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- MIT Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 41,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54523-5
EAN 9780262545235
Presented in July 2023 folder. In this theoretical study of abstraction in architecture the first of its kind Pier Vittorio Aureli argues for a reconsideration of abstraction, its meanings, and its sources. Although architects have typically interpreted abstraction in formal terms the purposeful reduction of the complexities of design to its essentials Aureli shows that ...
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- MIT Press, 2023
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54449-8
EAN 9780262544498
We're surrounded by screens; our music comes in the form of digital files; we tap words into a notes app. Why do we still crave the realness of analog, seeking out vinyl records, fountain pens, cameras with film? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Robert Hassan explores our deep connection to ...
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Drawing Thought:
How Drawing Helps Us Observe, Discover, and Invent
- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 34,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54432-0
EAN 9780262544320
Drawing as a tool of thought: an investigation of drawing, cognition, and creativity that integrates text and hand-drawn images.Drawing is a way of constructing ideas and observations as much as it is a means of expressing them. When we are not ready or able to put our thoughts into words, we can sometimes put them ...
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Sludge
What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do about It
- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 168 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54508-2
EAN 9780262545082
How we became so burdened by red tape and unnecessary paperwork, and why we must do better.We've all had to fight our way through administrative sludge--filling out complicated online forms, mailing in paperwork, standing in line at the motor vehicle registry. This kind of red tape is a nuisance, but, as Cass Sunstein shows in ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54429-0
EAN 9780262544290
Long before Marvel Comics gave us Wakanda, a high-tech African country that has never been colonized, this 1903 novel gave readers Reuel Brigg a mixed-race Harvard medical student, passing as white, who stumbles upon Telassar. In this long-hidden Ethiopian city, the wise, peaceful inhabitants of which possess both advanced technologies and mystical powers, Reuel discovers ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 96 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04671-8
EAN 9780262046718
Two distinguished linguists on language, the history of science, misplaced euphoria, surprising facts, and potentially permanent mysteries.In The Secrets of Words, influential linguist Noam Chomsky and his longtime colleague Andrea Moro have a wide-ranging conversation, touching on such topics as language and linguistics, the history of science, and the relation between language and the brain. ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 17,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54371-2
EAN 9780262543712
A philosophical guide to passengerhood, with reflections on time, space, existence, boredom, our sense of self, and our sense of the senses.While there are entire bookstore sections--and even entire bookstores--devoted to travel, there have been few books on the universal experience of being a passenger. With this book, philosopher Michael Marder fills the gap, offering ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 19,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54325-5
EAN 9780262543255
A diverse group of teenage friends learn how computing can be personally and politically empowering and why all students need access to computer science education.This lively graphic novel follows a diverse group of teenage friends as they discover that computing can be fun, creative, and empowering. Taylor, Christine, Antonio, and Jon seem like typical young ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54337-8
EAN 9780262543378
A collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century by authors ranging from Arthur Conan Doyle to W. E. B. Du Bois.This collection of science fiction stories from the early twentieth century features work by the famous (Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes), the no-longer famous ("weird fiction pioneer William Hope Hodgson), ...
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 184 páginas
PVP: 57,30 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04675-6
EAN 9780262046756
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- MIT Press, 2022
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04636-7
EAN 9780262046367
Why the United States lags behind other industrialized countries in sharing the benefits of innovation with workers and how we can remedy the problem.The United States has too many low-quality, low-wage jobs. Every country has its share, but those in the United States are especially poorly paid and often without benefits. Meanwhile, overall productivity increases ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 35,75 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54286-9
EAN 9780262542869
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54254-8
EAN 9780262542548
An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics.It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The more connected our computer systems, the more exposed they are to cyber ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54296-8
EAN 9780262542968
How engineered materials and machines powered by living biological cells can tackle technological challenges in medicine, agriculture, and global security.You are a biological machine whose movement is powered by skeletal muscle, just as a car is a machine whose movement is powered by an engine. If you can be built from the bottom up with ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54247-0
EAN 9780262542470
An accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a clear and concise introduction to a topic often considered difficult and abstruse: deconstruction. David Gunkel sorts out the concept, terminology, and practices of deconstruction, ...
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 17,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54255-5
EAN 9780262542555
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- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 22,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-54238-8
EAN 9780262542388
Throughout history, humans have contended with pandemics. History is replete with references to plagues, pestilence, and contagion, but the devastation wrought by pandemics had been largely forgotten by the twenty-first century. Now, the enormous human and economic toll of the rapidly spreading COVID-19 disease offers a vivid reminder that infectious disease pandemics are one of ...
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Combating inequality
Rethinking Government's Role
- MIT Press, 2021
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 280 páginas
PVP: 36,55 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04561-2
EAN 9780262045612
Leading economists and policymakers consider what economic tools are most effective in reversing the rise in inequality. Economic inequality is the defining issue of our time. In the United States, the wealth share of the top 1% has risen from 25% in the late 1970s to around 40% today. The percentage of children earning more ...
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- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 664 páginas
PVP: 23,90 €
ISBN 978-0-262-53968-5
EAN 9780262539685
Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's ...
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- MIT Press, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 328 páginas
PVP: 54,35 €
ISBN 978-0-262-04467-7
EAN 9780262044677
Wine economics is a growing subfield that examines the economics of the production, distribution, and consumption of wine. In this book, Stefano Castriota takes a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the study of wine economics, drawing on literature from industrial organization, welfare economics, economic policy, political economy, management, finance, health economics, law, and criminology. Castriota ...
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