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  • Trouble with Gravity
    Richard Panek
    What is gravity? Nobody knows--and just about nobody knows that nobody knows. How something so pervasive can also be so mysterious, and how that mystery can be so wholly unrecognized outside the field of physics, is one of the greatest conundrums in modern science. But as award-winning author Richard Panek shows in this groundbreaking, mind-bending book, gravity is a cold case ...
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    14,67 €

  • The Beauty of Detours
    Yoni Van Den Eede
    Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology. ...
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    42,05 €

  • Machine Sensation
    Tessa Leach
    Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented ontology enables one to ...
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    22,16 €

  • At the Dawn of Humanity
    Gerard M. Verschuuren / Gerard MVerschuuren
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    29,42 €

  • At the Dawn of Humanity
    Gerard M. Verschuuren / Gerard MVerschuuren
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    22,64 €

  • El influencer que llevamos dentro
    Xavier Santigosa
    Ejercitemos nuestra influenciaTodos influimos de una manera u otra en los demás. Todos somos influencers en nuestro día a día pero, realmente, ¿somosconscientes de cómo lo hacemos?En numerosas ocasiones debemos y/o queremos influenciar a otras personas y no sabemos bien cómo hacerlo ni quéherramientas utilizar. Cuando esta situación ocurre nos sentimos desorientados. Nos falta ...
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    17,16 €

  • CrowdAsset
    Crowdfunding is already transforming the way many entrepreneurs and enterprises around the globe think about community engagement and fundraising for various causes. This book puts forth the belief that policymakers, public servants and various governments, municipalities and regions can significantly benefit from crowdfunding through employing crowd-related mechanisms within t...
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    178,16 €

  • Darwin Devolves
    Michael J Behe / Michael J. Behe
    The scientist who has been dubbed the 'Father of Intelligent Design' and author of the groundbreaking book Darwin’s Black Box contends that recent scientific discoveries further disprove Darwinism and strengthen the case for an intelligent creator. In his controversial bestseller Darwin’s Black Box, biochemist Michael Behe challenged Darwin’s theory of evolution, arguing that s...
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    15,19 €

  • Subvert!
    Dan Cleather
    Science has lost its way.Multi-national corporations profit from publicly funded research by restricting access to scientific publications. There is an epidemic of mental health problems among trainee scientists. Post-truth politics has destroyed public trust in scientists and many people think that science does little to improve their quality of life.In Subvert!, Dan Cleather ...
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    17,53 €

  • Subvert!
    Dan Cleather
    Science has lost its way.Multi-national corporations profit from publicly funded research by restricting access to scientific publications. There is an epidemic of mental health problems among trainee scientists. Post-truth politics has destroyed public trust in scientists and many people think that science does little to improve their quality of life.In Subvert!, Dan Cleather ...
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    45,93 €

  • Lectures on Natural Theology
    Thomas Reid
    Thomas Reid (1710-1796) was one of the principal philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment. A colleague and friend of David Hume and Adam Smith, in 1764 Reid succeeded Smith to the University of Glasgow’s Chair of Moral Philosophy. He is most famous for his work in epistemology, defending common sense (the exercise of our ordinary, inborn cognitive faculties) as the ultimate f...
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    24,02 €

  • Dot Complicated
    Randi Zuckerberg
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    16,50 €

  • What to Think About Machines That Think
    John Brockman
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    14,28 €

  • Theoretical Virtues in Science
    Samuel Schindler
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    39,36 €

  • Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics
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    41,53 €

  • Resisting Scientific Realism
    K. Brad Wray / KBrad Wray
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    35,81 €

  • Save Our Troubled World
    James Chen Tai- Chi / Tai- Chi James Chen
    Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard to hold out hope for a better tomorrow. But in Save Our Troubled World, author James Chen dares to dream of a new era where the effects of global warming, water and food shortages, pollution, and energy shortages are no more. By looking at the world’s problems in a co...
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    59,10 €

  • Save Our Troubled World
    James Chen Tai- Chi / Tai- Chi James Chen
    Today, when natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes seem to be regular occurrences, it can be hard to hold out hope for a better tomorrow. But in Save Our Troubled World, author James Chen dares to dream of a new era where the effects of global warming, water and food shortages, pollution, and energy shortages are no more. By looking at the world’s problems in a co...
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    49,17 €

  • Science Communication
    A concise, coherent and easily readable textbook about the field of science communication, connecting the practice of science communicators with theory. In the book, recent trends and shifts in the field resonate, such as the transition from telling about science to interacting with the public and the importance of science communication in health and environmental communication...
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    70,95 €

  • Malestar en la civilización digital
    Jean-Paul Lafrance
    ¿Hasta dónde quiere llegar el ser humano y a costa de qué riesgos? Para contestar a esta pregunta referida al universo digital en el que se encuentra sumida la humanidad del siglo XXI el autor examina las características de esta nueva realidad mediante tres enfoques: un enfoque macro o político, que cuestiona el capitalismo informacional y cognitivo, representado por las grande...
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    31,06 €

  • Untangling Twinning
    Maureen L. Condic / Maureen LCondic
    Scientists and philosophers have long struggled to answer the questions of when human life begins and when human life has inherent value. The phenomenon of identical (monozygotic) twinning presents a significant challenge to the view that human life and human personhood begin at conception. The fact that a single embryo can split to generate two (or more) genetically identical ...
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    63,47 €

  • Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres
    Vera Bühlmann
    This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ’doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness.It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that...
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    160,76 €

  • Dangerous Science
    Daniel J. Rozell / Daniel JRozell
    The public is generally enthusiastic about the latest science and technology, but sometimes research threatens the physical safety or ethical norms of society. When this happens, scientists and engineers can find themselves unprepared in the midst of an intense science policy debate. In the absence of convincing evidence, technological optimists and skeptics struggle to find co...
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    30,61 €

  • Stanley Jaki Foundation International Congress 2015
    On April 15, 2015, a diverse, international group of scholars with expertise in fields such as philosophy, theology, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science, gathered at Seton Hall University (SHU) in South Orange, New Jersey, USA for the Father Jaki International Congress. Dr. Anthony Troha of the SHU Department of Physics gave the first presentation, focusing on...
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    26,79 €

  • Why Science Does Not Disprove God
    Amir Aczel
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    16,32 €

  • Machines of Loving Grace
    John Markoff
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    15,92 €

  • Hamlet’s BlackBerry
    William Powers
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    15,46 €

  • The Politics of Paradigms
    George A. Reisch / George AReisch
    Uncovers long-ignored political themes-ideology, propaganda, mind-control, and Orwellian history-at work within the pages of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. ...
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    43,67 €

  • Eugenics and Other Evils
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    The English author Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was a very prominent cultural figure at the beginning of the last century. A true intellectual freethinker who never submitted himself to conventional ideas only because they were in vogue, he was one of few who understood the false theory and dangerous ethics behind the popular eugenics movement. The aim for the eugenicis...
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    19,06 €

  • The Reunification of Science and Philosophy
    Michael Pitman
    A good vehicle for a whole philosophical adventure turns out to be a Theory of Opposites called Natural Dialectic. ‘Dialectic’ involves to-fro interaction between opposing poles of either thought or things; ‘Natural’ means associated with no particular social, religious or cultural structure; and Natural Dialectic’s primary aim is, in the words of Albert Einstein, seeking the s...
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    20,52 €