ISBN: 9780262621632 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2002
In I of the Vortex, Rodolfo Llinas, a founding father of modern brain science, presents an original view of the evolution and nature of mind. According to Llinas, the "mindness state"...
ISBN: 9780262524650 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2007
In this thoughtful collection of essays on the relationship of architecture and the arts, Giuliana Bruno addresses the crucial role that architecture plays in the production of art and the making...
ISBN: 9780262533539 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 270 Rok wydania: 2017
Humans are awesome. Our brains are gigantic, seven times larger than they should be for the size of our bodies. The human brain uses 25% of all the energy the body requires each day. And it became...
ISBN: 9780262543316 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2022
A primer on nuclear weapons, from the science of fission and fusion to the pursuit of mutual assured destruction, the SALT treaties, and the Bomb in pop culture.Although the world s attention has...
ISBN: 9780262014410 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 688 Rok wydania: 2010
Designing Sound teaches students and professional sound designers to understand and create sound effects starting from nothing. Its thesis is that any sound can be generated from first principles,...
ISBN: 9780262533515 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 208 Rok wydania: 2017
In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This...
ISBN: 9780262537520 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 264 Rok wydania: 2019
A comprehensive overview of developments in augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality--and how they could affect every part of our lives.After years of hype, extended reality--augmented...
ISBN: 9780262035699 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 128 Rok wydania: 2017
In October 1989, as the Cold War was ending and the Berlin Wall about to crumble, television viewers in the Soviet Union tuned in to the first of a series of unusual broadcasts. "Relax, let...
ISBN: 9780262534437 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2017
Most of us will freely admit that we are obsessed with our devices. We pride ourselves on our ability to multitask - read work email, reply to a text, check Facebook, watch a video clip. Talk on...
ISBN: 9780262529808 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2017
How adult learners can draw upon skills and knowledge honed over a lifetime to master a foreign language.
ISBN: 9780262533522 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2017
Sharing isn't new. Giving someone a ride, having a guest in your spare room, running errands for someone, participating in a supper clubżthese are not revolutionary concepts. What is new, in...
ISBN: 9780262535229 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2018
In The World Made Meme, Ryan Milner argues that memes, and the memetic process, are shaping public conversation. It's hard to imagine a major pop cultural or political moment that doesn't...
ISBN: 9780262544528 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780262518000 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 278 Rok wydania: 2012
With Relationscapes, Erin Manning offers a new philosophy of movement challenging the idea that movement is simple displacement in space, knowable only in terms of the actual. Exploring the...
ISBN: 9780262043281 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 210 Rok wydania: 2019
Explorations of the many ways of being material in the digital age.In his oracular 1995 book Being Digital, Nicholas Negroponte predicted that social relations, media, and commerce would move from...
ISBN: 9780262044455 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 560 Rok wydania: 2020
Artists and writers portray the disorientation of a world facing climate change. This monumental volume, drawn from a 2020 exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media, portrays the...
ISBN: 9780262516105 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2011
As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded...
ISBN: 9780262543842 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2022
An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date.Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether żeby...
ISBN: 9780262029018 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 270 Rok wydania: 2015
Helveticas fifty-year milestone pales in comparison with the two thousandth anniversary in 2014 of Trajans Column and its famous inscription - the preeminent illustration of the classical Roman...
ISBN: 9780262539364 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 280 Rok wydania: 2020
As if John Berger's Ways of Seeing was re-written for the 21st century, Alexis L. Boylan crafts a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture in this concise introduction. The...