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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 13,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53335-5
EAN 9780262533355
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03578-1
EAN 9780262035781
Gold mining can be a dirty business. It creates immense amounts of toxic materials that are difficult to dispose of. Mines are often developed without community consent, and working conditions for miners can be poor. Income from gold has funded wars. And consumers buy wedding rings and gold chains not knowing about any of this. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 28,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03607-8
EAN 9780262036078
A new philosophy of higher education has taken hold in institutions around the world. Its supporters disavow the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and argue that the only knowledge worth pursuing is that with more or less immediate market value. Every other kind of learning is downgraded, its budget cut. In Knowledge for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 88 páginas
PVP: 13,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53333-1
EAN 9780262533331
Hitler's Mein Kampf was banned in Germany for almost seventy years, kept from being reprinted by the accidental copyright holder, the Bavarian Ministry of Finance. In December 2015, the first German edition of Mein Kampf since 1946 appeared, with Hitler's text surrounded by scholarly commentary apparently meant to act as a kind of cordon sanitaire. ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 47,57 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03503-3
EAN 9780262035033
In the fascist regimes of Mussolini's Italy, Salazar's Portugal, and Hitler's Germany, the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers, potatoes resistant to late blight, and pigs that thrived on national produce. Food independence was an early goal of fascism; indeed, as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs, fascists were ...
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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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