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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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- MIT Press, 2017
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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- MIT Press, 2017
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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- MIT Press, 2017
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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- MIT Press, 2017
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
Getting Through : The Pleasures and Perils of Cross-Cultural Communication
- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 32,80 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03631-3
EAN 9780262036313
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- MIT Press, 2017
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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Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became enormous in a very short amount of time in evolution, allowing us to leave our cousins, the great ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53352-2
EAN 9780262533522
Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper club -- these are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in the "sharing economy," is that you are not helping a friend for free; you are providing these services to a stranger for ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53337-9
EAN 9780262533379
Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53336-2
EAN 9780262533362
The shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication. -- from In the SwarmDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the cheerleaders for Twitter revolutions and Facebook activism by arguing that digital communication is in fact responsible for the disintegration of community ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 27,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03616-0
EAN 9780262036160
The United States is becoming a nation of rich and poor, with few families in the middle. In this book, MIT economist Peter Temin offers an illuminating way to look at the vanishing middle class. Temin argues that American history and politics, particularly slavery and its aftermath, play an important part in the widening gap ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53354-6
EAN 9780262533546
We have widely varying perceptions of time. Children have trouble waiting for anything. ("Are we there yet?") Boredom is often connected to our sense of time passing (or not passing).As people grow older, time seems to speed up, the years flitting by without a pause. How does our sense of time come about? In Felt ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53335-5
EAN 9780262533355
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 424 páginas
PVP: 40,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03535-4
EAN 9780262035354
Innovation is the subject of countless books and courses, but there's very little out there about how you actually innovate. Innovation and entrepreneurship are not one and the same, although aspiring innovators often think of them that way. They are told to get an idea and a team and to build a show-and-tell for potential ...
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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 of our minds. But all are, in one way or another, information-processing devices. The power of the human brain is, so far, unequaled by any existing ...
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- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52950-1
EAN 9780262529501
An accessible and engaging account of robots, covering the current state of the field, the fantasies of popular culture, and implications for life and work. Robots are entering the mainstream. Technologies have advanced to the point of mass commercialization-Roomba, for example-and adoption by governments-most notably, their use of drones.Meanwhile, these devices are being received by ...
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- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52951-8
EAN 9780262529518
A concise overview of machine learning-computer programs that learn from data-which underlies applications that include recommendation systems, face recognition, and driverless cars. Today, machine learning underlies a range of applications we use every day, from product recommendations to voice recognition-as well as some we don't yet use everyday, including driverless cars. It is the basis ...
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- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 17,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52980-8
EAN 9780262529808
How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language. Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot acquire a language as easily as children. Once they begin to learn a language, adults may be further discouraged when they ...
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