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Simplexity : = why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Simplexity :/ Jeffrey Kluger.
Reminder of title:	why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /
Author:	Kluger, Jeffrey.
Published:	New York :Hyperion, : ©2008.,
Description:	viii, 324 pages ;22 cm
Notes:	Includes index.
[NT 15003449]:	Why is the stock market so hard to predict? : confused by everyone else -- Why is it so hard to leave a burning building or an endangered city? : confused by instincts -- How does a single bullet start a world war? : confused by social structure -- Why do the jobs that require the greatest skills often pay the least? Why do companies with the least to sell often earn the most? : confused by payoffs -- Why do people, mice, and worlds die when they do? : confused by scale -- Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many? : confused by objective -- Why do we always worry about the wrong things? : confused by fear -- Why is a baby the best linguist in any room? : confused by silence -- Why are your cell phone and camera so absurdly complicated? : confused by flexibility -- Why are only 10 percent of the world's medical resources used to treat 90 percent of its ills? : confused by false targets -- Why does complexity science fall flat in the arts? : confused by loveliness.
Subject:	Science - Miscellanea. -
Online resource:	http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1307/2009281364-b.html
Online resource:	http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2009281364-d.html
ISBN:	9781401303013

Simplexity : = why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /
Kluger, Jeffrey.

Simplexity :why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /Jeffrey Kluger. - 1st ed. - New York :Hyperion,©2008. - viii, 324 pages ;22 cm

Includes index.

Why is the stock market so hard to predict? : confused by everyone else -- Why is it so hard to leave a burning building or an endangered city? : confused by instincts -- How does a single bullet start a world war? : confused by social structure -- Why do the jobs that require the greatest skills often pay the least? Why do companies with the least to sell often earn the most? : confused by payoffs -- Why do people, mice, and worlds die when they do? : confused by scale -- Why do bad teams win so many games and good teams lose so many? : confused by objective -- Why do we always worry about the wrong things? : confused by fear -- Why is a baby the best linguist in any room? : confused by silence -- Why are your cell phone and camera so absurdly complicated? : confused by flexibility -- Why are only 10 percent of the world's medical resources used to treat 90 percent of its ills? : confused by false targets -- Why does complexity science fall flat in the arts? : confused by loveliness.

Draws on cutting-edge theories to describe the basic workings of everyday objects and principles in accessible language, covering a wide variety of topics from cell phones and viruses to economics and parenting.

ISBN: 9781401303013

LCCN: 2009281364Subjects--Topical Terms:

530136
Science
--Miscellanea.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

3536823
Trivia and miscellanea.

LC Class. No.: Q173 / .K5738 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 501

Simplexity : = why simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /
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