MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aHM585$b.B35 2004
049 $aXIMM
100 1 $aBall, Philip,$d1962-
245 10 $aCritical mass :$bhow one thing leads to another /$cPhilip Ball.
250 $a1st American ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,$c2004.
300 $a520 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [489]-501) and index.
505 0 $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.
650 0 $aSociology.
650 0 $aHuman behavior$xPhilosophy.
650 0 $aPhysics$xSocial aspects.
994 $aC0$bXIM