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Steve GrandWorking mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systemscreatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this booka chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverickSteve Grand proposes an answer. From the composition of the brains and bodies of artificial life forms to the philosophical guidelines and computational frameworks that define them, Creation plumbs the practical, social, and ethical aspects and implications of the state of the art. But more than that, the book gives readers access to the insights Grand acquired in writing Creaturesinsights that yield a view of the world that is surprisingly antireductionist, antimaterialist, and (to a degree) antimechanistic, a view that sees matter, life, mind, and society as simply different levels of the same thing. Such a hierarchy, Grand suggests, can be mirrored by an equivalent one that exists inside a parallel universe called cyberspace.

Creative Responses to Environmental Crises and Aesthetics in Nordic Art and Literature gives a broad perspective on artistic responses to climate change and other environmental crises in the Nordic countries Showcasing examples of environmental literature visual art and entertainment from Sweden Norway Denmark Finland Iceland and the Faroe Islands the chapters of the volume reflect the complex interplay of the local regional and global in environmental art and activism Authored by established and notable scholars in the field of Nordic ecocriticism the volume highlights the complex and vital role art literature and other creative activities assume in times of crisis

Quieres disfrutar de un hogar en el que prime el bienestar de tus hij@s y de tus perros?Tamara Hernán, madre y educadora canina, ha desarrollado una metodología basada en la crianza multiespecie que te ofrece recursos practicos para acompañar al perro en cada etapa del desarrollo infantil, desde el embarazo hasta mas alla de los siete años.Aqui no encontraras un manual de obediencia ni pautas para enseñar o controlar comportamientos puntuales, sino un camino para sustentar el bienestar emocional y fisico de tu perro potenciando el equilibrio familiar. De esta forma lograras:? Reducir el estres de tu perro y de tu familia.? Mejorar la comunicacion entre perros y niñ@s.? Favorecer un vinculo basado en la autonomia y la confianza.? Garantizar una convivencia segura, tranquila y duradera.? Fomentar la coherencia educativa al aplicar los mismos principios de crianza a tu hijo y a tu perro.Haz que en tu familia multiespecie todos se sientan bien.? ?

Esta segunda edición del libro Crecimiento y Desarrollo de las Especies Frutales es una ampliación de la primera, en la que se ha incluido informaciónque pretende ayudas a la correcta elección de variedades en funcion de su adaptabilidad al medio fisico de diferentes zonas productoras. Se recogen datos novedosos de diversos investigadores y experimentadores en arboricultura frutal, y del propio autor, asi como de viveristas que operan en España.

Environmental degradation in the Aral Sea basin has been a touchstone for increasing public awareness of environmental issues. The Aral crisis has been touted as a quiet Chernobyl and as one of the worst human-made environmental catastrophes of the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary book is the first to comprehensively describe the slow onset of low grade but incremental changes (i.e., creeping environmental change) which affected the region and its peoples. Through a set of case studies, it describes how the regions decision-makers allowed these changes to grow into an environmental and societal nightmare. It outlines many lessons to be learned for other areas undergoing detrimental creeping environmental change, and provides an important example of how to approach such disasters for students and researchers of environmental studies, global change, political science and history.