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Existe una pregunta que se repite como una especie de mantra en todas las reuniones, juntadas, cumpleaños o en cualquier evento que congregue seres humanos que hablen de películas o series: ¿está en Netflix? Esta interrogación sucede automáticamente luego de que alguien cuente algo sobre alguna producción audiovisual que le gustó o está mirando, y del otro lado, está un espectador que acopla mentalmente su búsqueda o localización a una...
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The computing technology on which we are now so dependent has risen to its position of ascendency so rapidly that few of us have had the opportunity to take a step back and wonder where we are headed. This book urges us to do so.
Taking a big-picture perspective on digital technology, Living with Computers leads the reader on a whistle-stop tour of the history of information and information technology. This journey culminates in a deep exploration...
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Social media marketing is a term used to describe the process of boosting website traffic, or brand awareness, through the use of social media networking sites. In this third edition of the Internet Marketing Cheat Sheets series we take a look at Social Media Marketing and how to leverage this rapidly expanding medium to help promote and market your brand, products and website via social networking, and the impact it can have on your SEO and search...
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¿Qué es exactamente lo que los humanos siempre harán mejor que los robots?
Hay algo que la inteligencia artificial no puede conseguir: la capacidad humana para formular nuevas preguntas y analizarlas con otro marco de referencia.
Los marcos son modelos mentales del mundo que utilizamos para entender los problemas más difíciles y son la base de la creatividad, el pensamiento crítico y la innovación.
Ahora que la investigación en la inteligencia...
25) Physics of the future: how science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year 2100
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Uses interviews with numerous top scientists to offer a vision of the year 2100 and how the science of the day will shape society and the everyday lives of people.
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.
This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system,...
The jaw-dropping exposé on how America's fast food industry has shaped the landscape of America.
This fascinating study reveals how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world. Eric Schlosser inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our food system,...
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Only one generation in history (ours) will experience life both with and without the Internet. For everyone who follows us, online life will simply be the air they breathe. Today, we revel in ubiquitous information and constant connection, rarely stopping to consider the implications for our logged-on lives.
Michael Harris chronicles this massive shift, exploring what we've gained-and lost-in the bargain. In this eloquent and thought-provoking book,...
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This program highlights blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, social networking websites, and video sharing websites. It also shows how libraries across the country are using these technologies to reach out to new customers and improve their services. Helene Blowers, Director of Digital Services for Columbus Metropolitan Library, is interviewed in the program and she discusses why libraries need to become familiar with and use these new technologies....
30) Brand new you
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What do popular television makeover programs like What Not to Wear, The Biggest Loser, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, and The Swan tell us about how to look and feel? What do they tell us about what a good life looks like in contemporary America? This new film based on Katherine Sender's book The Makeover explores these questions against the backdrop of American ideals of self-invention and upward mobility. Asking what it means to be an authentic...
31) The hidden life of trees: what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
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Mysteries of nature trilogy volume 1
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Draws on up-to-date research and engaging forester stories to reveal how trees nurture each other and communicate, outlining the life cycles of "tree families" that support mutual growth, share nutrients, and contribute to a resilient ecosystem.
33) Them And Us
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Nice, reasonable people like us are "we," and strangers with weird beliefs are "they." This is how many of us see the world. But every "us" is somebody else's "them." Those who hold hidden assumptions or stereotypes consider them a recognition of reality, not a prejudice. A common reaction is "you might be prejudiced", but "I'm a realist". What is prejudice for "them" is merely a recognition of "the way things are" for "us". Them and Us explores common...
34) Milk
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Through an intimate and artistic lens, MILK brings a universal perspective on the politics, commercialization and controversies surrounding birth and infant feeding over the canvas of stunningly beautiful visuals and poignant voices from around the globe. Inspiring, informative, provocative and sensitive, MILK celebrates bringing a new life into this world with a strong call to action and reflection.
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Transplanted Canadian, New Yorker writer and author of "Paris to the Moon", Gopnik is publishing this major new work of narrative non-fiction alongside his 2011 Massey Lecture. An illuminating, beguiling tour of the morals and manners of our present food manias, in search of eating's deeper truths, asking "Where do we go from here?"
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In this year's CBC Massey Lectures, bestselling author Lawrence Hill offers a provocative examination of the scientific and social history of blood, and on the ways that it unites and divides us today. Blood pulses through religions, literature, and the visual arts, and every time it pools or spills, we learn a little more about what brings human beings together and what divides them. This is a fascinating historical and contemporary interpretation...
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Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
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"From the New York Times-bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Everything Bad Is Good for You, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas. In this illustrated volume, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their unintended historical consequences....
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A Chronology of Photography presents a fresh perspective on the medium by taking a purely chronological approach to its history, tracing the complex links between technological innovations, social changes, and artistic interventions. Structured around a central timeline that charts the development of photography from early experiments with optics right up to the present-day explosion of digital media, it features sumptuous reproductions of key photographs,...
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