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The SocialAtom: Why the Rich Get Richer, Cheaters Get Caught, and Your Neighbor Usually Looks Like You
Mark Buchanan Bloomsbury USA Bloomsbury USA
The idiosyncrasies of human decision-making have confounded economists and social theorists for years. If each person makes choices for personal (and often irrational) reasons, how can people’s choices be predicted by a single theory? How...
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Steven H. Strogatz Hyperion Hyperion
The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and...
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson Scribner Scribner
An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare...
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Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
John H. Miller, Scott E. Page Princeton University Press Princeton University Press
This book provides the first clear, comprehensive, and accessible account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. Such systems--whether political parties, stock markets, or ant colonies--present some of the...
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (Open Market Edition)
Duncan J. Watts W. W. Norton & Company W. W. Norton & Company
You may be only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but would he let you borrow his car? It depends on the structures within the network that links you. When the power goes out, when we find that a stranger knows someone we know, when dot-com...
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Ubiquity: Why Catastrophes Happen
Mark Buchanan Three Rivers Press Three Rivers Press
Why do catastrophes happen? What sets off earthquakes, for example? What about mass extinctions of species? The outbreak of major wars? Massive traffic jams that seem to appear out of nowhere? Why does the stock market periodically suffer dramatic...
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The Essence of Chaos (The Jessie and John Danz Lecture Series)
Edward N. Lorenz University of Washington Press University of Washington Press
This work provides an introductory view of the new science of chaos. Lorenz Presents Everyday Examples Of Chaotic Behaviour, Such As The Toss Of A coin, the pinball's path, the fall of a leaf, and explains in elementary Mathematical Terms How Their...
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Chaos: Making a New Science
James Gleick Penguin (Non-Classics) Penguin (Non-Classics)
The twentieth-anniversary edition of the million-copy-plus Bestseller THIS EDITION of James Gleick’s groundbreaking bestseller introduces to a whole new readership the story of one of the most significant waves of scientific knowledge in our...
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General System Theory: Foundations, Development, Applications
Ludwig Von Bertalanffy George Braziller George Braziller
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Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a C World
Brian Walker, David Salt Island Press Island Press
Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the...
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