Why philosophize about comedy? What is the use of investigating the comical from philosophical and psychoanalytic…

A legendary singer, folklorist, and music historian, Shirley Collins has been an integral part of the folk-music revival for…

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• Rok vydání 1994

This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the…

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How deep learning from Google Translate to driverless cars to personal cognitive assistants is changing our lives and…

A personal chronicle of three key legal privacy battles that have defined the digital age and shaped the internet as we know…

We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound…

• Rok vydání 2016

If only today's technology were simpler! It's the universal lament, but it's wrong. In this provocative and informative…

• Rok vydání 2017

Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask - read…

• Rok vydání 2026

A fascinating inquiry into why beauty matters and how it has played an evolutionary role in our understanding of the world.…

• Rok vydání 1991

In Political Romanticism, Carl Schmitt defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and…

Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Koselleck's reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the…

This study synthesizes current information from the various fields of cognitive science in support of a new and exciting…

How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societies…

• Rok vydání 2012

With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple…

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world. Kniha…

• Rok vydání 2011

A person with synesthesia might feel the flavor of food on her fingertips, sense the letter "J" as shimmering magenta or the…

This collection of an important architectural theorist's essays considers and compares designs by Palladio and Le Corbusier,…

• Rok vydání 2023

How ed tech was born: Twentieth-century teaching machines--from Sidney Pressey''s mechanized test-giver to B. F. Skinner''s…

• Rok vydání 2025

The social cost of carbon: The most important number you''ve never heard of—and what it means.If you''re injuring someone,…

An exploration of why we play video games despite the fact that we are almost certain to feel unhappy when we fail at them.…

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• Rok vydání 2009

The Parallax View is Slavoj Zizek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Zizek himself describes it as…

A new edition of a classic work that originated the "embodied cognition" movement and was one of the first to link science…

• Rok vydání 2017

The standard text on innovation advises would-be innovators to conduct creative brainstorming sessions and seek input from…

An argument that Modernism is a cognitive phenomenon rather than a cultural one.…

• Rok vydání 2011

In making decisions, when should we go with our gut and when should we try to analyze every option? When should we use our…

• Rok vydání 2005

The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and…

• Rok vydání 2018

Extending the functional language Scheme with logical constructs in order to help the functional programmer think logically…

• Rok vydání 2002

In this book Lev Manovich offers the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media. He places new media within the…

• Rok vydání 2012

Contending Economic Theories offers a unique comparative treatment of the three main theories in economics as it is taught…

• Rok vydání 1996

Through a series of close readings of two major figures of the modern movement, Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, Beatriz…

• Rok vydání 2011

An up-to-date account of the interplay between optimization and machine learning, accessible to students and researchers in…

• Rok vydání 2020

A comprehensive introduction to the latest research and theory on learning and instruction with computer games.This book…

• Rok vydání 2017

Stories define how we think, play, and understand our lives. In this comprehensive and readable bookżalready a classic…

• Rok vydání 2025

What intelligence really is, and how AI’s emergence is a natural consequence of evolution.It has come as a shock to some AI…

A thorough analysis of contemporary digital media practices, showing how people increasingly not only consume but also…

• Rok vydání 2008

The psychological theory of expectation that David Huron proposes in Sweet Anticipation grew out of the author's…

One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the…

A very cogent guide to compelling talks, lecturers, presentations and pitches--…

How the approaches and methods of think tanks-including systems theory, operational research, and cybernetics-paved the way…

• Rok vydání 2022

An in-depth exploration of the experience of playing board games and how game designers shape that experience.In Unboxed,…

• Rok vydání 2007

The first book to examine the global architecture of bathing; a visually rich union of current thinking from academic,…

An exploration of the need for innovative mechanisms of governance in an era when human actions are major drivers of…

An exploration of the production, transmission, and mutation of affective tonality-when sound helps produce a bad vibe.…

• Rok vydání 2022

An argument against the ideology of domesticity that separates work from home; lavishly illustrated, with architectural…

In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin Karatani detects a recurrent will to architecture that he argues is the foundation of all…