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The final volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the phenomenology of community and its spatial peripheries."So the One Orb has imploded -- now the foams are alive." -- from Foams Foams completes Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy: his 2,500-page "grand narrative" retelling of the history of humanity, as related through the anthropological concept ...
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State and Politics
Deleuze and Guattari on Marx
Often approached through their "micropolitics of desire," the joint works of Deleuze and Guattari are rarely part of the discussion when classical and contemporary problems of political thought come under scrutiny. Yet if we follow the trajectory from Anti-Oedipus (1972) to A Thousand Plateaus (1980), it becomes clear that these problems were redeveloped during a ...
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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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Blanchard, Olivier; Rajan, Raghuram G.; Rogoff, Kenneth S.; Summers, Lawrence H.
Progress and Confusion : The State of Macroeconomic Policy
What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will it be forced to contend with a post-crisis "new normal"? Have we made progress in addressing these issues, or does confusion remain? In April of 2015, the International Monetary Fund gathered leading economists, ...
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Drones are changing the conduct of war. Deployed at presidential discretion, they can be used in regular war zones or to kill people in such countries as Yemen and Somalia, where the United States is not officially at war. Advocates say that drones are more precise than conventional bombers, allowing warfare with minimal civilian deaths ...
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People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered.Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, ...
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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 apes, ...
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- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,00 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-178-8
EAN 9781584351788
"One day, I was not famous, the next day, I was almost famous and the temptation to go wide with that and reject my past was too great. When I was legit famous, it was hard to tell when the change had occurred...If I had been born famous, the moment I would have started engaging ...
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Bamberger, Kenneth A; Mulligan, Deirdre K
Privacy on the Ground
Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 43,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02998-8
EAN 9780262029988
Barely a week goes by without a new privacy revelation or scandal. Whether by hackers or spy agencies or social networks, violations of our personal information have shaken entire industries, corroded relations among nations, and bred distrust between democratic governments and their citizens. Polls reflect this concern, and show majorities for more, broader, and stricter ...
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Control
Digitality as Cultural Logic
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 40,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02953-7
EAN 9780262029537
Is there a cultural logic of what we have come to call the information age? Have the technologies and techniques centered on the computer provided not only tools but also the metaphors through which we now understand the social and economic formation of our world? In Control, Seb Franklin addresses the conditions of knowledge that ...
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In 100 Years
Leading Economists predict the Future
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52834-4
EAN 9780262528344
This pithy and engaging volume shows that economists may be better equipped to predict the future than science fiction writers. Economists' ideas, based on both theory and practice, reflect their knowledge of the laws of human interactions as well as years of experimentation and reflection. Although perhaps not as screenplay-ready as a work of fiction, ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52780-4
EAN 9780262527804
The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligence. The idea that human history is approaching a "singularity"-that ordinary humans will someday be overtaken by artificially intelligent machines or cognitively enhanced biological intelligence, or both-has moved from the realm of science fiction to ...
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Thinking Things Through
An Introduction to Philosophical Issues and Achievements
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 50,65 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52720-0
EAN 9780262527200
Thinking Things Through offers a broad, historical, and rigorous introduction to the logical tradition in philosophy and its contemporary significance. It is unique among introductory philosophy texts in that it considers both the historical development and modern fruition of a few central questions. It traces the influence of philosophical ideas and arguments on modern logic, ...
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The Container Principle
How a Box Changes the Way we Think
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02857-8
EAN 9780262028578
We live in a world organized around the container. Standardized twenty- and forty-foot shipping containers carry material goods across oceans and over land; provide shelter, office space, and storage capacity; inspire films, novels, metaphors, and paradigms. Today, TEU (Twenty Foot Equivalent Unit, the official measurement for shipping containers) has become something like a global currency. ...
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- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 18,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52773-6
EAN 9780262527736
We turn on the lights in our house from a desk in an office miles away. Our refrigerator alerts us to buy milk on the way home. A package of cookies on the supermarket shelf suggests that we buy it, based on past purchases. The cookies themselves are on the shelf because of a smart ...
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Philosophy of Language
The Classics Explained
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 232 páginas
PVP: 42,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02845-5
EAN 9780262028455
Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by explaining ten classic, often anthologized, texts. Accessible and thorough, written with a unique combination of informality and careful formulation, the book ...
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Aspects of the Theory of Syntax
50th Anniversary Edition
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52740-8
EAN 9780262527408
Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, published in 1965, was a landmark work in generative grammar that introduced certain technical innovations still drawn upon in contemporary work. The fiftieth anniversary edition of this influential book includes a new preface by the author that identifies proposals that seem to be of lasting significance, reviews ...
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Conflict in Ukraine
The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order
- MIT Press, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02904-9
EAN 9780262029049
The current conflict in Ukraine has spawned the most serious crisis between Russia and the West since the end of the Cold War. It has undermined European security, raised questions about NATO's future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy building a partnership with Russia. It also ...
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- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1024 páginas
PVP: 41,10 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-160-3
EAN 9781584351603
The second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated Spheres trilogy, on the world history and philosophy of globalization.All history is the history of struggles for spheric expansion.--from GlobesIn Globes -- the second, and longest, volume in Peter Sloterdijk's celebrated magnum opus Spheres trilogy -- the author attempts nothing less than to uncover the philosophical ...
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What Have We Learned?
Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis
- MIT Press, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02734-2
EAN 9780262027342
Since 2008, economic policymakers and researchers have occupied a brave new economic world. Previous consensuses have been upended, former assumptions have been cast into doubt, and new approaches have yet to stand the test of time. Policymakers have been forced to improvise and researchers to rethink basic theory. George Akerlof, Nobel Laureate and one of ...
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