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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 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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- 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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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 552 páginas
PVP: 52,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03577-4
EAN 9780262035774
Energy is the only universal currency; it is necessary for getting anything done. The conversion of energy on Earth ranges from terra-forming forces of plate tectonics to cumulative erosive effects of raindrops. Life on Earth depends on the photosynthetic conversion of solar energy into plant biomass. Humans have come to rely on many more energy ...
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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: 13,55 €
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: 15,10 €
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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Franz Hessel (1880--1941), a German-born writer, grew up in Berlin, studied in Munich, and then lived in Paris, where he moved in artistic and literary circles. His relationship with the fashion journalist Helen Grund was the inspiration for Henri-Pierre Roche's novel Jules et Jim (made into a celebrated 1962 film by Francois Truffaut). In collaboration ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 52,34 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53383-6
EAN 9780262533836
What has become of the so-called West after the Cold War? Why hasn't the West simply become "former," as has its supposed counterpart, the "former East"? In this book, artists, thinkers, and activists explore the repercussions of the political, cultural, and economic events of 1989 on both art and the contemporary. The culmination of an ...
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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 dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 66,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03546-0
EAN 9780262035460
Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism -- understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity -- is perhaps the last thing users and developers of information and communication technology (ICT) think about when they engage with computer programs and electronic devices. And yet, as Mark Coeckelbergh argues in ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-195-5
EAN 9781584351955
There is always something schizophrenic about logic in Deleuze, which represents another distinctive characteristic: a deep perversion of the very heart of philosophy. Thus, a preliminary definition of Deleuze's philosophy emerges: an irrational logic of aberrant movements. -- from Aberrant Movements In Aberrant Movements, David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian ...
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- MIT Press, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
ISBN 978-0-262-53343-0
EAN 9780262533430
Marcus Steinweg's capacity to implicate the other is beautiful, bright, precise, and logical, grounded in everyday questions, which to him are always big questions. -- from the foreword by Thomas Hirschhorn The houses of philosophy need not be palaces. -- Marcus Steinweg, "House," The Terror of Evidence This is the first book by the prolific ...
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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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