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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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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 global ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03888-1
EAN 9780262038881
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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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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
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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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
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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 30,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03748-8
EAN 9780262037488
How embracing untranslatable terms for well-being -- from the Finnish sisu to the Yiddish mensch -- can enrich our emotional understanding and experience.Western psychology is rooted in the philosophies and epistemologies of Western culture. But what of concepts and insights from outside this frame of reference? Certain terms not easily translatable into English -- for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 200 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03799-0
EAN 9780262037990
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. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
PVP: 14,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03802-7
EAN 9780262038027
Graffiti itself became a form of freedom.-- Julien Besançon, The Walls Have the FloorFifty years ago, in 1968, barricades were erected in the streets of Paris for the first time since the Paris Commune of nearly one hundred years before. The events of May 1968 began with student protests against the Vietnam War and American ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53504-5
EAN 9780262535045
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53523-6
EAN 9780262535236
How developments in science and technology may enable the emergence of purely digital minds -- intelligent machines equal to or greater in power than the human brain.What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 104 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03759-4
EAN 9780262037594
Agamben charts a journey that ranges from poems of chivalry to philosophy, from Yvain to Hegel, from Beatrice to Heidegger.An ancient legend identifies Demon, Chance, Love, and Necessity as the four gods who preside over the birth of every human being. We must all pay tribute to these deities and should not try to elude ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53512-0
EAN 9780262535120
A fascinating account, written in real time, of the unfolding of a scientific discovery: the first detection of gravitational waves. Scientists have been trying to confirm the existence of gravitational waves for fifty years. Then, in September 2015, came a "very interesting event" (as the cautious subject line in a physicist's email read) that proved ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53438-3
EAN 9780262534383
When Brainstorms was published in 1978, the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science was just emerging. Daniel Dennett was a young scholar who wanted to get philosophers out of their armchairs -- and into conversations with psychologists, linguists, computer scientists. This collection of seventeen essays by Dennett offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues ...
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