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7774 books were found.

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots

The Heart and the Chip: Our Bright Future with Robots...

Author: Daniela Rus (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) ,  Gregory Mone
ISBN: 9781324050230
Format: Hardback
$79.17

Daniela Rus, a leading roboticist and computer scientist, explores how we can use a new generation of smart machines...  Read More >>

The Blind Spot Lib/E: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

The Blind Spot Lib/E: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human...

Author: Evan Thompson ,  Marcelo Gleiser
ISBN: 9798874764036
Format: Audio
$190.05

In The Blind Spot, astrophysicist Adam Frank, theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser, and philosopher Evan Thompson...  Read More >>

Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes from Van Fraassen

Scientific Theories and Philosophical Stances: Themes...

Author: Claus Beisbart ,  Michael Frauchiger
ISBN: 9783111019635
Format: Hardback
$303.57

What are scientific theories? Are successful theories simply true descriptions of reality, even if it cannot be...  Read More >>

Fractured Bonds: Shattered Connections in a World Where Trust Is a Fragile Echo

Fractured Bonds: Shattered Connections in a World Where...

Author: Maxwell J Aromano
ISBN: 9783675927209
Format: Paperback
$36.93

"In the gripping narrative of ""Fractured Bonds: Shattered Connections in a World Where Trust Is a Fragile Echo,""...  Read More >>

Space Rover

Space Rover

Author: Stewart Lawrence Sinclair (writer and editor, adjunct lecturer, Independent Scholar, USA) ,  Ian Bogost
ISBN: 9781501399954
Format: Paperback
$19.99

"""Explores the vehicles and robotic extensions of ourselves that we cast out into the solar system to photograph,...  Read More >>

The Extended Reality Blueprint: Demystifying the AR/VR Production Process

The Extended Reality Blueprint: Demystifying the AR/VR...

Author: Annie Eaton
ISBN: 9781394207688
Format: Hardback
$59.95

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Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges from the Cosmic Ocean

Waves in an Impossible Sea: How Everyday Life Emerges...

Author: Matt Strassler
ISBN: 9781541603295
Format: Hardback
$55.00

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Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality

Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work,...

Author: Benjamin Shestakofsky
ISBN: 9780520395039
Format: Paperback
$49.95

This systematic analysis of everyday life inside a tech startup dissects the logic of venture capital and its consequences...  Read More >>

Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work, Innovation, and Inequality

Behind the Startup: How Venture Capital Shapes Work,...

Author: Benjamin Shestakofsky
ISBN: 9780520395022
Format: Hardback
$140.95

This systematic analysis of everyday life inside a tech startup dissects the logic of venture capital and its consequences...  Read More >>

Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate Change: The Move from Margins to Mainstream in Science, News Media, and Politics

Geoengineering Discourse Confronting Climate Change:...

Author: Brynna Jacobson
ISBN: 9781793635303
Format: Paperback
$105.57

This research examines the trajectory of the contested field of geoengineering through critical discourse analysis...  Read More >>

Code Musicology: From Hardwired to Software

Code Musicology: From Hardwired to Software

Author: Denis Crowdy
ISBN: 9781666909210
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Code Musicology opens a conduit between musicology and software studies. It extends an ethnomusicology of technoculture...  Read More >>

Why innovations Live or Die: South Africa's innovation system

Why innovations Live or Die: South Africa's innovation...

Author: Zamanzima Mazibuko-Makena ,  Thomas Pogue
ISBN: 9781920690458
Format: Paperback
$132.00

A vision for South Africa's National System of Innovation (NSI) was articulated some three decades ago in the White...  Read More >>

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence and the Politics of Knowing

The Tensions of Algorithmic Thinking: Automation, Intelligence...

Author: David Beer (University of York)
ISBN: 9781529212907
Format: Paperback
$57.99

In this pioneering book, David Beer redefines emergent algorithmic technologies as the new systems of knowing. He...  Read More >>

Sentient Machines - The Moral Dilemma of Creating Conscious Robots

Sentient Machines - The Moral Dilemma of Creating Conscious...

Author: Viruti Shivan
ISBN: 9798224936878
Format: Paperback
$50.13

"Navigating the Ethics, Responsibilities, and Future of Artificial Intelligence ""Sentient Machines - The Moral...  Read More >>

Neural Networks

Neural Networks

Author: Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal ,  Théo LePage-Richer
ISBN: 9781517916695
Format: Paperback
$32.99

A critical examination of the figure of the neural network as it mediates neuroscientific and computational discourses...  Read More >>

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts

Author: Piotr Kacejko (Lublin University of Technology, Poland) ,  Jacek Szulczyk
ISBN: 9781032598802
Format: Paperback
$69.99

Wind Energy: Societal and Human Impacts presents the theoretical basis for the various impacts of wind turbines...  Read More >>

The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How Scientists Found the Connections Between Climate and Life

The Story of Earth's Climate in 25 Discoveries: How...

Author: Donald R. Prothero
ISBN: 9780231203586
Format: Hardback
$62.95

In this lively and entertaining book, Donald R. Prothero explores the astonishing connections between climate and...  Read More >>

Beyond Human - The Ethics and Possibilities of Bioengineering

Beyond Human - The Ethics and Possibilities of Bioengineering...

Author: Viruti Shivan
ISBN: 9798224742806
Format: Paperback
$50.13

Exploring the Future of Genetic Advancement and Moral Dilemmas In Beyond Human, we delve into the rapidly evolving...  Read More >>

The Digital and Its Discontents

The Digital and Its Discontents

Author: Aden Evens ,  Alexander R. Galloway
ISBN: 9781517916312
Format: Hardback
$270.00

A groundbreaking critique of the digital world that analyzes its universal technological foundations Whence that...  Read More >>

The Humanistic View of Man

The Humanistic View of Man

Author: Jaideep Singh
ISBN: 9789393384225
Format: Paperback
$36.93

"The Humanistic View of Man is a scientific study designed to achieve a deeper comprehension of human phenomena....  Read More >>

Cyborg

Cyborg

Author: Laura Forlano ,  Danya Glabau
ISBN: 9780262547550
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"""Using the non-human construct of the cyborg, this book address the problems inherent in difference and oppression,...  Read More >>

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future

Author: Kai-Fu Lee ,  Chen Qiufan
ISBN: 9780753559024
Format: Paperback
$29.99

"New York Times bestselling non-fiction author joins forces with a celebrated science-fiction novelist to blend...  Read More >>

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times

Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions...

Author: Erin McElroy
ISBN: 9781478025962
Format: Hardback
$277.07

Erin McElroy maps processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation in the San Francisco...  Read More >>

The global mindset: A roadmap to intercultural competence in business

The global mindset: A roadmap to intercultural competence...

Author: William E Hamilton
ISBN: 9798869246936
Format: Hardback
$92.27

Navigate the complexities of today's global business environment with this essential how to book on intercultural...  Read More >>

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Author: Richard Skiba
ISBN: 9798224065783
Format: Paperback
$54.78

In this era of technological advancement and sustainability, an in-depth exploration of lithium-ion batteries unfolds...  Read More >>

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