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020 _a9781401309930
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035 _a(OCoLC)ocn179826558
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050 0 0 _aQ173
_b.K5738 2008
090 _aQ173
_b.K5738 2008
100 1 _aKluger, Jeffrey
_eauthor
_9125654
245 1 0 _aSimplexity :
_bwhy simple things become complex (and how complex things can be made simple) /
_cJeffrey Kluger.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bHyperion,
_c2008.
300 _aviii, 324 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
500 _aIncludes index.
505 0 _aWhy 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.
520 _aDraws 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.
590 _aDonated by Kemal Bıçakcı
650 0 _aScience
_vMiscellanea
_999837
650 0 _aComplexity (Philosophy)
_930633
650 7 _aScience
_vMiscellanea.
_2sears
650 7 _aScience
_xPhilosophy.
_2sears
650 7 _aSimplicity.
_2sears
650 0 _aTechnology
_vMiscellanea
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650 0 _aSimplicity
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