LIBROS DEL AUTOR: william sims bainbridge

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  • The Sacred Force of Star Wars Jedi
    William Sims Bainbridge
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    27,45 €

  • Cultural Science
    William Sims Bainbridge
    This innovative book explores the new relationships connecting computer science, social science, and the humanities.In our time of great and uncertain change, business, government, and education must partner in many forms of technical and cultural convergence-for the benefit of both human welfare and economic recovery.This innovative book explores the new relationships connecti...
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    22,68 €

  • Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities
    William Sims Bainbridge
    This book deeply explores production-capable social media channels, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may generalize to the real-world distributed manufacturing of the near future. Distributed manufacturing offers the promise of bringing jobs back to local communities, producing goods that are per...
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    22,65 €

  • Computer Simulations of Space Societies
    William Sims Bainbridge
    At the intersection of astronautics, computer science, and social science, this book introduces the challenges and insights associated with computer simulation of human society in outer space, and of the dynamics of terrestrial enthusiasm for space exploration. Never before have so many dynamic representations of space-related social systems existed, some deeply analyzing the l...
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    160,77 €

  • Personality Capture and Emulation
    William Sims Bainbridge
    Personality Capture and Emulation is the gateway to an amazing future that actually may be achieved, enabling the preservation and simulation of human personalities at progressively higher levels of fidelity. This challenge is no longer the province merely of uninhibited visionaries, but has become a solid field of research, drawing upon a wide range of information technologies...
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    66,62 €

  • The Meaning and Value of Spaceflight
    William Sims Bainbridge
    This book presents the most serious and comprehensive study, by far, of American public perceptions about the meaning of space exploration, analyzing vast troves of questionnaire data collected by many researchers and polling firms over a span of six decades and anchored in influential social science theories. It doesn’t simply report the percentages who held various opinions, ...
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    134,16 €

  • The Virtual Future
    William Sims Bainbridge
    The newest communication technologies are profoundly changing the world’s politics, economies, and cultures, but the specific implications of online game worlds remain mysterious. The Virtual Future employs theories and methods from social science to explore nine very different virtual futures: The Matrix Online, Tabula Rasa, Anarchy Online, Entropia Universe, Star Trek Onlin...
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    134,28 €

  • eGods
    William Sims Bainbridge
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    48,32 €

  • Online Worlds
    William Sims Bainbridge
    William Sims Bainbridge Virtual worlds are persistent online computer-generated environments where people can interact, whether for work or play, in a manner comparable to the real world. The most prominent current example is World of Warcraft (Corneliussen and Rettberg 2008), a massively multiplayer online game with 11 million s- scribers. Some other...
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    136,39 €

  • Online Multiplayer Games
    William Sims Bainbridge
    This lecture introduces fundamental principles of online multiplayer games, primarily massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), suitable for students and faculty interested both in designing games and in doing research on them. The general focus is human-centered computing, which includes many human-computer interaction issues and emphasizes social computing, b...
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    39,77 €

  • God from the Machine
    William L. Bainbridge / William Sims Bainbridge
    A demonstration of how religion and religious belief can emerge using computer simulations ...
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    57,27 €

  • Religion, Deviance, and Social Control
    Rodney Stark / William Sims Bainbridge
    Does religion have the power to regulate human behavior? If so, under what conditions can it prevent crime, delinquency, suicide, alcoholism, drug abuse, or joining cults? Despite the fact that ordinary citizens assume religion deters deviant behavior, there has been little systematic scientific research on these crucial questions. This book is the first comprehensive analysis,...
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    107,18 €

  • The Sociology of Religious Movements
    William Sims Bainbridge
    Explaining how religion and society transform each other, this book explores such movements as Holiness, Adventism, religious communes, Satanism, New Age and democratization. The Sociology of Religious Movements is the culmination of work begun in The Future of Religion (the 1986 award winner of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion) and A Theory of Religion (1993 aw...
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    64,02 €