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000286674 1001_ $$aBall, Philip,$$d1962-
000286674 24510 $$aCritical mass :$$bhow one thing leads to another /$$cPhilip Ball.
000286674 250__ $$a1st American ed.
000286674 260__ $$aNew York :$$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$$c2004.
000286674 300__ $$a520 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000286674 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [489]-501) and index.
000286674 5050_ $$aIntroduction : 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.
000286674 650_0 $$aSociology.
000286674 650_0 $$aHuman behavior$$xPhilosophy.
000286674 650_0 $$aPhysics$$xSocial aspects.
000286674 85200 $$bgen$$hHM585$$i.B35$$i2004
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000286674 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol041/2003064178.html
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