mit press aug 2023 (40 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'More Voices of the Radium Age will showcase proto- and early sf stories by much-admired authors best known today for their non-sf work (E. Nesbit, author of Three Children and It and other popular children's fantasies, and Booth Tarkington, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Magnificent Ambersons); authors whose outsized success with readers would influence the subsequent development of the sf genre (H.G. Wells, who continued to make startling predictions in the early 20th century, and Abraham Merritt and George Allan England, who along with Edgar Rice Burroughs ushered in the crucial era of the pulp scientific romance); as well as writers who have now fallen into obscurity (George C. Wallis, the Russian Symbolist litterateur Valery Bryusov, 'weird' horror master Algernon Blackwood, and Francis Stevens, 'the woman who invented dark fantasy'). Note that Nesbit and Stevens are two of sf's only female writers pre-1926'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When the narrator receives a telepathic distress signal from a young woman whom (in a previous incarnation) he'd once loved, he sallies forth on an ill-advised rescue mission-into the uncharted and unfathomable Night Land'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In an alternate-history version of England, monarchs are selected at random instead of inheriting the title. When Auberon Quin, a man who aspires to live life like a medieval adventurer, becomes king, he mandates that each of London's neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes. Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tactician, takes the game too seriously . . . and becomes the Napoleon of Notting Hill. War rages throughout the city, fought with sword and halberd'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A manifesto on how to defend truth and reality against Trumpism, post truth, and disinformation campaigns'--]cProvided by publisher.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Why cloud computing represents a paradigm shift for business, and how business users can best take advantage of cloud services'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In The Abuse of Property, Daniel Loick offers a multifaceted philosophical critique of property, arguing that property rights are not conditions of freedom or justice, but deficient, dysfunctional, and harmful ways of interacting with other people and the natural environment'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An overview of the science of plastics, what makes them a desired material choice, why they are harmful to humans, animals, and the environment, and how we can replace them'--.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first English translation of the French cult classic that lampoons France's most popular intellectuals of the post-1968 period and their ideas, which became forces of counterrevolution.Eric-John Russell's translation of Jaime Semprún's brutal takedown of France's best-known intellectuals of the post-1968 period, A Gallery of Recuperation, is one of the first full English versions of any of Semprún's books. Originally titled Précis de recuperation, the book is a scathing critique of ten major thinkers, including Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jean-François Lyotard, and Cornelius Castoriadis. Semprún uses this catalog of careerism to reflect on the concept of recuperationcapitalism's uncanny ability to coopt anticapitalist critiques and subvert subversion. His central question: What happens to revolutionary ideas, including Marxism itself, in the hands of professional intellectuals Semprún's idiosyncratic and playful style of polemics takes existentialism, humanism, structuralism, poststructuralism, postmodernism, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis to task, casting new light on the figures who have become dominant staples of modern Anglophone academia, and proving the necessity of critiquing intellectuals' roles within contemporary capitalism. A cult classic among the French radical left and scholars of the Situationist International and May 1968, A Gallery of Recuperation never made the impact it should have. Russell's translation marks a major step in recognizing Semprún's work beyond its French context.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'First published by Penguin Random House India.'--Title page verso.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The authors present the results of a large-scale study of American colleges, and offer recommendations for rethinking and restructuring the delivery of liberal arts education'--.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Based on extensive archival research in the voluminous Science Service records at the Smithsonian Institution, Writing for Their Lives focuses on a remarkable group of women whose contributions to science and journalism deserve greater recognition'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How the blockchain--a system built on foundations of mutual mistrust--can become trustworthy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The interplay between prediction and risk and role of advanced predictive technologies (biotechnology, AI, and big data) in provoking social change'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle of Omnicide is closed with a philosophy of doom, deception, and the game, plunging headlong into the inevitable, the fatal, and the infinite. A series of controlled combustions fuelled by fragments drawn from the poetry and literature of the Middle-East, Omnicide II introduces us to a new cast of manic visionaries, from the Selemaniac to the Crystallomaniac, the Bibliomaniac to the Aeromaniac. In his relentless cataloguing of the myriad figures and portents of omnicidal doom, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh resumes the offensive of those writers, artists, and thinkers for whom the fiercest creative incandescence is only kindled in the shadow of certain doom. Amid war cries and lullabies, mages, wolves and pelicans, sabres and crystals, drones and soul-stealers, in settings ranging from the opium den to the Qatari luxury hotels, with his unique style and methodology, his dizzying breadth of references, and his implacable will to follow the most deranging lines of thought and evoke the most startling images, Mohaghegh draws the reader into territories disturbing and unfamiliar, atmospheres delicate and grotesque, moods morbid yet life-affirming, in a book that evokes fever and exudes dead calm. The utterly absorbing music of this writing both lulls and disquietsa contemporary Necronomicon, an inexhaustible treasury of recipes for disaster, catastrophe, ruination and destruction, all in the name of the most intense creation.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Experimental game designer Pippin Barr explores the 'stuff' videogames are made of by offering a conceptual discussion of the fundamentals of game design grounded in eight case studies of his own games'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Designing for resilience is a critical issue of the 21st century. This is the first book-length work that shows us how to design for a future that lasts, and why we should want to'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The fascinating story of glutamate, the neurotransmitter that controls the structure and function of the brain in health and neurological disorders.Sculptor and Destroyer tells the story of a simple, little-known molecule that became a master architect and commander of the human brain: glutamate. Upward of 90 percent of the neurons in the human brain deploy glutamate as their neurotransmitter. Other neurotransmitters can only exert their effects on brain function by subtly modifying the ongoing activity of glutamatergic neurons, but during brain development glutamate controls the growth of dendrites and the formation of synapses. In this eye-opening book, Mark Mattson explains how the neurotransmitter glutamate controls the structure and function of neuronal networks in the brain, thereby mediating the brain's capabilities, including learning and memory, creativity, and imagination.Mattson also delves deeply into the dark side of glutamate, which he calls the "destroyer" side. He shows how relatively subtle aberrancies in the activity of neurons that deploy glutamate may result in behavioral disorders ranging from autism and schizophrenia to chronic anxiety and depression. More dramatically, he describes how glutamate can excite neurons to death, a process that occurs in epilepsy and stroke and, perhaps even more insidiously, in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, ALS, and Huntington's disease. Sculptor and Destroyer concludes with a perspective on how knowledge of glutamate's roles in neuroplasticity might be applied to the optimization of brain health throughout our lives.Written in engaging, approachable prose, Sculptor and Destroyer will be of interest to anyone in the fields of neuroscience, neurology, psychiatry, and psychology, as well as to anyone with a curiosity about the human brain.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The most respected researchers in the social sciences in France were each invited to write an essay presenting a book of interest, significance, and influence in the social sciences for a general readership, addressing its contributions and impact as well as its shortcomings, the lingering questions it leaves, and the work remaining to be done, to offer a new, nuanced portrait of the field's foundations'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A smart coffee table book that explores multiple facets of board games, including their design and culture, and conceptions of space and place'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This book critiques and complicates the stereotypes of autistic youth by presenting the first in-depth ethnographic study of their everyday uses of media and technology'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Live Streaming Culture is an edited volume that explores the cultural implications of online live streaming, paying special attention to how live streaming is shifting issues of identity and power in digital spaces'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A look at the effects of globalization on within-country inequality and implications of policies to address this'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A global history of modern infrastructures covering two centuries of historical dynamics from all over the world'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a history of IBM, a huge multinational firm, from its origins in the 1880s to the present. It demonstrates that this supplier of computers, software and information technology services played a profound role in shaping how other large organizations and economies evolved in the twentieth century. It describes its strategies, expansions, how various parts of the company collaborated and competed within the firm overcoming problems, a nearly fatal period in the early 1990s, and its recurring revivals and successes. The book is unique for several reasons. First, it is a comprehensive volume covering technologies, managerial actions, strategies, sales, the role of customers, and government regulatory and legal issues. Second, it is the only history that covers the post 1980 period down to 2018. (The last major history of IBM was published in the early 1990s.) Third, its emphasis on the role of corporate and sales culture is unique among books concerning IBM. Fourth, this book provides the greatest amount of detail available today about IBM's role in Western and Eastern Europe. The book is also unique because the author brings to the project several perspectives: that of an employee close to much of the critical events of one-third of the company's history, that of a trained historian, and that of an experienced student of the history of computing in business. Thus, he is able to integrate the entire history of the company from its origins to the present, demonstrating, for example, legacies of a prior era still evident in today's company, an ability to connect IBM's behaviors in each decade to those of other large multinational corporations, and to the computing activities of its many thousands of customers--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Looks at the ways scientific and biblical ideals combined in the reworking of the landscape and animals of Palestine/Israel'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Examination of the relationships among conservation, restoration, novel ecosystems, collective trauma, and memorialization as illustrated by the Green Belt between the former East and West Germanies'--.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An argument against dual process theories and unconscious thought to explain the human mind and behavior' --.