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  • The New Atlantis
    Francis Bacon
    In this work, Bacon portrayed a vision of the future of human discovery and knowledge, expressing his aspirations and ideals for humankind. The novel depicts the creation of a utopian land where 'generosity and enlightenment, dignity and splendour, piety and public spirit' are the commonly held qualities of the inhabitants of 'Bensalem'. ...
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    18,12 €

  • Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas
    Aurora Cuevas-Cerveró / Brasilina Passarelli / Joseph Straubhaar
    The way we talk, work, learn, and think has been greatly shaped by modern technology. These lifestyle changes have made digital literacy the new written literacy, where those who are not able to use computers are unable to function and perform everyday tasks. The Handbook of Research on Comparative Approaches to the Digital Age Revolution in Europe and the Americas explores the...
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    426,47 €

  • Introduction to a Future Way of Thought
    Kostas Axelos / Kenneth Mills
    'Technologists only change the world in various ways in generalized indifference; the point is to think the world and interpret the changes in its unfathomability, to perceive and experience the difference binding being to the nothing.'Anticipating the age of planetary technology Kostas Axelos, a Greek-French philosopher, approaches the technological question in this book, firs...
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    18,58 €

  • Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures
    Abdelaal
    It is surprising to think that in today’s rapidly evolving world of technology, over half of the globe still does not have access to high speed internet. Creating community wireless networks has in the past been a way to provide remote communities with internet and network access. Social and Economic Effects of Community Wireless Networks and Infrastructures highlights the succ...
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    249,30 €

  • Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency
    Antonio Cartelli
    The 21st century has seen an expansion in digital technology and the ways in which it affects everyday life. These technologies have become essential in the growth of social communication and mass media. Fostering 21st Century Digital Literacy and Technical Competency offers the latest in research on the technological advances on computer proficiency in the educational system a...
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    229,67 €

  • Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy
    Juana-Espinosa Susana De
    Businesses worldwide are faced with major challenges related to the progressive (and many times unavoidable) incorporation of information technologies into their processes. Often, organizations don’t suitably react to the new requirements of these technologies, resulting in outdated policies, practices, and strategies. Human Resource Management in the Digital Economy: Creating ...
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    230,11 €

  • Mobile Technology Consumption
    Whether used for communication, entertainment, socio-economic growth, crowd-sourcing social and political events, monitoring vital signs in patients, helping to drive vehicles, or delivering education, mobile technology has been transformed from a mode to a medium. Mobile Technology Consumption: Opportunities and Challenges explores essential questions related to the cost, bene...
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    249,07 €

  • Libraries, Telecentres, Cybercafes and Public Access to ICT
    Ricardo Gomez
    Public venues are vital to information access across the globe, yet few formal studies exist of the complex ways people in developing countries use information technologies in public access places. Libraries, Telecentres, Cybercafes and Public Access to ICT: International Comparisons presents groundbreaking research on the new challenges and opportunities faced by public librar...
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    256,80 €

  • Interactive Media Use and Youth
    Modern advancements in technology have changed the way that young people use interactive media. Learning from such methods was not even considered until recently. It is now slowly defining the landscape of contemporary pedagogical practices. Interactive Media Use and Youth: Learning, Knowledge Exchange and Behavior provides a comprehensive collection of knowledge based on diffe...
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    236,22 €

  • Social Knowledge
    For the past two decades, executives have struggled to develop effective ways of sharing what their organizations know. Organizational leaders are now seeking ways to share knowledge with both internal and external stakeholders driven by concerns such as downsizing, the impending retirement of baby boomers, terrorism, and a host of other organizational challenges. Social Knowle...
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    236,35 €

  • Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation
    Dal Yong Jin
    New media and technology are firmly embedded in our contemporary society and culture. The application of the internet and mobile communications, including online gaming, has made a huge impact on political participation, business, education, and social relations. Global Media Convergence and Cultural Transformation: Emerging Social Patterns and Characteristics aims to engage th...
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    236,76 €

  • Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics
    Andrew Chasin
    Because of the constant advances and dynamics within the nascent field of nursing informatics, many nurses struggle in practice as they continue to try and apply habitual communication practices in the new environment without any critical reflection on, and adaptation of, those practices. Evidence-Based Practice in Nursing Informatics: Concepts and Applications serves as a valu...
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    321,14 €

  • Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality
    The emerging study of technology in space has been shaping human interaction with physical, social, and technological worlds. Drawing upon a wide range of information technology disciplines, this field is now grabbing the attention of many, including computer scientists, anthropologists, and psychologists craving for more on this intriguing new field. Exploration of Space, Tech...
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    255,68 €

  • Las especies humanas
    Manuel Hagopian
    Un recorrido accesible por la evolución humana que explica, con base científica, cómo surgieron el cuerpo, la mente y la cultura del ser humano. 10 ...
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    19,76 €

  • Neomania
    Krist Vaesen
    Contemporary science faces a profound poly-crisis: replication failures, weak theories, poor generalizability, and declining public trust. Neomania contends that these symptoms stem not merely from flawed practices or institutional pressures, but from a deeper cultural pathology-our collective obsession with innovation. This ’neomania’, the valorization of the new for its own s...
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    58,16 €

  • The End of Particle Age
    Sandeep Chavan
    For more than a century, modern physics has been built on particles, forces, and invisible constructs that explain less while contradicting more. Each new discovery has added layers of abstraction-virtual particles, wave-particle duality, dark matter, dark energy, singularities-turning clarity into complexity and coherence into patchwork.The End of Particle Age presents a decis...
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    37,77 €

  • The End of Free Will
    Danish Ali Bajwa
    Do you really choose your thoughts, desires, and decisions-or are they being shaped for you?In an age of algorithms, artificial intelligence, and endless digital stimulation, free will is no longer under attack by force-but by design. Every scroll, click, recommendation, and notification subtly rewires how humans think, feel, and decide. What feels like freedom may be the most ...
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    12,54 €

  • The End of Free Will
    Danish Ali Bajwa
    Do you really choose your thoughts, desires, and decisions-or are they being shaped for you?In an age of algorithms, artificial intelligence, and endless digital stimulation, free will is no longer under attack by force-but by design. Every scroll, click, recommendation, and notification subtly rewires how humans think, feel, and decide. What feels like freedom may be the most ...
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    15,41 €

  • The Science of Prayer
    Evelyn Hawthorne
    Prayer is often treated as either private devotion or public ritual. This book takes a third route: it treats prayer as a precision craft for directing attention, emotion, and meaning, then tests what that craft can and cannot do. Drawing on cognitive psychology, contemplative neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and careful readings of frontier research, it separates sturdy mecha...
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    23,19 €

  • Faith in Flux
    Michael A. North
    A machine can draft a sermon; a feed can catechise your desires; a headset can host a midnight vigil. If that unsettles you, good-this is the handbook for clarity and agency in a world where tools no longer merely serve belief but quietly reshape it. Here you will find a clear lens for understanding how technology and religion meet, from social media and faith to the dream of a...
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    29,35 €

  • Human 2.0
    Jaspreet Kaur
    Human 2.0: Reimagining HR in the Age of Transhumanism explores the transformative effects of transhumanist technologies, such as AI, biotechnology, and neuro-enhancements, on the field of human resources (HR). As technological advances blur the boundaries between human and machine, HR professionals find themselves at a pivotal juncture, where traditional workforce models must e...
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    149,51 €

  • Tapestry of Time
    Steph McKenzie
    You check your phone and realize three hours have vanished. You remember your childhood vividly, yet neuroscience says those memories are reconstructed fictions. You feel like you’re living in the present, but physics suggests the past and future are equally real. Time is the most intimate dimension of human existence-and the most mysterious.Tapestry of Time is a sweeping explo...
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    20,19 €

  • Soft Nomological Physical Science
    Philippos Afxentiou
    This book mounts a decisive assault on a 'holy element' of physical science: the construct of laws. Yet this is not a purely negative critique; it is driven by a constructive purpose, or telos. The investigation reveals a surprising result: evidence from the last few decades of scientific development shows that 'soft-law' science has gained significant ground. This trend valida...
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    7,80 €

  • Synkria
    Mithun Kamath
    What if the same scientific laws that shape stars, cells, and ecosystems also shape our choices, relationships, emotions, and everyday life?Synkria explores this by looking across disciplines - showing how the same forces that shape the universe also shape our lives, revealing pattern beneath chaos and structure beneath experience. This book enables personal transformation thro...
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    7,36 €

  • Futureproofing Humanity
    Robert M Geraci
    Asteroids and nuclear war, climate change and artificial intelligence...the universe is a dangerous place. In response to these and other 'existential risks,' 21st century futurists claim that only extraordinary investment in technology can save humanity from extinction. Thanks to advances in genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, urban design, and spaceflight, futurists...
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    17,10 €

  • Beautiful Complexity
    Jörg Klora
    Nous naviguons dans le monde à l’aide d’images mentales - de petits modèles qui nous aident à nous sentir chez nous dans une réalité complexe. Beautiful Complexity invite le lecteur à remarquer ces modèles, à en profiter et à les questionner avec douceur. À travers des récits personnels, des réflexions et des exemples clairs, le livre explore comment nos manières de comprendre ...
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    15,07 €

  • Beautiful Complexity
    Jörg Klora
    Nous naviguons dans le monde à l’aide d’images mentales - de petits modèles qui nous aident à nous sentir chez nous dans une réalité complexe. Beautiful Complexity invite le lecteur à remarquer ces modèles, à en profiter et à les questionner avec douceur. À travers des récits personnels, des réflexions et des exemples clairs, le livre explore comment nos manières de comprendre ...
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    31,47 €

  • Beautiful Complexity
    Jörg Klora
    Wir navigieren die Welt mithilfe mentaler Bilder - kleiner Modelle, die uns helfen, uns in einer komplexen Realität zurechtzufinden. Beautiful Complexity lädt die Leserinnen und Leser ein, diese Modelle wahrzunehmen, zu genießen und behutsam zu hinterfragen. Anhand persönlicher Geschichten, Reflexionen und klarer Beispiele zeigt das Buch, wie unsere Art des Verstehens prägt, wa...
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    31,46 €

  • Beautiful Complexity
    Jörg Klora
    Navegamos por el mundo a través de imágenes mentales - pequeños modelos que nos ayudan a sentirnos en casa en una realidad compleja. Beautiful Complexity invita al lector a observar esos modelos, a disfrutarlos y a cuestionarlos con suavidad. Mediante historias personales, reflexiones y ejemplos claros, el libro explora cómo nuestras formas de comprender moldean lo que vemos, l...
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    31,48 €

  • Beautiful Complexity
    Jörg Klora
    Wir navigieren die Welt mithilfe mentaler Bilder - kleiner Modelle, die uns helfen, uns in einer komplexen Realität zurechtzufinden. Beautiful Complexity lädt die Leserinnen und Leser ein, diese Modelle wahrzunehmen, zu genießen und behutsam zu hinterfragen. Anhand persönlicher Geschichten, Reflexionen und klarer Beispiele zeigt das Buch, wie unsere Art des Verstehens prägt, wa...
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    15,06 €