Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance, Paperback - Michael Adas

Reducere. Over the past five centuries, advances in Western understanding of and control over the material world have strongly influenced European responses ...

This book equips the reader to understand every important aspect of the dynamics of rotating machines. Will the vibration be large? What influences...

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Reducere. Ray Kurzweil is the inventor of the most innovative and compelling technology of our era, an international authority on artificial intelligence, an...

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Reducere. A scientist who has spent a career developing Artificial Intelligence takes a realistic look at the technological challenges and assesses the likel...

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Reducere. First published in 1959, "The Measure of a Man" is a collection of two influential sermons given by Martin Luther King, Jr. at the first National C...

Reducere. As lives offline and online merge ever more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cyberneti...

Reducere. An intimate insight into the life and work of Francis Bacon, written by Yves Peyre, a close friend of the artist.Illustrations: 130 colour

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): George DysonNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 33Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Rita AwardsRachel van Buren arrives in Gold Rush San Francisco with two wishes: to protect her younger siblings and to return east as soon as possi...

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Reducere. The islands frightened her with their uncivilized rawness. They looked like a place where anything could happen, a godforsaken outcrop at the end o...

Reducere. Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Edwards combines the well-known (Conan Doyle, Dorothy Sayers) with the obscure (former ac...

DescriptionAward-winning, bestselling author Michael Arditti's tenth novel that documents the history of homophobia and religion. God's vengeance o...

Reducere. Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precis...

Reducere. The idea of artificial intelligence--job-killing robots, self-driving cars, and self-managing organizations--captures the imagination, evoking a co...

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Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): J.A. JohnstoneNumber of pages: 512Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 122 x 178 x 41Cover type: Paperback ...

Understand critical principles of composites with this interdisciplinary text. Covering such topics as design of durable structures, choice of fibr...

The 2nd book in the fantasy duology from the internationally bestselling author. Part of Brooks's popular Shannara series. 5 centuries ago, a demon...

Reducere. The Future of War makes a brilliant case that the twenty-first century, even more than the twentieth, will be the American century, and that Americ...

Reducere. Why nonviolence mattersEloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil-rights leader contains the th...

Reducere. In the last thirty years, there have been fierce debates over how civilizations develop and why the West became so powerful. The Measure of Civiliz...

DescriptionA century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, teleph...

Reducere. The Heart of Dominance is a how-to guide to the concepts and skills at the heart of consensual dominance. If you are new to dominance, still figuri...

Reducere. In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and developments in the fields of statistics, computer science, and data analytics have opened ent...

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As the world becomes ever more dominated by technology, John Brockman’s latest addition to the acclaimed and bestselling “Edge Question Series” ask...

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In his classic work Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick asked his readers to imagine being permanently plugged into a 'machine that would give...

Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. His starting-point is that reality provides the data...

DescriptionThis volume brings together 19 original chapters, plus four substantive introductions, which collectively provide a unique examination o...

This book explores the ways that scientific and technological advances affect society - from politics to family life to ethics - and what we can do...