How Humans and Matter Transformed One AnotherIn the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look at materials, the innovations they made possible, and how these technologies ch...9999903102625Ainissa Ramirez
The MIT Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
Scientists Answer the Most Provocative QuestionsQuestions about the physical world, the mind, and technology in conversations that reveal a rich seam of interacting ideas.Science today is more a process of collaboration than mom...9999903102502Adolfo Plasencia
The MIT Press
lunes, 1 de abril de 2024
The definitive introduction to the behavioral insights approach, which applies evidence about human behavior to practical problems.Our behavior is strongly influenced by factors th...9780262539401Michael Hallsworth Elspet...
The MIT Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
Pursuing Food, Sex, and PoliticsA new, biologically driven model of human behavior in which reason is tethered to the evolutionarily older autonomic, instinctive, and associative systems. In Reason and Less, Vino...9999903097334Vinod Goel
The MIT Press
viernes, 22 de marzo de 2024
Searching for the Keys to Adaptive Decision MakingIn making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our intuition and when should we rely on logic and statistics...9999903083672Gary A. Klein
The MIT Press
sábado, 17 de febrero de 2024
Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the MachineAn account of the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenth-century monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology's mag...9999903081944Mark Coeckelbergh
The MIT Press
sábado, 10 de febrero de 2024
An Investigation into the Varieties and Virtues of AnxietyAn empirically informed, philosophical account of the nature of anxiety and its value for agency, virtue, and decision making.In The Anxious Mind, Charlie Kurth offers a philosophi...9999903077282Charlie Kurth
The MIT Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
A study of how materialism and consumerism undermine our quality of life.In The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary cultur...9999903076889Tim Kasser
The MIT Press
viernes, 2 de febrero de 2024
Demystifying consciousness: how subjective experience can be explained by natural brain and evolutionary processes.Consciousness is often considered a mystery. How can the seemingl...9999903075158Todd E. Feinberg Jon M. M...
The MIT Press
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
Discovering the Brain of SynesthesiaIn 'Wednesday is Indigo Blue', pioneering researcher Richard Cytowic and distinguished neuroscientist David Eagleman explain the neuroscience and genetics behind synesthesia's mult...9999903075127Richard E. Cytowic David ...
The MIT Press
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
Imagination in the Age of ComputingThe gap between theoretical ideas and messy reality, as seen in Neal Stephenson, Adam Smith, and Star Trek.We depend on ??we believe in ??algorithms to help us get a ride, choose w...9999903074724Ed Finn
The MIT Press
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
Everything you've always wanted to know about self-driving cars, Netflix recommendations, IBM's Watson, and video game-playing computer programs.The future is here: Self-driving ca...9999903074700Sean Gerrish
The MIT Press
martes, 30 de enero de 2024
The World of AI-Powered CreativityAn authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art, literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans.Today's computers are co...9999903073826Arthur I. Miller
The MIT Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The different ways that social change happens, from unleashing to nudging to social cascades."Sunstein's book is illuminating because it puts norms at the center of how we think ab...9999903073628Cass R. Sunstein
The MIT Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
The Science and Politics of Myside ThinkingWhy we don't live in a post-truth society but rather a myside society: what science tells us about the bias that poisons our politics.In The Bias That Divides Us, psychologist Keit...9999903073376Keith E. Stanovich
The MIT Press
jueves, 25 de enero de 2024
Radical Psychiatry and the American Counterculture ??Antipsychiatry, ? Esalen, psychedelics, and DSM III: Radical challenges to psychiatry and the conventional treatment of mental health in the 1970s.The upheavals of the 1960s ga...9999903064510Lucas Richert
The MIT Press
viernes, 12 de enero de 2024
A World Beyond Human ExperienceCertain insects and animals such as bees, birds, bats, fish, and dolphins possess senses that lie far beyond the realm of human experience. Examples include echolocation, internal ...9999903063490Howard C. Hughes
The MIT Press
miércoles, 10 de enero de 2024
The Political Economy of the Global EnvironmentA new edition of a book that takes a comprehensive look at the ways economic processes affect global environmental outcomes. This comprehensive and accessible book fills the need f...9999902977309Jennifer Clapp Peter Dauv...
The MIT Press
martes, 25 de abril de 2023
Mechanisms and Applications of Emotional CognitionContrary to standard assumptions, reasoning is often an emotional process. Emotions can have good effects, as when a scientist gets excited about a line of research and pursues it ...9999902833377Paul Thagard Cameron Shel...
The MIT Press
martes, 12 de abril de 2022
Communication Technology and the Information Have-less in Urban ChinaAn examination of how the availability of low-end information and communication technology has provided a basis for the emergence of a working-class network society in China. The i...9999902564189Jack Linchuan Qiu
The MIT Press
viernes, 24 de enero de 2020
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