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  • ENERGY USE IN BITCOIN MINING
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    ENERGY USE IN BITCOIN MINING
    BENJAMIN A. JONES / ANDREW L. GOODKIND / ROBERT P. BERRENS
    This book provides a unique introduction to Bitcoin mining’s energy use and environmental impacts. Bitcoin, the largest and most well-known cryptocurrency, has ignited the world of decentralized finance and digital currencies. However, Bitcoin has a major problem: it uses massive amounts of energy to produce or ‘mine’ the coins, and this energy use has tremendous environmental ...

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  • TRANSLATION AND THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    TRANSLATION AND THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    ANDREW BENJAMIN
    This engrossing study, first published in 1989, explores the basic mutuality between philosophy and translation. By studying the conceptions of translation in Plato, Seneca, Davidson, Walter Benjamin and Freud, Andrew Benjamin reveals the interplay between the two disciplines not only in their relationship to language, but also at a deeper, cognitive level. Benjamin engages thr...

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  • WALTER BENJAMIN'S PHILOSOPHY
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    WALTER BENJAMIN'S PHILOSOPHY
    ANDREW BENJAMIN
    This collection explores, in Adorno's description, `philosophy directed against philosophy'. The essays cover all aspects of Benjamin's writings, from his early work in the philosophy of art and language, through to the concept of history. The experience of time and the destruction of false continuity are identified as the key themes in Benjamin's understanding of history. ...

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  • JUDGING LYOTARD
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    JUDGING LYOTARD
    ANDREW BENJAMIN
    The work of Jean-Francois Lyotard signals the return of judgement to the centre of philosophical concerns. This collection of papers is the first devoted to his work and provides an estimation and critique of his writings, and included Lyotard's important essay on Sensus Communis. ...

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  • THE PLURAL EVENT
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    THE PLURAL EVENT
    ANDREW BENJAMIN
    Benjamin provides new and important readings of key canonical texts in the history of philosophy in his sustained philosophical reworking of ontology. Amongst texts included are Hegel's Difference Essay and the Shorter Logic and Heidegger's Time and Being and The Question of Being. The effective presence of ontology, defined as `an original difference', will be familiar to read...

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  • ART, MIMESIS AND THE AVANT-GARDE
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    ART, MIMESIS AND THE AVANT-GARDE
    ANDREW BENJAMIN
    This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis and the avant-garde come to be presented. A fundamental part of this book is the original inter...

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  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN NUTRITION
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    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMAN NUTRITION
    ALLEN, LINDSAY H / PRENTICE, ANDREW / CABALLERO, BENJAMIN
    The role of nutrition in improving quality of life and combating disease is undeniable — and researchers from different disciplines are bringing their perspectives to bear on this fundamental topic. The 4-volume Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, Third Edition, is a thorough revision of the previous award-winning version and reflects the scientific advances in the field of human ...

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  • GREAT AMERICAN LIVES
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    GREAT AMERICAN LIVES
    BENJAMIN FRANKLIN / ULYSSES S. GRANT / ANDREW CARNEGIE / HENRY ADAMS
    Brilliant, captivating, and unforgettable memoirs from four of the greatest minds in American history.   Penned between 1771 and 1790 and published after his death, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is one of the most acclaimed and widely read personal histories ever written. From his youth as a printer's assistant working for his brother's Boston newspaper through his own...

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  • PRESENT HOPE
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    PRESENT HOPE
    ANDREW BENJAMIN
    An understanding of what we mean by the present is one of the key issues in literature, philosophy, and culture today, but also one of the most neglected and misunderstood. Present Hope develops a fascinating philosophical understanding of the present, approaching this question via discussions of the nature of historical time, the philosophy of history, memory, and the role of ...

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