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Critical mass : = how one thing leads to another /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Critical mass :/ Philip Ball.
Reminder of title:	how one thing leads to another /
Author:	Ball, Philip,
Published:	New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux, : 2006.,
Description:	520 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	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.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol053/2003064178.html
Online resource:	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003064178.html
ISBN:	0374530416

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: 0374530416Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.

Dewey Class. No.: 301

Critical mass : = how one thing leads to another /
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