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  • The Charisma Machine

    The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

    par Morgan G. Ames ...
    Collections series Infrastructures
    A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.In The Charisma Machine, Morgan Ames chronicles the life and legacy of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why—despite its failures—the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development.Announced in 2005 by MIT Media ... En savoir plus

    $36.79 CAD

  • Algorithmic Modernity

    Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000

    Modifié par Morgan G. Ames, Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Algorithms have been transforming human society long before the advent of computing. Yet they continue to exist in relative invisibility despite their presence behind many of our modern social interactions. The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever, and algorithms are often depicted as obvious and unproblematic—without context and without history. Algorithmic Modernity draws ... En savoir plus

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  • Philosophy of Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Samir Okasha ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully 'objective'? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science, and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these. Starting at the very ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Lady Tasting Tea

    How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

    par David Salsburg ...
    An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way.At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Complexity

    A Very Short Introduction

    par John H. Holland ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly influential over the last 30 years. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the leading figures in ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Information

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Luciano Floridi ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet. Some say we suffer from 'infoglut'. But what is information? The concept of 'information' is a profound one, rooted in mathematics, central to whole branches of science, yet with implications on every aspect of our everyday lives: DNA provides the information to ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Bernoulli's Fallacy

    Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science

    par Aubrey Clayton ...
    There is a logical flaw in the statistical methods used across experimental science. This fault is not a minor academic quibble: it underlies a reproducibility crisis now threatening entire disciplines. In an increasingly statistics-reliant society, this same deeply rooted error shapes decisions in medicine, law, and public policy with profound consequences. The foundation of the problem is a ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Philosophy of Pseudoscience

    Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

    Modifié par Massimo Pigliucci, Maarten Boudry ...
    "A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom

    par Stephen M. Stigler ...
    What gives statistics its unity as a science? Stephen Stigler sets forth the seven foundational ideas of statistics—a scientific discipline related to but distinct from mathematics and computer science.Even the most basic idea—aggregation, exemplified by averaging—is counterintuitive. It allows one to gain information by discarding information, namely, the individuality of the observations. ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Objectivity

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Stephen Gaukroger ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    - Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. An account is generally considered to be objective if it attempts to capture the nature ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

    Modifié par Mircea Pitici ...
    Collections series The Best Writing on Mathematics
    The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the worldThis anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don't need to be a mathematician to ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Guide to Methods for Students of Political Science

    par Stephen Van Evera ...
    Stephen Van Evera greeted new graduate students at MIT with a commonsense introduction to qualitative methods in the social sciences. His helpful hints, always warmly received, grew from a handful of memos to an underground classic primer. That primer evolved into a book of how-to information about graduate study, which is essential reading for graduate students and undergraduates in political ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD