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- MIT Press, 2017
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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- MIT Press, 2017
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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- MIT Press, 2017
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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- 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 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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- 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
PVP: 26,92 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52935-8
EAN 9780262529358
Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to ...
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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 dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 36,45 €
ISBN 978-0-262-03486-9
EAN 9780262034869
In Experimental Politics, Maurizio Lazzarato examines the conditions of work, employment, and unemployment in neoliberalism's flexible and precarious labor market. This is the first book of Lazzarato's in English that fully exemplifies the unique synthesis of sociology, activist research, and theoretical innovation that has generated his best-known concepts, such as "immaterial labor." The book (published ...
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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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- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52974-7
EAN 9780262529747
Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike ...
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Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weiman, Joachim
Measuring Hapiness
The Economics of Well-Being
- MIT Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 21,40 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52976-1
EAN 9780262529761
Can money buy happiness? Is income a reliable measure for life satisfaction? In the West after World War II, happiness seemed inextricably connected to prosperity. Beginning in the 1960s, however, other values began to gain ground: peace, political participation, civil rights, environmentalism. "Happiness economics" -- a somewhat incongruous-sounding branch of what has been called "the ...
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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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