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Translating Happiness
A Cross-Cultural Lexicon of Well-Being
- MIT Press, 2018
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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Sympathy for the Traitor
A Translation Manifesto
- MIT Press, 2018
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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The Walls have the Floor
Mural Journal, May '68
- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53504-5
EAN 9780262535045
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The Digital Mind
How Science is Redefining Humanity
- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2018
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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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53443-7
EAN 9780262534437
Why our brains aren't built for media multitasking, and how we can learn to live with technology in a more balanced way."Brilliant and practical, just what we need in these techno-human times." -- Jack Kornfield, author of The Wise HeartMost of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03723-5
EAN 9780262037235
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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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03694-8
EAN 9780262036948
Converging and diverging views on the mind, the self, consciousness, the unconscious, free will, perception, meditation, and other topics.Buddhism shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically; it has pursued, for two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection. Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53436-9
EAN 9780262534369
Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means "fake," originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names as Nokir and Samsing. These cell phones were not crude forgeries but multifunctional, stylish, and as good as or better than the originals. Shanzhai has since spread into other parts of Chinese life, with shanzhai books, ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03681-8
EAN 9780262036818
If the most interesting theoretical interventions emerge today from the interspaces between fields, then the foremost interspaceman is Slavoj Zizek. In Incontinence of the Void (the title is inspired by a sentence in Samuel Beckett's late masterpiece Ill Seen Ill Said), Zizek explores the empty spaces between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the critique of political economy. ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03661-0
EAN 9780262036610
The peculiar arrangement of the psychoanalyst's office for an analytic session seems inexplicable. The analyst sits in a chair out of sight while the patient lies on a couch facing away. It has been this way since Freud, although, as Nathan Kravis points out in On the Couch, this practice is grounded more in the ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 17,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53441-3
EAN 9780262534413
Drone warfare described from the perspectives of drone operators, victims of drone attacks, anti-drone activists, international law, military thinkers, and others." A thoughtful examination of the dilemmas this new weapon poses." -- Foreign AffairsDrones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 88 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03711-2
EAN 9780262037112
The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so much more. And we need to know about it, especially now.In pithy text and pithier comics, A Brief History of Feminism engages us, educates us, makes us laugh, and makes us angry. It begins with antiquity ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03648-1
EAN 9780262036481
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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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03695-5
EAN 9780262036955
How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.From our hunter-gatherer days, we humans evolved to be excellent throwers, chewers, and long-distance runners. We are highly social, crave Paleolithic snacks, and display some gendered difference resulting from mate selection. But we now find ourselves binge-viewing, texting while driving, and playing Minecraft.Only the collective ...
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Sources of Power
How People Make Decisions
- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 38,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53429-1
EAN 9780262534291
A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into six languages, has been cited in professional journals that range from ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 24,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53413-0
EAN 9780262534130
Consider sublimation -- conventionally understood as a substitute satisfaction for missing sexual satisfaction. But what if, as Lacan claims, we can get exactly the same satisfaction that we get from sex from talking (or writing, painting, praying, or other activities)? The point is not to explain the satisfaction from talking by pointing to its sexual ...
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