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Lonely Planet

“Quien no ha visto Sevilla no ha visto maravilla”, y no por repetido deja de ser cierto. La ciudad envuelve y cautiva al visitante con una mezcla de belleza y sentimiento. Sus monumentos, como la imponente catedral gótica, epicentro de uno de los cascos antiguos ...

Estudiando la contrainsurgencia de Estados Unidos

manuales, mentalidades y uso de la antropología

A partir del estudio de manuales del Pentágono, el autor analiza las guerras de hoy, caracterizadas por el recurso a métodos guerreros "no convencionales" para desestabilizar, invadir y ocupar territorialmente países. Operaciones en las que se combate contra lo que el Pentágono define como "enemigos ...

Smooth Manifolds and Observables

This textbook demonstrates how differential calculus, smooth manifolds, and commutative algebra constitute a unified whole, despite having arisen at different times and under different circumstances. Motivating this synthesis is the mathematical formalization of the process of observation from classical physics. A broad audience will appreciate ...

Infrapolítica

instrucciones de uso

No todo en la vida es política, aunque la política la marque y en muchos casos la determine. La infrapolítica busca apreciar y poner en juego condiciones de existencia no reducibles al agotamiento político del mundo; atiende a movilizar una exterioridad sin la cual la ...

Acciones y procesos de infracción de derechos de propiedad industrial

La correcta y eficiente regulación de las acciones y del proceso de infracción de los derechos de propiedad industrial (patentes, marcas y diseños industriales) y más que ello su acertada interpretación y aplicación son piezas clave y profundamente interrelacionadas para la fortaleza de su respectivo ...

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics takes a broad perspective on the economy of a country or region; it studies economic changes in the aggregate, collecting data on production, unemployment, inflation, consumption, investment, trade, and other aspects of national and international economic life. Policymakers depend on macroeconomists' knowledge when making ...

AI ethics

Artificial intelligence powers Google's search engine, enables Facebook to target advertising, and allows Alexa and Siri to do their jobs. AI is also behind self-driving cars, predictive policing, and autonomous weapons that can kill without human intervention. These and other AI applications raise complex ...

Critical thinking

Critical thinking is regularly cited as an essential twenty-first century skill, the key to success in school and work. Given our propensity to believe fake news, draw incorrect conclusions, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, it might even be said that critical ...

Too smart

how digital capitalism is extracting data, controlling our lives, and taking over the world

Smart technology is everywhere: smart umbrellas that light up when rain is in the forecast; smart cars that relieve drivers of the drudgery of driving; smart toothbrushes that send your dental hygiene details to the cloud. Nothing is safe from smartification. In Too Smart, Jathan ...

Fake news

understanding media and misinformation in the digital age

What is fake news? Is it an item on Breitbart, an article in The Onion, an outright falsehood disseminated via Russian bot, or a catchphrase used by a politician to discredit a story he doesn't like? This book examines the real fake news: the ...

Hacker states

How hackers and hacking moved from being a target of the state to a key resource for the expression and deployment of state power. In this book, Luca Follis and Adam Fish examine the entanglements between hackers and the state, showing how hackers and hacking ...

Our moral fate

evolution and the escape from tribalism

Is tribalism—the political and cultural divisions between Us and Them—an inherent part of our basic moral psychology? Many scientists link tribalism and morality, arguing that the evolved “moral mind” is tribalistic. Any escape from tribalism, according to this thinking, would be partial and ...

The power of experiments

decision making in a data-driven World

How organizations—including Google, StubHub, Airbnb, and Facebook—learn from experiments in a data-driven world. Have you logged into Facebook recently? Searched for something on Google? Chosen a movie on Netflix? If so, you've probably been an unwitting participant in a variety of experiments ...

Leading in the digital world

how to foster creativity, collaboration, and inclusivity

Certain ideas about business leadership are held to be timeless, and certain characteristics of leaders—often including a square jaw, a deep voice, and extroversion—are said to be universal. In Leading in the Digital World, Amit Mukherjee argues that since digital technologies are changing ...

Mohammed ben Abd el-Krim el Jattaby el-Aydiri el-Urriagly

según documentos oficiales españoles 1915-1916

Coding democracy

how hackers are disrupting power, surveillance, and authoritarianism

Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism ...

America by the numbers

quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics

When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers, Emmanuel ...

The AI book

the artificial intelligence handbook for investors, entrepreneurs and finTech visionaries

Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech space, The AI Book aggregates diverse expertise into a single, informative volume and explains what artifical intelligence really means and how it can be used across financial services today. Key industry developments are explained in detail ...

The discourse of police interviews

Forensic linguistics, or the study of language and the law, is a growing field of scholarly and public interest with an established research presence. The Discourse of Police Interviews aims to further the discussion by analyzing how police interviews are constructed and used to investigate ...

El arsenal de Clío

el problema de la escritura de la historia en la cultura occidental, 1880-1990

¿Cómo debe escribirse la historia? Esta cuestión ha sido debatida desde los comienzos de la historiografía griega, que con la advocación de la musa Clío, subrayó su preocupación literaria. A partir del siglo XIX, la cientifización de los estudios históricos puso de relieve, más allá ...