SIMPLEXITY

WHY SIMPLE THINGS BECOME COMPLEX (AND HOW COMPLEX THINGS CAN BE MADE SIMPLE)

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SIMPLEXITY

WHY SIMPLE THINGS BECOME COMPLEX (AND HOW COMPLEX THINGS CAN BE MADE SIMPLE)

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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.

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Publisher
Hyperion
Language
English
Pages
352

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Cover of: Simplexity
Simplexity: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
June 3, 2008, Hyperion
Audio CD in English - Unabridged edition
Cover of: Simplexity
Simplexity
2008, Hyperion
Electronic resource in English
Cover of: SIMPLEXITY
SIMPLEXITY: WHY SIMPLE THINGS BECOME COMPLEX (AND HOW COMPLEX THINGS CAN BE MADE SIMPLE)
June 3, 2008, Hyperion
Hardcover in English

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Classifications

Library of Congress
Q173 .K5738 2008, Q175.32, Q173 .K59 2008

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
352

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL11591021M
Internet Archive
simplexitywhysim00klug_521
ISBN 10
1401303013
ISBN 13
9781401303013
LCCN
2009281364
OCLC/WorldCat
179826558
Library Thing
2512553
Goodreads
2299856

Work Description

The nature of the world isn't necessarily as it appears. Finding simple solutions to seemingly insurmountable problems are often just a matter of looking at the situation differently. Instead, people are confused by complexity and intimidated by scale. But the world is a delicate place filled with predictable patterns, and in anticipating and understanding them we can harness the eloquent power of small things. Simplexity elucidates dozens of situations where we are fooled by the world around us. Kluger identifies the roots of poverty, and shows how a hundred well-targeted micro loans can revitalize a community. He shows how the well-being complex ecosystem with thousands of relationships may in fact only depend on the health of a single keystone species. He demonstrates how, in many ways, a truck driver's job is far more complicated than that of a senior manager. There are tremendous real life applications for the complexity processes examined in Simplexity--and the world's visionaries are only just beginning to realize it.

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