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Critical mass :how one thing leads to another /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Critical mass :Philip Ball.
其他題名:	how one thing leads to another /
作者:	Ball, Philip,
出版者:	New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2006.
面頁冊數:	520 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
標題:	Sociology.
ISBN:	9780374530419

Critical mass :how one thing leads to another /
Ball, Philip,1962-

Critical mass :how one thing leads to another /Philip Ball. - 1st American pbk. ed. - New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2006. - 520 p. :ill. ;21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-501) and index.

Introduction : political arithmetick -- Raising Leviathan : the brutish world of Thomas Hobbes -- Lesser forces : the mechanical philosophy of matter -- The law of large numbers : regularities from randomness -- The grand ah-whoom : why some things happen all at once -- On growth and form : the emergence of shape and organization -- The march of reason : chance and necessity in collective motion -- On the road : the inexorable dynamics of traffic -- Rhythms of the marketplace : the shaky hidden hand of economics -- Agents of fortune : why interaction matters to the economy -- Uncommon proportions : critical states and the power of the straight line -- The work of many hands : the growth of firms -- Join the club : alliances in business and politics -- Multitudes in the valley of decision : collective influence and social change -- The colonization of culture : globalization, diversity, and synthetic societies -- Small worlds : networks that bring us together -- Weaving the web : the shape of cyberspace -- Order in Eden : learning to cooperate -- Pavlov's victory : is reciprocity good for us? -- Toward Utopia? : heaven, hell, and social planning -- Epilogue: Curtain call.

ISBN: 9780374530419Subjects--Topical Terms:

176604
Sociology.

LC Class. No.: HM585 / B187 2006

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