon the product-first orientation.Rather than asking ...
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Kreuz, Roger; Roberts, Richard
Getting through
The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication
- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53609-7
EAN 9780262536097
Understanding how culture affects the ways we communicate-how we tell jokes, greet, ask questions, hedge, apologize, compliment, and so much more. We can learn to speak other languages, but do we truly understand what we are saying? How much detail should we offer when someone asks how we are? How close should we stand to ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 19,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53542-7
EAN 9780262535427
Twelve visions of the future -- by turns hilarious, frightening, and relevant -- from new and established voices in science fiction.In this book, new and established voices in science fiction come together to offer original stories of the future. Ken Liu writes about a virtual currency that hijacks our empathy; Elizabeth Bear shows us a ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53543-4
EAN 9780262535434
A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastructure issues, and ethical challenges. The goal of data science is to improve decision making through the analysis of data. Today data science determines the ads we see online, the books and movies that are ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03796-9
EAN 9780262037969
The election of Donald Trump and the great disruption in the news and social media. Donald Trump's election as the 45th President of the United States came as something of a surprise -- to many analysts, journalists, and voters. The New York Times's The Upshot gave Hillary Clinton an 85 percent chance of winning the ...
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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53495-6
EAN 9780262534956
One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity.Some things never disappear -- violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social constellation at hand. In Topology of Violence, the philosopher Byung-Chul Han ...
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