紀錄類型: |
書目-語言資料,印刷品
: Monograph/item
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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. |
內容註: |
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. |
標題: |
Sociology. - |
電子資源: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2003064178.html |
電子資源: |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003064178.html |
ISBN: |
0374530416 |