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Thinking AI

how artificial intelligence emulates human understanding

“Can machines think?” Ever since Alan Turing posed this question in an influential 1950 paper, it has been central to research in artificial intelligence. More than seventy-five years after Turing’s paper, we grapple with it every time we wonder if Watson was actually smarter ...

CLAVES PRÁCTICAS-Interrogatorio de testigos y peritos

Claves Prácticas Interrogatorio de testigos y peritos es una guía práctica dirigida a abogados litigantes que desean perfeccionar una de las habilidades más decisivas del proceso judicial: el interrogatorio de testigos y peritos. La obra ofrece una metodología estructurada que integra la teoría del caso ...

The criminal state

war, atrocity, and the dream of international justice

The Criminal State offers a gripping account of how law has confronted the most radical forms of state violence. Beautifully written, broad in scope, and bracingly original, it weaves history with political thought to trace the shifting legal response to state aggression and atrocities, from ...

Whiplash

from the battle for Obamacare to the war on science

For nearly a century, every Democratic president-and many Republicans-entered office promising to restructure America’s health care system. Barack Obama finally broke through but, in the process, opened a tumultuous decade in which battles over health care dominated American politics. David Blumenthal and James A ...

Making statistics work

information theory and Bayesian inference

Conventional “frequentist” methods that dominate the field of statistics are generally inconsistent and liable to catastrophic failure in some contexts. These weaknesses have become particularly concerning in relation to crises of replicability and credibility in science. Two alternatives have been proposed to address these flaws ...

Defending Taiwan

a strategy to prevent war with China

Taiwan is where the uneasy peace between the United States and China will be tested—and possibly broken. Beijing believes that "reunification" is inevitable. American military strength has preserved peace and stability for decades, but its advantages are eroding. Beijing has found critical gaps in ...

States without armies

why they exist and how they survive

One of the fundamental assumptions regarding the modern state is that it must have the capacity to defend itself from external enemies. Yet, there are twenty-one countries today-one ninth of the United Nations' membership-that do not maintain standing armies. What historical contexts, geographical endowments or ...

The American way of foreign policy

ideology, economics, democracy

What is distinctively American about American foreign policy? The American Way of Foreign Policy answers that question by identifying three features of the nation's relations with other countries and tracing their impact from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. First, from its beginnings the ...

Forbidden desire in early modern Europe

male-male sexual relations, 1400-1750

Until quite recently, the history of male-male sexual relations was a taboo topic. But when historians eventually explored the archives of Florence, Venice and elsewhere, they brought to light an extraordinary world of early modern sexual activity, extending from city streets and gardens to taverns ...

How to think more and better

being reasonable in unreasonable times

Even the most reasonable of us can be selective about when we think reasonably. We may realize that the best thing to do is to take the advice of our doctor when facing a medical issue. When shopping for a new car or appliance we ...

Principles of contractual interpretation

Written with the busy practitioner in mind, Principles of Contractual Interpretation offers a concise and authoritative guide to this complex area of commercial law. The authors distil the rules for constructing and interpreting contracts into ten core principles, each explored in its own chapter and ...

Markets of pain

opium, capitalism, and the global history of painkillers

For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium—how it was farmed, refined ...

La Hacienda de la Inquisición en Aragón

Libro Cabreo del Tribunal de Cuentas de Zaragoza (1485-1494)

El texto, que ahora se publica íntegro acompañado de un esclarecedor estudio preliminar, posee una relevancia historiográfica de primer orden, pues desplaza el análisis de la Inquisición aragonesa desde el terreno estrictamente jurisdiccional hacia el ámbito económico, contable y patrimonial, todavía insuficientemente explorado en la ...

El derecho penal ante la inteligencia artificial

problemas de imputación y propuesta de solución

Esta obra analiza los problemas de imputación penal que plantean los sistemas de Inteligencia Artificial (IA), entendidos a partir de su autonomía operativa. Examina las lagunas que su imprevisibilidad y falta de transparencia generan en la causalidad y en la atribución de culpa. Se descartan ...

Economía política del rentista

la teoría del valor y la ganancia de la escuela austriaca

Economía política del rentista (La teoría del valor y la ganancia de la escuela austriaca) es el primer libro de Nicolái Bujarin, uno de los principales teóricos del Partido Bolchevique. Escrito en la propia Viena en 1914, es la respuesta del revolucionario ruso a las ...

American law

an introduction

This book provides an accessible introduction to the American legal system and is a vital resource to anyone interested in understanding how this social system works. Its focus is on law in practice, the role of the law in American society, and how the social ...

Power and liberty

constitutionalism in the American Revolution

The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world ...

Truth about natural law

history, theory, consequences

Long sidelined in legal discourse, natural law is undergoing a major resurgence in the United States, with dozens of books and articles on the topic, and several sitting judges referring to it in judicial decisions or legal writings. Yet its century-long dormancy has left many ...

Humanitarianism

a very short introduction

Humanitarian crises are a central problem of modern history and contemporary international relations. According to United Nations estimates, 300 million people required humanitarian assistance and protection in 2024 alone, due to displacement, armed conflict, food insecurity, disasters, and the consequences of climate change. The international ...

Decision making

a very short introduction

We are constantly making decisions. from everyday choices like whether to carry an umbrella, to complex issues involving risk, strategy, and long-term planning. This Very Short Introduction explains how we make choices, exploring how we process information, learn from experience, and sometimes fail to make ...