Do Democracies Win Their Wars? - - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Do Democracies Win Their Wars? - - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk - vi har over 400.000 produkter på webshoppen. Fri fragt og fremragende score på TP

Atari Age - Michael Z. (professor Newman - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Atari Age - Michael Z. (professor Newman - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk - vi har over 400.000 produkter på webshoppen. Fri fragt og fremragende score på TP

The Things We Do - Gary A. Cziko - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Things We Do - Gary A. Cziko - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk - vi har over 400.000 produkter på webshoppen. Fri fragt og fremragende score på TP

True Enough - Catherine Z. (professor Of The Philosophy Of Education Elgin - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

True Enough - Catherine Z. (professor Of The Philosophy Of Education Elgin - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk - vi har over 400.000 produkter på webshoppen. Fri fragt og fremragende score på TP

What Computers Still Can't Do - Hubert L. (professor Of Philosophy Dreyfus - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What Computers Still Can't Do - Hubert L. (professor Of Philosophy Dreyfus - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk - vi har over 400.000 produkter på webshoppen. Fri fragt og fremragende score på TP

Epistemic Ecology - Catherine Z. Elgin - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Somebody Should Do Something - Michael Brownstein - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.

Atari Age - Michael Z. (associate Professor Newman - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over pinball and television (but possibly harmful)

Off-Earth - Erika Nesvold - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Can we do better in space than we ve done here on Earth?

Understanding Beliefs - Nils J. (kumagai Professor Of Engineering (emeritus) Nilsson - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them.

Ending Epidemics - Richard Conniff - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How scientists saved humanity from the deadliest infectious diseases and what we can do to prepare ourselves for future epidemics.

Coming Clean - Eric Heinze - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

What has gone wrong with the left and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds.

The Promise of Access - Daniel Greene - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better. Why do we keep trying to solve poverty with technology? What makes us feel that we need to learn to code--or else? In The Promise of Access , Daniel Greene argues that the problem of poverty became a problem of technology in order to manage the contradictions of a changing economy. Greene shows how the digital divide emerged as a policy problem and why simple technological solutions to complex social issues continue to appeal to politicians and professionals who should (and often do) know better.

Visual Culture - Alexis L. Boylan - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How to think about what it means to look and see: a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture. The visual surrounds us, some of it invited, most of it not. In this visual environment, everything we see—color, the moon, a skyscraper, a stop sign, a political poster, rising sea levels, a photograph of Kim Kardashian West—somehow becomes legible, normalized, accessible. How does this happen? How do we live and move in our visual environments? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a guide for navigating the complexities of visual culture, outlining strategies for thinking about what it means to look and see—and what is at stake in doing so. Visual culture has always been inscribed by the dominant and by domination. This book suggests how we might weaponize the visual for positive, unifying change. Drawing on both historical and contemporary examples—from Judy Chicago''s The Dinner Party and Beyoncé and Jay-Z at the Louvre to the first images of a black hole—Alexis Boylan considers how we engage with and are manipulated by what we see. She begins with what : what is visual culture, and what questions, ideas, and quandaries animate our approach to the visual? She continues with where : where are we allowed to see it, and where do we stand when we look? Then, who : whose bodies have been present or absent from visual culture, and who is allowed to see it? And, finally, when : is the visual detached from time? When do we see what we need to see?

Features of Person - Peter (university Of Edinburgh) Ackema - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A proposal that person features do not have inherent content but are used to navigate a "person space" at the heart of every pronominal expression.

The Myth That Made Us - Jeff Fuhrer - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How our false narratives about post-racism and meritocracy have been used to condone egregious economic outcomes and what we can do to fix the system.

Phenology - Theresa M. Crimmins - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

On the timing of seasonal activity in plants and animals, the impact of climate change, and what each of us, as everyday phenologists, can do to help.

Governing Babel - John P. Wihbey - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Why social media platforms have a responsibility to look after their platforms, how they can achieve the transparency needed, and what they should do when harms arise.

Causal Inference - Paul R. Rosenbaum - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A nontechnical guide to the basic ideas of modern causal inference, with illustrations from health, the economy, and public policy. Which of two antiviral drugs does the most to save people infected with Ebola virus? Does a daily glass of wine prolong or shorten life? Does winning the lottery make you more or less likely to go bankrupt? How do you identify genes that cause disease? Do unions raise wages? Do some antibiotics have lethal side effects? Does the Earned Income Tax Credit help people enter the workforce? Causal Inference provides a brief and nontechnical introduction to randomized experiments, propensity scores, natural experiments, instrumental variables, sensitivity analysis, and quasi-experimental devices. Ideas are illustrated with examples from medicine, epidemiology, economics and business, the social sciences, and public policy.

Rethinking Gender - Louie Lauger - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A lively, informative, and engaging guide to gender by an author-illustrator who helps readers understand the multiplicity of answers to “What even is gender?” Queer, cisgender, transgender, nonbinary, androgynous, maverique, intergender, genderfluid. Louie and their cat (a.k.a. “Cat”) take you on a journey through the world of gender—without claiming to have it all figured out or knowing the perfect definition for this widely complex subject. Gender is tricky to understand because it’s a social construct intersecting with many other parts of our identity, including class, race, age, religion. For a long time, people thought of gender as binary: male/female, pirate/princess, sports/shopping. Now, we’re starting to understand it’s not that simple. That’s what this book is about: figuring out what gender means, one human being at a time, and giving us new ways to let the world know who we are.Boy, girl, either/or, neither/nor, everything in between: gender is a spectrum, and it’s hard to know where you fit, especially when your position isn’t necessarily fixed—and the spectrum keeps expanding. That’s where Rethinking Gender can help: it gives you a toolbox for empathy, understanding, and self-exploration. Louie’s journey includes a deep dive into the historical context of LGBTQIA+ rights activism and the evolution of gender discourse, politics, and laws—but it also explores these ideas through the diversity of expressions and experiences of people today.In Rethinking Gender Louie offers a real-world take on what it means to be yourself, see yourself, and see someone else for who they are, too. Questions explored in Rethinking Gender include: What is cisgender? Dysphoria? Non-binary? Intersex? Intersectionality? Are sex and gender biological? Cultural? Social? Personal? What do race, religion, age, and education have to do with it? How do we recognize stereotypes, and what can we do about them? Do physical characteristics determine sex, and, if not, what does? How common is it not to fit in the box checked M or F? When is surgery or medical intervention called for, and who gets to decide? How have ideas about gender changed over time? What is gender identity, how do we know ours, and how do we talk to someone whose gender is different from our own?

Too Much Information - Cass R. Sunstein - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

How information can make us happy or miserable, and why we sometimes avoid it and sometimes seek it out. How much information is too much? Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of popcorn that we bought on our way into the movie theater? Do we want to know if we are genetically predisposed to a certain disease? Can we do anything useful with next week''s weather forecast for Paris if we are not in Paris? In Too Much Information , Cass Sunstein examines the effects of information on our lives. Policymakers emphasize “the right to know,” but Sunstein takes a different perspective, arguing that the focus should be on human well-being and what information contributes to it. Government should require companies, employers, hospitals, and others to disclose information not because of a general “right to know” but when the information in question would significantly improve people''s lives. Sunstein argues that the information on warnings and mandatory labels is often confusing or irrelevant, yielding no benefit. He finds that people avoid information if they think it will make them sad (and seek information they think will make them happy). Our information avoidance and information seeking is notably heterogeneous—some of us do want to know the popcorn calorie count, others do not. Of course, says Sunstein, we are better off with stop signs, warnings on prescriptions drugs, and reminders about payment due dates. But sometimes less is more. What we need is more clarity about what information is actually doing or achieving.

Make it Clear - Patrick Henry Winston - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The essentials of communication for professionals, educators, students, and entrepreneurs, from organizing your thoughts to inspiring your audience. Do you give presentations at meetings? Do you ever have to explain a complicated subject to audiences unfamiliar with your field? Do you make pitches for ideas or products? Do you want to interest a lecture hall of restless students in subjects that you find fascinating? Then you need this book. Make It Clear explains how to communicate—how to speak and write to get your ideas across. Written by an MIT professor who taught his students these techniques for more than forty years, the book starts with the basics—finding your voice, organizing your ideas, making sure what you say is remembered, and receiving critiques (“do not ask for brutal honesty”)—and goes on to cover such specifics as preparing slides, writing and rewriting, and even choosing a type family. The book explains why you should start with an empowerment promise and conclude by noting you delivered on that promise. It describes how a well-crafted, explicitly identified slogan, symbol, salient idea, surprise, and story combine to make you and your work memorable. The book lays out the VSN-C (Vision, Steps, News–Contributions) framework as an organizing structure and then describes how to create organize your ideas with a “broken–glass” outline, how to write to be understood, how to inspire, how to defeat writer''s block—and much more. Learning how to speak and write well will empower you and make you smarter. Effective communication can be life-changing—making use of just one principle in this book can get you the job, make the sale, convince your boss, inspire a student, or even start a revolution.

Linguistics for the Age of AI - Sergei Nirenburg - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems. One of the original goals of artificial intelligence research was to endow intelligent agents with human-level natural language capabilities. Recent AI research, however, has focused on applying statistical and machine learning approaches to big data rather than attempting to model what people do and how they do it. In this book, Marjorie McShane and Sergei Nirenburg return to the original goal of recreating human-level intelligence in a machine. They present a human-inspired, linguistically sophisticated model of language understanding for intelligent agent systems that emphasizes meaning--the deep, context-sensitive meaning that a person derives from spoken or written language.

Playing at a Distance - Sonia Fizek - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

An essential exploration of video game aesthetic that decenters the human player and challenges what it means to play. Do we play video games or do video games play us? Is nonhuman play a mere paradox or the future of gaming? And what do video games have to do with quantum theory? In Playing at a Distance , Sonia Fizek engages with these and many more daunting questions, forging new ways to think and talk about games and play that decenter the human player and explore a variety of play formats and practices that require surprisingly little human action. Idling in clicker games, wandering in walking simulators, automating gameplay with bots, or simply watching games rather than playing them—Fizek shows how these seemingly marginal cases are central to understanding how we play in the digital age. Introducing the concept of distance, Fizek reorients our view of computer-mediated play. To “play at a distance,” she says, is to delegate the immediate action to the machine and to become participants in an algorithmic spectacle. Distance as a media aesthetic framework enables the reader to come to terms with the ambiguity and aesthetic diversity of play. Drawing on concepts from philosophy, media theory, and posthumanism, as well as cultural and film studies, Playing at a Distance invites a wider understanding of what digital games and gaming are in all their diverse experiences and forms. In challenging the common perception of video games as inherently interactive, the book contributes to our understanding of the computer’s influence on practices of play—and prods us to think more broadly about what it means to play.

Too Much Information - Cass R. Sunstein - Bog - MIT Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The New York Times –bestselling co-author of Nudge explores how more information can make us happy or miserable—and why we sometimes avoid it but sometimes seek it out. How much information is too much? Do we need to know how many calories are in the giant vat of popcorn that we bought on our way into the movie theater? Do we want to know if we are genetically predisposed to a certain disease? Can we do anything useful with next week''s weather forecast for Paris if we are not in Paris? In Too Much Information , Cass Sunstein examines the effects of information on our lives. Policymakers emphasize “the right to know,” but Sunstein takes a different perspective, arguing that the focus should be on human well-being and what information contributes to it. Government should require companies, employers, hospitals, and others to disclose information not because of a general “right to know” but when the information in question would significantly improve people''s lives. Of course, says Sunstein, we are better off with stop signs, warnings on prescription drugs, and reminders about payment due dates. But sometimes less is more. What we need is more clarity about what information is actually doing or achieving.