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  • Maiden Machines

    On Human Creatures and Artificial Creators

    Series Libro 26 - Cultural Memories
    Palomilla is a machine capable of responding to light impulses and reacting to its environment, invented by the father of cybernetics Norbert Wiener in the 1940s. Rachel is the unsuspecting replicant in Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner. Sophia is the most advanced robot being tested since 2015 by Hanson Robotics in Hong Kong.These are just some of the maiden machines featured in this extraordinary ... Leer más

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  • Transmissions of Memory

    Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture

    Series series
    Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian culture from World War II to the contemporary times, and the volume has in a gendered approach one of ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Venice Tales

    Series series City Tales
    Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to the modern and contemporary eras (Marinetti, Montale, Calvino, Scarpa and others). A dream-like city uniquely built on ... Leer más

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  • Italian futurism and the machine

    de Katia Pizzi ...
    This is the first interdisciplinary exploration of machine culture in Italian futurism after the First World War. The machine was a primary concern for the futuristi. As well as being a material tool in the factory it was a social and political agent, an aesthetic emblem, a metonymy of modernity and international circulation and a living symbol of past crafts and technologies. Exploring literature ... Leer más

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  • Rethinking Peripheral Modernisms

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to ... Leer más

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  • This Explains Everything

    150 Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works

    de John Brockman ...
    Series Libro 12 - Edge Question Series
    Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything will revolutionize your understanding of the world.What is your favorite deep, elegant, or beautiful explanation? This is the question John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org ("The world's smartest website"—The Guardian), posed to the world's most influential minds. Flowing from the horizons of physics, economics, psychology, ... Leer más

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  • Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking

    One of the world’s leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.Over a storied career, Daniel C. Dennett has engaged questions about science and the workings of the mind. His answers have combined rigorous argument with strong empirical grounding. And a lot of fun.Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking offers seventy-seven of Dennett ... Leer más

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  • The Golden Ratio

    The Story of PHI, the World's Most Astonishing Number

    de Mario Livio ...
    Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered by Euclid more than two thousand years ago ... Leer más

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  • The Stones of Florence

    de Mary McCarthy ...
    A journey through the glorious Italian city's scenery, history, and culture, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Venice Observed and The Group.Mary McCarthy's classic celebrates the Italian city often looked upon as the provincial sister to the better-dressed, more "feminine" Venice.To McCarthy, Florence, or Firenze, is a place of ageless enchantment, from the Duomo to the fortressed ... Leer más

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  • When Einstein Walked with Gödel

    Excursions to the Edge of Thought

    de Jim Holt ...
    From Jim Holt, the New York Times bestselling author of Why Does the World Exist?, comes an entertaining and accessible guide to the most profound scientific and mathematical ideas of recent centuries in When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought.**Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, ... Leer más

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci

    Unveiling the Renaissance Genius's Artistic Mastery and Scientific Innovations

    In "Leonardo Da Vinci," Maurice W. Brockwell delves into the intricate life and multifaceted genius of the Renaissance polymath. The book artfully weaves together biographical sketches, analyses of Da Vinci's seminal works, and reflections on his enduring influence in various fields including art, science, and engineering. Brockwell'Äôs prose is characterized by its clarity and elegance, making ... Leer más

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  • Sparks of Genius

    The 13 Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People

    Discover the cognitive tools that lead to creative thinking and problem-solving with this "well-written and easy-to-follow" guide ( Library Journal).Explore the "thinking tools" of extraordinary people, from Albert Einstein and Jane Goodall to Mozart and Virginia Woolf, and learn how you can practice the same imaginative skills to become your creative best. With engaging narratives and examples, ... Leer más

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