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Hawkins, Gay; Potter, Emily; Race, Kane
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02941-4
EAN 9780262029414
How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good -- no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance a "fast moving consumer good," or FMCG? Plastic Water examines the processes behind this transformation. It goes beyond the usual political and environmental ...
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Borroni-Bird, Christopher E; Burns, Lawrence D; Mitchell, William J
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 26,05 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52845-0
EAN 9780262528450
This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 24,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52779-8
EAN 9780262527798
In this landmark 1984 work on free will, Daniel Dennett makes a case for compatibilism. His aim, as he writes in the preface to this new edition, was a cleanup job, "saving everything that mattered about the everyday concept of free will, while jettisoning the impediments." In Elbow Room, Dennett argues that the varieties of ...
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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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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 376 páginas
PVP: 33,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02918-6
EAN 9780262029186
The risks of climate change are potentially immense. The benefits of taking action are also clear: we can see that economic development, reduced emissions, and creative adaptation go hand in hand. A committed and strong low-carbon transition could trigger a new wave of economic and technological transformation and investment, a new era of global and ...
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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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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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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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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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PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52748-4
EAN 9780262527484
In the 1930s a series of seminal works published by Alan Turing, Kurt Gödel, Alonzo Church, and others established the theoretical basis for computability. This work, advancing precise characterizations of effective, algorithmic computability, was the culmination of intensive investigations into the foundations of mathematics. In the decades since, the theory of computability has moved to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 46,60 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02881-3
EAN 9780262028813
Maps of physical spaces locate us in the world and help us navigate unfamiliar routes. Maps of topical spaces help us visualize the extent and structure of our collective knowledge; they reveal bursts of activity, pathways of ideas, and borders that beg to be crossed. This book, from the author of Atlas of Science, describes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 364 páginas
PVP: 63,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02901-8
EAN 9780262029018
The fiftieth anniversary of Helvetica, the most famous of all sans serif typefaces, was celebrated with an excitement unusual in the staid world of typography and culminated in the release of the first movie ever made starring a typeface. Yet Helveticas fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with the two thousandth anniversary in 2014 of Trajans ...
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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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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 NATOs future, and put an end to one of the most ambitious projects of U.S. foreign policy'building a partnership with Russia. It also threatens ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 31,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52734-7
EAN 9780262527347
In his foundational book, The Minimalist Program, published in 1995, Noam Chomsky offered a significant contribution to the generative tradition in linguistics. This twentieth-anniversary edition reissues this classic work with a new preface by the author.In four essays, Chomsky attempts to situate linguistic theory in the broader cognitive sciences, with the essays formulating and progressively ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52713-2
EAN 9780262527132
By the time Umberto Eco published his best-selling novel The Name of the Rose, he was one of Italy's most celebrated intellectuals, a distinguished academic and the author of influential works on semiotics. Some years before that, in 1977, Eco published a little book for his students, How to Write a Thesis, in which he ...
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Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Weiman, Joachim
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 36,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02844-8
EAN 9780262028448
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 dismal ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52756-9
EAN 9780262527569
Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, pataphysics--the science of imaginary solutions and the laws governing exceptions--has proven to be one of the most durable. Originating in the wild imagination of French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry and his schoolmates, resisting clear definition, purposefully useless, and almost impossible to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 34,20 €
ISBN 978-0-262-02856-1
EAN 9780262028561
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