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Adaptation in Natural and Artificial Systems: An Introductory Analysis With Applications to Biology, Control, and Artificial Intelligenceby John H. HollandISBN 0262581116 (0-262-58111-6)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biologyby Steven LevyISBN 0679743898 (0-679-74389-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology'Book summary:This enthralling book alerts us to nothing less than the existence of new varieties of life. Some of these species can move and eat, see, reproduce, and die. Some behave like birds or ants. One such life form may turn out to be our best weapon in the war against AIDS.
What these species have in common is that they exist inside computers, their DNA is digital, and they have come into being not through God's agency but through the efforts of a generation of scientists who seek to create life in silico.
But even as it introduces us to these brilliant heretics and unravels the intricacies of their work. Artificial Life examines its subject's dizzying philosophical implications: Is a self-replicating computer program any less alive than a flu virus? Are carbon-and-water-based entities merely part of the continuum of living things? And is it possible that one day "a-life" will look back at human beings and dismiss us as an evolutionary way station -- or, worse still, a dead end? [via]More editions of Artificial Life: A Report from the Frontier Where Computers Meet Biology:
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Artificial Life: How Computers Are Transforming Our Understanding of Evolution and the Future of Lifeby Steven LevyISBN 067940774X (0-679-40774-X)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Artificial Life: How Computers Are Transforming Our Understanding of Evolution and the Future of Life'Book summary:An account of the radical new science that is bringing together chemists, computer scientists, microbiologists, and evolutionary theorists in the quest for Artificial Life. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. [via]
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At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexityby Stuart KauffmanISBN 0195111303 (0-19-511130-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity'Book summary:The best treatment I have yet encountered about how order emerges naturally -- and possibly even necessarily -- out of chaos. Profoundly important, and considerably more informed than better-known pop-science treatments of chaos theory. Very highly recommended. [via]
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Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychologyby Daniel DennettISBN 0897060024 (0-89706-002-4)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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Chaosby James GleickISBN 0670811785 (0-670-81178-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaos'Book summary:Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos, he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterize many natural phenomena.
This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
As for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors, and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs, and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose. [via]
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The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex Worldby Ian Stewart, Jack CohenISBN 0670849839 (0-670-84983-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex Worldby Jack Cohen, Ian StewartISBN 0140178740 (0-14-017874-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Collapse of Chaos: Discovering Simplicity in a Complex World'Book summary:Moving on from his books on chaos ("Does God Play Dice?") and symmetry ("Fearful Symmetry"), the author of this book deals with the wider field of complexity theory. The book tackles the question of how complexity arises in nature, of how life overcomes chaos and entropy to create developing order. Co-written with biologist Jack Cohen, the book will range across the central areas of modern science, from quantum mechanics and cosmology to evolution and intelligence, looking at the central questions of order, chaos, reductionism and complexity. [via]
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Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaosby Roger LewinISBN 0226476553 (0-226-47655-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos'Book summary:"Put together one of the world's best science writers with one of the universe's most fascinating subjects and you are bound to produce a wonderful book. . . . The subject of complexity is vital and controversial. This book is important and beautifully done."Stephen Jay Gould[via]
"[Complexity] is that curious mix of complication and organization that we find throughout the natural and human worlds: the workings of a cell, the structure of the brain, the behavior of the stock market, the shifts of political power. . . . It is time science . . . thinks about meaning as well as counting information. . . . This is the core of the complexity manifesto. Read it, think about it . . . but don't ignore it."Ian Stewart, Nature
This second edition has been brought up to date with an essay entitled "On the Edge in the Business World" and an interview with John Holland, author of Emergence: From Chaos to Order.More editions of Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos:
- Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos: ISBN 0226476545 (0-226-47654-5)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos: ISBN 0020147953 (0-02-014795-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster - Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos: ISBN 0025704850 (0-02-570485-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster - Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos: ISBN 0226476553 (0-226-47655-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Complexity: Metaphors, Models, and Realityby David Pines, David Meltzer, G. A. CowanISBN 0738202320 (0-7382-0232-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaosby M. Mitchell WaldropISBN 0671872346 (0-671-87234-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos'Book summary:Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? At first glance these questions don't appear to have anything in common, but in fact every one of these statements refers to a complex system. The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a species or a stock, spontaneously organize into complicated structures like ecosystems and economies; stars become galaxies, and snowflakes avalanches almost as if these systems were obeying a hidden yearning for order.
Drawing from diverse fields, scientific luminaries such as Nobel Laureates Murray Gell-Mann and Kenneth Arrow are studying complexity at a think tank called The Santa Fe Institute. The revolutionary new discoveries researchers have made there could change the face of every science from biology to cosmology to economics. M. Mitchell Waldrop's groundbreaking bestseller takes readers into the hearts and minds of these scientists to tell the story behind this scientific revolution as it unfolds. [via]
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Creation: Life and How to Make Itby Steve GrandISBN 0674011139 (0-674-01113-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creation: Life and How to Make It'Book summary:Though its title brings to mind the hubris of Frankenstein, Steve Grand's Creation: Life and How to Make It is just humble enough to keep its readers hooked. Best known as the developer of the Creatures series of artificial-life software, Grand has quite a following among devotees of playful complexity.
The book ranges from deep ruminations on the nature of life and mind (artificial and biological) to fairly concrete advice for future creators, and his writing is just as elegant and compelling as his software. Sometimes his cleverness gets the best of him, but for the most part, his wordplay is used to serve his ideas, which are thought-provoking even for readers who have no intention of creating life.
Many will be surprised at the strength of Grand's antireductionism, but he makes his case vigorously and may win a few converts to the emergent-phenomena camp. Creation is essential reading for those of us who want to think through the consequences of our actions before we imitate Frankenstein's mistake. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Anotherby Philip BallISBN 0374530416 (0-374-53041-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another'Book summary:Are there any "laws of nature" that influence the ways in which humans behave and organize themselves? In the seventeenth century, tired of the civil war ravaging England, Thomas Hobbes decided that he would work out what kind of government was needed for a stable society. His approach was based not on utopian wishful thinking but rather on Galileo's mechanics to construct a theory of government from first principles. His solution is unappealing to today's society, yet Hobbes had sparked a new way of thinking about human behavior in looking for the "scientific" rules of society.[via]
Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Auguste Comte, and John Stuart Mill pursued this idea from different political perspectives. Little by little, however, social and political philosophy abandoned a "scientific" approach. Today, physics is enjoying a revival in the social, political and economic sciences. Ball shows how much we can understand of human behavior when we cease to try to predict and analyze the behavior of individuals and instead look to the impact of individual decisions-whether in circumstances of cooperation or conflict-can have on our laws, institutions and customs.
Lively and compelling, Critical Mass is the first book to bring these new ideas together and to show how they fit within the broader historical context of a rational search for better ways to live.More editions of Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another:
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The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind/Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MacKayISBN 0934380236 (0-934380-23-6)
Softcover, Traders Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind/Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'Book summary:There are two classic texts that deal with crowd psychology and the irrational behavior that characterizes large groups of people acting en masse. They are The Crowd, and Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness Crowds. Both books provide lucid and witty insights into the madness of crowd psychology, such as the tulipmania in Holland, when the price of tulip bulbs was up to astronomical heights. Both of these books are combined into a single volume for the price of one! [via]
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Lifeby Daniel DennettISBN 068482471X (0-684-82471-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Decoherence and the Appearance of a Classical World in Quantum Theoryby D. Giulini, I.-O Stamatescu, C. Kiefer, H. D. Zeh, E. Joos, J. KupschISBN 3540613943 (3-540-61394-3)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Digital Biology : How Nature Is Transforming Our Technology and Our Livesby Peter J. BentleyISBN 0743204476 (0-7432-0447-6)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Downward Causation: Minds, Bodies and Matterby Peter Bøgh Andersen, Claus Emmeche, Niels Ole Finnemann, Peder Voetmann ChristiansenISBN 8772888148 (87-7288-814-8)
Hardcover, Aarhus Universitetsforlag
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Emergence: From Chaos to Orderby John Henry HollandISBN 0738201421 (0-7382-0142-1)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergence: From Chaos to Order'Book summary:"Emergence" is the notion that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. John Holland, a MacArthur Fellow known as the "father of genetic algorithms," says this seemingly simple notion will be at the heart of the development of machines that can think for themselves. And while he claims that he'd rather do science than write about it, this is his second scientific philosophy book intended to increase public understanding of difficult concepts (his first was Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity). One of the questions that Holland says emergence theory can help answer is: can we build systems from which more comes out than was put in? Think of the food replicators in the imaginary future of Star Trek--with some basic chemical building blocks and simple rules, those machines can produce everything from Klingon delicacies to Earl Grey tea. If scientists can understand and apply the knowledge they gather from studying emergent systems, we may soon witness the development of artificial intelligence, nanotech, biological machines, and other creations heretofore confined to science fiction. Using games, molecules, maps, and scientific theories as examples, Holland outlines how emergence works, emphasizing the interrelationships of simple rules and parts in generating a complex whole. Because of the theoretical depth, this book probably won't appeal to the casual reader of popular science, but those interested in delving a little deeper into the future of science and engineering will be fascinated. Holland's writing, while sometimes self-consciously precise, is clear, and he links his theoretical arguments to examples in the real world whenever possible. Emergence offers insight not just to scientific advancement, but across many areas of human endeavor--business, the arts, even the evolution of society and the generation of new ideas. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Softwareby Steven JohnsonISBN 0684868768 (0-684-86876-8)
Softcover, Scribner
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software'Book summary:An individual ant, like an individual neuron, is just about as dumb as can be. Connect enough of them together properly, though, and you get spontaneous intelligence. Web pundit Steven Johnson explains what we know about this phenomenon with a rare lucidity in Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Starting with the weird behavior of the semi-colonial organisms we call slime molds, Johnson details the development of increasingly complex and familiar behavior among simple components: cells, insects, and software developers all find their place in greater schemes.
Most game players, alas, live on something close to day-trader time, at least when they're in the middle of a game--thinking more about their next move than their next meal, and usually blissfully oblivious to the ten- or twenty-year trajectory of software development. No one wants to play with a toy that's going to be fun after a few decades of tinkering--the toys have to be engaging now, or kids will find other toys.
Johnson has a knack for explaining complicated and counterintuitive ideas cleverly without stealing the scene. Though we're far from fully understanding how complex behavior manifests from simple units and rules, our awareness that such emergence is possible is guiding research across disciplines. Readers unfamiliar with the sciences of complexity will find Emergence an excellent starting point, while those who were chaotic before it was cool will appreciate its updates and wider scope. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Emergent Actors in World Politics: How States and Nations Develop and Dissolveby Lars-Erik CedermanISBN 0691021481 (0-691-02148-1)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowdsby Charles MackayISBN 1573928917 (1-57392-891-7)
Softcover, Prometheus Books, Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds'Book summary:Why do otherwise intelligent individuals form seething masses of idiocy when they engage in collective action? Why do financially sensible people jump lemming-like into hare-brained speculative frenzies--only to jump broker-like out of windows when their fantasies dissolve? We may think that the Great Crash of 1929, junk bonds of the '80s, and over-valued high-tech stocks of the '90s are peculiarly 20th century aberrations, but Mackay's classic--first published in 1841--shows that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds. These are extraordinarily illuminating,and, unfortunately, entertaining tales of chicanery, greed and naivete. Essential reading for any student of human nature or the transmission of ideas.
In fact, cases such as Tulipomania in 1624--when Tulip bulbs traded at a higher price than gold--suggest the existence of what I would dub "Mackay's Law of Mass Action:" when it comes to the effect of social behavior on the intelligence of individuals, 1+1 is often less than 2, and sometimes considerably less than 0. [via]
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Softcover, Templeton Foundation Pr - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: ISBN 1897597320 (1-897597-32-0)
Softcover, Harriman House Publishing - Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds: ISBN 1586635581 (1-58663-558-1)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds: ISBN 0899665160 (0-89966-516-0)
Hardcover, Buccaneer Books - Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds: ISBN 093440500X (0-934405-00-X)
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- Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds: ISBN 1853263494 (1-85326-349-4)
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The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Lifeby P. C. W. DaviesISBN 068486309X (0-684-86309-X)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life'Book summary:How did life begin? Did it start here, by blind chance or by necessity, or was Earth seeded by extraterrestrial visitors? (And, if so, how did they arise?) Physicist and science writer Paul Davies tackles these heavy questions and more in The Fifth Miracle: The Search for the Origin and Meaning of Life, a wide-ranging survey of the field of biogenesis. From the "Martian meteorite" ALH84001 to the hardy microorganisms living on--and under!--our sea beds, Davies looks for evidence pointing toward our first ancestor. His willingness to consider any possibility makes for a fun, fascinating journey through our solar system and beyond.
The Fifth Miracle provides convincing arguments that life flourishes, and may indeed have begun, deep within the earth's crust, and not in Darwin's "warm little pond." And if in our planet's crust, why not in others'? Indeed, he shows that it is not just possible but likely that living organisms have passed between Earth and Mars embedded within meteorites. Davies's command of the data and his facility with explaining it to nonprofessionals give the lie to his self-description as "a simple-minded physicist" intruding in another's domain. The best scientists hate to see questions finally answered and love to see new ones raised; by that standard (and by any other), The Fifth Miracle is a first-rate book of scientific speculation. --Rob Lightner [via]
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From Cells to Societies: Models of Complex Coherent Actionby A.S. Mikhailov, Vera CalenbuhrISBN 3540421645 (3-540-42164-5)
Hardcover, Springer Verlag
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Genesis of the Cosmos: The Ancient Science of Continuous Creationby Paul A. LavioletteISBN 1591430348 (1-59143-034-8)
Softcover, Bear & Co
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The Glass Bead Gameby Hermann HesseISBN 084466524X (0-8446-6524-X)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Glass Bead Game'Book summary:The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the authors last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells of an elite cult of intellectuals who play an elaborate game that uses all the cultural and scientific knowledge of the Ages. The Glass Bead Game is a fascinating tale of the complexity of modern life as well as a classic of modern literature.[via]
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The Glass Bead Game : Magister Ludiby Hermann HesseISBN 080501246X (0-8050-1246-X)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braidby Douglas R. HofstadterISBN 0465026567 (0-465-02656-7)
Softcover, Basic Books
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A Heretic's Guide to Eternityby Barry Taylor, Spencer Burke, Brian D. McLarenISBN 0787983594 (0-7879-8359-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexityby John H. HollandISBN 0201442302 (0-201-44230-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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Information Markets: A New Way of Making Decisionsby Robert Hahn, Paul C. TetlockISBN 0844742287 (0-8447-4228-7)
Softcover, Aei Pr
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The Insect Societiesby Edward Osborne WilsonISBN 0674454952 (0-674-45495-2)
Softcover, Belknap Pr
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La economia Long Tail/ The Long Tail: De Los Mercados De Masas Al Triunfo De Lo Minoritario/ Why The Future of Business Is Selling Less of Moreby Chris AndersonISBN 1401308600 (1-4013-0860-0)
Softcover, Hyperion
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"The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket shelves to advertising agencies, the ability to offer vast choice is changing everything, and causing us to rethink where our markets lie and how to get to them. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it, from DVDs at Netflix to songs on iTunes to advertising on Google.
However, this is not just a virtue of online marketplaces; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for business, one that is just beginning to show its power. After a century of obsessing over the few products at the head of the demand curve, the new economics of distribution allow us to turn our focus to the many more products in the tail, which collectively can create a new market as big as the one we already know.
The Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance. New efficiencies in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing are essentially resetting the definition of what's commercially viable across the board. If the 20th century was about hits, the 21st will be equally about niches.
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Linked: The New Science of Networksby Alberto-Laszlo BarabasiISBN 0738206679 (0-7382-0667-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Lifeby Albert-Laszlo BarabasiISBN 0452284392 (0-452-28439-2)
Softcover, Plume
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Barabási's gift for concrete, nonmathematical explanations and penchant for eccentric humor would make the book thoroughly enjoyable even if the content weren't engaging. But the results of Barabási's research into the behavior of networks are deeply compelling. Not all networks are created equal, he says, and he shows how even fairly robust systems like the Internet could be crippled by taking out a few super-connected nodes, or hubs. His mathematical descriptions of this behavior are helping doctors, programmers, and security professionals design systems better suited to their needs. Linked presents the next step in complexity theory--from understanding chaos to practical applications. --Rob Lightner [via]
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The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of Moreby Chris AndersonISBN 1401302378 (1-4013-0237-8)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More'Book summary:What happens when the bottlenecks that stand between supply and demand in our culture go away and everything becomes available to everyone?
"The Long Tail" is a powerful new force in our economy: the rise of the niche. As the cost of reaching consumers drops dramatically, our markets are shifting from a one-size-fits-all model of mass appeal to one of unlimited variety for unique tastes. From supermarket shelves to advertising agencies, the ability to offer vast choice is changing everything, and causing us to rethink where our markets lie and how to get to them. Unlimited selection is revealing truths about what consumers want and how they want to get it, from DVDs at Netflix to songs on iTunes to advertising on Google.
However, this is not just a virtue of online marketplaces; it is an example of an entirely new economic model for business, one that is just beginning to show its power. After a century of obsessing over the few products at the head of the demand curve, the new economics of distribution allow us to turn our focus to the many more products in the tail, which collectively can create a new market as big as the one we already know.
The Long Tail is really about the economics of abundance. New efficiencies in distribution, manufacturing, and marketing are essentially resetting the definition of what's commercially viable across the board. If the 20th century was about hits, the 21st will be equally about niches.
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: The Essential Libraryby Charles MacKayISBN 0738843091 (0-7388-4309-1)
Softcover, Xlibris Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds: The Essential Library'Book summary:If you've ever wondered where popular catch phrases and slang comes from or why men's beards go in and out of fashion, then this book is for you. How often do you come across a book that can explain most everything? Much of today's news has a basis in prior historical events. The internet IPO market shares striking similarities to the Dutch "tulip mania" of the 1600's. The conflict in the Middle East can trace its roots to the Crusades. The recent satanic child abuse trials are reminiscent of the European witch trials of the 1400s-1600s. This complete two-volume edition demonstrates that the madness and confusion of crowds knows no limits, and has no temporal bounds.
Here are astonishing and entertaining tales of thievery, greed and madness. This informative, funny collection encompasses a broad range of manias and deceptions from haunted houses and the prophecies of Nostradamus to speculative excess. Charles MacKay explains it all in this classic edition. Enjoy! [via]
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The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Cultureby Mark C. TaylorISBN 0226791181 (0-226-79118-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture'Book summary:"The Moment of Complexity is a profoundly original work. In remarkable and insightful ways, Mark Taylor traces an entirely new way to view the evolution of our culture, detailing how information theory and the scientific concept of complexity can be used to understand recent developments in the arts and humanities. This book will ultimately be seen as a classic."-John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, author of Gödel: A Life of Logic, the Mind, and Mathematics[via]
The science of complexity accounts for that inscrutable mix of chaos and order that governs our natural world. Complexity explains how networks emerge and function, how species organize into ecosystems, how stars form into galaxies, and how just a few sequences of DNA can account for so many different life forms. Recently, the idea of complexity has taken the worlds of business and politics by storm. The concept is used to account for phenomena as varied as the behavior of the stock market, the response of voting populations, and the effects of risk management. Even Disney has used complexity theory to manage crowd control at its theme parks.
Given the startling development of new information technologies, we now live in a moment of unprecedented complexity, an era in which change occurs faster than our ability to comprehend it. With The Moment of Complexity, Mark C. Taylor offers a timely map for this unfamiliar terrain opening in our midst, unfolding an original philosophy through a remarkable synthesis of science and culture. According to Taylor, complexity is not just a breakthrough scientific concept, but the defining quality of the post-Cold War era. The flux of digital currents swirling around us, he argues, has created a new network culture with its own distinctive logic and dynamic.
Drawing on resources from information theory and evolutionary biology, Taylor explains the operation of complex adaptive systems in social and cultural processes and captures a whole new zeitgeist in the making. To appreciate the significance of our emerging network culture, he claims, we need not only to understand contemporary scientific and technological transformations, but also to explore the subtle influences of art, architecture, philosophy, religion, and higher education. The Moment of Complexity, then, is a remarkable work of cultural analysis on a scale rarely seen today. To follow its trajectory is to learn how we arrived at this critical moment in our culture, and to know where we might head in the twenty-first century.More editions of The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture:
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A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journeyby Brian D. McLarenISBN 078795599X (0-7879-5599-X)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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A New Kind of Christian's conversation between a pastor and his daughter's high school science teacher reveals that wisdom for life's most pressing spiritual questions can come from the most unlikely sources. This stirring fable captures a new spirit of Christianity--where personal, daily interaction with God is more important than institutional church structures, where faith is more about a way of life than a system of belief, where being authentically good is more important than being doctrinally "right," and where one's direction is more important than one's present location. Brian McLaren's delightful account offers a wise and wondrous approach for revitalizing Christian spiritual life and Christian congregations.
If you are interested in joining a discussion group devoted to a A New Kind of Christian please visit groups.yahoo.com/group/NKOC. [via]
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A New Kind of Scienceby Stephen WolframISBN 1579550088 (1-57955-008-8)
Hardcover, Wolfram Media Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A New Kind of Science'Book summary:Physics and computer science genius Stephen Wolfram, whose Mathematica computer language launched a multimillion-dollar company, now sets his sights on a more daunting goal: understanding the universe. A New Kind of Science is a gorgeous, 1,280-page tome more than a decade in the making. With patience, insight, and self-confidence to spare, Wolfram outlines a fundamental new way of modelling complex systems.
On the frontier of complexity science since he was a boy, Wolfram is a champion of cellular automata--256 "programs" governed by simple non-mathematical rules. He points out that even the most complex equations fail to accurately model biological systems, but the simplest cellular automata can produce results straight out of nature--tree branches, stream eddies, and leopard spots, for instance. The graphics in A New Kind of Science show striking resemblance to the patterns we see in nature every day.
Wolfram wrote the book in a distinct style meant to make it easy to read, even for non-techies; a basic familiarity with logic is helpful but not essential. Readers will find themselves swept away by the elegant simplicity of Wolfram's ideas and the accidental artistry of the cellular automaton models. Whether or not Wolfram's revolution ultimately gives us the keys to the universe, his new science is absolutely awe-inspiring. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networksby Mark BuchananISBN 0393324427 (0-393-32442-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks'Book summary:As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation. How can geometry explain the puzzles of human behavior? In this incisive, insightful work Mark Buchanan presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of "small worlds" theorythe idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the information highway or the firing of neurons in the brain. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and social scientists are working to decipher this complex organizational system, for it may yield a blueprint of dynamic interactions within our physical as well as social worlds. Highlighting groundbreaking research behind network theory, Buchanan documents mounting support for the small-worlds idea and demonstrates its multiple applications to diverse problemswhether explaining the volatile global economy or the Human Genome Project, the spread of infectious disease or ecological damage. Nexus is an exciting introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives so inextricably together. 20 illustrations. [via]
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Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue With Natureby Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle StengersISBN 0877733023 (0-87773-302-3)
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic Worldby Kevin KellyISBN 0201483408 (0-201-48340-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilizationby Kevin KellyISBN 0201577933 (0-201-57793-3)
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The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, & Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Centuryby Nikolas RoseISBN 0691121915 (0-691-12191-5)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Presa / Preyby Michael CrichtonISBN 9875660280 (987-566-028-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Quantum Mechanics and Its Emergent Macrophysicsby Geoffrey L. SewellISBN 0691058326 (0-691-05832-6)
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Sensitive Chaos: The Creation of Flowing Forms in Water and Airby Theodor SchwenkISBN 1855840553 (1-85584-055-3)
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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Ageby Duncan J. WattsISBN 0393325423 (0-393-32542-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age'Book summary:You may be only six degrees away from Kevin Bacon, but would he let you borrow his car? It depends on the structures within the network that links you. When the power goes out, when we find that a stranger knows someone we know, when dot-com stocks soar in price, networks are evident. In Six Degrees, sociologist Duncan Watts examines networks like these: what they are, how they're being studied, and what we can use them for. To illustrate the often complicated mathematics that describe such structures, Watts uses plenty of examples from life, without which this book would quickly move beyond a general science readership. Small chapters make each thought-provoking conclusion easy to swallow, though some are hard to digest. For instance, in a short bit on "coercive externalities," Watts sums up sociological research showing that:
"Conversations concerning politics displayed a consistent pattern .... On election day, the strongest predictor of electoral success was not which party an individual privately supported but which party he or she expected would win."
Six Degrees attempts to help readers understand the new and exciting field of networks and complexity. While considerably more demanding than a general book like The Tipping Point, it offers readers a snapshot of a riveting moment in science, when understanding things like disease epidemics and the stock market seems almost within our reach. --Therese Littleton [via]More editions of Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age:
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Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolutionby Howard RheingoldISBN 0738208612 (0-7382-0861-2)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution'Book summary:From Tokyo to Helsinki, Manhattan to Manila, Howard Rheingold takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift-a shift he predicts will be as dramatic as the widespread adoption of the PC in the 1980s and the Internet in the 1990s. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, personal digital assistants, and wireless-paging and Internet-access devices that will allow us to connect with anyone, anywhere, anytime.From the amusing ("Lovegetty" devices in Japan that light up when a person with the right date-potential characteristics appears in the vicinity) to the extraordinary (the overthrow of a repressive regime in the Philippines by political activists who mobilized by forwarding text messages via cell phones), Rheingold gives examples of the fundamentally new ways in which people are already engaging in group or collective action. He also considers the dark side of this phenomenon, such as the coordination of terrorist cells, threats to privacy, and the ability to incite violent behavior.Applying insights from sociology, artificial intelligence, engineering, and anthropology, Rheingold offers a penetrating perspective on the brave new convergence of pop culture, cutting-edge technology, and social activism. At the same time, he reminds us that, as with other technological revolutions, the real impact of mobile communications will come not from the technology itself but from how people use it, resist it, adapt to it, and ultimately use it to transform themselves, their communities, and their institutions. [via]
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Sync: How Order Emerges from Chaos in the Universe, Nature, and Daily Lifeby Steven StrogatzISBN 0786887214 (0-7868-8721-4)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Orderby Steven StrogatzISBN 0786868449 (0-7868-6844-9)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sync: The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order'Book summary:t the heart of the universe is a steady, insistent beat, the sound of cycles in sync. Along the tidal rivers of Malaysia, thousands of fireflies congregate and flash in unison; the moon spins in perfect resonance with its orbit around the earth; our hearts depend on the synchronous firing of ten thousand pacemaker cells. While the forces that synchronize the flashing of fireflies may seem to have nothing to do with our heart cells, there is in fact a deep connection. Synchrony is a science in its infancy, and Strogatz is a pioneer in this new frontier in which mathematicians and physicists attempt to pinpoint just how spontaneous order emerges from chaos. From underground caves in Texas where a French scientist spent six months alone tracking his sleep-wake cycle, to the home of a Dutch physicist who in 1665 discovered two of his pendulum clocks swinging in perfect time, this fascinating book spans disciplines, continents, and centuries. Engagingly written for readers of books such as Chaos and The Elegant Universe, Sync is a tour-de-force of nonfiction writing. [via]
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A Thousand Years of Nonlinear Historyby Manuel De LandaISBN 0942299329 (0-942299-32-9)
Softcover, Zone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History'Book summary:Following in the wake of his groundbreaking War in the Age of Intelligent Machines, Manuel De Landa presents a radical synthesis of historical development over the last one thousand years. More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and Félix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived from the sciences of dynamics. Working against prevailing attitudes that see history as an arena of texts, discourses, ideologies, and metaphors, De Landa traces the concrete movements and interplays of matter and energy through human populations in the last millennium.De Landa attacks three domains that have given shape to human societies: economics, biology, and linguistics. In every case, what one sees is the self-directed processes of matter and energy interacting with the whim and will of human history itself to form a panoramic vision of the West free of rigid teleology and naive notions of progress, and even more important, free of any deterministic source of its urban, institutional, and technological forms. Rather, the source of all concrete forms in the West's history are shown to derive from internal morphogenetic capabilities that lie within the flow of matter-energy itself.
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Tools for Thought: The People and Ideas behind the Next Computer Revolutionby Howard RheingoldISBN 0671492926 (0-671-49292-6)
Hardcover, Computer Book Division/Simon & Schuster
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Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworldsby Mitchel ResnickISBN 0262680939 (0-262-68093-9)
Softcover, Bradford Books
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What the World Needs Nowby Steven JohnsonISBN 1580083099 (1-58008-309-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'What the World Needs Now'Book summary:Ever wanted a chair that converts into a rowing machine? Sunglasses that serve as a wallet? A car with a sundeck so you can work on your tan on those long road trips? Well, inventor and illustrator Steven Johnson has designed these marvels and many, many more, spurred on by a truly insatiable imagination. His wacky, wonderful concepts could very well change the world-that is, if someone was ever bold enough to build them. From clothing to dining technology, home furnishings to appliances, and gardening gadgets to survival gear, WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW is a sourcebook of revolutionary designs that prove how far our techno-culture has yet to go. Ä¢ Includes a three-step plan for inventing useful and useless things. [via]
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Futureby Daniel PinkISBN 1594481717 (1-59448-171-7)
Softcover, Riverhead Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future'Book summary:[via]Lawyers. Accountants. Radiologists. Software engineers. That's what our parents encouraged us to become when we grew up. But Mom and Dad were wrong. The future belongs to a very different kind of person with a very different kind of mind. The era of "left brain" dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which "right brain" qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. That's the argument at the center of this provocative and original book, which uses the two sides of our brains as a metaphor for understanding the contours of our times.
In the tradition of Emotional Intelligence and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Daniel H. Pink offers a fresh look at what it takes to excel. A Whole New Mind reveals the six essential aptitudes on which professional success and personal fulfillment now depend, and includes a series of hands-on exercises culled from experts around the world to help readers sharpen the necessary abilities. This book will change not only how we see the world but how we experience it as well.
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The Wisdom Of Crowdsby James Surowiecki, Surowiecki, James (AFT)ISBN 0385721706 (0-385-72170-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom Of Crowds'Book summary:In this fascinating book, New Yorker business columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea: Large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliantbetter at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
With boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, behavioral economics, artificial intelligence, military history, and politics to show how this simple idea offers important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, run our companies, and think about our world. [via]More editions of The Wisdom Of Crowds:
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The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nationsby James SurowieckiISBN 0385503865 (0-385-50386-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations'Book summary:No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
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H. L. Mencken was wrong.
In this endlessly fascinating book, New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki explores a deceptively simple idea that has profound implications: large groups of people are smarter than an elite few, no matter how brilliantbetter at solving problems, fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions, even predicting the future.
This seemingly counterintuitive notion has endless and major ramifications for how businesses operate, how knowledge is advanced, how economies are (or should be) organized and how we live our daily lives. With seemingly boundless erudition and in delightfully clear prose, Surowiecki ranges across fields as diverse as popular culture, psychology, ant biology, economic behaviorism, artificial intelligence, military history and political theory to show just how this principle operates in the real world.
Despite the sophistication of his arguments, Surowiecki presents them in a wonderfully entertaining manner. The examples he uses are all down-to-earth, surprising, and fun to ponder. Why is the line in which youre standing always the longest? Why is it that you can buy a screw anywhere in the world and it will fit a bolt bought ten-thousand miles away? Why is network television so awful? If you had to meet someone in Paris on a specific day but had no way of contacting them, when and where would you meet? Why are there traffic jams? Whats the best way to win money on a game show? Why, when you walk into a convenience store at 2:00 A.M. to buy a quart of orange juice, is it there waiting for you? What do Hollywood mafia movies have to teach us about why corporations exist?
The Wisdom of Crowds is a brilliant but accessible biography of an idea, one with important lessons for how we live our lives, select our leaders, conduct our business, and think about our world.More editions of The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business,Economies, Societies and Nations:
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La economia Long Tail/ The Long Tail: De Los Mercados De Masas Al Triunfo De Lo Minoritario/ Why The Future of Business Is Selling Less of Moreby Chris AndersonISBN 8493464260 (84-934642-6-0)
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Gdel, Escher, Bachby D.R. HofstadterISBN 8472234592 (84-7223-459-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gdel, Escher, Bach'Book summary:¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física, la biología, la psicología y, muy especialmente, el lenguaje. Douglas R. Hofstadter, joven y ya célebre científico, nos abre la puerta del enigma con la belleza y la alegría creadora de su estilo. Sorprendentes paralelismos ocultos entre los grabados de Escher y la música de Bach nos remiten a las paradojas clásicas de los antiguos griegos y a un teorema de la lógica matemática moderna que ha estremecido el pensamiento del siglo XX : el de Kurt Gödel. Todo lenguaje, todo sistema formal, todo programa de ordenador, todo proceso de pensamiento, llegan, tarde o temprano, a la situación límite de la autorreferencia : de querer expresarse sobre sí mismos. Surge entonces la emoción del infinito, como dos espejos enfrentados y obligados a reflejarse mutua e indefinidamente. Gödel, Escher, Bach: un Eterno y Grácil Bucle, es una obra de arte escrita por un sabio. Versa sobre los misterios del pensamiento e incluye, ella misma, sus propios misterios. / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel.mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence. [via]
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El Juego De Abalorios/ the Glass Bead Gameby Hermann Hesse, Aristides GregoriISBN 9500722526 (950-07-2252-6)
Softcover, Sudamericana
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