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Invincible
Häftad, 2020
232 kr
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A space cruiser, in search of its sister ship, encounters beings descended from self-replicating machines.
How to Write a Thesis
Av Umberto Eco
Häftad, 2015
248 kr
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Umberto Eco's wise and witty guide to researching and writing a thesis, published in English for the first time. 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 …
Outer Limits of Reason
What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
Häftad, 2016
259 kr
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An exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge that challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves.Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, …
Sources of Power
How People Make Decisions
Häftad, 2017
299 kr
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A modern classic about how people really make decisions: drawing on prior experience, using a combination of intuition and analysis.Since its publication twenty years ago, Sources of Power has been enormously influential. The book has sold more than 50,000 copies, has been translated into six …
His Master's Voice
Häftad, 2020
229 kr
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Scientists must decode a message from intelligent beings in outer space in this classic science fiction tale by the legendary author of Solaris . “The universe is still struggling to catch up with the vast creative force that was Stanisław Lem.” — Washington Post By pure chance, scientists detect a …
Sciences of the Artificial
Häftad, 2019
576 kr
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Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird. Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural …
Frankenstein
Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Av Mary Shelley, David H. Guston m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
285 kr
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Four Books on Architecture
Häftad, 2002
541 kr
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The Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio was one of the most influential figures that the field of architecture has ever produced. For classical architects, the term Palladian stands for a vocabulary of architectural forms embodying perfection and beauty. Of even greater significance than …
New Librarianship Field Guide
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
429 kr
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Architecture Depends
Av Jeremy Till
Häftad, 2013
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
263 kr
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Polemics and reflections on how to bridge the gap between what architecture actually is and what architects want it to be.Architecture depends—on what? On people, time, politics, ethics, mess: the real world. Architecture, Jeremy Till argues with conviction in this engaging, sometimes pugnacious …
Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine
Häftad, 2019
597 kr
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Embodied Mind
Cognitive Science and Human Experience
Av Francisco J. Varela, Evan Thompson m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
407 kr
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A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the …
Plastic Capitalism
Contemporary Art and the Drive to Waste
Inbunden, 2019
397 kr
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An argument for the centrality of the visual culture of waste—as seen in works by international contemporary artists—to the study of our ecological condition.
When I Was a Photographer
Av Félix Nadar
Inbunden, 2015
285 kr
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The first complete English translation of Nadar's intelligent and witty memoir, a series of vignettes that capture his experiences in the early days of photography.Celebrated nineteenth-century photographer—and writer, actor, caricaturist, inventor, and balloonist—Félix Nadar published this memoir …
Scientific Attitude
Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience
Av Lee McIntyre
Häftad, 2020
255 kr
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This “intelligent treatise articulates why the pursuit of scientific truths, even if inevitably flawed . . . matters” in our post-truth world ( Publishers Weekly ). What separates science from other disciplines? An attitude that respects evidence and is willing to evolve as new evidence arises. …
Cognitive Science of Science
Explanation, Discovery, and Conceptual Change
Av Paul Thagard
Häftad, 2014
737 kr
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Algorithms for Optimization
Av Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Tim A. Wheeler
Inbunden, 2019
1239 kr
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries
Technology and Politics in Allende's Chile
Av Eden Medina
Häftad, 2014
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
422 kr
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A historical study of Chile's twin experiments with cybernetics and socialism, and what they tell us about the relationship of technology and politics. In Cybernetic Revolutionaries , Eden Medina tells the history of two intersecting utopian visions, one political and one technological. The first …
Power of Resilience
How the Best Companies Manage the Unexpected
Av Yossi Sheffi
Häftad, 2017
230 kr
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler
Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy
Häftad, 2020
219 kr
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Meet Ijon Tichy—a space age adventurer who encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines, and other puzzling phenomena—in this collection from a science fiction legend. Memoirs of a Space Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who leads readers …
Return from the Stars
Häftad, 2020
289 kr
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An astronaut returns to Earth after a ten-year mission and finds a society that he barely recognizes.
