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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 24,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03686-3
EAN 9780262036863
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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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 people ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 322 páginas
PVP: 31,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53474-1
EAN 9780262534741
Students explore the idea that thinking is a form of computation by learning to write simple computer programs for tasks that require thought. This book guides students through an exploration of the idea that thinking might be understood as a form of computation. Students make the connection between thinking and computing by learning to write ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03663-4
EAN 9780262036634
Picture a computer scientist, staring at a screen and clicking away frantically on a keyboard, hacking into a system, or perhaps developing an app. Now delete that picture. In Once Upon an Algorithm, Martin Erwig explains computation as something that takes place beyond electronic computers, and computer science as the study of systematic problem solving.Erwig ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 264 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03644-3
EAN 9780262036443
Ignorance is trending. Politicians boast, "I'm not a scientist." Angry citizens object to a proposed state motto because it is in Latin, and "This is America, not Mexico or Latin America." Lack of experience, not expertise, becomes a credential. Fake news and repeated falsehoods are accepted and shape firm belief.Ignorance about American government and history ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53428-4
EAN 9780262534284
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Richard M. Roberts; Roger J. Kreuz
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03631-3
EAN 9780262036313
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03628-3
EAN 9780262036283
The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German continental philosophy. He argues that the Heideggerian and critical theory traditions have much in common -- despite the miscommunication, opposition, and even outright hostility ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53328-7
EAN 9780262533287
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has endured in the popular imagination for two hundred years. Begun as a ghost story by an intellectually and socially precocious eighteen-year-old author during a cold and rainy summer on the shores of Lake Geneva, the dramatic tale of Victor Frankenstein and his stitched-together creature can been read as the ultimate parable ...
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